"The first grade of the class, help the contestants get their bags."

In addition to the eighteen people who are the main force, several potential first-year students are also mixed in the bus.

Kataoka supervisors and coaches obviously didn't give up on them and trained them in this way.

Although, it would be better to get them to play. However, the number of places available on the field is limited, and it is impossible for Kataoka and coaches to put all potential first-year players in a squad of 18 people.

So I had to settle for the next best thing and arranged a place for a few first-year contestants.

They can get along with the players who participated in Koshien day and night, and naturally they can also get some gains.

There were four people in the first grade who were selected. Two of them are Sawamura Eijun's former junior brothers, that is, Tojo and Kanimaru, who share a dormitory with him.

The three of them were all born in Matsukata and were born in the club, and the two of them also followed Zhang Han, and they received much more attention than the other first-year players.

Just like this time, both of them were exceptionally promoted and followed the army to the hotel by bus.

Eat and sleep together......

Although there is no way to participate in the competition together, I can see how the seniors prepare before the competition in the process of getting along day and night, and if they experience it carefully, they can also have a lot of gains.

As for the other two first-graders, the situation is not as good as the two of them.

When the two of them were promoted, their excited expressions basically couldn't be hidden.

Being able to be taken care of by Kataoka's supervisors and coaching staff at this time basically means that when the new team is formed, they will be promoted to the first team, which is a certainty.

Although the two little guys are very confident in their own strength, they believe that when the new team is formed, they will definitely have their own place.

But the news was confirmed in advance, which still made them very happy.

As for the other two newcomers, the situation is completely different from them, both of them were originally players of the first army, and because of the quota limit, there is no way to participate in the Koshien competition together.

At this time, he has become the follower of the team's main players from a formal player.

Mixed feelings are for sure.

Even the third-grade seniors couldn't bear to stab these two sad elementary school students in the heart again.

Basically, they are not told what to do.

But Minister Ota couldn't take care of it so much, and in order to recruit these four people into the team, they specially booked a hotel room and paid for food.

If you don't let these four guys do something, the school won't be able to explain it.

Fortunately, Akatsuya and Jinguji experienced the initial sadness, and quickly calmed down.

Ask yourself, compared to the other two friends who stayed in the ranks of the First Army? Their performance in the game was really a little bit worse.

Now reduced to a follower of the team? There's nothing to complain about, just willing to gamble and lose.

But such an open-minded policy for the team? It also gave hope to the two little ones? Wait until you do well in the competition.

Will the position of the main ace be far away?

Akira Tsukitani picks up the bags of Rongchun Sawamura and Zhang Han? It's going to be put on the bus.

Zhang Han glanced at the little guy in surprise, is the Divine Palace Temple better? People are sophisticated, these things are played very well.

But it's different? Zhang Han originally thought that this guy would choose to stay and practice by himself, but he didn't expect that he would also set off with the team.

And also behaved so positively.

"This stuffy gourd junior who doesn't like to talk, can't he hold back any big moves?"

Zhang Han has reason to be so suspicious.

Just as Akira was about to carry the bag into the car, Sawamura Rongjun snatched the bag over.

And not only snatched his own? Even Zhang Han's bag was snatched up.

"I'll do it myself!"

This guy is stubborn? Carrying four bags on his back, he climbed into the bus.

His actions looked a little embarrassed, but there was a spirit of refusal to admit defeat.

Recently, there has been a lot of talk in the team in private. Although Sawamura Eijun and Kominato Haruichi are doing a little better, but the potential to talk about? and the possibilities of the future.

The two first-year students who were eliminated may have more value for cultivation.

After all, a star player who has been famous all over the country since his junior high school days? The other can also throw a strong straight ball over 150 kilometers.

There are many people who are very optimistic about the future of these two people.

Compared with? Although the performance of Eijun Sawamura and Haruichi Kominato is good, the potential they show? It didn't seem to be as tall as those two.

This gossip? Sawamura Eijun also heard it in his ears.

Isn't he going to be complacent because of this victory? He will not underestimate Gu Xiao just because he didn't leave it this time.

He took the initiative to help move the bag at this time, which was to tell Xiaogu with practical actions, or should I tell everyone present.

They are still competitors standing on a starting line.

"These two little guys are on the same team at the same time, maybe it's a good thing."

Able to compete with each other and get along day and night......

Such a competitor, a combat partner, you can't find it with a lantern.

Zhang Han muttered with emotion.

Behind him, Yukiichi didn't know when he walked over.

"Surely I was lucky! After all, it is difficult for other talented players to choose a team. ”

Situations like Akira Shibuyani and Eijun Sawamura are really very rare.

