"Spring-Sapata Sweep" Woori Finance overtakes High1 Resort with "3 consecutive wins" to No. 1... 5R competition for victory. [PBA Team League]

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In the fifth round of the PBA team league, where the last card to advance to the postseason is at stake, fierce competition is unfolding.

Woori Financial Capital Woori WON Wibis beat Welcome Savings Bank Welcome Phoenix 4-2 (11-8, 9-4, 15-9, 3-9, 0-11, 9-5) in the third day of the fifth round of the "Welcome Savings Bank PBA Team League 2025-2026" at KINTEX PBA Stadium in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province on the 5th.

As a result, Woori Financial Capital took points in all three games, winning three consecutive games with two wins and one loss in the fifth round and seven points, beating High1 Resort High1 Winners, who had only six points.

The performance of foreign players was brilliant. David Zapata of Spain won the first set and the third set of singles with Kang Min-gu, while "Cambodian Express" Thong Piavi led the team to the lead by winning the second and sixth sets. Woori Financial Capital, which seemed to win lightly by winning the third set, was on the verge of losing four or five sets, but Thong, who went on to singles in the sixth set, secured three points in a pleasant way by catching Kim Ye-eun 9-5.

In the PBA team league, a total of five teams will advance to the postseason. The winning team in each round gets a ticket to the post, and if there is a duplicate winning team, the next team that did not win the championship will advance according to the final ranking.

Along with the lead in the fifth round, Woori Financial Capital closely chased fourth-place High1 Resort High1 Winners (59 points) with 16 wins and 23 losses and 58 points in the season's overall ranking.

High1 Resort, which had been leading until the previous day, beat SK Rent-a-Car Direct 4-3 after a full set, winning three consecutive rounds in the fifth round. However, it was regrettable that they won all three games after a full set. Competition between the two teams is intensifying at a time when not only the fifth round but also the season's overall ranking must be considered comprehensively.

Hana Card Hana Pay defeated NH Nonghyup Card NH Pay with a set score of 4-1. Hana Card, which secured three points, kept its lead over SK Rent-A-Car (74 points) with 26 wins and 13 points and 76 points in the season's overall ranking table. The final first-place team is very advantageous because it can come first-come, first-served in the final.

Hana Card defeated NH Nonghyup Card with the performance of foreign players. In the first set, Murat Najee Choclu (Turkiye) and Nguyen Quoc Nguyen (Vietnam) combined for a perfect Q (all scores in one inning) in the first inning against Cho Jae-ho and Kim Hyun-woo to gain an 11-0 lead. In the second set, Kim Ga-young and Ayako Sakai of Japan turned Kim Min-ah and Kim Bo-mi 9-0 in two innings.

Hana Card, who quickly took two sets, lost 11-15 (10 innings) against Mamin Gum (Vietnam) in the third set and gave up a set. Hana Card quickly restored the atmosphere by catching Kim Hyun-woo and Kim Bo-mi 9-2 (6 innings) in the fourth set, and Q in the fifth set.Nguyen beat Cho Jae-ho 11-6 (5 innings) to complete the set-score 4-1 victory. On this day, foreign players who participated in Hana Card won two games each.

SY, who led Seo Hyun-min's two wins, beat Harim 4-1 on a set score to report its first win in the fifth round, and Huons also beat Crown Haitai 4-2 on a set score to win its first round after two consecutive losses.

On the 6th, the fourth day of the competition, the SK Rent-A-NH Nonghyup Card match will begin at 12:30 p.m., followed by the High1 Resort-Woori Financial Capital (PBA Stadium) and the SY-Crown Haitai (PBA Lounge) match at 3:30 p.m. The Huons-Welcome Savings Bank match will be held at 6:30 and Hana Card-Harim match at 9:30.

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