'Just a year and seven months ago, are you sure you're the opponent for the reverse sweep of the champ?' 3-1 Heungkuk Life Insurance has won 5 consecutive games, and Korea Expressway Corporation has won 5 consecutive games

Nov 07, 2024

'Just a year and seven months ago, are you sure you're the opponent for the reverse sweep of the champ?' 3-1 Heungkuk Life Insurance has won 5 consecutive games, and Korea Expressway Corporation has won 5 consecutive games
Hungkuk Life Insurance Co., Ltd. Kim Yeon-kyung and Korea Expressway Corporation Co., Ltd. Kim Se-bin are fighting for the ball. Photo courtesy =KOVO



'Just a year and seven months ago, are you sure you're the opponent for the reverse sweep of the champ?' 3-1 Heungkuk Life Insurance has won 5 consecutive games, and Korea Expressway Corporation has won 5 consecutive games
Hungkuk Life Tutku. Photo courtesy =KOVO
'Just a year and seven months ago, are you sure you're the opponent for the reverse sweep of the champ?' 3-1 Heungkuk Life Insurance has won 5 consecutive games, and Korea Expressway Corporation has won 5 consecutive games
Korea Expressway Corporation Nikolova. Photo courtesy =KOVO
Only a year and seven months ago in April 2023, Korea Expressway Corporation and Heungkuk Life met in the 2022  ̄ 2023 season championship match. Heungkuk Life won the first and second games, but the Korea Expressway Corporation won the third, fourth and fifth games, winning the first reverse sweep ever. And the performance of the two teams that met after one season was completely reversed.

Heungkuk Life took the top spot with five consecutive wins.

Heungkuk Life Insurance won the set score 3-1 (25-20, 25-15, 23-25, 25-12) in an away match against the Korea Expressway Corporation in the Dodram 2024  ̄ 2025 V-League at Gimcheon Indoor Gymnasium on the 7th. Since the opening, he has given up only three sets in five games, winning five consecutive games, winning all three points, and leading the way alone with 15 points. It is four points behind second-place Hyundai Engineering & Construction (4-1, 11 points). The Korea Expressway Corporation lost all five games and came in last with one point.



In Heungkuk Life Insurance, foreign player Tutku scored 31 points, the most in both teams, Kim Yeon-kyung scored 17 points and Asian quarter pitch scored 10.

Nicolova scored 21 points and Kang So-hwi scored 18 points, and Jeon Sae-an scored 9 points, but there was a difference in the overall attack success rate. Heungkuk Life Insurance accounted for 44.6 percent, and Korea Expressway Corporation accounted for 28 percent.



After kicking out Batista in the Asian quarter, he is looking for an Asian quarter player toward the outside heater. This season, with all teams playing their part in the Asian quarter, it is a big hole that only the Korea Expressway Corporation is playing without Asian quarter players.

The match was decided in the first set. The Korea Expressway Corporation players used their fighting spirit and hung on Heungkuk Life to the end, but Heungkuk Life won and took the victory.



At the 2-2 tie, Tutku and Jung Yoon-ju and Kim Yeon-koung succeeded one after another, followed by Kim Soo-ji's serve ace, leading 7-2 at once to catch the early flow.

The Korea Expressway Corporation was chasing 5-8 by Nicolova alone, but after Jeon Sae-an's serve ace, Kang So-hwi's first score made it a close game by 7-9 two points.

'Just a year and seven months ago, are you sure you're the opponent for the reverse sweep of the champ?' 3-1 Heungkuk Life Insurance has won 5 consecutive games, and Korea Expressway Corporation has won 5 consecutive games
Kim Yeon-kyung is hitting the spike. Photo courtesy =KOVO
'Just a year and seven months ago, are you sure you're the opponent for the reverse sweep of the champ?' 3-1 Heungkuk Life Insurance has won 5 consecutive games, and Korea Expressway Corporation has won 5 consecutive games
Kim Yeon-kyung is hitting the spike. Photo courtesy =KOVO
'Just a year and seven months ago, are you sure you're the opponent for the reverse sweep of the champ?' 3-1 Heungkuk Life Insurance has won 5 consecutive games, and Korea Expressway Corporation has won 5 consecutive games
Kang So-hwi is delighted with his teammates after scoring. Photo courtesy =KOVO
Heungkuk Life seemed to take a 14-11 lead again with Jung Yoon-ju's spike and pitch blocking at 12-11, but the Korea Expressway Corporation turned the tables 15-14 with Nikolova's spike and Jeon Sae-an's attack on the opponent's mistake. Heungkuk Life Insurance immediately turned the tables again with its opponent's mistakes, and Peach led by blocking Nicolova's back attack, and this time he did not miss the lead. At 22-20, Tutku's spike and Kim Soo-ji's serve ace scored back-to-back points to quickly win 25-20.

In the second set, Heungkuk Life Insurance hit fast from the beginning. At 4-4, Kim Yeon-kyung's spike burst due to the pitch's moving attack, and Tutku and Kim Soo-ji blocked Kang So-hwi's attack in succession, making it 9-5 at once. Then, Kim Yeon-kyung's spike continued in Jung Yoon-joo's back attack, and the atmosphere tilted to Heungkuk Life as it became 11-5, 6 points apart. The Korea Expressway Corporation changed the setter from Kim Dae-eun to Ha Hyo-rim as they did not work well, but the flow did not change. 25-15 to finish the second set quickly.

Kang So-hwi led the first team in the third set He succeeded in attacking successively and even created a serve ace, scoring six points alone, and later led 16-10 with Nicolova's attack added. However, Heungkuk Life followed Kim Da-sol's serve ace and others in the attack of Kim Dae-eun and Peach, and succeeded in tying the game at 23-23, with consecutive spikes of Kim Yeon-kyung and Tutku. However, Korea Expressway Corporation made a set point when Jeon Sae-an's spike was stuck at the end of Heungkuk Life's court and Kim Yeon-koung's consecutive hits were caught in the net, taking the third set 25-23.

However, Heungkuk Life Insurance burst from the beginning in the fourth set and decided the game. Tutku and Kim Yeon-koung and Kim Dae-eun took the lead, and the lead widened after the middle to end the game 25-12.



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