In the women’s professional basketball team, Yongin Samsung Life Insurance opened the gap further by securing a match for 3rd and 4th place with Bucheon Hana One Q. Samsung Life Insurance defeated Hana One Q 65-58 in the Woori Bank Woori WON 2023-2024 Women’s Professional Basketball Regular League away game held at Bucheon Gymnasium on the 28th.Samsung Life Insurance, breaking off a two-game losing streak, maintained third place with 10 wins and 11 losses on the season. On the other hand, fourth-place Hana One Q, which suffered four consecutive losses, recorded only 7 wins and 14 losses, falling behind Samsung Life Insurance by 3 games. In the first quarter, Samsung Life Insurance, led by Lee Hae-ran and Kang Yu-rim with 7 points each, led 24-9.
Hana One Q, whose early performance was so poor that they were not able to score a single point until 4 minutes and 4 seconds before the end of the first quarter, gained the upper hand in rebounds in the second quarter and started to explode with outside shots, creating a close game and narrowing the score to 33-34 at the end of the first half. As the battle continued in the second half, Hana One Q took advantage of the opportunity created by a steal at the end of the third quarter to level the score at 46-46 with 1 minute and 9 seconds left, and with 28 seconds left, Shin Ji-hyun’s 3-pointer succeeded in turning the score around at 49-48. Samsung Life Insurance, which gave up the game, was down 50-56 with 8 minutes and 12 seconds left in the fourth quarter, but then launched a major counterattack.
Starting with Kiana Smith’s 3-point shot 7 minutes and 47 seconds before the end, she scored 10 points in a row and predicted victory with a 60-56 lead with 1 minute and 50 seconds left. With 39.7 seconds left, Smith’s 3-pointer made it 65-58, solidifying the victory .Smith led the way in victory with 21 points and 6 rebounds, including 10 points in the fourth quarter, while Lee Hae-ran scored 13 points and 7 rebounds. Bae Hye-yoon also performed at a triple-double level (12 points, 11 rebounds, 9 assists). Hana 1Q’s 36-year-old veteran forward Kim Jeong-eun became the second player to surpass 8,000 points in her career, following former national team coach Jeong Seon-min (8,140 points), the all-time leading scorer in women’s professional basketball .Kim Jong-un, who added 16 points on this day, has a total score of 8,014 points, which is 126 points behind former coach Jeong’s record .In addition, Yang In-young scored 스포츠토토존 16 points and 7 rebounds, and Shin Ji-hyun scored 12 points, but they did not lead to Hana One Q’s victory.