... was marked by a beautiful sunny day, and it was now! Sportingly was also speaking a day driving and at times exciting. From my point of view it was almost impossible that it is not, since the two schools down to the field so I decided to cheer before the tournament began. Let's say that I went well in the middle. The heart was satisfied, the hope has been disappointed ...
Ō OIN SAKA T (Osaka) 9
TŌKAIDAI Boyo (Chiba) 2
The umpteenth challenge between teams of the Kanto and Kansai has had virtually no time history. The lineup 's Osaka Toin has swept away all doubt by touching the two hard throwers opponents took turns on unnecessarily mound, and controlling the match from the earliest times. Before getting on the accelerator
led by three points in the second victim Nagatomo inning, then they closed with a flourish by trimming other four in the last shot. Despite the substantial score and twelve Invalid accessible, oddly nowhere to be seen homerun. It must be said that the nineties onwards, the Toin has become a school famous for his hitters, who have allowed him to win twice the summer Koshien, the first in 1991 and the second just a couple of years ago, in 2008. In its latest edition devastating lineup scored 17 points (!) To zero in the final against quoted Tokoha Kikugawa, reducing highlight of the tournament the same way as a simple kicking.
NICHIDAI Ogaki (Gifu) 3x Kawashima (Tokushima) 2
(the tenth inning )
E 'finished the first round of the adventure Kawashima, the Cinderella of the tournament. His beautiful tale ended as it had to end, though, by reviewing the key moments of the meeting, the regret is all right.
The ideal was right into the game with the right spirit and not to grant additional benefits to your favorites. Coming to the final rounds with a score in balance, the pressure is all on the opponent would be discharged. So far the dream was about to materialize. 2 to 2 on the last shot I really hoped the umpteenth miracle that is capable that stage. Yet there has opened my eyes to think of a situation full backing to ' extra innings, which has sent a crisis team of young coaches Kitatani and ordered to walk off a defeat for . At the resumed tenth
the highlight: after a first strike out eliminated, allowing a valid attack dell'Ōgaki to advance the runner up winning at third base. At this point, Kawashima opts for the tactical choice to grant two bases deliberately intentional and fill pillows. In critical situations, have more riders to be deleted can often lead to a double play decisive, because now comes the second elimination. Now I miss only one to get to the exchange.
Takada The fourth batter he positioned the ball flying to the area with uncertain trajectory of the outside right Fujimoto. These forward lunges, stretches dive, do it seems ... instead only able to touch the ball rolling on the floor (picture left). The fairy tale that fades to a few centimeters. Tokimoto dell'Ōgaki get their arms up to home plate (pictured above), ending back and playing. At the end of the game comment Keizo Sawaguchi (65 years), coach dell'Ōgaki " This result gives us great confidence. Before the race we knew it would not be easy, not only for the opponent mentally quiet but for the moment, the pressure that we brought back. We started badly but we finished the match well. A defeat would have caused serious psychological damage to my boys. The provision of Kassai? I believe that no more than he is happy today, there were moments when he struggled, but then came out the pitcher we know. "
usually the losers do not dissolve in tears after the elimination Senbatsu, as happens in the summer Koshien. The third-year students know before parting with the high school baseball will have the chance to fight in July for maybe go back and redeem the disappointment spring. But these are good teams and equipped to win with a good chance of ricalpestare the sacred land. While the Kawashima in June is already so if it can strike up a team. well aware of the eighteen children taken from the camera while they are lined up for the final farewell to Koshien. Someone already has red eyes, someone fixed the gap, someone else holds barely crying. Hoping to make up for the next summer's qualifying Tokushima and Nishinomiya to hurry to settle accounts with the cruel fate for a team like this would be unrealistic and useless: nobody believes. It could be a dream. If it is not a cold shower, close enough.
JIYUGAOKA (Fukuoka) 4 TŌKAIDAI SAGAMA I (Kanagawa) 2
For a fairytale ending, here is another beginning! And of this I am absolutely delighted, because it is the school of my prefecture. Sensational victory
Jiyūgaoka , novice to semi-finals of the tournament and Senbatsu autumn block against the Kyūshū Tōkaidai Sagami, club champion of Kanto. The school is based in Kitakyushu, a city that acts as a link between the island and the rest of the archipelago and that is one hour by car from Fukuoka. All were waiting for the miracle
Hifuni (photo left, the ball traveling at 149 km / h and likely the first high school chosen in the next draft ), but fate has rewarded the young Jiyūgaoka of Ono, who has had the opportunity to become the hero of his school in the race to the absolute onset Senbatsu. It must be said that Ono has managed to not give the batsmen the bases Tōkaidai Sagami only the fifth and eighth shot. For the rest it was a continual sorrow (9 sound granted against the Hifumi 6), but on the other hand emphasized the defensive skills of the team of Kitakyushu. On the other hand it is said that the weapon is precisely the defense of the underprivileged, is not it?
eighth inning the turning point, the score of 1 to 1: Basics for the full Jiyūgaoka and a big triple in the middle of slugger Koga, who put it on the mortgage match. With one shot available, Sagami Tōkaidai attempted the improbable comeback by recovering a point, but yet another double play of the defensive players has finally closed the curtain. Ono (left) has not been spared some of the statements after the match: "It must have been tension, I do not know ... In some places it seemed to me to have his head completely emptied. My companions were perfect in defense and I think I've launched almost perfectly to my limits. "The
coach Suetsugu is as radiant as incredulous:" I of guys who are good together, so it is a lot of teamwork. We have a balanced system due to the fact that we make a few oversights. And if the opponent is better, we just have to take off his hat. Actually Re: please some of today there has been too much, but there is no reason to be angry. The Jiyūgaoka certainly depart underdog in this prediction and, perhaps, was a well. A pitcher can give you a relaxed space, and it is here that we were able to enter them. What I think of the next meeting? Look, the only thing that I thought until a few hours ago was that we took the train to go home ... .
But now it is clear that the representative of Fukuoka will begin to make its calculations. They know that another win would put fear in all the other squads in the tournament.
Update on coach Nonomura , that of exaggerated claims in the post-match, 23 March (see here ). As it turned the headmaster of her school told press to have accepted the resignation "spontaneous" and the coach punished too well holes Muramoto, as the first responsible for the facts about the baseball club, suspending him from office until further notice. For someone who goes, here's another one coming back. Mr. Morikawa , coach of Tenri of Nara, suspended by the Federation last September after his arrest for alleged maltreatment of a student, he finished serving his sentence and was returned to the club. Now that the school has regained its old coach, will undoubtedly have the opportunity to redeem themselves after the embarrassing first round of Senbatsu remedied.
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