The fifth round of the spring Tokyo Metropolitan Government is also the semi-finals. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe opponent of the Peace School is a public school.

Metropolitan Kyochei High School is located in Shinjuku Ward. Although it has a Western character in its name, it actually belonged to the East Tokyo division at the time of the Summer Conference.

Even when measured together with ordinary private schools, BWI universities can be regarded as powerhouses.

Twice Koshien appearances. A regular in the East Tokyo quarterfinals.

And these records are all records of the last two decades.

This is quite a rare achievement for the Tokyo area.

In college baseball, the phenomenon of private suppression of public is actually mainly in urban areas.

Outside of several metropolitan areas. Key public schools with student dormitories often achieve good results because they can select materials from the city or county.

The Koshien Tournament is held every spring and summer, and there are often representatives from public schools other than Osaka and Tokyo.

But the situation is different in urban areas.

Private schools in metropolitan areas have an overwhelming financial advantage over public schools.

What's more, private schools are completely unrestricted in terms of material selection. Special enrollment can be recruited from all over Japan. It even attracts international students from overseas.

Public schools are clearly not able to compete with private ones in terms of funding. The only way to find a way is the source of life.

Jingxi University is a famous university that takes into account both civil and military affairs. In the past, it was relied on this to attract young people who are interested in learning to apply for the exam.

Since the beginning of the 21st century. The Ministry of Education of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government allows public schools to provide a certain number of places each year for students with special talents in culture and sports to enroll on a recommended basis.

Under this system of cultural and sports recommendation, the baseball department of BWI University has a quota of three special sports students each year.

It is different from the special enrollment of private schools. There is neither tuition waiver nor nutrition subsidy for special enrollment in public universities.

The only reason why BWI universities can attract outstanding players is the excellent quality of teaching.

According to the information that Li Yuanrang saw, the four sticks of the western Beijing University were admitted to the University of Tokyo the year before last. And last year's ace was admitted to Keida and became a teammate of Fukushima's seniors.

This year's current second-year ace and four-stick Toru Kawanishi is also said to have excellent grades, and it is not a problem to be admitted to a national prestigious school.

One of the most valuable points is that Tetsuya Kawanishi came from a public school softball club when he was in junior high school. He was directly admitted to Western Beijing University through the general entrance examination.

This means that he did not occupy the three recommended places in the first place.

It is said that their supervisors are very optimistic about the team of this year's Kawasai, and believe that this team has a chance to make a breakthrough in Koshien for the third time under his leadership.

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In addition to the fact that the opponent is a public school, there is another point in this semi-final that makes Li Yuanrang very interested.

The venue for this match is Jingu Court 2. It is also commonly known as the Shenji Stadium.

Li Yuanrang noticed this venue during the summer conference.

To the north of Jingu Stadium, there is a high and somewhat abrupt outfield net.

One side of the outfield is usually used as a golf driving range. The size of the site is also not large.

In the East Tokyo area, where every inch of land is at a premium, Shinji Stadium is one of the main venues for college competitions.

In the spring, the Tokyo Games did not involve any qualifications for the national tournament, and Jingu Stadium had a lot of university and professional baseball games to be held during this period. Even the final was held at the Kamiji Stadium.

There are no outfield stands at the Kamiji Stadium. There are only a few thousand seats on either side of the first and third bases.

The Peace School vs. Western Beijing High School match was played over the weekend. The opposing side's support bench on the third base side was almost filled with supporters from the Western Jersey University.

"How popular is Jingxi?"

Although Li Yuanrang also knew that his opponent was one of the few strong men in public schools, it was a bit surprising that there were so many spectators who came to cheer on the scene.

"There are a lot of great OBs in the western part of the world, and they're great outside of baseball."

As an associate professor at the university, Superintendent Yagi has first-hand experience of Kyosai's influence outside of baseball.

As a prestigious public university, it is not uncommon for graduates of the western part of the city to be admitted to prestigious national universities such as Tokyo University and Kyoto University. After graduation, they will also occupy a lot of positions in the academic world.

In addition, purely from the perspective of the number of students, Jingxi University is also much more than the Peace Academy.

BWI High School has nearly 10 classes and more than 1,000 students in each academic year. As a non-boarding university in Tokyo, it is quite large.

This number base also ensures that the baseball club has a sufficient supply of general enrollment each year.

Team supervisors in public schools are mostly teachers. Onda, the superintendent of BWI University, is no exception.

The biology teacher, who is not yet 40 years old, was one of the main players at the last time he entered Koshien at the Kyoto West High School. Later, he was admitted to the University of Tokyo, Japan's No. 1 university.

Tokyo University is a traditional member of the Tokyo Six Universities Alliance. This is because there is no preferential treatment system for sports students like the other five private schools. Their baseball club has consistently been at the bottom of the top six universities.

Onda, who has Koshien experience, was the absolute main force of the baseball club during the Todai period. It's just that the record is not very good because of the limitations of the strength of teammates.

It was three years ago that Superintendent Onda took over the baseball club of his alma mater. At the time, the institute he worked for had lost its funding due to an academic fraud scandal. In order to make a living, Onda had to return to his alma mater to teach.

At this time, the former superintendent of the baseball club had just retired. He took over the reins of the baseball club as a matter of course.

The team's record last year and last year were good. This year, Supervisor Onda shouted the slogan "Koshien is not a dream, but a goal".

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"Have you heard this year's slogan?"

Superintendent Yagi looked through his opponent's profile on the chair in the rest area and happened to see this paragraph.

"It's not a dream, it's a goal?"

Lord Yabe replied.

"Well, but I don't think they can do it this year. Judging from the situation last autumn, Hexi is still only a semi-finished product. ”

"This spring was different, with a no-hitter game and a three-hitter finish."

"Oh? That's another side of the story. I don't know if this Hexi will be able to hold out until next year. ”

Superintendent Yagi pulled out another information booklet, and the baseball department's intelligence team collected the game records of the opponent's first few games in the Spring Festival.

There is only one column of data that Yagi wants to see. The number of pitchers pitched per game.

Toru Kawanishi, the ace of Jingxi University, also finished all the previous four games. Except for the early end of the second round. The other games all went nine innings.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the pitcher looks good on the ball. He has scored under 120 goals per game. Coupled with the abundant rest time between the Spring Festival games, the shoulder consumption may not be particularly outrageous.