GS Caltex completes shutout by taking advantage of opposing defensive mistakes… Minji Kwon’s 19-point performance
The same group, Heungkuk Life Insurance, also secured a ticket to the semifinals… IBK Industrial Bank of Korea dropped out after losing 2 consecutive games
GS Caltex, a women’s professional volleyball team, successfully advanced to the semifinals of the 2022 Suncheon-Dodram Cup Professional Volleyball Tournament (Cup Tournament) by defeating the ‘Star Corps’ IBK Industrial Bank.
GS Caltex won the women’s group A match against IBK Industrial Bank of Korea at the Palma Gymnasium in Suncheon, Jeollanam-do on the 15th with a set score of 3-0 (25-22 25-18 25-17).
GS Caltex, who won the group stage for the first time, lost IBK Industrial Bank of Korea to the second consecutive defeat and confirmed their advance to the semifinals regardless of the remaining group stage matches.
In the women’s Group A of this tournament, three teams, Heungkuk Life Insurance (1 win), IBK Industrial Bank (1 win), and GS Caltex (2 losses) compete, and the top two teams from the group stage advance to the semifinals.
After losing 1-3 to Heungkuk Life Insurance in the opening match on the 13th, IBK Industrial Bank also knelt down in the match to secure 3rd place with 2 losses in the group stage.
Heungkuk Life Insurance and GS Caltex, who secured tickets to the semi-finals by winning one win each, will fight for the first place in the last match of the group stage on the 17th.
GS Caltex was unable to operate its power in this competition.
Setters Ahn Hye-jin and Libero Hana-hye were called up to the national team, and Kang So-hwi, the main gunner, had to undergo surgery.
On the other hand, in IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, major players such as Kim Hee-jin, Kim Su-ji, and Yuk Seo-young participated mostly.
The match was divided in organizational skills.
GS Caltex showed a stable performance with strong teamwork, but IBK Industrial Bank of Korea faltered in the receive and poured out mistakes.
The first set was intense.
At the end of the seesaw game, GS Caltex took advantage of the opposing team’s mistake to bring the set.
GS Caltex Lee Won-jeong served a normal serve from 22-22, and IBK Industrial Bank’s Park Min-ji was anxiously received.
GS Caltex’s Yoo Seo-yeon scored an important score by hitting the ball over the net with a direct blow.
Accidentally further tilting the balance further shook IBK Industrial Bank of Korea.
Signboard striker Kim Hee-jin sat down while making an offense.
GS Caltex, with a gap of two points, made a set score of 1-0 with Choi Eun-ji’s open attack.
GS Caltex took advantage of the atmosphere and brought the rest of the set with ease.
IBK Industrial Bank made mistakes due to uneasy sub-receive, and GS Caltex widened the score gap with Kwon Min-ji’s stable attack, who turned into an outsider heater (left).
GS Caltex, who had widened the score from the beginning of the set, took the second set 25-18 without any major crisis.
The success rate of IBK Industrial Bank’s second set attack was only 35%, so it was unsettling.
GS Caltex’s second set attack success rate was 52%.
IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, where the attack was not well resolved, even replaced the setter Sol-ah Lee with Jin-jin, but to no avail.
The third set was similar.
GS Caltex, who had a wide score difference at the beginning of the set, finished the game without any major crisis.
Kwon Min-ji scored 19 points with 54.54% attack success rate, and Yu Seo-yeon also scored 15 points.
In IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, Kim Hee-jin scored 12 points, but the attack success rate was only 33.33%.
On that day, GS Caltex had 11 team rooms and IBK Industrial Bank had 22 team rooms.
/yunhap news