Women's professional basketball Yongin Samsung Life Insurance has widened the gap further by facing Bucheon Hana One Q in the third and fourth places.
Samsung Life defeated Hana One Q 65-58 in the away game of Woori Bank's Woori WON 2023-2024 women's professional basketball regular league held at Bucheon Gymnasium on the 28th.
Samsung Life Insurance, which escaped two consecutive losses, won 10 games and lost 11 games in the season, maintaining its third place.
On the other hand, fourth-place Hana One Q, which lost four consecutive games, only had seven wins and 14 losses, three games behind Samsung Life Insurance.
In the first quarter, Samsung Life Insurance, which was responsible for seven points each by Lee Hae-ran and Kang Yoo-rim, led 24-9.
Hana One Q, which had a bad performance at the beginning, had a rebound advantage in the second quarter and started to explode outer guns, making it a close game, narrowing it to 33-34 at the end of the first half.
Amid the battle in the second half, Hana One Q took advantage of a series of still opportunities at the end of the third quarter to balance 46-46 one minute and nine seconds ago, and with 28 seconds left, Jihyun Shin's three-point lead succeeded in reversing 49-48.
Samsung Life Insurance, which gave up the flow, was pushed back to 50-56 8 minutes and 12 seconds before the fourth quarter, but later launched a major counterattack.
Starting with Kiana Smith's 3-pointer 7 minutes and 47 seconds before the end, he scored 10 consecutive points, predicting a 60-56 lead with 1:50 left.
With 39.7 seconds left, Smith's three-run shot was inserted and ran 65-58 to secure the victory.
Smith scored 10 points in the fourth quarter alone, leading the victory with 21 points and six rebounds, while Lee Hae-ran recorded 13 points and seven rebounds. Bae Hye-yoon also displayed triple double-class performance (12 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists).
Kim Jong-un, a 36-year-old veteran forward of Hana OneQ, surpassed 8,000 points for the second time after former national team coach Jeong Sun-min (8,140 points), who is the No. 1 scorer in women's professional basketball history.
Kim Jong-un, who added 16 points on the day, scored 8,14, 126 points behind former coach Chung's record. 안전놀이터
In addition, Yang In-young scored 16 points and 7 rebounds and Jihyun Shin scored 12 points, but it did not lead to Hana One Q's victory.