Hyundai Engineering & Construction in the crisis of ‘6G 1 win 5 losses’, the first 3 consecutive losses… Will Heungkuk Life Insurance lose first place?
Hyundai E&C fell into the pit of three consecutive losses for the first time in the season. 1st place Mercury was breathtaking.
Hyundai E&C lost a set score of 1-3 (25-21, 21-25, 20-25, 20-25) to Korea Expressway Corporation in the Dodram 2022-2023 V-League Women’s Round 5 match held at Suwon Indoor Gymnasium on the 14th. . There were 28 crime rooms, exactly twice as many as the road construction (14). He self-destructed with the team’s most records this season.
Hyundai E&C, who suffered three consecutive losses for the first time in the season following Heungkuk Life Insurance (0-3) on the 7th and Pepper Savings Bank (2-3) on the 10th, was tied with 27 points with 21 wins and 7 losses. In the last 6 games, 1 win and 5 losses have fallen into sluggishness, and they are being chased by 2nd place Heungkuk Life Insurance (20 wins, 7 losses, 60 points) with a difference of 1 point. If Heungkuk Life Insurance wins the Pepper Savings Bank match in Incheon on the 15th, it will beat Hyundai E&C and rise to the top.
Hyundai E&C started happily with 12 consecutive wins, setting the record for the most tie in the women’s division, but a crisis came from the 3rd round when foreign player Yasmin Bedart left with a back injury.
Veteran Hwang Yeon-joo managed to fill Yasmin’s vacancy and defended the 1st place, but as time went on, it became more and more difficult. Yasmin, whose back condition did not improve, was eventually replaced by Yvone Montaño as a foreign player. Montaño was put in from the match against Pezer Savings Bank on the 10th, but the crisis continues due to the successive injuries of key players such as libero Kim Yeon-gyeon, Hwang Min-kyung, and Ko Ye-rim, who left due to an ankle injury.
On this day, the absence of key players in Gyeonggi-do was revealed. With both Hwang Min-kyung and Go Ye-rim missing, Jeong Si-young took the opportunity to start for the first time in four years. In the first set, Chung Si-young endured the receive well and scored 4 points in the attack, and Hyundai E&C succeeded in overtaking the baseline 25-21. 안전놀이터
However, in the 2nd set, it was unable to overcome the offensive of the Korea Expressway Corporation with Catbell and Park Jeong-ah’s ssangpo. In the 3rd set, which was 1-1, the defense collapsed after an ambiguous decision, and it was confused with 8 mistakes. In the second half of the set, Park Jung-ah’s target hit hit Hyundai E&C’s receive. In the 4th set, Go Ye-rim was put in first instead of Jeong Si-young, but he was defeated without being able to reverse the trend that had once passed.
The road construction won a come-from-behind victory thanks to the even performances of Catbell (22 points), Park Jung-ah (18 points), and Bae Yu-na (10 points). The 3rd place road construction with 47 points with 16 wins and 12 losses widened the gap with the 4th place KGC Ginseng Corporation (13 wins and 15 losses, 41 points) to 6 points.
Meanwhile, in the men’s match held at the Incheon Contract Gymnasium, Korean Air defeated KB Insurance with a set score of 3-1 (25-23, 23-25, 25-20, 26-24). Thanks to the performances of Lincoln (23 points) and Jung Ji-seok (19 points) Ssangpo, Korean Air, which recently broke its 4th consecutive loss, solidified its first place with 20 wins, 8 losses and 59 points. KB Insurance, which lost three consecutive wins, maintained 32 points with 11 wins and 17 losses.
