High School Baseball Tournament Tokyo will be delayed to open on the 18th of next month New Corona June 1 22:16

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With the summer national high school baseball and local tournaments being cancelled, the Tokyo High School Baseball Federation will open its own schedule for the tournament in order to allow the players to compete in the tournament with as little practice time as possible. I decided to delay it from 11th to 18th next month.

Tokyo Metropolitan Takanoren held a conference on the night of the 1st, and the opening day next month will be about the schedule of their own tournament replacing the summer national high school baseball tournament in East Tokyo and West Tokyo which was canceled due to the new coronavirus. It announced that it will be delayed from 18th.

For this reason, the Takanoren in the metropolitan government stated that the guidelines for measures against infectious diseases and school management in metropolitan schools established by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government aiming at resuming educational activities in stages have little time for practice considering class time. But it is to secure practice time so that they can compete in the competition.

In addition, the tournament method is used for the tournament, and the game is open to the public, but the specific management method will be considered in the future.

Katsutoshi Takei, Senior Managing Director of Takanoren in Tokyo, said, "We are not connected to Koshien, but we would like to create a place where we can announce the results of our team's efforts."

The Takanoren in various regions are also moving toward the holding of alternative tournaments in order to create a venue for games that will be a culmination for third-year students.