Team Kang's Resurrection SK Rent-a-Car and NH Nonghyup Card will win the championship side by side...The record of players was poured in, too
Sep 24, 2025
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SK Rent-a-Car won the third round of the 'Welcome Savings Bank PBA Team League 2025-2026" held for 9 days at the 'Koyang KINTEX PBA Stadium" in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do from the 14th to the 22nd. SK Rent-A-Car, which won the postseason and two rounds last season, showed off its potential by winning the third round this season.
SK Rent-A-Car, who started nervously with a set score of 3:4 against Harim in the first game of the third round, won all the games from the 2nd day against Huons to the final day against SY, winning 8-1 (23 points) to lift the trophy. SK Rent-A-Car has confirmed its advance to the postseason for the third time after Hana Card (winning the first round) and Welcome Savings Bank (winning the second round).
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SK Rent-A-Car, which won the team league last season, was still considered a favorite in the first round, ranking second (6-3, 17 points) after Hana Card (7-2, 20 points), but was sluggish in the second round (4-5, 11 points). In the second round, Eddie Leffens (Belgium) held out, but it collapsed as the other players failed to use their strength. In particular, Hida Aurier (Japan) and Cho Ye-eun were sluggish and failed to win the game in which female players participated.
In the third round, SK Rent-A-Car changed completely. Kang Ji-eun, the team's 'Women's Ace', led the team with 11 wins and 7 losses (5 wins and 1 loss in singles, 6 wins and 6 losses in doubles). In particular, Kang Ji-eun made SK Rent-A-Car's victory with a dramatic come-from-behind victory with eight high runs in the fifth inning when she was trailing Hana Card 1-8 in the sixth set (women's singles) against Kim Ga-young on the eighth day of the third round.
On top of that, leader Kang Dong-gung also played 8-1 in the singles, and Hida and Cho Ye-eun, who were sluggish in the second round, participated in the second set (women's doubles) in the third round to overcome their weaknesses by combining 4 wins and 2 losses.
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In particular, Cho Jae-ho, who was sluggish with 3 wins and 13 losses in the second round, recovered his skills with 11 wins and 5 losses in the third round, while Mamin Gum tied for first place in the third round with 12 wins and 5 losses.
▶ Various records related to perfect Q were also poured out from 200 wins in the set
Various records were poured out in this third round. First of all, there was a player who achieved 200 wins in the set for the first time since the team league was launched. The main character is SK Rent-A-Car's Reputation. On the 16th, the refusals won 11-3 (5 innings) in the fifth set against David Zapata of Woori Financial Capital, who had 199 wins side by side, and achieved 200 wins in the set for the first time.
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In the third round, several records related to perfect Q were also poured out. Harim became the first team to achieve a perfect Q in a match against NH Nonghyup Card on the 16th, with Park Jung-hyun in the second set and Tran Deuk-min (Vietnam) in the seventh set. In addition, High1 Resort Lim Sung-kyun and Jeon Ji-woo played in the fourth set against SY on the 18th and NH Nonghyup Card on the 22nd, achieving two perfect cues in the second round for the first time.
The team league, which finished the third round, is scheduled to resume in mid-November. Prior to this, the PBA will hold the fifth tour of the season 'Crown Sea Pacific PBA-LPBA Championship 2025 Hangawi' at Goyang KINTEX PBA Stadium' from the 26th.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.