Iwate High School Baseball Tournament Begins First in Prefectures

Iwate High School Baseball Tournament Begins 12:58 on July 1st

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An original tournament, which replaces the national summer high school baseball tournament, which was canceled due to the new coronavirus, has already begun in Iwate Prefecture.

In the tournament, 65 teams in Iwate prefecture will qualify in 7 districts, and the 31 teams that have won will compete in the tournament.

District qualifying began on the 1st, and games were held at two stadiums in Miyako City and Kanegasaki Town.

Among them, at the stadium in Miyako City, in addition to taking the temperature of the people concerned before the game, we also took measures against infection, such as limiting the number of people who can be put on the stand to athletes and some parents.

And in the first match in the morning, Yamada High School and Miyako High School played a match, and while ale was clapping from the stand instead of loud voice, Miyako High School scored from the beginning and won 5 times cold 13-0. did.

In Fukuoka Prefecture, high school exchange games that cannot participate in unique competitions have already begun, but Iwate Prefecture is the first prefecture to hold its own competition.

Miyako Senior High School captain Shinto Kuroda said, "Unlike usual, I was worried that my motivation would increase with almost no audience, but I thought that it might be the last competition of the third year. I made a mistake. There were many, so I would like to make adjustments to advance the tournament."