The draw for the 49th Amateur Baseball Japan Championship was held on the 2nd in Kita Ward, Osaka City, and Matsugen Minoshima (Wakayama), who won the All Japan Club Championship and is recommended to participate, will play in the opening game on the 29th, the first day of the tournament. , it has been decided that they will play against NTT East (Tokyo), who will be participating for the 18th time in two tournaments. The main comments from Matsugen Minoshima manager Tadahiro Nishikawa are as follows.

Matsugen Minoshima Director Tadahiro Nishikawa

I was thinking that I didn’t want to win against teams from the Kanto and Tokai regions, which have had good results in recent years, but I was like, “No way.” I know it’s a strong opponent. The key to victory is to keep the number of goals conceded to a minimum and not let the opponent get the upper hand.

(NTT East Japan) I am also from NTT (Kansai), so I was thinking that I would like to avoid playing against the NTT group. I knew they were a strong team from back then. I don’t have an image of it yet, but I’ll start researching and analyzing it thoroughly from now on.

The key will be whether ace Okuda (Kunta) can play well and connect with pitchers who have a winning pattern. (From the Club Championship) As the level of opposing pitchers has improved, it is important for the fielders, including No. 4 Takenaka (Yumeto), to be able to clean up effectively.

You can’t win unless you turn your 10 powers into 20 or 30. In the club championship, I was able to hit and pitch well and was able to win the championship, so I want to keep up my form going into this tournament as well.