The autumn Chugoku district tournament, which will serve as a reference for the selected high school baseball tournament next spring, will begin on the 22nd at Yamaguchi Mazda Saikyo Kizuna Stadium. From Hiroshima, Hiroshima Commercial High School, Onomichi Commercial High School, and Hiroryo will participate. In both cases, old and strong players who have experienced second place or higher in the spring Koshien aim to advance to the top.[Combination of Autumn China Tournament]Hiroshima Commercial High School, which won the prefectural tournament for the first time in 24 years, gained momentum by cold-winning Shinjo in the first match. The batting average is 30%, 5 minutes and 5 minutes, and the batting average is active. No. 4 Hiromoto vows, “I want to work when the team wants one.” The pitchers pitched by 7 pitchers were unstable with 39 pitches and 4 dead balls in 5 games. Hurry to rebuild. ■ Onomichi Commercial High School, who has a brilliant batting eye and is in second place in the succession, made use of the experience that the seven main players of the previous team remained. He chose 53 four dead balls in five games, made a big inning and took the initiative. The axis is the succession from Kobayashi, the left arm of the main battle, to Relief Kami. Director Ikeda hopes, “Originally a defensive team. I want you to throw it as far as the ace can go.” ■ Hiroryo’s search for appointing players and the batting line are the keys Hiroryo fought while changing the batting order and starting members due to the lack of actual battles of the new coronavirus. It is good news that Moriyama, who has a uniform number of 20, made a complete game in the bronze medal match and made a name for himself as a candidate for the main battle. It is powerful if the hitting line from No. 3 Utsumi is connected. Captain Kawase vowed, “Because it is the 3rd place school, I want to fight with an aggressive attitude.” Autumn China District High School Baseball Tournament Round 1 Shimonoseki International 8-0 Soshi Gakuen](22nd, Yamaguchi Mazda Saikyo Kizuna Stadium) Winning table of the Autumn China Tournament Shimonoseki International (Yamaguchi) aiming to participate in the selection tournament for the second consecutive year is the first match He cold-winned Soshi Gakuen (Okayama) seven times and advanced to the quarter-finals. Shimonoseki Kokusai pierced the opponent’s gap and proceeded to the advantage from beginning to end. In the first inning, walks and stolen bases made him 1st and 3rd base, and Yuto Kaya hit the front left. Expanded opportunities with four dead balls and lost enemies three or six times, adding a total of five points. In the seventh inning, two squeeze games determined the victory. Yasumasa Koga, the left arm of the main game, controlled the ball low and scored no runs in the 7th inning. I didn’t give him a chance to get into the Soshi Gakuen batting line. Shimonoseki International Director Hidenao Sakahara said, “I entered a good tournament. I was able to play baseball that I wanted to play because of the opponent’s self-destruction. I had a big first goal and I was able to hit in an important place.” On the 3rd day of the autumn Kinki district tournament, which is an important material for deciding which school to participate in, one game of the first round, which had been postponed in the rain the day before, was held at Ojiyama Stadium in Otsu City, and won the autumn Hyogo prefectural tournament. The company lost to Omi (Shiga) at 10-11 and lost the first match. In the 8th inning to chase 2 points, Fukutani’s sacrifice fly and Katsumata’s timely hits caught up, and Shibamoto’s 2 points timely hits won. Was bathed. He showed tenacity to temporarily reverse the difference of up to 6 points, but did not even hit back. On the 4th, on the 23rd, two games of the first round of Yawata Sho (Shiga) -Wakayama Higashi, Kyoto International-Shoshosha (Osaka) and one game of the quarterfinals of Ichi Wakayama-Tenri (Nara) will be held. On the 22nd, the autumn Chugoku district tournament will start. The 16 schools that have won each prefectural tournament will engage in a fierce battle for spring selection. Four games are scheduled for the first round on the first day of the tournament.