Pepper Savings Bank, the lowest in the professional volleyball women’s division, defeated GS Caltex, which lacked foreign player Moma, and won its first home game this season.
Pepper Savings Bank defeated GS Caltex with a set score of 3 to 1 in the home game of the professional volleyball Dodram 2022-2023 V-League Women’s Division held at Pepper Stadium in Gwangju today (23rd).
With this victory, Pepper Savings Bank broke the record for the most consecutive losses in the professional volleyball women’s home at ’13’.
It has been 346 days since the Heungkuk Life Insurance match on February 11 last year that Pepper Savings Bank won in front of the home crowd.
In addition, it was the second win of the season after ending a recent four-game losing streak.
3rd place GS Caltex could not fill MoMA’s vacancy and ended its three-game winning streak.
Both teams played without key players on the day.
In GS Caltex, MoMA suffered a leg injury in the match against Hyundai E&C on the 20th and missed the day. Libero Oh Ji-young, who wore the Pepper Savings Bank uniform as a trade from GS Caltex this season, was excluded from the game due to the clause prohibiting him from playing against his former team.
Pepper Savings Bank played a seesaw game with foreign player Nia Reid.
The Pepper Savings Bank players took turns serving and making mistakes at the end of the first set as if they couldn’t overcome the tension, but Reed chased after scoring with powerful spikes at every crisis.
Pepper Savings Bank took the first set 24-24 with Kang So-hui’s attacking offense and Lee Han-bi’s clean finish.
The second set also had a deuce bloody battle.
Pepper Savings Bank made a deuce with Seo Chae-won succeeding in a decisive attack in 23-24, but the atmosphere was not maintained by allowing Kang So-hui and Yoo Seo-yeon to score consecutively.
Pepper Savings Bank, who tied the set score 1-1, continued the game calmly.
At the beginning of the 3rd set, Lee Han-bi and Park Kyung-hyun led the attack and ran away to 23-19.
Pepper Savings Bank allowed opposing teams Seo-yeon Yoo and Min-ji Kwon to block, showing poor attack power and allowing a 23-23 tie, but solver Nia Reid scored consecutively to finish the third set. 스포츠토토
The highlight of the match was the 4th set.
Pepper Savings Bank won the gold medal 23-22.
Minji Kwon’s attack from the opposing team went off the court, and Pepper Savings Bank’s goal was recognized after a video reading of the blocker touch-out and in-out respectively.
Pepper Savings Bank conceded a point after a rally at 24-22, but Nia Reed ended the game with a powerful back attack that pierced the opposing team’s court.
Nia Reed played a big role on the day, scoring 29 points, the most of both teams, with Park Kyung-hyun scoring 17 points and Lee Han-bi contributing 13 points.
In the men’s match held at Yu Gwan-sun Gymnasium in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, KEPCO defeated the home team Hyundai Capital with a set score of 3 to 1.
5th place KEPCO, who recorded 9 wins and 14 losses in the season, added 3 points to pursue 3rd place rivals, Woori Card and OK Financial Group.
Hyundai Capital kept second place with 14 wins and 9 losses and 43 points, but suffered two consecutive losses without giving home fans a win.
Hyundai Capital’s home performance this season stayed at 50% with 6 wins and 6 losses.
Including Tais, who scored 28 points, 4 people from KEPCO, including Lim Seong-jin, Seo Jae-deok, and Shin Young-seok, scored double-digit scores.
Rising star Seong-Jin Lim broke the previous record by 2 points and set the record for the most points scored in the season and soared.
