Nationals

"Kaido Academy, How is this possible?"

Kojima: Chris senpai, Is there any chance there is Mayumura or Atsuki in Kaido?

Chris: Yes and Mayumura is their ace and Atsuki is their regular pitcher. Do you know them?

Kojima: No, I just heard of them from somewhere. If you know about them. please tell me?

Chris: OK, Mayumura is the Ace of No.1 seeded Kaido academy and Atsuki knuckle ball pitcher is their regular on team. Both their batting and pitching are in league of their of their own. They are regular to National tournament. Mayumura is first year like you guys.

Kojima: What about Komadai Fujiaki and Hongo Masamune?

Chris: Well they are No. 2 seeded and their 2nd year Hongo Masamune, is their Ace. You know quite well of top teams of Nationals.

Kojima: No, I just heard of them from somewhere.

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Nationals tournament First round,

Houmei High Vs Seidou High,

On TV: Bottom of 9th and here comes the starting pitcher of Seidou Kojima, He showed amazing performance on his first time in nationals. So far, he struck out 14 batters out of 24 and so far he is playing 'no hit no run' game in nationals.

2nd half of the 9th Inning: Houmei is on offensive, Score is Seidou VS Houmei: 9 to 0

Kojima went on mound to pitch his last inning.

Crowd:

"What a monster, he held Houmei high alone to 0 hit"

"It will be interesting to watch Seidou playing with seeded teams"

Opponent coach: Where the hell did they find that monster, we can't even touch his pitch, we couldn't even send one ball in out field. well that's what you expect from nationals.

Kojima pitched to the first batter and struck out by swing and miss. Then used his rising fastball, slider and gyro ball on next batter and struck him too. Crowd started to chant "One More" He pitched change up, which sink downwards, batter jammed to Masuko to the third, he caught and sent directly to Yuuki.

"Out and game set" Umpire declared.

"They manage to shake off the persistent Houmei high school. Seidou High School breaks through their first round."

"Rather than saying they managed to scrape by with a victory, The impression they've left is that they overwhelmed their opponent with sheer power."

"That first year monster on his first match in nationals he pitched a no hit, no run "

"Looks like West Tokyo is den of lions, as last year Narumiya amazed everyone and this year Kojima"

Many reporters interviewed Kojima on his amazing performance, various scouts also tried to contact with him but as he was only first year they couldn't scout him.

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Sawamura: Oi Kojima look you're in News paper.

Kojima: Where, oh there is also my picture, I look cool right?

Sawamura: Oh, west Tokyo representative 1st year Kojima Yasuhiro pitched 155 kmph Bullets. He pitched for full game with giving no run and 16 Strike outs in a remarkable display of pitching and also hit 1 home run at his bat

Kojima: oh so my fast ball speed is 155 kmph.

"There's an article in this too"

"Dang Kojima is amazing"

"Oh there's a mention of Yuuki too"

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Day 6 Match 1,

Bottom of the 5th,and Komadai Fujimaki leads by 2 runs, Here the opener Midoikawa steps down, and taking to the mound in his place is The young monster who blew us away in the summer, Hongo Masamune

"Masamune" "Hongo kun"

" Oh there it is his winning pitch splitter"

"Oh, his fastball is so fast"

Kuramochi: If all goes as planned, It will be in 4th round then we clash them.

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Match 2, Hakuryu Vs Nanmagarukou

"He passed second" "Engines on full blast and it's his second triple today"

"On top of an already powerful throwing arm, his fearful leg power gives him an on base percentage of over 0.800 that Son of track and field athletes, Mima Souichirou"

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Match 3. Yamamori Academy Vs Sarashina sougou

A powerful pitch that lands perfectly in his older brother's mitt, The younger brother on the mound lets out a roar Yamamori, home to twin battery the Koutari Brothers.

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Those who would distinguish themselves at Koshien have started to emerge, the players of the next generation,

And yet even amongst such a crowd, there is one who has been commanding great attention

Crowd:

"Whoa there is another one in Seidou, Monster"

"154 kmph"

"Seidou's 1st year Kojima Yasuhiro and Furuya Satoru, here in Koshien, we may just be about to witness the birth of two new monsters legends"

Also Seidou's batters attracting attention especially Yuuki, Miyuki, Masuko and first years Kominato and Kojima. After games, Yuuki and Masuko were always surrounded by scouters of pro leagues.

Sawamura and Tanba pitched against Nihonshouno high school and held them at only one run.

Whole Seidou is making mark in nationals.

Next in 4th round, quarter finals, tomorrow Seidou will clash with Komadai Fujimaki.