[Tournament table]Combination of Chinese tournaments In the first match of Saikyo Stadium, Shimonoseki Kokusai (Yamaguchi 1st), who aims to be selected for the second consecutive year, will play against Soshi Gakuen (Okayama 3rd). The card for the final of the Spring China Tournament will be realized in the first match. Shimonoseki Kokusai won the prefectural tournament with a solid hit, and the final Ube sales battle was overwhelming 11-0. It will be interesting to see if the powerful batting line can be demonstrated at the Chinese tournament. On the other hand, Soshi Gakuen is also a regular school that has participated for four consecutive years, aiming to participate in the selection for the first time in five years since the 89th competition in 2017. In the second match, Hiroryo (3rd in Hiroshima), who is aiming for Koshien for the first time in 3 years, will face Kurayoshi Sogosan (2nd in Tottori), who will appear for the first time. Kurashiki Technical High School (Okayama 1st) and Yonago Nishi (Tottori 3rd) won the autumn prefectural tournament for the first time in 22 years at Shunan City Baseball Stadium, and Ube Sho (Yamaguchi 2nd) and Izumo Nishi (Shimane 2) in the second game. Place) will play. The tournament will have a semi-final on the 30th and a final on the 31st. There are 5 general selection slots for the Chugoku / Shikoku area selection tournament. The final advance is on the right line, and the remaining “one more slot” will compete with the top advanced schools in the Shikoku area. “Sports Navi,” a comprehensive sports site operated in collaboration with Yahoo Japan Corporation and Sports Navi Co., Ltd., is a “High School Baseball Autumn District Tournament” that opened on October 1, 2021 (Friday) in collaboration with Mainichi Shimbun Co., Ltd. A total of 42 games will be delivered live for free, including the finals and semi-finals (some districts are above the quarter-finals). The “High School Baseball Autumn District Tournament” is an important reference material for selecting schools to participate in the “94th Selected High School Baseball Tournament” scheduled to be held next spring. Starting with the Hokkaido area, it will be held in 10 areas nationwide (Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Tokyo, Tokai, Kita Shinetsu, Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku, Kyushu), but in order to prevent the spread of new coronavirus infection, it will be an unattended game. There is also a district where it is held. In addition to live distribution, “Sports Navi” provides overlooked video distribution, digest video distribution, one-ball bulletin, etc. so that high school baseball fans who have become difficult to support locally due to the corona disaster can enjoy watching remote games even more. , Provides a variety of content. Seikou won the victory over Tou. In the fifth inning, Yasuda tripled to the left and scored one goal during the wild pitch. In the 7th inning to chase 1 point, Miyoshi doubled to 1st and 3rd base, and Shimada squeeze to catch up. Following 2 deaths and 2nd base, he won by hitting the left front of Takanaka. Sayama made a complete game with 2 runs while allowing 8 hits. ■ Strong swinging high and middle aiming ball “Winning strike” to save Sayama, who is a good thrower Seiko Gakuin showed strength in the final stage and decided to advance to the best 8 in the autumn Tohoku tournament for the first time in 3 years. Kazuki Takanaka, who hit the left front in the seventh inning, expressed relief, saying, “I squeezed the aiming ball and shook the bat.” The hit line was limited to 2 hits up to the 6th inning in the main battle of Too Gijuku. Director Tomoya Saito had instructed the players to “aim for a sweet forkball” from the second inning, but could not catch it, and in the fifth inning, Junpei Yasuda tripled to the left and only grabbed one point. Even so, when Miki Sayama, who was in the main battle, closed the key points while giving out runners and showed a tenacious pitch to keep the number of goals to a minimum, he caught up with the squeeze play seven times, and the turn at bat turned to high and middle with two deaths and second base. “We help Sayama.” I swung the forkball at the inside angle strongly. The hit ball passed through Sanyu and scored a valuable winning point. The goal is to participate in the Meiji Jingu Tournament where the winning school of this tournament gets a ticket. The quarter-finals will face Akita Prefecture champion Noshiro Shoyo, who scored 11 goals in the second round. “It will be a tough development, but I want to fight tenaciously until the end.” Nine aims for the top since 2017 (Heisei 29).
