Senbatsu High School Baseball, 3 games of the 1st round will be held on the 5th day of the tournament.

1st match

In the first match, Hanamaki Higashi High School in Iwate and Wakayama Municipal High School will play against each other.



Hanamaki Higashi is paying attention to Rintaro Sasaki, a second-year student who hit 50 home runs in about half a year from high school entrance to last fall.



In addition, there are powerful batters such as captain Asahi Tashiro, and the average score per game exceeded 10 points in the official game last fall.



On the other hand, pitcher Tenba Yoneda, the ace of Municipal Wakayama, pitched a complete game in 4 out of 5 games with a straight in the latter half of 140km and a variety of fastballs.



The confrontation with the powerful batting line will be noticed.

2nd match

The second match is a match between Oshima High School on a remote island in Kagoshima and Meishu Hitachi High School in Ibaraki.



Oshima has a characteristic of pitching, which is pitching by pitcher Kazuo Matsui, a left-handed ace, centering on a straight in the middle of 140km. Led to.



Meishu Hitachi is characterized by a solid defense with an average number of errors in the autumn official game of 0.3, which is the lowest among the participating teams.



In addition, Ichikei Takeda, who marked four home runs in the fall, won the Kanto tournament for the first time with no breaks in the batting line.

3rd match

In the third match, Fukui's Nyu High School and Hiroshima Commercial will play for the first time in the 21st century through spring and summer.



Nyu has a high ability to strike out a left-handed sophomore ace, pitcher Sota Inoue, centered on a straight straight, and became the driving force for advancing to the top four at the prefectural tournament last fall.



All the players are from the local area, and they have been creative and ingenious, such as incorporating other sports such as badminton into practice, so it is important to see if the results can be achieved at Koshien for the first time.



Hiroshima Commercial will inherit the traditional "Hiroshima baseball" that will score points by making full use of bunts and mobility, centered on Daisuke Yahata, who recorded the team's top stolen base in the official autumn game, and will also inherit the semi-final of the Chinese tournament. Then, at the end of the game, he scored 7 points at a stroke, and he has a lot of power in hitting.