Moon Sang-chul-Young-pyo hits a card...KT wins the first round of the semi-finals
Moon Sang-chul-Young-pyo hits a card...KT wins the first round of the semi-finals
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Women's volleyball's Jung Kwan-jang and Hyundai E&C will meet again for the cup title after five years.
The team defeated GS Caltex 3-2 (23-25, 25-20, 23-25, 25-17, 15-10) in the women's semifinals of the 2024 Tongyeong-Dodram Cup Professional Volleyball Tournament at the Tongyeong Gymnasium in Gyeongnam, Korea, on Friday to win its third consecutive title.
With the victory, Chung has a chance to win the Cup for the first time in six years since the 2018 edition.
Hyundai E&C also swept IBK IBK 3-0 (25-23, 25-10, 25-17) in the semifinals to claim its fifth title since 2021.
Hyundai E&C and Jeonggwanjang will play the final match on June 6 at 1:30 p.m. at the same venue.
It will be the first time in five years that the two teams have met in a cup final since 2019, when Hyundai E&C celebrated after defeating Chung's former team, KGC Ginseng Corporation, 3-2 in straight sets.
Chung halted GS Caltex's winning streak after defeating Kim Yeon-kyung's Heungkuk Life in the qualifiers.
On the day, Jung led GS Caltex 16-14 in the blocking battle and dominated in service aces (10-4).
In particular, while GS Caltex's scoring was heavily skewed toward Giselle Silva 카지노사이트 (registered name Silva - 32 points), Jungkwanjang got 21 points from Megawatti Pertiwi (registered name Mega) and Vanya Vukirich (registered name Vukirich).
Among the Korean players, Pyo Seung-ju contributed 17 points with a high attack percentage (53.57%), while Jung Ho-young had 11 points, including six blocks.
Chung called for Lee Sun-woo at 9-9 in the fourth set with the set score 1-2, and it paid off.
Taking the court in place of Vukiric, Lee scored seven kills (80.00% attack percentage) in the fourth set to push the match to a full set.
GS Caltex panicked and committed six unforced errors in the fifth set.
After a quick opener from Pyo Seung-joo and a service ace from Ahn Ye-rim at 5-6, GS Caltex surrendered a 10-point lead with team positional errors and attack errors.
GS Caltex saved match point at 14-10 with a staggered attack from Mega.
GS Caltex tried to win its third consecutive Cup title after last year's and the previous year's tournaments, but fell short against Jung's blows.
Led by a solid offensive line that included Leticia Moma Basoko (real name Moma - 17 points) and Yang Hyo-jin (13 points), Hyundai E&C easily punched its ticket to the finals thanks to 21 digs, three times as many as IBK.
Hyundai E&C led 8-5 in blocks and 4-0 in service aces. The difference in team attack success rate was 39% (HMC)-28% (IBK), a difference of 11 percentage points.