Cheongju KB, a women’s professional basketball team, defeated Bucheon Hana 1Q, which was on the rise recently, and achieved 8 consecutive wins to return to the joint lead.KB defeated Hana One Q 72-55 in the Woori Bank Woori WON 2023-2024 Women’s Professional Basketball Regular League home game held at Cheongju Gymnasium on the 13th.KB, which has recently won 8 games in a row, recorded 10 wins and 1 loss on the season and is tied for the lead again with Asan Woori Bank.KB has never lost except for the 71-72 loss against Woori Bank on November 15, the third game of this season.Woori Bank also lost once to KB on November 27th, so the two teams are competing fiercely for the lead. Hana One Q’s recent winning streak stopped at three games.Hana One Q, with 5 wins and 7 losses, maintained its 3rd place ranking, but was no longer ahead of 4th place Yongin Samsung Life Insurance (4 wins, 6 losses).The game was tense at the beginning, but KB took a 12-8 lead with Park Ji-soo’s third 3-pointer of the season with about 5 minutes left in the first quarter, and took the lead by finishing the quarter at 23-14.
In the second quarter, KB recorded 14 rebounds, including 5 by Park Ji-soo and 4 by veteran Yeom Yoon-ah, overwhelming Hana One Q, which had only 4, and the gap widened to 42-29 at the end of the first half.Starting the second half, KB went further with Lee Chae-eun and Yeom Yun-ah scoring 6 points in a row, and 2 minutes and 35 seconds before the end of the third quarter, Kang Yi-seul’s 2 free throws made it 59-38, and the game was easily resolved by running away with a 20-point lead.KB was ahead 70-46, and 6 minutes and 10 seconds before the end of the fourth quarter, they gave Park Ji-soo and Kang I-seul a break and gave opportunities to new players, but the game was played leisurely.Kang I-seul scored 26 points, the most for both teams, including 5 3-point shots, and Park Ji-su played 25 minutes and 51 seconds, scoring 21 points and 16 rebounds.Ye-eun Heo added 8 points and 10 assists.On this day, KB had 47 team rebounds, far ahead of Hana One Q (27).In particular, the number of offensive rebounds was 18, three times that of the opponent.At Hana One Q, Shin Ji-hyun, who scored 10 points, 토토 was the only double-digit scorer.