Tutku-Kim Yeon-kyung firepower leads Heungkuk Life to 5 straight wins
Tutku-Kim Yeon-kyung firepower leads Heungkuk Life to 5 straight wins
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Heungkuk Life extended its winning streak to five games to open the season for the first time in four years.
Heungkuk Life defeated the visiting Korea Expressway Corporation 3-1 (25-20 25-15 23-25 25-12) in three sets on Sunday at Gimcheon Gymnasium in Gyeongbuk, South Korea, in the women's Dodram 2024-2025 V League.
It's the first time in four years that Heungkuk Sinsaeng has won five straight matches, including the opener, since the 2020-2021 season, when it opened with 10 straight wins.
Korea Express failed to record its first win of the season in the fifth match.
This is the first time this season that KDF has failed to record a win in its first five games.
After losing four games in a row in the 2023-2024 season, the KDF earned its first win of the season in the fifth game, but this season, it has lost its first five games in a row.
On the day, Heungkuk Life used the flanking attacks of Kim Yeon-kyung (17 points) and Tutku Bourge Yuzgengk (31 points-registered as Tutku) to open up the lanes, and built a wall around Anilis Pich (4 blocked shots-registered as Pich) to keep the KDF offense at bay.
In blocked shots, Heungkuk Life outshot Korea Express 11-4.
Korea Express had wing attackers Merelin Nikolova (21 points) and Kang So-hui (18 points), 토토사이트 but Heungkuk Life had more firepower.
On the day, the team attack percentage was 44.61 percent, compared to 27.97 percent for Korea Expressway Corporation.
At 19-18 in the first set, Heungkuk Life scored a lucky point when rookie setter Kim Da-eun's serve hit the net.
Heungkuk Life's Lee Ig-eun served an ace to make it 21-18.
At 22-20, Korea Expressway Corporation gave up another point on a service error by Lee Ye-eun.
A Turk's open attack at the end of the rally created set point for Heungkuk Life, and Kim Soo-ji's service ace ended the first set.
The second set was close early on.
At 6-5, Heungkuk Life scored another point with a quick open from Kim Yeon-kyung, and Tutku and Kim Soo-ji blocked back-to-back quick opens from Kang So-hwi to widen the gap.
A late attack from Jung Yoon-ju and a quick open attack from Kim Yeon-kyung gave Heungkuk Life an 11-5 lead. It was a gap that Korea Express could not overcome.
Heungkuk Life dropped the third set in a close contest, but in the fourth set, the team pulled away early to take the match point.
In the V-League, a 3-0 or 3-1 set win earns 3 points, while a 3-2 win earns 2 points. A 2-3 loss earns them one point.
The men's Samsung Fire swept OK Savings Bank to end a three-game losing streak.
Samsung Chemical swept OK Savings Bank 3-0 (25-19 25-20 25-21) in straight sets at home in Daejeon.
After winning their first match of the season against KB Insurance on Oct. 22, Samsung Chemicals lost their next three matches to record their second win of the season (three losses) in front of their home fans.
While foreign player Vladimir Grozdanov (registered name Grozdanov) was held to six points, Samsung Fire utilized Asian quarter Ali Parsley (21 points-registered name Parsley) and Korean wing Kim Jeong-ho (14 points) to put up points.
Middle blocker Kim Jae-hwi also chipped in with eight points, including three blocked shots.
For OK Savings Bank, Asian quartet Zhang Binglong (13 points), Shin Seong-jin (12 points), and Chae Hwan (11 points) scored in double figures, but there was no clear-cut solution.
OK Savings Bank released foreign player Manuel Luconi (registered name Luconi) and brought in a new foreign player, Christian Balzac (registered name Chris). However, Chris was not available for the match as he was due to arrive in the country on the 8th.