The later the line goes in Koshien in the summer, the longer the summer becomes. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After Koshien, in addition to the national selection, there is also a national competition, which is often referred to as the high school cup.

In terms of influence, this game cannot be compared with the Jingu Tournament or the Kanto Tournament, let alone Koshien.

So as soon as Koshien was over, Superintendent Kataoka kicked the third year out of the team without any hesitation and asked them to form a team to deal with the high school cup. The first- and second-year players formed teams in advance to prepare for the Autumn University competition.

Of course, the high school cup is not without benefits, the high school cup is in mid-September and ends at the end of September. This overlaps with the group qualifiers of Autumn University.

Therefore, the teams participating in Koshien do not need to participate in the regional qualifiers.

Qingdao High School has been directly promoted and can participate in the main competition of Autumn University.

The third-grade seniors didn't take this game too seriously, they should go home and go home, and they should rest and rest. When there are still seven or eight days before the competition, they get together for training.

Koichiro Tanba as the trump card, Chris as the catcher, not to mention the striking and guarding.

The strength of the new team is still very exciting.

When the third year was preparing for the high school cup, the new team of Seido High School was also in full swing for a practice match.

The foundation of the team is still there, except for one loss for the second army, the first army won all the practice games.

Of course, the gap between the three pitchers is slowly revealed.

Akira was hit two hits, threw six times and made four bads, and didn't drop a point. In addition, he hit two home runs, five hits and seven RBIs.

Kawakami hit seven hits, threw five four-bads, and conceded three-pointers. Two hits, zero hits.

Eijun Sawamura, who was hit by six hits, did not shoot four bads, and lost four points. One home run, two hits, four RBIs.

……

Not to mention the audience, even the players of the team were stunned.

Inside Seido High School, Sawamura has always been the first candidate for the ace pitcher, and in the Tokyo tournament and Koshien games, he still has to overpower Akira Shibuyani, why does his level seem to drop after Koshien is over?

"It's not all the left-hand pitcher's problem."

In this regard, the new coach Hiromitsu Ochiai's opinion is the most pertinent.

"His pitching style is too dependent on his teammates' ability to defend, and it's clear that the Aodo High School guard can't match Sawamura's pitching now. This is still a situation where we have not encountered violent play, and if the opponent is strong enough to play the line, this problem will be even more serious. ”

Kataoka is not stupid, he also found that it was the problem of the overall strength of the team.

But this problem is really difficult to solve, and the overall strength and cooperation of the team cannot be completed overnight.

"What then?"

Minister Ota asked anxiously, compared to Akira Sakata, Sawamura's state is much more stable. In the minds of Ota and even most of the members, Sawamura is undoubtedly more suitable to be the trump card than Akira Tsukiya.

But now there is a problem with the team, and if the problem is with Sawamura, then it is understandable to replace him. But the problem is not with others, or the main problem is not him, in this case, it seems a little inappropriate to win Sawamura's trump card position, right?

"Either the overall level and run-in of the team improve, or Sawamura himself can evolve, otherwise the ace can only be ......"

Ochiai's words were not finished, but the meaning was already very clear.

Kataoka nodded, although he also regretted it, but the reality was so cruel. Qingdao High School's trump card is bound to be the one with the best performance.

"After the last practice match, the ace will be decided."

Nine of the thirteen practice matches have been played and four are left. Two on Saturday and two on Sunday.

There are only two matches in the first team, one on Saturday and one on Sunday.

"Saturday's race will be given to Kawakami, and Sunday's race will be given to Akira Shigaya, and Sawamura."

The rest of the positions have almost been decided, and now the trump card battle falls on Sunday's practice match.

The opponent is also an old acquaintance, Nishitokyo, Yakushi High School.

"Is this pharmacist strong?"

Ochiai is in doubt, and the invited national heroes, Kataoka are not satisfied. And this pharmacist's summer results seem to be very average. The quarterfinals in Nishitokyo really don't have much gold.

Minister Ota is very sad about this issue.

When he thinks of the pharmacist, he thinks of An Zexiu, and he thinks about it all tears~

"Except for Inagi Industry in the summer, our only opponent who may be defeated!"

This is Minister Ota's evaluation of Yakushi High School.

Ochiai was shocked.

Seido High School is the champion of Koshien, but it almost stopped in the quarterfinals in Tokyo?

Is Yakushi High School really that strong?

"They have a lot of second-year masters?"

If you can understand the scruples of the pharmacist before, but now you still regard the pharmacist as a mortal enemy, it will be very interesting. The only possibility that Ochiai could think of was that Yakushi, like Seido High School, retained a large number of main forces.

Ochiai's question left Ota speechless.

The second-year player of Yakushi High School, except for the ace pitcher Sanada Shunpei, there is no particularly powerful role. But their first grade is different......

Their main force of retention is not only a large number, but they are a lot, okay?

……

While Seido High School was preparing for a practice match with a pharmacist, the High School Cup began.

In this battle, in addition to the originally high-profile Yucheng and others, the performances of Koichiro Tanba and Catcher Ryūkawa Chris were very eye-catching.

The third year of Seido High School won consecutive victories and finally reached the semifinals of the High School Cup.

Losing to Nakakyo Daichukyo in the semifinals, Nakakyo Dai-Nakakyo's line exploded in full swing, hitting five home runs and crushing Koichiro Tanba's pitch.

Although Tetsuya Yuki and others are desperately trying to chase back the score, the general trend has gone.

Seido High School was nominated for a professional draft by as many as five.

It's just a pity that three of these five people didn't make it to the professional draft, and these three are the most popular three.

Captain Tetsuya Yuki went to M University, the alma mater supervised by Kataoka.

Catcher Chris decided to go straight to the United States for the minor league draft after graduation.

Second baseman Ryosuke Kominato went to his dream university, where he could continue his baseball studies.

Third baseman Masuko Toru and stalwart Jun Izaki participated in the professional draft, and the fame of the two of them is more than a step worse than that of Yucheng, Jing and Gangmu and others, and the chances of selection are definitely not small, but the first few rounds are estimated to be out of play.

In addition to these main players, all of the third-year students who participated in Koshien were recommended for admission. They can continue their baseball dreams in college.

Even the substitutes who didn't enter Koshien will look up to them when they hear that they are from Seido High School.

The times are changing, and the third-grade seniors have also started their own new lives.

(To be continued.) )