Akita prefecture will award the prefectural people honor chapter to the secondhanded farmer who won second in the 100th National High School Baseball Tournament Memorial Conference this summer is decided on 30th. The success of the school gives impression and hope to the prefectural people, raising the attention to the agriculture of the prefecture, etc. It is said to be the reason for the award.
Governor Takahisa Satake revealed when players and stakeholders of the school visited the Akita prefectural government to report the tournament on this day.
Governor Satake admired the battle of the school, "I saw play like a high school baseball team at Koshien, I think I changed baseball in Akita." "By overcoming handicaps in the snow country and allowing us to go there so far, we gave the prefecture people the hope of" making it if we do it "in all areas," the prefectural people have never burned so much. "
Captain Sasaki Daimei said, "Before departure for Koshien, I wanted to excel in the prefecture and I wanted to do my best as a representative of the prefecture and agricultural high school, but I think I was able to put it in words."
The award ceremony of the prefectural people honorary chapter is said to be done around autumn. (Yoshiki Yamada)