Out of the station, the three teams of Kanagawa still went their separate ways. On the one hand, the location of the accommodation is close to the respective competition area, and on the other hand, the financial situation of the three teams is also different.

Xiangyang and Lingnan are both private schools, with deep pockets, and they both live in hotels.

The place where Xiangyang lives is the Mitsui Garden Hotel, and as soon as I heard the name, I knew that it was Mitsui Shou who was matchmaking.

The hotel in Lingnan is called the courtyard hotel, and the grade is not much worse than that of Xiangyang.

Xiangbei is a public school, and although it has the strong support of the senior principal, it is still not sufficient in terms of funds. In line with the principle of saving what can be saved, the whole team lived in a Japanese-style inn called Chidorigaso.

This hotel is not far from the main stadium in the third division where Xiangbei is located, and it is about a ten-minute walk away. And there is another benefit here, that is, the members of the basketball club who came with the team, and some other Xiangbei students who came to cheer for everyone, also lived.

The first day of August was the usual assembly for the oath-taking ceremony, followed by the play-offs.

Without any suspense, Lingnan easily bloodied his opponent Beiying. Yuzhu and Xiandao each played half a game with half a team of substitutes, not only retaining their physical strength, but also exercising their substitutes, and covering up their own good tactics, killing three birds with one stone.

Their opponent the next day, Kazumi from Gunma, was also watching the match from the stands. Seeing this, they could only shake their heads and sigh that they were in the middle of another round of swimming.

Nan Duoliang arranged for the three teams to have dinner together in the evening to celebrate Lingnan's qualification, and it was also for the three teams to start the main competition. It is rumored that because of his political achievements in Kanagawa in recent years, he has been valued by the bigwigs above, and he may rise again.

During the banquet, Suzuki asked him if this was true, and Nan Tara did not confirm it positively, but the tone between the lines made Suzuki understand that this matter was inseparable.

The dinner was a joyous one.

On the second day, Xiangyang had a bye, and Xiangbei and Lingnan were going to face their first opponents respectively.

Shoho's opponent was Hojo Shisho from Fukuoka. Just from the name of the school, it is known that the school is private. Fukuoka is another nationally known fierce battle zone in addition to Tokyo and Kanagawa, and the teams that have qualified over the years are not easy to mess with. This year, Akita's second place finish was lost in the play-offs early, and if Fukuoka beats Akita this year, then next year's play-off spot may be theirs.

Hojo Sishang's evaluation in "Basketball Magazine" is B, one grade worse than Xiangbei, but Suzuki does not dare to be careless. At that time, Xiangbei's evaluation was only C-level and B-level, and it also repeatedly beat those A-level teams. So the starting lineup he arranged sent Akagi and Sakuragi to the two absolute main players, and the rest of the players were all third-year. He believes that with these veteran players, even if Hojo's strength is unexpectedly strong, Xiangbei will not be bored all at once, and it can leave him with enough room for adjustment.

However, it turned out that Suzuki was overthinking.

On the way to Hiroshima, Xiangbei met Osaka's A-level team Toyotama, and their main force Kishimoto has a saying that Osaka can't find a center like Akagi. Not only Osaka, but Fukuoka, which is a strong basketball county, their second Hojo center, is only 1.9 meters.

Facing Akagi, who is more than two meters long, and Hotta, who is ninety-one meters, Fukuoka's ball is sent to the inside, but their center and power forward seem to not be able to play the ball, and they are blocked by Akagi and Hotta three times in a row, and they don't score a point.

And their outside line, under the impenetrable defense of Shakura, Sakuragi and Mu Dusk, is trapped in the city. Bad passes, broken dribbles, and shots are all in turn with their guards and small forwards, and it's hard to believe it's a national-level game.

Ten minutes passed, and the five people in Xiangbei played happily, and when they came back to their senses, Hojo scored only 4 points. At this time, Xiangbei's score had come to 30.

Suzuki couldn't believe the score when he saw it, turned his head and asked Momoi, "Are we really so far ahead?" Hojo Four Merchants are so weak? ”

Momoi nodded and gave him an affirmative answer, saying, "I can't believe that the team from Fukuoka can be so weak. But it looks like Hojo has really been beaten to the ground by us. You see their players are not even aggressive on the pitch anymore. ”

Determined that Hojo was already a salted fish, Suzuki felt that there was no need to have so many main forces like a great enemy, so he began to change horses.

The first to be replaced were captain Akagi and ace Sakuragi. Mori is familiar with the style of play of the center, while Mito is purely a newcomer.

Soon, Shakura was also replaced by Suzuki, and the lineup on the field became Mori, Hotta, Kidu, Mito and Takeyo.

Seeing that the strongest three people in the Xiangbei team were replaced one by one, the main forces of Hojo cheered up and felt that this game could be saved, but their struggle, their fighting spirit, only lasted a few minutes, and before the end of the first half, they were extinguished again by the three-point rain of Mu Du and Wu Dai.

Mori always seems not tough enough to play the center position in the prefecture, whether it is against Hanagata and Uozumi who are on the same level as Akagi, or against Takasago, Netakeya, and Nadaka, they can neither defend head-on nor protect rebounds, and it is better for the shorter Hotta to play this position as a substitute.

However, in today's game, in front of the national audience, Maori took advantage of his majesty. Hojo's center Okubo is shorter than him, and his strength is only similar to him, and it is the first time he has encountered a center like Mori who likes to shoot half-volleys, and he was beaten completely directionless for a while. It's a pity that he has just been crushed by Akagi's strong force, and he was hit by Maori's sword going sideways, and he has no confidence, and then he didn't dare to stretch out his hand, for fear that he would not be able to block it and eat another foul.

Okubo was replaced at halftime, but the new Hojo substitute center was weaker, and he also lacked the slightest fighting spirit, and he was called lazy.

Helping Maori build up his confidence, Suzuki continued to work on the lineup, straightening Hotta to the center position, so that Takasu, who had not played for a long time, could find the feeling of the game. Also enjoying this treatment is Yasuda, Suzuki saw that the advantage of the inside line was huge, so he simply didn't want a small forward, and directly replaced the vice captain Mu Du with Yasuda.

Under the indiscriminate toss, Xiangbei's on-field lineup is actually inferior to Hojo in terms of strength, but the score gap is too big, Hojo sees that there is no hope of winning at all, so he copes with casual play, and is still pressed by the momentum of Xiangbei substitutes.

Coach Hojo saw that the starters were not ready to fight, and there was no way, so he simply went up and down five times, and let the first- and second-year substitutes play the rest of the time.

When the game was over, all of Hojo saluted and fled out of the gymnasium.

They were left with an extremely embarrassing scoreline.

122-46。

Xiangbei almost defeated his opponent by three times the score difference and easily passed the first round.