Korean Air enjoys the joy of winning▶ Click here for a larger view
Korean Air, the champion of the V-League last season, won the men’s championship in the 2022 Suncheon-Dodram Cup Professional Volleyball Tournament.
On the 28th, Korean Air defeated Korea Electric Power in the cup final at Palma Gymnasium in Suncheon, Jeollanam-do, with a set score of 3-0 (25-16 25-23 25-23).
Korean Air regained its cup title in three years since 2019. The cup competition was also held in Suncheon at that time, adding to the meaning.
In addition, it won the fifth championship, beating Hyundai Capital (four times) and setting the record for the most cup championships.
Korean Air received 50 million won in prize money for the championship, and 30 million won was returned to the runner-up team, KEPCO.
The match was one-sided. Korean Air took the first set with overwhelming power.
Korean Air blockers effectively cut off the flow of their opponent’s attacks with precise jumps. As Korea Electric Power Co., Ltd. suffered from receive hunting and repeated obvious attacks, many Korean Air players participated in the blocking and accumulated points.
Korean Air scored 7 points by blocking only in the first set. There was no blocking goal in the first set of KEPCO.
Lim Dong-hyuk scored 7 goals, including two blocking, in the first set alone.
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The match was two sets. Korean Air might not stop the opposing team’s main gun Seo Jae-deok in the early part of the second set and gave up the lead.
It was a tough game with a 7-13, 6-point difference.
However, following Lim Dong-hyeok succeeded in consecutive open attacks in 8-14, he blocked Im Seong-jin’s attack and reversed the mood.
Korean Air, which followed metallurgy, succeeded in reversing with successful blocking in 18-19 by Jae-young Cho and in 19-19 by Jeong Ji-seok.
In particular, Jung Ji-seok brought the momentum completely by blocking the attack in a one-on-one situation with Seo Jae-duk of the opposing team.
Korean Air was persistently pursued by KEPCO, but in 24-23, Dong-hyeok Lim scored with a strong quick-open attack and took it to the second set.
Im Dong-hyeok attacking▶ Click here for a larger view
The third set was also tough. Korean Air seemed to easily win the championship by running 22-18. However, they allowed a tie of 22-22 by conceding a serve ace to Jung Ji-seok’s serve Beom-sil, the opposing team’s Shin Young-seok and a blocking goal to the opposing team’s Park Chan-woong.
At this time, Donghyuk Lim came out once more. Lim Dong-hyeok cut consecutive runs with a strong open attack.
After that, Korean Air made 24-22 with Cho Jae-young saving the opposing team’s attack by Seo Jae-deok and Jung Han-yong scoring with a strong spike.
24-23 In the final attack, Donghyuk Lim scored with a clean spike to end the tournament.
On that day, Korean Air scored 16 points just by blocking. It was more than double the KEPCO blocking score (6 points).
Donghyuk Lim scored 20 points, the most for both teams, with 4 blocking points and 1 serving ace.
He performed the best in the group stage, scoring 79.2% in attack success rate in three matches and scoring 35 points in the semi-finals, and was awarded the MVP award.
He swept 27 out of 31 media votes.
The MIP Award was awarded to Seo Jae-duk, who transformed into an Apogee in this competition, and the Rising Star Award was awarded to Kim Ji-han of Korea Electric Power Corporation.
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