Kimotsuki farm (Akita) who continued a good progress, fought in the first final after controlling the semi-finals on the 20th. Team color purple-dyed Alps seats and locals also watched the game played with a burning spirit, and the moment of victory exploded joy. On the same day, the team also won the bunt of "Oriental art" to compete, one more victory to the national championship of the Tohoku first.
"Bunt is a business tool and is with grabs." The 9th Saito Riku (3rd year) who decided the good loser quizzy of goodbye at the quarter finals with Ohmi (Shiga) is "the best" of the team's best bunt. "In batting practice, 8 is bunt, 2 is batting". 2 Kenzo Kogo (Hitoshi) who you survived from the second base in a lance quiz at a stroke also said "I tried entrance and thought" Do you practice bunnt so much? "
Kimotsu agriculture conducts daily bunt practice and "one bunt" seeking success with one shot. When making a mistake, it says to repeat the dash and head sliding to the outfield. Captain Sasaki Dreaming (Hiromu) (you) said, "In the practice it is strict, even if you make a mistake in the game you switch to" There is next. "
Kaneda farmer Bant is a tradition since the former coach Kumi Shimazaki (70) who led the school to the Koshien seven times in the spring and summer led the team. We taught "weight of 1 point" and thoroughly bunt conscious of the position of the face and the height of the knee.
Bant focus is also widely known to the competition team, and in the past at the district conference, the opponent has put a defensive shift of "a fantastic strategy" that adds one outfielder to Uchino, but sometimes it squeezed a point with squeeze . Shimazaki says "even if it is a good hitter, batting rate is 30%, bunt is 50% of failure or success".
Director Kazuyoshi Nakaizumi (45) who is one of Shimazaki's students and who has participated in the selected competition also said that "Bant is a tradition of ours, even if there is a slugger, we will bunt." However, Bant is premised on runners going to base, "You can not bunt if you do not hit."
At the Akita Games this summer we recorded 18 sacrifices in five games. Even after I came to Koshien, I practiced bunts and fought four in 14 games until the semifinals, taking 6 scoring with just squeeze.
And on the 20th, the semi-finals with Nippon Ozo. Once a table, Kimoda agriculture headed out with hits, Mr. Sasaki decided to send a bun to the first base side. 2 After death, he took the first point with a timely hit. Fifth as long as the first bat from the deathless battle. After 2 deaths, the 5th Otomo Chaoyang (Asahi) (3years) wrested the second point with a timely hit. Mr. Sasaki who stepped on the home of the finish point was a fulfilling expression that "I could win even the competition that I competed because I could put out their style." (Yamamoto Kano)