"Do you walk silently? Don't know that people are scary and easy to scare people to death? ”

Zhang Han glared back at Yu Xing very dissatisfied.

This guy is getting more and more elusive now.

It is said that he is also the star player of the Seido High School baseball team, and he is the absolute core of everything he goes, if not by the halo.

But strangely, there were very few people around him.

This is completely opposite to Zhang Han, Zhang Han's surroundings have never been broken.

"This guy has such a poisonous mouth, who would want to go near him?"

Kuramochi walked over and said with a smile.

As long as he can be lucky, this guy will never miss it.

"Get in the car!"

A dozen people's luggage, one for each person.

The five freshmen moved into the car in a few moments.

Seeing that several first-year students were so active, Kominato Haruichi also wanted to come forward to help.

But before he could intervene, the five people had two bags each, and four bags each, and all the luggage was loaded into the car.

He can only move one lonely.

After Xiao's duffel bag was robbed, he also took four duffel bags, but because his figure was a little bigger than Sawamura Rongchun, he was stunned for a while.

"The guy who doesn't admit defeat!"

The Qingdao friends who saw this scene were overjoyed.

It's great to see two talented first-year pitchers competing in this atmosphere.

As long as they can promote each other, the Qingdao High School baseball team will still have a strong fighting power even in the next year.

As for next year, the third-year seniors never worried. Not to mention the others, just with Zhang Han and Yu Xing, the combat effectiveness of the Qingdao High School baseball team will not be inferior.

The current Seongdo High School baseball team is very different from when they first joined the team.

At that time, their session was called the year of the under-harvest, which was the most unpromising.

However, in the current Seido High School baseball team, not only the third-year players have shown good combat effectiveness, but even the second-year and first-year players have shown good combat effectiveness.

It is also a high level of sesame flowering.

This feeling of having someone in the future made the third-year players of the Seido High School baseball team extremely reassuring.

In this way, they will be able to fight against the opponents that the Seido High School baseball team will face in the future.

Hop on a bus and head to Hyogo Prefecture.

This section of the journey is more than 400 kilometers long and takes more than six hours.

The friends either closed their eyes and recuperated, or took out their mobile phones to swipe their mobile phones, or chatted with the friends around them, and behaved very comfortably.

For the upcoming Koshien game, it would be a lie to say that the friends of the Seido High School baseball team are not worried at all.

But they have plenty of confidence in their own strength.

With the experience of the previous Kanto Convention and this Tokyo Summer Tournament.

The friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team have a very clear understanding of their own strength.

No matter which team they face next in Koshien, they are confident that they will fight each other and will be confident enough to win the final victory.

There is only one thing that worries them now, and that is the grouping of Koshien.

The friends of the Seido High School baseball team also don't have the luxury of being assigned to a group full of weak teams, and considering that they can make it to Koshien, it is impossible to have too many weak teams.

This kind of thinking is tantamount to a dream.

The friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team, of course, would not have such a dream.

As long as they can be grouped normally, even if it is not a normal grouping, and the group is a little cruel, they are not unacceptable.

But when it comes to hell, that's a different story.

has encountered the top giants in the country one after another, and even the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team have very strong confidence in their own strength.

They still beat the drum in their hearts.

Considering the brutality of the Koshien competition, once it really hits the top giants in the country one after another.

Even the Qingdao High School baseball team may have to raise the white flag and surrender.

It's not something they can handle if they want to.

"It's grouped out!"

The eyes of the originally quiet friends on the bus brightened up one by one.

No matter what they were doing, all their attention was on their phones at this time.

"How so?"

Minister Ota, who was sitting in front of the bus, dropped the water cup in his hand directly to the ground and rolled forward several meters along the aisle in the middle of the bus.

The faces of the friends are good enough to see where they are going.

Obviously, they didn't expect that the organizers of Koshien would make such an abominable arrangement.

"The opening game!"

Coach Ochiai pinched the mustache on his chin and smiled wryly.

There are more than 40 teams participating, and many teams will have byes in the first round.

This means that many teams only need to play two games before the second round draw.

The Qingdao High School baseball team had to play three games to play the opener. This means that if they want to make it to the end, they will need to play six games over the next two weeks.

Of course, this is not the most hateful.

The most odious thing is that the two teams that are the opening game basically cannot be selected by lottery.

Considering how exciting the game is, the strength of the two sides has to be about the same, or at least it has to look similar.

The Seido High School baseball team was the champion of the Kanto Tournament and eliminated the spring Koshien overlord.

Even if you look at the whole country, you can count the teams that can be compared to them, and you can count them on your fingers.

