Korea Expressway Corporation Hyundai E&C Wins

Korea Expressway Corporation Hyundai E&C Wins the First Day of the Women's Division of the Professional Volleyball Cup (overall)

Korea Expressway Corporation overcame Pepper Savings Bank in the opening match... Park Jung-ah takes a break Hyundai E&C wins over Ginseng Corporation 토토사이트

Korea Expressway Corporation, the 2022-2023 V-League Women's Champion, won its first victory by defeating Pepper Savings Bank in the opening match of the 2023 Gumi Dodram Cup Professional Volleyball Tournament.

Hyundai E&C also started the cup competition with a victory.

Expressway Corporation defeated Pepper Savings Bank with a set score of 3-1 (25-17 21-25 25-23 25-22) in the Gumi Dodram Cup women's opening game (Group A 1st round) held at Park Chung-hee Gymnasium in Gyeongsangbuk-do on the 29th.

The opening game attracted attention with the 'Park Jung-ah Derby', but Park Jeong-ah (Pepper Savings Bank) kept only the warm-up zone.

Pepper Savings Bank's new coach, Joe Tringe, gave Park Jeong-ah, who had little time to breathe with her teammates due to the selection of the national team, to rest on this day.

Coach Trinji lost in his Korean stage debut match.

Park Jung-ah, who debuted in the V-League wearing an IBK Industrial Bank uniform in the 2011-2012 season and played for Korea Expressway Corporation from the 2017-2018 season

Obtained qualification as a free agent (FA) after the end of the 2022-2023 season and earned a total annual fee of 7 with Pepper Savings Bank.

He signed a three-year contract for 75 million won (annual salary of 475 million won and an option of 300 million won).

Unfortunately, after the transfer, his first official opponent was designated as Road Construction, but Park Jung-ah did not step on the court.

Foreign players, including Asia Quarter, did not participate in this cup competition due to issuance of a transfer agreement (ICT), and with Park Jung-ah taking a break, Pepper Savings Bank played the opening game of the cup competition, showing only a part of its strength.

The youngest team, Pepper Savings Bank, participated in the cup competition for the first time last year, and at that time, all three qualifying matches were completely defeated with a set score of 0-3.

On this day, thanks to the performances of Lee Han-bi (19 points) and Park Eun-seo (22 points), they won 2 sets and won a set in a cup competition for the first time as a team.

However, it collapsed rapidly as the match was lost in the third set.

In the 3rd set 20-24, Pepper Savings Bank pursued 23-24 with Park Eun-seo scoring three times in a row.

Expressway construction middle blocker Bae Yoo-na's attack was kicked up with defense, and he got a chance to lead it to deuce.

The Korea Expressway Corporation took Park Eun-seo’s open attack and Jeon Sae-yan’s open attack to finish the third set 25-23.

Pepper Savings Bank chased from 16-24 to 22-24 in the 4th set, but the other players delayed and did not receive the ball Seulgi Moon kicked up as a libero, so they gave up the 4th set 22-25 in vain.

With main setter Lee Yoon-jung sidelined due to an ankle injury and Park Jung-ah's transfer weakening, Korea Expressway Corporation won the opening game of the cup competition and kept the pride of the previous season's V-League champion.

Highway Corporation wing striker Kim Sae-in, who received the skill development award in last year's cup competition, led the team's attack by scoring 20 points that day.

Although they won, Korea Expressway Corporation gave away Lee Go-eun, a setter who had been designated as a compensation player for Park Jung-ah, to Pepper Savings Bank, and middle blocker Choi Ga-eun, who recruited them, stepped on Park Eun-seo's foot while trying to block in the middle of the second set.

The professional volleyball match was held in Gumi for the first time in about six years and four months since March 2017, when LIG Insurance, the predecessor of KB Insurance for men, used Park Chung-hee Gymnasium as its home.

2,143 spectators attended the opening match.

In another Group A match, Hyundai E&C defeated KGC Ginseng Corporation with a set score of 3-0 (25-22 30-28 25-22).

The winner of this match was also the 2nd set.

In the second set, 28-28, where a fierce deuce match took place, Hyundai E&C took a step ahead with an open attack from 'Lee Jeok-saeng' Kim Joo-hyang, and opponent Lee Seon-woo tried to attack from the rear and stepped on the attack line, winning the set 30-28.

Kim Joo-hyang, who was nominated by Hyundai E&C as a compensation player for Hwang Min-kyung, who signed a FA contract with IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, scored 6 points at the transfer declaration ceremony that day.

Hyundai E&C overcame Ginseng Corporation 9-5 in blocking scoring by utilizing the team color.

In particular, young national team middle blocker Lee Da-hyun scored 4 blocking goals.

Hyundai E&C wing striker Jeong Ji-yoon scored 17 points, the most of both teams.