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Byun Yun-ha Rescued Samsunglife

Posted July. 09, 2002 22:35,   

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From the beginning of season, each club has considered how domestic players and foreign players become in harmony because the initial situation depends upon the harmony.

A good example was the match between Vichumi of Samsunglife and Hansae of Woori Bank in Suwon In-door Gym at 9th of July, in Summer league of Female Professional Baseball of ‘2002 New Kookmin Bank’s Cup’. Woori Bank invited Alexandra who is Brazilian and 200centimeters tall. She had played a key role to defeat Korean Team in semi-final game in 2000 Sydney Olympic. As she was invited, giant-baseball was expected. However, the matter was the harmony between players. That day, Woori Bank did not maximize its advantages of tallness against Samsung Life equipped with quickness. Woori bank made lots of mistake and was defeated by Samsung Life with the score 68 verse 74.

In first quarters, Alexandra made 15 points by herself and Woori Bank led the game by 21 point to 19 points. At that time, the bank could expect the winning. However, the bank had already made mistake twice of Samsung Life. It was a precursor of bad luck. As leading team play, Alexandra became target by Samsung players and pass was intercepted frequently. Samsung’s quickness made the intercept into goal and led the game in the first half by 42-34.

The success of 3-point shots at crucial moments was Samsung’s good luck. Samsung allowed Woori Bank’s chase by 62-60until in the middle of the last quarters, but 3-point shots by Byun Yun-ha secured the winning. Byun Yun-ha (28 points) succeeded six of three points and dominated outer court that day. Alexandra recorded 28 point and 8 rebounds that day.

In Chungju game, in extended game, Hyundai Hyperion defeated Sinsegye Cool Cat that had marched with two wins by 85-75.

Chung Sun Min’ stamina was the decisive factor of the game. She recorded 29 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists. Until the last quarters, the game was 70-70. In extended game, Shinsegye mainly depended upon Chung Sun-min, on the while Hyundai used diversified score sources. Kim Young-ok and Kang Jee-suk of Hyundai made score 18 point and 16 points until the last quarters and 7 points and 3 points respectively in the extended game by joint play and Chun Joo-won made 4 points (13 point and 7 assists). On the other side, Chung Sun Min recorded nil, and Shinsegye made only 5 point in the extended game.



Sang-Ho Kim hyangsan@donga.com