On the 7th, the Women’s Basketball W League decided to cancel the league match in January in the eastern district after a state of emergency was issued in 1 metropolitan area and 3 prefectures due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection.
Niigata BB Rabbits, which belongs to the eastern district, has canceled a total of four games, the Hitachi High-Tech game on the 9th and 10th (Shizuoka City Central Gymnasium) and the Fujitsu game on the 15th and 16th (Ota Ward General Gymnasium, Tokyo). On February 13th and 14th, which is scheduled to resume, the partition was re-partitioned for the ENEOS match (Wing Hat Kasukabe). It will be decided in the future whether the four canceled games will be postponed.
After the practice, Director Kazuo Otaki (75) gathered players and staff to explain the situation. The Hitachi High-Tech match is the official match since the first round of the Empress’s Cup with Akita Bank last November. The injured captains F Naomi Kitagawa (26), F Nakayama Ki (24), F Kanazawa Midori (24), and G Niwatari Kotone (23), who had left the team due to poor physical condition, have returned for the first time this season. It was supposed to be a match for all the players. Kitagawa said, “I finally got all the players and wanted to do it.” At the same time, he said, “I will use the time until resumption to practice increasing my strength.”
Niigata has lost 10 consecutive league games since the opening. The Empress’s Cup also lost in the first match and has not won the official match this season. Coach Otaki said, “The overall improvement has improved compared to the beginning. I want to remake it again. I want to do it while thinking about practice games,” he said, taking advantage of the fact that the team restructuring period was completed.
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