OK Financial Group stopped Woori Card’s bid for a first-round sweep. OK Financial Group defeated Woori Card 3-0 (25-23 26-24 25-22) in straight sets in the men’s home match of the Dodram 2023-2024 V League at Ansan Sangryoksu Gymnasium on Wednesday .Leader Woori Card (14-5-1), who had won five straight games including the opening match, lost the last match of the first round .OK Financial Group improved to 10 points (4-1) and moved from fourth to third place. The two teams battled in every set .At 21-21 in the first set, OK Financial Group broke the balance with a late attack by Song Hee-chae and widened the gap with a service ace by Leonardo Leyva Martinez (registered name Leo).
At 23-22, Shin converted an open attack for set point, and at 24-23, Song Hee-chae closed out the set with an open attack. The second set was a deuce battle .At 24-24, Leo landed an open attack, but Woori Card’s Kim Jee-han’s quick open went out of the line without reaching the blocker’s hands, and the teams were evenly matched.In the third set, at 22-20, Song Hee-chae scored back-to-back open attacks to give OK Financial Group a 24-20 lead .It was the moment that actually decided the match. Song Hee-chae (12 points), who returned to the team where she started her professional career after being traded from Woori Card to OK Financial Group in May this year, played a key role in the set. All three of OK Financial Group’s wing players scored in double figures, with Leo adding 21 points and Shin Shin-jin 13.
Matey Kok (14 points) was the only other player to score more than 10 points for Woori Card. In the women’s game, GS Caltex swept Hyundai E&C in a ‘momma derby’.GS Caltex won their home match against Hyundai E&C in straight sets, 3-0 (25-16 25-20 25-14) at Jangchung Gymnasium in Jung-gu, Seoul.GS Caltex improved to 11 points (4-1) and moved up to second place in the standings, overtaking Hyundai E&C (10-3).The gap between them and first-place Heungkuk Life (12-4-1) is one point.GS Caltex faced Leticia Moma Basoko (née Moma) for the first time on the day .Moma was GS Caltex’s main shooter in the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 seasons, but this season she wore a Hyundai E&C uniform.GS Caltex held Moma to 12 points (41.38% shooting percentage).GS Caltex’s foreign player of choice, Giselle Silva (real name Silva), scored a team-high 21 points (51.35% shooting percentage).The stat sheets of the two foreign players were the difference 스포츠토토존 between victory and defeat.