Kindelan Scores 39 Points, Heungkuk Life Wins 2 Straight in Cup Tournament…3-2 Full-Set Win Over IBK Industrial Bank of Korea

Heungkuk Life beat IBK Industrial Bank of Korea 3-2 in a full-set match in the Women's Group A Cup game. Kindelan scored 39 points, and the set 5 score was 15-13.

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Three-Line Summary

Heungkuk Life beat IBK Industrial Bank of Korea 3-2 in a full-set match at Yeosu Jinnam Gymnasium on October 13.
Kindelan scored 39 points. Adding the 34 points against Jung Kwan Jang two days earlier, that makes 73 points across the two games.
Heungkuk Life earned 2 straight group-stage wins, and Yonhap News reported that the team has secured a berth in the semifinals.

39 points. Heungkuk Life's foreign player Kindelan scored these points in the October 13 match against IBK Industrial Bank of Korea. That is more than three times Justice's 12 points in the same game. Adding the 34 points from two days earlier against Jung Kwan Jang, the total comes to 73 points across two Cup games.

Heungkuk Life vs. IBK Industrial Bank of Korea: 3-2 set score… Set 5 decided 15-13

The game was a Women's Group A group-stage match at the Cup tournament, held on October 13, 2026, at Yeosu Jinnam Gymnasium. Yonhap News reported that Heungkuk Life took the lead by winning sets 1 and 2 in succession. The flow reversed in set 3. IBK Industrial Bank of Korea won sets 3 and 4 in a row, making the set score 2-2, and the match went to a deciding fifth set.

Set 3 scores are reported differently by each outlet. Yonhap News gave 20-25, OSEN gave 20-24, Sports Today gave 20-15. Because the Korea Volleyball Federation official match report could not be obtained, set-by-set scores were not confirmed. There was no discrepancy among outlets for the set 5 score. Heungkuk Life took set 5 15-13, sealing the win by a 2-point margin.

Kindelan Scores 39 Points…Record Set Five Months After Being Drafted 3rd Overall

It took five months from the draft to reach 39 points. Newsis reported that Heungkuk Life picked Cuban-born Kindelan third overall at the foreign player tryout held in Prague on May 10. Kindelan, a 188 cm opposite spiker, played two seasons in the Romanian league and arrived in Korea on July 29. Kindelan then scored 34 points against Jung Kwan Jang on October 11 and 39 points against IBK Industrial Bank of Korea on the 13th.

Heungkuk Life Key Scorers (October 13 vs. IBK Industrial Bank of Korea)

Player	Points	Share of 4-Player Total of 72 Points
Kindelan	39	54%
Justice	12	17%
Pyo Seung-ju	11	15%
Jeong Ho-yeong	10	14%

Of the 72 points scored by the four players in the table, 54% (39÷72) is Kindelan's share. The remaining three players scored 10-12 points each. Among the four players in the table, Kindelan's share was the largest. In the deciding fifth set, according to Yonhap News, Kindelan alone scored 11 points, which accounted for 11 of the team's 15 points in set 5.

2026 Women's Foreign Player Draft Results (Including Re-Signings)

Order in Results Table	Player	Team	Note
1	Banya Bukirich	Jung Kwan Jang	Drafted
2	Jordan Wilson	Hyundai E&C	Drafted
3	Yensi Kindelan	Heungkuk Life	Drafted
4	Moma	Korea Expressway Corporation	Re-signed
5	Victoria	IBK Industrial Bank of Korea	Re-signed
6	Silva	GS Caltex	Re-signed

In draft order, Kindelan was the third pick. Sports Times In the results table, Jung Kwan Jang and Hyundai E&C picked new players first, followed by Heungkuk Life. IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, which Heungkuk Life faced that day, did not pick a new player and re-signed Victoria. Draft order does not equal on-court ranking. According to the KOVO standard reported by Money Today, the first-year salary for foreign players in the women's league is $250,000.

Heungkuk Life Advances to Semifinals…Yoshihara vs. Manabe: Japanese Head Coaches Face Off

OSEN reported that this game was also a showdown between Japanese head coaches. Heungkuk Life head coach Tomoko Yoshihara is a former middle blocker who competed in the Olympics three times as a player. IBK Industrial Bank of Korea head coach Masayoshi Manabe led the Japanese women's national team to bronze at the 2012 London Olympics, and his appointment as IBK Industrial Bank of Korea head coach was announced in April of this year. Yoshihara won this face-off.

Heungkuk Life's win puts it at 2 straight wins in group play, while IBK Industrial Bank of Korea is 1-1 (as of 21:00 on October 13, 2026). Yonhap News reported that Heungkuk Life has secured a semifinal berth regardless of the result of the final match. However, this could not be confirmed separately in other outlets. Post-match comments from the two head coaches also could not be obtained.

Heungkuk Life's remaining group-stage schedule is one final match in Group A. Set-by-set scores could not be confirmed because the official Korea Volleyball Federation match report was not obtained, and tournament scoring rankings could not be verified either. This article was verified at 1:00 a.m. (Korea time) on October 14.

Official Websites

Korea Volleyball Federation — Official website of the Korea Volleyball Federation
Heungkuk Life Pink Spiders — Official website of the Heungkuk Life club
Volleyball World Kindelan Player Profile — Player profile page for Kindelan registered on Volleyball World

Representative image · archival photo · NOT a photo of the current match described in this article · Photo: Wikimedia Commons (Jjw), CC BY-SA 4.0