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Koshien cancellation, Corona refusal, director change… The weight of tears shed by Tokai University Sagami third graders | Full-Count

The final of the 104th National High School Baseball Championship Kanagawa Tournament will be a yokozuna showdown

Kanagawa tournament final. In contrast to Yokohama, who were overjoyed after winning the goodbye, the Tokai University Sagami players couldn’t move from the spot. It took me a long time to accept the defeat because my feelings for this match were so strong.

0-1.1 point divided light and dark.

Immediately after finishing greetings to the third base side cheering seat, Yuta Shoji, who has led the pitching staff as an ace, and Umikaze Sasada, who has shown a strong batting at 6th and 3rd, collapsed from his knees and his head on the ground. Rubbed.

Mr. Masaya Hasegawa (currently deputy manager), who had been on the bench as manager until this spring, immediately approached the player who kept crying. He is an OB of Tokai University Sagami, and experienced the mound of Senbatsu in high school.

This summer, he also served as director of the Kanagawa Takano Ren, and was in charge of the Sagamihara stadium.

Originally, he should have been in a position to prepare for the closing ceremony as a director, but he praised the players for their hard work.

“You did a great job. Let’s hold our heads high and make it through to the closing ceremony.”

I heard Mr. Hasegawa’s warm voice.

It was a tumultuous year.

Last summer, the new coronavirus spread within the baseball club, and he declined to participate before the quarterfinals. From the new team, manager Keiji Momma will retire and manager Shunsuke Hara will take over. Many of the players received an invitation from Manager Monma and knocked on the gates of Tokai University Sagami in order to aim for the best in Japan together. I didn’t even think about the change of director.

In autumn, he won the prefectural tournament with overwhelming offensive power, but lost to Kisarazu General in the quarterfinals at the Kanto tournament. I missed the Senbatsu participation that took consecutive victories.

Furthermore, in the quarterfinals of the prefectural tournament in the spring, they lost 5-9 to Toin Gakuen. The official game winning streak in the prefecture, which had continued since the spring of 2019, stopped at 59 (excluding withdrawals due to Corona).

“At this rate, we can’t even beat summer…”

Feeling a sense of danger, captain Takuma Matsuyama and vice-captain Sasada visited the director’s office in the dormitory.

Director Hara’s answer when he decided to visit the director’s office

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