‘Five straight wins in a row’ Samsung Fire moves to the top of the table with 3-0 sweep of KEPCO

totositeone November 6, 2023

Samsung Fire finished the first round of the Dodram V-League with a five-game winning streak to move to the top of the standings.

Samsung Fire swept KEPCO 3-0 (28-26, 25-21, 25-22) in straight sets in their Dodram 2023-2024 V-League home match at Chungmu Gymnasium in Daejeon on Friday.

Samsung Fire, which is tied with Woori Card at 5-1 with 14 points, jumped to first place in the league in set-scoring percentage. The team has been on a roll in its last four matches, winning three straight shutout victories with a 3-0 set score. 바카라사이트 KEPCO, on the other hand, hung its head in shame with its third straight loss.

After taking the first set thanks to a deuce from KEPCO’s Seo Jae-duk and a block from Kim Jun-woo that denied Lim Sung-jin a quick opener, Samsung Fire slowly pushed KEPCO back in the second set with its serve.

Three service aces from Josvani Hernandez and Kim Jung-ho extended the lead to two points, and Samsung Chemicals took advantage of a Tyson Dul host’s service error late in the set and an attack by Lim Sung-jin that got stuck at the net to take a 21-17 lead and book the best-of-three match.

The third set belonged to Yosubani, a powerful fixer. After scoring back-to-back kills at 17-17, Yosubani followed Seo Jae-duk’s attack with a solo effective block at 20-18 and then took the toss from setter Noh Jae-wook for a quick open attack to split the KEPCO court.

Samsung Fire ended the match on 24-22 match point with an attack error by KEPCO middle blocker Shin Young-seok.

Yosubani finished with 25 points, including a service ace and two blocks, to lead the team to its fifth straight win. Taisu was held to 16 points, including eight unforced errors, as Yosubani took the match.

In the women’s match at Gwangju Pepper Stadium, Chung Kwan-Jang swept Pepper Savings Bank 3-0 (27-25, 25-17, 25-16) to move up one spot from fourth to third. Pepper Savings Bank suffered its fourth straight defeat.

Hijab-wearing ‘Indonesian big guns’ Megawati Pertiwi and Giovanna Milana poured in 25 and 18 points respectively.

After dropping the first set deuce, Pepper Savings Bank fell behind Chungkwanjang in team attack percentage by 15 percentage points and lost the second and third sets without a fight.