Korean Air won against KB Insurance with a set score of 3-0 (25-23 25-13 25-21) in an away game of the 2023-24 Dodram V-League at Uijeongbu Gymnasium in Gyeonggi Province on the 14th.
As a result, Korean Air ended the regular season with 23 wins and 13 losses (71 points), moving its ranking from second to first. Woori Card (23 wins and 12 losses, 69 points) ranked second.
Whether Korean Air will achieve its fourth consecutive regular league title will be determined by the results of the match between Woori Card and sixth-ranked Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance at Chungmu Gymnasium in Daejeon on the 16th.
If Woori Card beats Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, it will push Korean Air to second place and win the regular league title.
If Woori Card wins 3-0 or 3-1 in the set score, it will add 3 points and lead Korean Air with 72 points. In addition, if it wins 3-2 at the end of the full set, it will add two more points to tie with Korean Air, but it will confirm its No. 1 ranking because it has one more win in multiple wins (24 wins for Woori Card, 23 wins for Korean Air).
Hoping to come from behind, Korean Air struggled against KB Insurance’s resistance in the first set, but laughed thanks to its opponent’s error. KB had Hong Sang-hyuk’s spike off the court at 22-23, and Villena’s spike serve was caught in the net at 23-24.
Korean Air, which caught the first set, won 25-13 in the second set with Lim Dong-hyuk, Jung Ji-seok and Kwak Seung-seok exploding.
Korean Air was pushed back to 12-17 in the last three sets, but scored five consecutive goals to tie the game at 17-17. Later, it played a seesaw game, and Lim Dong-hyuk and Kwak Seung-seok succeeded in attacking in succession at 19-19, and Ryu Heung-min made an error to lead the game at 22-19. Korean Air added three more points to keep the game afloat.
Lim Dong-seok led the attack with 19 points, and Jung Ji-seok, Kim Min-jae (8 points), Kwak Seung-seok (7 points), and Kim Kyu-min (6 points) also played evenly.
In the women’s game held at the Hwaseong Sports Town Gymnasium in Gyeonggi Province, the home team IBK Industrial Bank of Korea won a come-from-behind victory over the Korea Expressway Corporation with a set score of 3-2 (21-25 22-25 25-22 25-21 15-13).
Industrial Bank of Korea ranked fifth with 16 wins and 19 losses (48 points), and Korea Expressway Corporation ranked sixth with 12 wins and 24 losses (39 points).