SK Rent-a-Car Hana Card, a big match that won the PBA Team League 1R, will eventually meet

Jul 29, 2025

SK Rent-a-Car Hana Card, a big match that won the PBA Team League 1R, will eventually meet
SK렌터카 강동궁. Photo courtesy =PBA



SK Rent-a-Car and Hana Card will face off on the way to winning the first round of the professional baseball PBA team league 'Kangho'.

SK Rent-A-Car ended its four-game winning streak by losing 2-4 to High1 Resort on the 7th day of the first round of the 'Welcome Savings Bank PBA Team League 2025-2026' held at Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, on the 28th. Hana Card won Crown Haitai in a full set and won five consecutive games.

As a result, the two teams tied with 5 wins and 2 losses (14 points). In the set gain rate, SK Rent-A-Car maintained its lead in the league with 1.471, ahead of Hana Card (1.261).




SK Rent-A-Car, which had been on a four-game winning streak, recently struggled against High1 Resort, which has been on a three-game winning streak. With the set score tied 2-2, Eddie Refunce (Belgium) of the fifth set (men's singles) was pushed to 10-11 (6 innings) after a close match against Burak Hashashi (Turkiye), and Kang Ji-eun lost to Kim Da-hee 6-9 (4 innings) in the sixth set (women's doubles), eventually losing to the final set score 2-4.

SK Rent-a-Car Hana Card, a big match that won the PBA Team League 1R, will eventually meet
Hana Card Kim Ga-young. Photo courtesy =PBA
At the same time, Hana Card won against Crown Haitai in a full set. Hana Card, which was being dragged to a set score of 2-3, won the game 9-2 (13 innings) against Baek Min-ju in the sixth set, followed by Shin Jung-joo's dramatic come-from-behind victory of 11-10 with a seven-run high-run long shot in the second inning when he was losing 4-11 against Oh Tae-joon in the seventh set (men's singles). Thanks to Shin Jung-joo's dramatic come-from-behind victory, Hana Card won five consecutive games.

The two teams, which are competing for the lead, will face off at 6:30 p.m. on the 29th. The team that wins the game will be one step closer to winning the first round with a postseason berth. In the 2025-2026 season, the PBA Team League will play five regular rounds and determine the winning team in each round. The winning team in each round will advance to the postseason and compete for the final championship.




Following SK Rent-a-Car and Hana Card, High1 Resort is closely chasing the lead with 4 wins and 3 losses (13 points). High1 Resort, which lost three consecutive games at the beginning of the season, even grabbed SK Rent-A-Car and won four consecutive games. Crown Haitai (4 wins, 3 losses, 12 points) was in fourth place.








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