GS Caltex Defeats Pepper, Giving Hope for Spring Volleyball

GS CALTEX DEFEATS PEPPER, GIVING HOPE FOR SPRING VOLLEYBALL… 7th JEONG KWAN-JANG AND ILJEON

 

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance defeats OK Financial Group and leaps to 4th place… Sangnoksu Gym escapes 13th consecutive loss

Women’s professional volleyball team GS Caltex continued its glimmer of hope for spring volleyball.

GS Caltex defeated Pepper Savings Bank with a set score of 3-0 (25-22 25-22 25-12) in the Dodram 2023-2024 V-League women’s home game held at Jangchung Gymnasium in Seoul on the 3rd.

GS Caltex (51 points, 18 wins, 15 losses), which added 3 points, followed third place CheongKwanJang (58 points, 19 wins, 14 losses) by 7 points. 파워볼게임

With both teams having three games left until the end of the regular season, the matchup on the 7th is expected to be a watershed in the final postseason competition.

Basically, the 1st to 3rd place teams in the regular league advance to the V-League postseason, but if the point difference between 3rd and 4th places is 3 or less, a semi-playoff match is held.

With So-Hwi Kang missing from the starting lineup due to recent poor performance, GS Caltex had a hard time against Pepper Savings Bank, the lowest ranked player, in the early part of the first set.

At 20-19, where the gap was barely widen, Giselle Silva (registered name Silva) played the role of the solution by scoring consecutive strong spikes.

Afterwards, opponent Park Jung-ah’s attack left the court, and Silva smoothly scored a toss from behind.

Silva, who was also responsible for the 25th point, scored 12 points alone during one set.

GS Caltex was down 12-17 in the second set, but succeeded in turning around the game thanks to Silva’s firepower and the scoring support of domestic players.

Seo-yeon Yoo opened the chase with an open score, and Pepper Savings Bank contributed two points with Yasmin Bedart (registered name Yasmin)’s overnet and open out.

Silva scored three consecutive points to make it 18-17, and Yoo Seo-yeon and Kim Ji-yeon widened the score with quick opens and serve aces, respectively.

Afterwards, the second set ended with Kang So-hwi’s quick open and Moon Ji-yoon’s quick attack.

GS Caltex, which was on the cusp of victory, achieved a shutout victory thanks to the surprising performances of middle blockers Oh Se-yeon (5 points) and Moon Ji-yoon (4 points).

Silva led the GS Caltex attack with 24 points (attack success rate 51.11%), and other players such as Oh Se-yeon (8 points), Kang So-hwi (7 points), Darin Pinsu-wan (registered name Darin, 6 points), and Moon Ji-yoon (6 points) Their attacks were also impressive.

Pepper Savings Bank featured ‘ssangpo’ Yasmin (13 points) and Park Jeong-ah (12 points), but it was not enough.

In the men’s match at Sangnoksu Gymnasium in Ansan, Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance won 3-1 (25-19 27-25 16-25 25-20) over the home team OK Financial Group.

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, which escaped two consecutive losses, rose to 4th place with 18 wins, 15 losses, and 48 points, pushing Korea Electric Power Corporation (16 wins, 17 losses, 47 points) to 5th place.

With three games remaining in the regular season, Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance narrowed the gap with third-place OK Financial Group (18 wins, 15 losses, 52 points) to 4 points.

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, which holds the record for the most championships in the V-League by winning a total of eight championships, last won the 2013-2014 season.

The last postseason advancement was in the 2017-2018 season.

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance succeeded in breaking Sangnoksu Gymnasium’s losing streak at ’13’, which had continued since the game on November 13, 2019.

On this day, Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance had 12 sub-aces, overwhelming OK Financial Group, which had only 5.

Yosvani Hernández (registered name: Yosvani) scored 21 points, including 6 serve points, and Jargalchukt Engherden (registered name Eddie) dominated the court with 25 points, including 3 serve aces.

25 points is Eddie’s new record for most points scored in one game.

Here, Kim Jeong-ho contributed with 11 points and 2 blocking and 2 serving points, and Kim Jun-woo also scored 11 points with 4 blocking alone.

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, which easily won the first set, was dragged to a set point of 23-24 in the second set, but made a deuce due to an opponent’s error.

At 25-25, they took the second set thanks to OK Financial Group’s Song Hee-chae’s serve failure and Leonardo Leyva Martinez (registered name: Leo)’s consecutive failures.

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, which was lopsided in the 3rd set, scored 5 consecutive points at 20-20 in the 4th set to dominate 3 points.

OK Financial Group, which could have crossed the 9th division for spring volleyball advancement by adding 3 points on this day, suffered a fatal blow when Leo (25 points) strained his back in a close match at the end of the 4th set.