The “6th Baseball Festival” (sponsored by the Ishinomaki Baseball Conference), which aims to increase the baseball population and improve competitiveness, was held at Ishinomaki City Baseball Stadium on the 23rd. About 200 elementary and junior high school students from the Ishinomaki region participated. Athletes of high school and above gave advice to elementary and junior high school students, and improved their skills while communicating with each other.
In the basic technical course taught by the Japan Paper Ishimaki Baseball Club, Yuya Hashimoto and others instruct junior high school students on how to handle short bounds and how to double play.
Hashimoto advised, “It is important to predict the direction in which the hit ball will fly. For double play, I want my friends to throw a ball that is easy for them to go to the next play.”
Elementary school students challenge struck out and speed gun contests. He listened enthusiastically to his physical strength to continue playing baseball for a long time and to participate in an elbow / shoulder injury prevention course.
Fuma Abe (11) of the Otani Jimata Baseball Sports Boy Scouts in Ishinomaki City smiled, “I was happy to hear from a college student. I want to make use of what I learned even when I went to junior high school.”
Kaii Yoshida (20), a second-year student at Ishinomaki Senshu University, who participated in the support, said, “The children were better than I had imagined. I want you to do it. “
