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[Short-term serialization]Kiseki of Oshima High School who was able to participate in Koshien from a remote island 1st

Weekday practice is 2 hours

Park your rental car in the parking lot of Oshima High School and look around. I have a small tennis court, but I can’t find a playground. When I asked a girl student in a jersey who was nearby, “Where is the baseball club ground?”, She was first asked, “Can I walk?”

When asked if it was in a place where he couldn’t walk, the student said, “I can’t go, but …” and pointed to a steep slope that stood tens of meters away.

“It’s on that mountain. I’ll rub it if it’s a low car.”

With such noisy advice, I couldn’t go on an adventure with a rental car. He sweated and climbed a steep slope of 45 degrees for about 100 meters, and the soil ground spread beyond that.

The whole practice of Oshima High School is about 50 minutes, and the rest is devoted to voluntary practice
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As a person who had the image of “a tourist destination with a beautiful sea” on Amami Oshima, I was fascinated by the sight of small mountains lined up from around Amami Airport. Most of the area of ​​Amami Oshima is occupied by mountains.

Oshima High School, which is located in the center of the island, also has an athletic club on a hill called the “upper ground.” Kazuo Matsui, the left arm of Ace, said, “I have encountered a wild boar at a close distance,” but it is a convincing location. When the ball gets lost in the grass, the baseball team members use a special tong to push through the grass and search for the ball. This is to avoid being bitten by a wild hub.

The baseball club, soccer club, rugby club, and women’s softball club will share the fan-shaped ground, which is by no means wide. Not only the special circumstances of a high school on a remote island, but also the practice environment is not blessed. Most of the current students are also going to colleges outside the island, and the baseball club has less than two hours of practice on weekdays.

──You really came out of this environment to Koshien …

I feel it again. Amami Oshima is a remote island located between Honshu and the main island of Okinawa. If you turn on the FM radio, the sound of the sanshin will be played, and there will be a tropical mood like Okinawa here and there.