SK Rent-A-Car Beat Woori Financial Capital for 2nd consecutive win...The eldest, Eddie Refunce, has won 200 sets for the first time in the team league!
Sep 17, 2025
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SK Rent-A-Car won 4-3 against Woori Financial Capital in the third day of the third round of the 'Welcome Savings Bank PBA Team League 2025-2026' held at Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, on the 16th. SK Rent-A-Car rose to second place with two wins and one loss (six points).
Early in the game, Woori Financial Capital took the lead by winning two sets first. However, SK Rent-A-Car ace Kang Dong-gung won 15-1 (two innings) by completing a perfect Q (achieving all runs in one inning) in the second inning attack when he was trailing 0-1. Then, in the fourth set (mixed doubles), the Ngodinnai (Vietnam) and Kang Ji-eun duo beat Sun Ji-hoon and Kim Min-young 9-5 (4 innings) to tie the set score 2-2.
In the fifth set (men's singles), Refunce and Zapata, who have won 199 sets side by side, met. After scoring a five-run long shot in the fourth inning, which was tight at 3-3, Lefence widened the gap to 8-3 before adding three remaining points in the fifth inning to win 11-3 (5 innings). With this, Lefens completed 200 wins in the first set of the PBA team league.
SK Rent-A-Car lost 5-9 (8 innings) to Orye Hida (Japan) in the sixth set (women's singles), but in the seventh set (men's singles), Conditional Hwi turned Kang Min-gu 11-7 (10 innings) to keep the win.
Harim also wrote the true record on the day. Harim beat NH Nonghyup Card 4-3, and in the second set (women's doubles), Park Jung-hyun achieved a perfect Q in the first inning and won 9-0 (1 inning) to make the set score 1-1. Later, in the last seven sets, Tran Deuk-min made a perfect cue roll in the first inning and won 11-2 (1 inning). It is the first time in the team league that a team has recorded two perfect cues in a game.
Meanwhile, the game was so close that all five games were played in full sets. In the face-off between the first round winner Hana Card and the second round winner Welcome Savings Bank, Welcome Savings Bank won the set score 4-3. In addition, SY beat Huons 4-3 to win two consecutive games, and High1 Resort also beat Crown Haitai 4-3 to report its first win in the third round.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
