May 18, Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture.

This is the day and place where this year's Kanto Championship will be held.

In addition to the 16 teams from the Kanto region, including Yamanashi, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa and Tokyo, the champions and runners-up of the spring tournament from the Kanto region will be eligible for the Kanto tournament even if they do not win the championship or runner-up in the spring tournament. This is also the reason why there are four teams in the Tokyo area this time, the champion of the Tokyo Spring Contest is Seido High School, the runner-up is Teito High School, and then Inagi Industrial is the winning team of this year's Spring Koshien Competition, and Yakushi High School also successfully entered the top four of the Spring Championship, naturally according to the regulations, these two teams also qualified for the Kanto Competition.

As for the team that is also in the Kanto region, Hakuryu High School, which also won the top four of the Spring Armor.

Because it was originally the winning team of the Gunma Prefecture Regional Spring Contest.

So under the superposition.

There are still only two teams from Gunma Prefecture.

In addition, Yamanashi Prefecture also participated in four teams this time.

There is another rule of the Kanto Tournament, that is, the area where the Kanto Tournament is held, four teams can participate, and this time the Kanto Tournament is held in Yamanashi Prefecture, so the top four teams of the Yamanashi Prefecture Spring Tournament were directly invited to participate in the Kanto Tournament.

Sum up.

This is the largest number of teams participating in the Kanto Tournament in the last five years.

That's a full 20 teams.

In addition to the 4 teams from Yamanashi Prefecture, the remaining 16 teams arrived in Kofu City, the capital of Yamanashi Prefecture, before yesterday afternoon.

Kofu City, which suddenly became extremely lively.

In the Kanto region, all prefectures, as long as there is a certain amount of free time, baseball fans also came to Kofu City before the 18th.

In the past five years, the Kanto Tournament has gathered the largest number of universities, and the level is likely to be the highest.

May 18, at the YBS baseball field in Yamari.

After a simple opening ceremony.

It was the opening match of the Kanto Tournament that started straight away, (a total of 20 teams, five rounds of confrontation, and the necessary bye qualifications)

As the opening debut, it is the winning team of the Spring Armor specially arranged by the organizer - Daocheng Industrial High School.

Against Chiba Tomatsu High School, the semi-winning team of the spring tournament from Chiba Prefecture.

If you really want to talk about it.

Chiba Tomatsu High School.

It's a strong team in the Kanto region.

It's just facing Daocheng Industrial, a team that won the championship.

Chiba Tomatsu High School is a bit underwhelming.

Even if the pitcher who started the game was not Narumi Narimiya, who was an ace, but Kei Hirano in the third grade, Chiba Tomatsu was only evenly matched with Inami in the first three innings, and in the first to fourth innings, after Kei Hirano adjusted his condition.

There was no chance to find it for Chiba Tomatsu.

Yamaoka and Carlos each hit a home run in this game.

Then in the last two games, Naruto Narumiya, who was the ace, appeared in the nature of a warm-up and perfectly suppressed the last six hitters of Chiba Tomatsu.

In the end, Inagi Industrial successfully defeated Chiba Tomatsu with a score of 8-3 and easily advanced to the next round of the Kanto Tournament.

The team that followed Inagi Industry is from Kanagawa Prefecture, the winning team of this year's spring contest - Red Sea Sagara High School, and the team against is from the region, Yamanashi Prefecture A top four team in this spring competition, the same fierce battle zone, in this year's spring competition, can defeat Yokogaku and Kuju one after another, which is enough to prove the strength of Red Sea Sagara High School (the original form should be Tokai Sagara High, right?). If Konoye remembers correctly. ）

This first battle also showed the dominance that the winning team in the fierce war zone should have.

In just five games, it took an eight-point lead.

If it weren't for the opponent's slight struggle, he almost ended the game early in five innings, Rao was so, this game was only barely postponed to the seventh inning, and the semi-final team of Yamanashi Prefecture, which could not chase points in the next two innings, Red Sea Daisagara High School still won the victory easily at the end of the seventh inning.

On the first day, the two famous teams of Inami and Red Sea, who appeared at the Yamanichi YBS Stadium, won by a landslide.

And on the other hand.

In the Fuji Kitanfoot Park baseball field where you can see Mount Fuji directly.

As a Tokyo upstart who also debuted in this year's spring armor and also entered the semifinals, Yakushi High School, against Urashima High School, the quasi-winning team of the spring competition from Saitama Prefecture, was originally a confrontation with a huge disparity in strength.

At the beginning of the first game, all the main players made their debuts at Yakushi High School.

Under the leadership of Thunder City.

repeatedly scored hits, and Thunder City was even more excited because of the sight of Mt. Fuji, so in the first inning, it was directly hit a long-range home run.

Ace Toshihei Sanada's excellent pitching performance.

It is also the reason why Uradao High School can't find any gaps to drill at all.

By the end of the fourth inning.

The score of the two teams came to a terrifying 9-0 margin.

This is a game that should end early in the fifth inning.

The "arrogant" bombardment supervisor in the bench, considering that he wanted to train his own first-year freshmen, sent four freshmen in the fifth inning, and even replaced Sanada, the ace, with attention to the substitution, not to the first base to guard.

Full of bombardment that even so, his own team can easily win.

I didn't think about it at all, what is called happiness and sorrow.

Kuroki, Taniguchi, Tomobe and others who appeared on the court simply had no game experience and made repeated mistakes on the court.

Not to mention ending the game early.

In the next four games, he was chased by Urashima High School one after another.

Until the end of the first half of the ninth inning.

With a score of 11-11, the two teams ushered in the final attack sequence of Urashima High School in the second half of the game.

Then, there is no then.

Yakushi High School had the most gorgeous opening.

The most "cool" finish.

Finished their team's trip to the Kanto Tournament.

"Mt. Fuji! You bastard!!!! ”

That day.

Leaving a single voice, the "poignant" cry of a certain overseer with nowhere to vent hovered over the Fuji Kitaku Park Stadium.

On the first day of the Kanto Tournament, except for such a strange thing as Yakushi High School.

All the famous universities are easy to win.

Giants including Inami, Teto, Red Sea, White Dragon, Kue, Yamamori, Hanasaki Tokumaru and other giants are all opponents who easily defeat themselves.

The same is true for Qingdao High School.

Facing the North Shin High School from Tochigi Prefecture.

In the first game.

Superintendent Kataoka directly let Shigeno Shin appear first.

Seido High School with all its might.

Even the North Rush High School of Tochigi couldn't resist it at all.

In the first five innings, only two hits were scored from Shigerun, and no points were scored.