Kyoto International High School, a Korean-ethnic school in Japan, succeeded in advancing to the quarterfinals for the first time in three years at the Japan National High School Baseball Championship called “Summer Koshien.”
Kyoto International High School defeated Nishiniphon University Association High School, the representative of Fukuoka, 4-0 in the third round of the Koshien finals at Hanshinogien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture on the 17th.
According to NHK, a local public broadcaster, Kyoto International High School scored two points in the top of the second inning, and secured the victory by scoring one point each in the top of the fifth and ninth innings.
Starting pitcher Rui Nakasaki struck out 14 times by the ninth inning with a powerful pitch, and won the shutout.
After Kyoto International High School won, the players sang the school song, which begins with the Korean lyrics, “Yamado (Yamato) land across East Sea is a holy place of our ancestors’ old dreams,” on NHK.
In Koshien, the school song is played, and NHK broadcasts almost every game.
Kyoto International High School won 7-3 in the first round and 4-0 in the second round, respectively. The quarterfinals will take place on July 19.
Koshien, which started in 1915 and marks its 106th anniversary this year, is Japan’s representative high school baseball tournament, and is known as a “dream game” for local high school players.
Among 3,715 schools across Japan, 49 of them passed regional preliminaries made it to the finals this year. Hanshin Koshien Stadium marks its 100th anniversary this year.토토사이트 모음
Kyoto International High School joined the Japanese High School Baseball Federation in 1999 and first advanced to the Koshien finals in 2021 and achieved the feat of reaching the semifinals.
In the 2022 Koshien finals, he lost in the first round and failed to advance to the finals last year.