Chapter 21 The opening of the county competition

"According to the regulations of the county competition, all the participating teams that won the top eight in last year's county competition will not have a bye in the first round of this year's county competition, and will directly participate in the second round from the second round. The semi-finalists who were able to participate in the joint finals last year will start playing in the fifth round of this tournament, that is, from the quarterfinals. Coach Taoka introduced some of the rules of the prefectural tournament to the first-year newcomers.

"Although we don't have to participate in the first round of the competition, we have to participate in the opening ceremony of the county competition on May 19, and this is what all participating teams must attend. ”

"Miss Hoshino!" Shigeichi Taoka turned to Sakura Hoshino, the manager of the basketball team standing beside him.

"Yes, what does Coach Taoka command?" Sakura Hoshino immediately replied.

"I'll have to ask the scouting team in charge of gathering intelligence to send the game footage and player information of the top four teams that reached the joint finals last year to the tactics room. In addition, we have to trouble them to collect videos and materials of our opponents in the second round and later after the tournament starts. "In this year's prefectural tournament, Ooka set the goal for the team to reach the joint finals, so he collected and studied potential opponents in advance.

"Okay, no problem. Is there anything else I can do with Coach Taoka?" asked Sakura Hoshino, the team manager.

"By the way, I have to trouble the staff in charge of publicity of the club to organize a student cheering group to participate in the opening ceremony of the county competition. I wonder how many students from our school can participate this year?"

At the opening ceremony, all the participating teams will participate in the entrance ceremony, and the cheering group of each participating school will cheer for their respective school teams when the team enters the stadium, which is very similar to cheering, except that one cheers at the opening ceremony, and the other waives the flag to the players and the team during the game.

So far, there have been more than 60 students who have signed up for the cheering group, and more than 100 to 200 people may be organized in the next two days. ”

"Oh, there's a working group for your community. In addition, you also need to book the school bus in advance, and you are responsible for preparing the special uniforms for the team's official games, and you are responsible for preparing other logistics aspects. Coach Taoka explained the logistics of the team's participation to the team manager Sakura Hoshino in advance. As a coach, he only leads the team in training and participating in competitions, and the team related logistics are managed by the club manager.

"Coach Taoka is gracious, this is what we should do. School bus, the foreign affairs team of the application to the school in the morning, in the afternoon the school approval has been confirmed. The uniforms are also ready and will be distributed to the players on May 18. ”

"Good, well done. Shigeichi Kooka is very satisfied with the efficiency of the community working group.

"If it's okay, I'll arrange for the scouting team to send the tapes and materials to the tactics room right now. Team manager Sakura Hoshino asked.

"Well, there's nothing going on now, you go, and when you're ready, I'll take the players over. ”

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When: May 19, Location: Kanagawa Prefecture, Venue: Prefectural Public Gymnasium

Today is a grand day for the Kanagawa Prefecture college basketball community, and the annual summer Kanagawa Prefecture College Basketball Tournament opened today. There is still an hour before the opening of the competition, and the staff of the organizing committee of the competition are starting to get busy.

The tournament is open and does not charge any tickets. The audience who came to watch it were: cheering groups from major colleges and universities, some students who like basketball, parents of student players, fans who like basketball in the society, and reporters from basketball newspapers and magazines.

Just after 8 o'clock, the student cheering group of the major colleges and universities in Kanagawa Prefecture, some of the students' parents, as well as some members of the public and reporters from newspapers and magazines, began to enter the prefectural public gymnasium one after another. The huge public sports arena has already sat most of the audience before it has even begun to open.

Some college teams far away from the gymnasium also rushed to the gymnasium by school bus at a few minutes after 8 o'clock in advance. After getting off the bus, coaches, players, club managers and club working group members, nearly 20 people, led by the staff of the organizing committee, entered the gymnasium from the player-only passage.

At 8:30 a.m., the school bus of Lingnan Private High School drove into the parking lot of the county public gymnasium. The car carried 12 players, a coach, and four or five members of the club working group, a total of 18 people.

"Lingnan University Basketball Team" captain Panasonic Jianxu carried a flag, wearing Lingnan University uniforms and took the lead in getting off the bus, and the players and coaches behind him followed one after another.

At 8:50, all 64 teams from the Kanagawa Prefecture Division entered the stadium. Under the arrangement of the organizing committee, according to the first-come, first-served basis, the team uniforms for the competition will be changed in advance in the locker room and the spare locker room in the stadium, and wait for the entrance ceremony specially held for the opening of the competition.

At nine o'clock, in the midst of the hustle and bustle, the host of the opening ceremony came up to the stage and stood in front of the microphone to announce the official opening of the competition. The first event of the opening ceremony was the entrance ceremony, which entered the stadium in order of last year's results from weakest to strongest, and the first to enter the stadium was the team that was eliminated after the first round of the previous edition.

"Now we welcome with warm applause, the first team to enter the stadium - the Guigong University basketball team. In the shouting of the host on the stage, the first to come out was the team manager who held up the sign of "Guigong University", followed by the 12 players of the team, lined up in the cheers of the school's cheering group, walked into the court from the player tunnel and stood up.

Each team has a designated position in the line, and the manager of each team stands at the front holding a sign with the name of the school.

"The next to enter the stadium is ........"

"Bang, bang, bang, come on, come on!!"

Since the first team to play was all underdogs, there was very little applause from the neutral audience and the cheering group of other teams. Therefore, the applause and cheers for each team are the cheering groups organized by the team's school.

