Are you 36 years old? 'The queen class is eternal.' Both teams scored the most 17 points and had a 6% success rate. 21:24 → 26:24 reverse electrode. Heungkuk Life Insurance won 3-0 and won 2 consecutive games (Incheon Review)
Oct 24, 2024
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Heungkuk Life Insurance won the set-score 3-0 (25-20, 25-18, 26-24) at the opening match of its home game against GS Caltex in the Dodram 2024-2025 V-League at Samsan World Gymnasium in Incheon on the 24th.
Kim Yeon-kyung showed off her best skills by scoring 17 points, the most between the two teams. His attack success rate was 60.7 percent. Foreign player Tutku scored 12 points, Asian quarter middle blocker Peach scored eight, and Jung Yoon-joo scored eight. Replacement member Kim Dae-eun scored a decisive point and played an active role with six points.
For GS Caltex, ace Silva scored 15 points, but the attack success rate was only 23.1%. Weiler scored 11 points in the Asian quarter, Oh Se-yeon scored 10 points, and Kwon Min-ji scored 7 points, showing off her height, but the overall attack success rate was 31%, too low for Heungkuk Life (51%).
Heungkuk Life Insurance, which defeated Hyundai Engineering & Construction, the winner of last season, 3-1 in the opening match of the season, continued its momentum.
Heungkuk Life Insurance was leading 10-4 with even performance by players such as Tutku and Kim Yeon-kyung, Kim Su-ji and Jung Yoon-ju, but GS Caltex did not give up and narrowed the chase to 13-15 and 2 points with Silva's spike and Weiler's blocking, and the game became a close game. Kwon Min-ji's spike was successful, and GS Caltex chased 17-18 and one point, but Heungkuk Life took a breather with the pitch's fastball and then escaped GS Caltex's chase with 22-17 as Silva's attack error, pitch's moving attack and Kim Yeon-kyung's spike succeeded in succession. In the end, Kim Yeon-kyung's closing spike finished the first set 25-20.
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GS Caltex worked hard in the third set. Silva and Weiler seemed to turn the mood around by leading 16-9. However, Heungkuk Life got a boost from the crisis. After making it 10-16 with the pitch's fastball, he shook GS Caltex's receiving with Tutku's serve and scored five points at once to chase it 15-16, one point apart. Since then, the game has become unknown as a close game of giving and receiving one point each.
In the end, Kim Yeon-kyung made a turnaround. He tied the game with a spike at 18-19, then made a quick open in the ensuing rally, turning the game around 20-19.
However, GS Caltex turned it over again with Silva and seemed to take the third set with a 24-21 lead. Heungkuk Life has come back to life. Silva's offense went out in succession to make it 23-24, and Tutku's spike made it a dramatic deuce 24-24.
And Kim Daeun's spike made it 25-24, match point, and after receiving Wyler's consecutive hits, Kim Yeon-koung's toss again, Kim Dae-eun wrote a dramatic reverse of 26-24 with a touchout.
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