In the second Senbatsu High School baseball game held on the 22nd, Osaka Toin High School won against Hokkaido's Hokkai High School, bringing Osaka Toin's manager, Koichi Nishitani, to 68 wins in the spring/summer Koshien. , tied for the highest number ever.
They have participated in this year's Senbatsu for five years in a row, the longest of any participating school, and have shown amazing strength in their 23rd spring/summer Koshien with only one loss, tying the record for the most in the first match.
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Leading high school baseball from Heisei to Reiwa
“68 wins in about 26 years” Wins at an astonishing pace
Spring/summer Koshien manager's total wins
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Leading high school baseball from Heisei to Reiwa
“68 wins in about 26 years” Wins at an astonishing pace
Spring/summer Koshien manager's total wins
Leading high school baseball from Heisei to Reiwa
Koichi Nishitani, the coach of Osaka Toin High School, is a 54-year-old from Hyogo Prefecture.
After playing as a catcher at Hotoku Gakuen in his hometown of Hyogo and Kansai University, he became the coach of Osaka Toin and was appointed manager in 1998.
In the summer of 2005, when he first took command as a manager at Koshien, he played national high school baseball and fielded pitchers such as Takanobu Tsujiuchi, a left-handed pitcher with a fastball over 150km/h, and Sho Nakata of Chunichi, who was a first-year player at the time. , achieved their first victory and advanced to the top four.
In the summer of 2008, in the national high school baseball tournament, he won his first championship in the spring and summer as a manager with a strong batting lineup led by Rakuten's Hideto Asamura.
In 2012, the team achieved back-to-back spring/summer titles with a battery of pitcher Shintaro Fujinami, who has been playing in the major leagues since last season, and Orix player Tomoya Mori.
Furthermore, in 2018, Chunichi's Subaru Neo and Lotte's Yasuhiro Fujiwara showed stable power in their pitching and hitting, leading them to their second consecutive spring/summer title for the first time in history.
In the 2022 Senbatsu High School Baseball Tournament, he hit a tournament record 11 home runs and won with overwhelming strength, leading high school baseball from the Heisei era to the Reiwa era.
He has led his team to victory four times each in Senbatsu and Summer National High School Baseball, making his total of eight championships the most ever.
“68 wins in about 26 years” Wins at an astonishing pace
Manager Nishitani has amassed 68 wins in the 26 years since he took over as manager in 1998.
Hitoshi Takashima, who is tied for the most wins in history, had 68 wins in about 46 years until he retired in 2018, and you can see that Osaka Toin, led by coach Nishitani, has been accumulating wins at an astonishing pace.
In addition, Coach Nishitani's record at Koshien in the spring and summer is 68 wins and 13 losses, including today's victory, giving him a winning percentage of 80.4%.
This is close to the winning percentage of Junji Nakamura, who led Osaka's PL Gakuen to six championships in spring and summer at Koshien in the 1980s, at 80.5%, and Osaka Toin's winning percentage in recent years. It speaks of strength.
Spring/summer Koshien manager's total wins
◎1st place Osaka Toin manager Koichi Nishitani 68 wins
◎1st place Chiben Wakayama/Chiben Gakuen (Nara) former manager Hitoshi Takashima 68 wins
◎3rd place PL Gakuen (Osaka) former manager Junji Nakamura 58 wins
◎4th place Meitoku Gijuku ( Kochi) Manager Shiro Mabuchi 54 wins
◎ 5th place Yokohama (Kanagawa) Former manager Motomo Watanabe 51 wins
◎ 5th place Teikyo (Tokyo) Former manager Mitsuo Maeda 51 wins