Since there are 32 teams eliminated in the first round, the number of teams is relatively large, and after the 32 teams have entered the stadium and lined up under the leadership of their respective managers, the next team to enter the order is the top 32 teams.

The round of 32 teams entered with a little more cheers than before.

The next round of 16 teams are the same, not much better than the previous teams.

After the top 16 plays, there are top 8 teams, and Lingnan University reached the top eight in last year's county competition, and the order of entry is in front of the first Lun Qi universities that are also the top eight.

"Here are the top eight teams that made it to last year's tournament, so let's welcome the university with a round of applause. "The host's voice is much louder than when I introduced it earlier.

After the appearance of Lun Ling High School, it was followed by Miuradai University, which was also in the top eight.

The players of the Lingnan team, who were waiting for the players' appearance, looked at the players from Jinjiuwu High School who were about to play one by one. They all looked indifferent, and the team members whispered to each other.

"Hey, Naito, are you nervous?" Kosho Tai Sendo turned around and whispered to Naito, who was standing behind him.

"Cut, what's so nervous about this, can't it be that you're nervous? Hehe, what's so nervous about a scene like this for me. "Naito was a human being in his past and present life, so of course there will not be the slightest tension in such a scene.

"Haha, it's funny, how could I be nervous. I'm afraid you're nervous. You ......" Xian Dao defended convincingly, and before he finished speaking, a shout came from his ears through the megaphone.

Next, let us welcome the Lingnan University basketball team with warm applause. ”

"Hoshino, hurry, it's our time, let's go. After hearing the announcement, Captain Kenxu Matsushita, who was standing behind the team manager Sakura Hoshino, urged.

"What are you urging, calm, calm," the manager Hoshino Sakura turned his head and glanced at Panasonic, holding a sign with "Lingnan High School" written on it with his head held high, and walked out of the player tunnel with a smile on his face. Keeping some distance behind him was captain Kenxu Matsushita, the shortest of the 12 players, and he was at the front of the team in line in order of tallness.

"Lingnan, brave! Bang Bang! Lingnan, bold! Bang Bang!"

From Hoshino Sakura, the cheering group of nearly 200 people in the audience immediately stood up, and under the command of the club staff, they waved the flag, knocked on the bottle and shouted slogans for the Lingnan team.

The momentum is strong and the scene is spectacular.

"Wow!!Look at that handsome guy with a hedgehog head!!" Some girls in the audience looked at Xiandao who appeared on the stage, and said to the girl next to them with a nymphomaniac look.

"It's really handsome!,Tall and handsome.,The smile is so charming.,I like it so much!!," the girl next to her, who was also a nymphomaniac, chimed in.

"Wow, look, that person is so tall!!" Mr. A, an audience member on the other side of the audience, pointed out that Yu Zhuchun said to his friend C, who was sitting next to him.

"It's really tall, it should be more than two meters tall, right?" asked his friend C.

"It's pretty much the same anyway! There are so many players who come in, and he is the tallest. Audience A affirmed.

"Wow, look at that player so strong, oops, my good man, you see his arms are thicker than my thighs, what a macho man" In a corner of the audience, several adult members of society looked at Naito Tetsuya who appeared on the stage, and audience A said.

"I'm rubbing, it's really a fitness macho, that muscle bulging, it's just a fleshy demon. Audience Member B chimed in.

Handsome, tall, and fierce characters appeared at the same time, which caused a small sensation in Lingnan's appearance, and the effect was very different from that of the previous team.

A small sensation has ushered in a big sensation.

The last group of appearances were the top 4 teams. The appearance of the semi-final team brought cheers to strengthen again.

"Let's cheer, shout, scream, clap applause, and warmly invite the top four teams of the last tournament," the passionate host suddenly paused briefly, and then yelled "Welcome to the Sunrise West College Basketball Team!!"

"Wow!!" most of the audience cheered together.

"Let us cheer, shout, scream, clap our applause, and warmly invite one of the top four teams of the last tournament, the Burri college basketball team........"

"Let us cheer, shout, scream, clap applause, warmly and warmly invite one of the top four teams of the last competition, the runner-up of the last competition.... Runner-up...."The host dragged a long tail note, waited for a few seconds, and finally roared along with the audience

"Xiangyang High School!"

"The next one is about to appear, the king who has dominated Kanagawa for fifteen consecutive years, the champion of the last tournament, they are ........" The passionate host asked the audience in a long voice, "Let's shout their names together..... King Hainan High School!!"

"King Hainan High School!" all the audience stood up and shouted loudly, the momentum overshadowing all the previous cheers.

Applause, cheers, screams, shouts. It lasts up to two minutes.

This is the last team to play, the king of Kanagawa, Hainan High School.

This is also an honor they deserve, defending the county championship for the fifteenth consecutive year.

Looking at Hainan High School, which was the last to appear, Naito and Sendo, who were standing on the court, did not calm down for a long time. Envy, jealousy, that's certain, and the ambition to not admit defeat and dare to challenge them also exists at the same time.

After all the players entered the stadium, the tournament host stood in front of the rostrum and invited the official in charge of sports in Kanagawa Prefecture to give a speech.

The speech took nearly 20 minutes, and after the lethargic speech of the sports officer, the host of the opening ceremony came to the stage to invite the chairman of the organizing committee of the competition to read the declaration of the competition.

The chairman of the organizing committee is a gray-haired old man, and this old man also knows basketball better, otherwise he would not have become the chairman of the Kanagawa organizing committee. After the old man took the stage, he read out the declaration related to the competition. And the speech time is only about five minutes, which can not help but make Naito, who is ready to open his eyes and recuperate, feel ashamed.