The men's final of the national basketball high school championship was held on the 29th, and Sendai Daimeisei High School in Miyagi caught up with Higashiyama High School in Kyoto in the fourth quarter, and it was the first time in three years with a dramatic victory to decide the game with 5 seconds remaining. I won the championship.
In the Winter Cup, the national high school basketball championship, the final was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo on the 29th, while 6 out of 60 boys were forced to miss or abandon due to the influence of the new coronavirus.
In the final, which was a match between Sendai University Meisei High School and Higashiyama High School aiming for the first victory, Higashiyama got the pace from the first half, Sendai University Meisei was the center of the attack, and the shot of second grader Hajime Yamazaki was not decided, so the first After three quarters, he allowed Higashiyama to lead 42-55.
However, when entering the 4th quarter, Ryuto Yamauchi, a third-year student, cut the opponent's pass and connected it to haste, drawing in the flow from the defense and succeeded in reversing with 3 minutes remaining.
Higashiyama, who is persistent, also caught up with the tie of 70 to 70 with 16 seconds remaining in the attack centered on captain Reion Yonesu.
Nevertheless, Sendai Daimeisei won the championship for the first time in three years, with Yamazaki scoring a shot with five seconds remaining and succeeding in winning at the last minute, beating Higashiyama 72-70.
Yamazaki of Sendai University Meisei said, "I was the last to be able to play against the third grader, so I thought I had to decide the shot with the remaining 5 seconds. I had a lot of time when I couldn't play, but the team I'm glad I won and became the best in Japan. "