The Japan Student Baseball Association has banned 11 third-year baseball team members from Hokkaido's Komadai Tomakomai High School, which has won the Koshien Championship, from playing any overseas games for a month for their involvement in the theft.
According to the Japan Student Baseball Association, in December of last year, a nearby police station provided information to the high school that ``three third-year students were being investigated for theft.'' After interviewing them, they retired from the baseball team in November of last year. It was discovered that when the third-year student was working part-time at a convenience store and other club members came to shop, he pretended to go through the cash register and handed over the items without paying.
As a result of the investigation, it was found that a total of 11 people, including two people who worked part-time at the convenience store and nine third-year baseball team members who visited as customers, had committed similar acts multiple times. is.
In response to this, the Japan Student Baseball Association banned Komadai Tomakomai High School from playing any foreign games for one month starting January 31st.
Komadai Tomakomai High School has participated in Koshien 11 times in the spring and summer, and has won the summer Koshien championship two years in a row since 2004.
In addition, a total of 19 penalties were imposed, including a two-year suspension for the baseball team coach of Moka Hokuryo High School in Tochigi Prefecture, who was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run in March last year.