The 94th Senbatsu High School Baseball Championship will be canceled on the 18th due to bad weather, and will be postponed for one day to start on the 19th. Following the opening ceremony, three games of the first round will be held.
32 schools participated in the 94th Senbatsu High School Baseball, and they will participate for the first time in the 21st century frame, including Osaka Toin High School, which won the Meiji Jingu Tournament last fall, and Oshima High School on a remote island in Kagoshima. Tadami High School in Fukushima attracts attention.
On the other hand, a preliminary PCR test conducted on all athletes and directors of the participating schools revealed that 13 people were infected at Kyoto International High School, and declined the tournament.
Omi High School in Shiga, which was the first substitute in the Kinki area, will participate instead.
On the 19th, the first day of the Games, the opening ceremony and three games of the first round will be held, of which only six schools participating in the games will participate in the opening ceremony as an infection control measure.
The tournament will be held for 13 days, including the 2nd rest day, and if the schedule goes smoothly after that, the final will be held on the 31st.
Game 1 Saitama Urawa Gakuin and first appearance Maizuru Oita
In the first match, Urawa Gakuin in Saitama, which both have strong defenses, will face Oita Maizuru High School, who will participate for the first time in the 21st century through spring and summer.
At Urawa Gakuin, the two signboards of pitcher Yuta Kaneda, who also protects shorts, and pitcher Konan Miyagi, who has the fastest number of over 140 kilometers on the left arm, are stable.
In the eight official games last fall, there are only three errors, and you can create a rhythm from a solid defense and connect it to an attack.
Maizuru Oita also has an average number of errors per game of 0.57, which is the fifth lowest among the participating teams, and the stable defense shines.
In the attack, the key is to be able to put out a runner in front of Yuki Toko, who marked a batting average of 40%, 5 minutes and 2 minutes in the seven official games last fall.
2nd game first appearance Wakayama Higashi and Okayama Kurashiki Industry
In the second match, Wakayama Higashi High School, who participated for the first time in the spring and summer, will face Kurashiki Kogyo in Okayama.
Wakayama Higashi has the second highest number of stolen bases per game with 3.3 stolen bases, which is the second highest among the participating schools.
In addition, Sota Morioka, the central batter, has a long hitting ability on the center pole, such as marking three home runs in the official game last fall.
Kurashiki Technical High School is a well-balanced team.
The batting average of the team in the official game last fall was 30%, 8 minutes and 9 minutes, which was the third result among the participating schools. rice field.
As for defense, the average number of errors per game is stable at 0.6.
Game 3 Hokkaido Clark Memorial International and Fukuoka Kyushu International University
In the third match, Clark Memorial International High School in Hokkaido and Fukuoka International High School attached to Kyushu International University will play against each other.
At Clark International, the two signboards of Ace pitcher Rinsho Yamanaka, who pitched in seven official games in the fall, and pitcher Asahi Tsujita, who pitched in six games, are both stable with an earned run average of one point.
The batting average of the team is also 30%, 6 minutes and 4 minutes, which is the fifth in the participating schools, and the offense and defense are complete at a high level.
Kyushu International University has a strong ability to score nearly 9 points per game, centered on second-year student Shiro Sakura, who scored 5 home runs and 25 RBIs in 14 official games last fall.
Both teams were also competing in the first round of the Meiji Jingu Tournament last fall, and the match was won by Kyushu International University attached 5 to 1.