Chapter 12: Toho Gakuen
People throughout Nagano Prefecture know that Toho Gakuen is strong!
As for how strong it is? I'm afraid that the vast majority of people in Nagano Prefecture can't answer. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ infoActually, don't talk about these ordinary fans, even the students of these more than 40 middle schools in Nagano Prefecture who play baseball, don't know how strong the Nagano Prefecture King Toho Gakuen is.
There is only one place in the entire Nagano Prefecture for the national tournament of junior high school baseball, and this place has been occupied by Toho Gakuen for 22 years. Needless to say, the summer national competition, even the winter selection Toho Gakuen has never let this place go aside.
Nagano's junior high school baseball team, saying that the top four and the top eight are all jokes in Toho's eyes. There are only two types of baseball teams at Nagano Prefecture Junior High School, one is professional and Toho. The other is amateur, and all schools in Nagano except Toho are of this type.
For a long time, it has been mixed up with the country's giants, and the gap between Toho Gakuen and other baseball schools in Nagano has become more and more obvious. Nagano's junior high school baseball tournament is one of the most tedious in the finals.
Because the winner is decided.
In the end, it must be Toho who wins by a landslide.
Knowing the results of the game, it looks naturally boring.
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After Yang Ping arrived in Nagano, he had a long-lived feeling about Toho's dominance in Nagano Prefecture.
As the main right fielder at Tokyo Teito High School, he really can't connect the Toho Gakuen in Nagano Prefecture with the Toho Gakuen in the national competition. Take last year's Winter Trials as an example, 63 middle schools were selected to participate in the national competition!
Didong's final result was fourth, and Yang Ping, as the team's fifth baseman, hit three home runs in this tournament and made a little name for himself in the country.
The final result of Dongbang School Park is the top 16,They were eliminated in the third round,Coincidentally, it was Yang Ping's Didong High School that eliminated themγ One of Yang Ping's three home runs is Toho's ace pitcher Tomoyuki Uekusa.
At that time, Tomoyuki Uekusa was just a sophomore who had just been promoted to the main pitcher, and he was one of the more high-profile players in that tournament. In the second year of junior high school, he threw a 138km high-speed ball, and there were two more difficult variation balls. Of course, after being hit by five home runs from Didong High School and scoring eleven points, his attention will naturally increase.
In addition to the pitcher, there are really not many Toho players who can be remembered by Yang Ping. Even the four sticks of Dongbang at that time did not leave much impression on Yang Ping. By the way, their guerrillas seem to be quite fast, and their garrison strength is also good, and their name is Shusuke Miyagi. The blow of the fourth stick is average, but there are not no more powerful hitters. There is a first-year who is very good at drawing a knife and flowing, not only hitting a home run, but also choking the substitute Mukai Sun. He hit a two-run home run when someone was on base and helped the team score a point......
In addition to these three players who impressed Yang Ping, the other players of Toho are also fully worthy of the national rankings. None of them are inferior to kamikaze or Watanabe.
Such a team, in Tokyo, where there are many strong and powerful, can barely reach the level of the top eight. But in Nagano, he turned out to be the absolute king of strength?
Sure enough, there is no most dish, only more dish! It's not how strong Toho is in Nagano Prefecture, it's that his opponents are just too vegetable.
Thinking about the fact that a team like Akagi, which has just been training for a few months, can reach the top four, there is nothing incomprehensible.
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Even in my heart, no matter how much I despise Toho. Yang Ping also had to admit that Dongbang was actually very strong!
Both Kamikaze and Watanabe have hit Sawamura Eijun's home run, and the line is made up of nine such hitters, which makes Akagi's friends embarrassed.
Sawamura Eisun, who has just learned a new weapon and has not yet fully integrated it, will face such a challenge, and collapse is inevitable......
The current Akagi High School baseball team challenges Toho Gakuen, and the viciousness is no longer enough to describe the danger.
It was because he knew more than his ignorant teammates that Yang Ping hesitated to take his friends to watch the game in Toho.
Just when Yang Ping went to watch the game or not, the protagonist of this game, Dongbang School Park, was being interviewed.
In the first official match, reporters visited the door, and Toho was the only one in Nagano Prefecture who received this treatment.
"I wonder what you think of your opponent in the semi-finals?"
The reporter was really not interested in this game of Toho, and directly asked them what the captain of Toho thought of the next game. The king obviously has more hype value for the dark horse, and Toho's ace and Akagi's fifth club still have past grievances that need to be settled.
"Akagi is a very characteristic team and when we meet in games, we will give it our all."
Toho's captain looked smiling, but he answered the questions without leaking. They seem to attach great importance to their opponents, but in fact, they are just talking about the scene, and their true thoughts are unknown to outsiders.
Seeing that the captain did not leak, the reporter did not hesitate to change the interview subject: "Grass planting classmate, have you heard of Yang Jun, the fifth baton of Akagi?" You should have played each other at the Winter Tryouts before.
Wearing glasses, Si Swenwen sat on the side and planted grass, originally planning to be a quiet beautiful man. didn't want the reporter's words to blow his temper out.
Yang Jun? Yang Ping! Yang Ping in Akagi?
Seeing that the grass was ignorant, the reporter was also curious: "Yes, don't you know?" β
"I've been in the team before, and I've been training. I really don't know! β
Zhicao's tone was a little embarrassed: "I'm very happy to meet Yang Jun in Nagano." When I compete, I will take good care of Yang Jun."
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After thinking about it again and again, Yang Ping finally didn't go to watch the game with his friends. Although intelligence is important, once morale is lost, it is not so easy to recover.
Since Akagi is a newborn calf, he relies on the momentum of a newborn calf that is not afraid of tigers and fights with Toho. Even if you lose, you can really see the strength level of the whole country.
After making up his mind, Yang Ping asked everyone to go back to rest and prepare for tomorrow's match with Toho. And he himself watched the Toho game live.
To be honest, it was really strong, Toho 15:0, five innings valid game. Cleanly eliminated the opponent and advanced to the semi-finals.
In this game, Toho School Park did not fully show its strength, but even if there were reservations, Toho still eliminated the opponent with an overwhelming advantage.
Tomorrow afternoon, the Akagi Junior High School baseball team vs. Toho Gakuen match will officially begin.
This match is just an ordinary knockout match for Toho. But for Akagi, it was a high wall that they had to face when they crossed across the country.