Senbatsu High School Baseball 3 schools in the 21st century frame January 24, 15:19

Participating schools for Sembatsu High School Baseball, which will open at Koshien Stadium in March, will be announced. In the "21st Century Frame" for schools that have overcome difficult situations, Obihiro Agriculture in Hokkaido and Iwaki High School in Fukushima, and Hirata High School in Shimane was selected.

The Senbatsu High School Baseball Selection Committee was held in Osaka City on the 24th, and three schools in the “21st Century Frame” were first announced.

Obihiro Agriculture in Hokkaido is the first participation in Senbatsu.

This is a 100-year-old traditional school that has five departments, such as the Department of Agricultural Sciences and the Department of Dairy Sciences, and trains leaders in agriculture, a key industry in the region.

Last year, it was also known as the school that became the motif of the high school where the heroine of NHK's serial television novel, "Natsuzora", was broadcast. Most of the 36 members are local agricultural successors.

The players balanced off-hour training and club activities, such as caring for dairy cows and gardening, and were recognized for having made the best four at the Hokkaido Games last fall.

Iwaki High School in Fukushima is the third Senbatsu participation for the first time in 46 years.

This is a high school that is 124 years old. During the short training time, the members themselves thought about the menu and strengthened their skills with efficient training, and won the best eight at the Tohoku Games last fall.

In addition, we worked on volunteer activities in a local area affected by the flooding after Typhoon No. 19 last October.

Hirata High School in Shimane is Koshien's first participation in spring and summer.

Practice is about two hours a day, and the ground is shared with other athletic clubs.

For this reason, we devised the practice contents and focused on tactics acquisition, and advanced to the best eight at the China Games last fall.

In addition, each year, he was invited to local kindergartens and nursery schools to hold baseball experience sessions inside the school.

Kotoshino Senbatsu High School Baseball will begin at Koshien Stadium on March 19 and will take place on a 13-day schedule including two days of rest.