On the contrary, the team's deputy minister, Rei Takashima, seems to have expected this situation.

"As the most exciting team, it was basically predictable that we were placed in the opener.

The organizers of Koshien also need to be talked about.

As the first game, the two teams that will be broadcast live in the first game must definitely pick the team with the most topics.

If you want to say which team has the most famous name in the past six months, it must be Inagi Industry, which dominated the country in the spring Koshien field.

But now that the Inagi Industrial High School baseball team has been eliminated, none of them can participate in Koshien, and it is even more impossible to play the opening game.

The Qingdao High School baseball team just filled this vacancy, not only filling the vacancy, but also the topicality of the Qingdao High School baseball team itself is not necessarily much worse than the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team.

Placing them in the first game is, to some extent, very appropriate.

After the regional tournament in Nishitokyo, the coaches of the Seido High School baseball team made such a bold prediction.

Minister Ota also knows this, but it's one thing to guess, and he still can't accept it when he really faces it.

"It's just that I didn't expect the opponent to be Zhongjing!"

Chukyo Dazhongjing!

He has won the Koshien championship four times in history, the most recent of which was four years ago, when he was one of the top clubs in the country.

This is a team that can deserve the Qingdao High School baseball team.

It's just that the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team can't be happy anyway after seeing the name of this team.

"Is this team strong?"

Sawamura is worthy of his name as a baseball white, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he asked all the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team in confusion.

In terms of popularity alone, the other party's fame is still above the Seido High School baseball team.

Do you say that the strength of the other party is strong?

"Let me tell you this, we don't know how strong it is, but basically it won't be weaker than Daocheng and the city juniors."

This answer made Sawamura Eijun close his mouth suddenly.

Although he is not familiar with Zhongjing at all. But he was very familiar with the other two teams.

Even the Qingdao High School baseball team, even the strong third-year seniors.

When playing against these two teams, I didn't dare to pat my chest and say that I would definitely be able to win the final victory.

Especially in the last game they played against the Baseball Team of Inagi Industrial High School, Seido almost lost.

In the first round of the Koshien competition, I met such a team, isn't it equivalent to the first round of the regional competition, when I met Inagi Industry?

That's horrible......

Even Sawamura Eijun had a premonition of how difficult this matter was.

Not to mention the rest of the Qingdao High School baseball team.

"Do you have any information about the other party? Footage of the game. ”

"The video of the match is available online, and they participated in Koshien in the spring and stopped in the quarterfinals."

An opponent at the quarterfinals of the Spring League.

No matter how you look at it, the threat that this team poses to the Seido High School baseball team is terrifying.

Chris pulled out a notebook from his pocket, the kind he used to write with a pen.

"The overseer of the other party, whose name was Oshima, was forty-three years old, in the prime of life, and was called the first overseer of Kyoto. In the past 15 years as a supervisor, he has led the team to Koshien 17 times, and is known as the overlord of Kyoto. ”

The friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team unconsciously cast a shadow in their hearts.

The more they listen to this information, the more familiar they feel.

"Doesn't that mean that the other party is Inajo in Kyoto?"

Izaki said dissatisfiedly.

The game with the baseball team of Inagi Industrial High School has been fresh in his memory until now.

If it weren't for Zhang Han's two home runs, the Qingdao High School baseball team might have lost that game.

Originally, they thought that this nightmare was over, and the opponents they encountered after that could not be compared to Inajo.

Unexpectedly, a team similar to Daocheng suddenly appeared.

"There's nothing wrong with that, but in the past, people preferred to call Inagi the Nakakyo of Tokyo."

That is, this year, the baseball team of Inagi Industrial High School successfully won the championship of Koshien in the spring.

That's how that changed.

"This is Koshien, and there has never been any weakling."

"Their team's trump card, shouldn't it be the same as Narumiya Cheng?"

The friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team didn't want to think so, but they couldn't restrain themselves from thinking so.

Since he already thought so, he no longer hid and hid, and directly raised the doubts in his heart.

A smile appeared on Chris's face.

"Cheng Gongming's kind of monster, how can it be so easy to appear? The opponent is a good ball-handling pitcher, can throw the ball into all corners, and can use several variations. Let's put it this way, it should be regarded as a Kawakami who has strengthened by two grades. ”

Kawakami, which has been strengthened by two grades.

Although the opponent is not at the level of Nari Miya, the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team still haven't relaxed.

Kawakami's strength, they still recognize it very much.

The other party seems to have strengthened Kawakami, who has strengthened two grades, and if he wants to take points from him, I'm afraid it's not so easy.

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