Highlights of the third day of the summer national high school baseball tournament

Four games will be played in the first round on the third day of the summer national high school baseball tournament.

1st match

The first match will be between Kaisei High School in Nagasaki and Nihon Bunri High School in Niigata.

Kaisei has a batting average of over 40%, such as No. 4 Seita Mori, who marked a batting average of 50%, 2 minutes, and 9 rins at the local tournament.

Nihon Bunri's ace Haruya Tanaka, who is 1m 86cm tall and throws a straight ball at a maximum speed of 150km, will be the focus of attention for his match with the Kaisei batting line.

2nd match

In the second match, Nara's Tenri High School and Yamanashi Gakuin, who will be participating in both spring and summer consecutively, will face off.

Tenri's line-up is seamless, centered around Reiji Toi, the third captain, and Yamato Matsumoto, a freshman who hit 2 home runs with a batting average of nearly 50% in local tournaments.

Ace pitcher Yune Minamizawa threw more than 27 innings in the local tournament and did not allow any runs.

Yamanashi Gakuin has a team batting average of over 40% in local tournaments, and scored 17 points in the final.

No. 3, Yusei Iwata, has a batting average of 50%, 8 minutes, 8 minutes, and 15 RBIs, leading the batting lineup.

The pitching staff, led by Reo Enokiya, who pitched well at Senbatsu, managed to keep within 3 points in all 5 games of the local tournament.

3rd game

The third match is between Tsuruga Kehi High School in Fukui and Takaoka Commercial in Toyama.

Tsuruga Kehi, who will be participating in the spring and summer consecutively, will lead the team with No. 4 Kamikaseta pitcher as ace.

Takaoka Commercial, which has participated in five tournaments in a row, is characterized by a seamless batting line centered on No. 4 and captain Yusei Kondo, who marked a batting average of 60% in local tournaments.

4th game

The fourth match will be between Konan High School in Okinawa and Funabashi Municipal High School in Chiba.

Konan has a strong batting lineup, with captain NEOHA Moritaro, who hits No. 3, hitting home runs in three consecutive games in local tournaments.

The heart of the Ichiritsu Funabashi team is the twin Morimoto brothers. Tetsuta Morimoto, the third and older brother, hits two home runs in regional tournaments, and Tetsusei Morimoto, a left-handed ace pitcher who pushes with a powerful straight line. .

Municipal Funabashi is expected to perform the cheering song "Ichifune soul" made by a former brass band member who died of cancer at the age of 20 at Koshien for the first time, and Alps seats are also attracting attention.