Korean Air won its first foreign head coach showdown…KOVO Cup semifinals

Korean Air coach Tommy Tilikainen (Finland) won his first foreign coach match in Korean professional volleyball with OK Financial Group coach Ogino Masaji (Japan). Korean Air, which has won two consecutive games, has confirmed its advance to the semifinals of the 2023 Gumi Dodram Cup Professional Volleyball Tournament (KOVO Cup).

Korean Air beat OK Financial Group with a set score of 3-2 (21-25 25-21 26-24 21-25 15-9) in the second Group A match held at Gumi Park Chung-hee Gymnasium on the 8th.

Korean Air, which defeated Woori Card 3-0 in the first round, secured at least second place in the group with two consecutive wins and won a ticket to the semifinals. With KB Insurance confirmed to be eliminated with two losses, Woori Card, which recorded one win and one loss alongside OK Financial Group, will face off on the 10th to determine the owner of the remaining tickets to the semifinals.

On top of that, Korean Air also won the first match of a professional volleyball foreign commander with a meaningful result.

For Korean Air, as many as five players scored double-digit points with 22 points for Lee Jun, 15 points for Kwak Seung-seok, 13 points for Lee Soo-hwang and Cho Jae-young, and 10 points for Jin Ji-wi. Korean Air, which has only 10 available players due to national team selection and injuries, has half of its players scoring double-digit points.

In OK Financial Group, Cha Ji-hwan scored the most points in both teams with 26 points, and Shin Shin-jin, Lee Jin-sung, and Park Won-bin scored 10 points, and it is also painful that Jeon Byung-sun collapsed due to an injury.

Korean Air won the first set first and gave up the second and third sets in a row, but reversed the flow, which was pushed 5-6 in the fourth set, to 8-6 in the first half.

Kwak Seung-seok’s quick opening and Jin Ji-wi’s quick attack widened the score gap one by one and won 25-21.

In the fifth set, he took the lead with a double score of 12-6, and in 14-9 Lee Soo-hwang finished the game by turning Cha Ji-hwan’s opening into a block.

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