Tag: National High School Rubber Baseball Tournament
JHBF: Chukyo (Tokai) wins 56th National High School Rubber Baseball Tournament
by Gen on Aug.29, 2011 @ 5:27 pm, under High School
Schedule and Scores
| Date | Gm | Time | Away Team | Score | Home Team | Venue |
| 8/25 | 1 | 9:00 | Opening Ceremonies | Akashi Park Stadium | ||
| 2 | 10:20 | Kobe Gakuin DaiFu (Hyogo) | 1-0 | Takikawa (Hokkaido) | Akashi Park Stadium | |
| 3 | 12:50 | Hosei DaiNi (Minami Kanto) | 0-4 | Tenri (Kinki) | Akashi Park Stadium | |
| 4 | 12:00 | Sakushin Gakuin (Kita Kanto) | 2-0 | Sakai (Higashi Chugoku) | Takasago Stadium | |
| 5 | 14:30 | Noshiro (Kita Tohoku) | 6-3 | Hatsushiba Tondabayashi (Osaka) | Takasago Stadium | |
| 8/26 | 6 | 9:30 | Otsu Ryokuyo (Nishi Chugoku) | 1-3 | Chukyo (Tokai) | Akashi Park Stadium |
| 7 | 12:00 | Soka (Tokyo) | 2-3 | Kawaura (Nanbu Kyushu) | Akashi Park Stadium | |
| 8 | 10:00 | Tohoku Gakuin (Minami Tohoku) | 5-2 | Tsukumi (Hokubu Kyushu) | Takasago Stadium | |
| 9 | 12:30 | Ueda Nishi (Hokushinetsu) | 0-8 | Tomioka Higashi (Shikoku) | Takasago Stadium | |
| 8/27 | 10 | 9:30 | Noshiro (Kita Tohoku) | 0-1 | Sakushin Gakuin (Kita Kanto) | Akashi Park Stadium |
| 11 | 12:00 | Tohoku Gakuin (Minami Tohoku | 5-6 | Tomioka Higashi (Shikoku) | Akashi Park Stadium | |
| 12 | 10:00 | Tenri (Kinki) | 1-2 | Kobe Gakuin DaiFu (Hyogo) | Takasago Stadium | |
| 13 | 12:30 | Kawaura (Nanbu Kyushu) | 0-4 | Chukyo (Tokai) | Takasago Stadium | |
| 8/28 | 14 | 9:30 | Sakushin Gakuin (Kita Kanto) | 3-0 | Kobe Gakuin DaiFu (Hyogo) | Akashi Park Stadium |
| 15 | 12:00 | Tomioka Higashi (Shikoku) | 0-8 | Chukyo (Tokai) | Akashi Park Stadium | |
| 8/29 | 16 | 11:00 | Sakushin Gakuin (Kita Kanto) | 1-2 | Chukyo (Tokai) | Akashi Park Stadium |
| Closing Ceremonies | Akashi Park Stadium | |||||
Takumi Shimoda tosses perfect game at 56th National High School Soft (Rubber) Baseball Tournament
by Gen on Aug.28, 2011 @ 1:55 am, under High School
Chukyo High School's (Gifu) Takumi Shimoda tossed a perfect game against Kawaura High School (Kumamoto) at the 56th National High School Soft (Rubber) Baseball Tournament on Saturday.
The breakdown of outs:
11 strikeouts
11 infield ground outs
1 outfield ground outs
2 infield fly outs
2 outfield fly outs
Shimoda needed just 98 pitches for the perfect game. He's also just the 2nd pitcher in tournament history to record a perfect game.
55th Annual High School Rubber Baseball Tournament
by Gen on Aug.23, 2010 @ 12:33 am, under High School
The 55th Annual High School Rubber Baseball Tournament begins on 8/25.
The following are the brackets (I'll try to keep these updated over the course of the tournament):
| Day 1 - 8/25 (Wed) | |||||
| Opening Ceremonies - 9:00 | |||||
| Gm 1 | 10:20 | Akashi | Hiroshima Nagisa | 0 - 1 | Sakushin Gakuin |
| Gm 2 | 12:50 | Akashi | Tenri | 4 - 1 | Takikawanishi |
| Gm 3 | 12:00 | Takasago | Kanzei | 2 - 1 | Yokohama Sho |
| Gm 4 | 14:30 | Takasago | Nitta | 2 - 1 | Ueda Nishi |
| Day 2 - 8/26 (Thurs) | |||||
| Gm 1 | 9:30 | Akashi | Sumoto Jitsu | 2 - 10 | WasedaDai Gakuin* |
| Gm 2 | 12:00 | Akashi | Tsukumi | 0 - 1 | Chukyo |
| Gm 3 | 10:00 | Takasago | Hatsushiba Tondabayashi | 0 - 2 | Noshiro |
| Gm 4 | 12:30 | Takasago | Kagoshima Jitsu | 2 - 4 | Haguro |
| Day 3 - 8/27 (Fri) | |||||
| Quarterfinals | |||||
| Gm 1 | 10:00 | Takasago | Sakushin Gakuin | 1 - 6 | Tenri |
| Gm 2 | 9:30 | Akashi | Kanzei | 1 - 2 | Nitta |
| Gm 3 | 12:30 | Takasago | WasedaDai Gakuin* | 0 - 2 | Chukyo |
| Gm 4 | 12:00 | Akashi | Noshiro | 8 - 4 | Haguro |
| Day 4 - 8/28 (Sat) | |||||
| Semifinals | |||||
| Gm 1 | 9:30 | Akashi | Tenri | 0 - 2 | Nitta |
| Gm 2 | 12:00 | Akashi | Chukyo | 0 - 1 | Noshiro |
| Day 5 - 8/29 (Sun) | |||||
| Finals | |||||
| Gm 1 | 11:00 | Akashi | Nitta | 1 - 2 | Noshiro |
| Closing Ceremonies | |||||
*Also known as SoDai Gakuin
54th Annual High School Rubber Baseball Tournament: Sakushin Gakuin Champs
by Gen on Aug.30, 2009 @ 4:26 am, under High School
Sakushin Gakuin beat Meijodai behind their ace Yuki Kawashima (川島祐輝), 3-1. Kawashima struck out 11 batters and tossed a complete game. It was also Kawashima's 4th complete game in a row (he started all four games of the tournament for Sakushin Gakuin).
On the mound for Mejiodai was Yuta Kobayashi (小林雄太), the young man that tossed a perfect game against Hatsushiba Tondabayashi High School on the 26th during the first round.
Sakushin Gakuin has now won the tournament 2 years in a row (a record 8 overall).
54th Annual High School Rubber Baseball Tournament: Higashiyama beats Koryo in 24
by Gen on Aug.27, 2009 @ 7:46 am, under High School
In a quarterfinals game featuring Kobe Koryo High School and Higashiyama High School, both schools went through 9 innings without scoring a single run. The game continued into extra innings and was finally suspended after 15.
Both starting pitchers apparently tossed all 15 innings:
- Koryo's Hashimoto (橋本宏樹) 206 pitches
- Higashiyama's Morimoto (森本文也) 194 pitches including 19 strike outs
The game will resume Friday (8/28) at 10am.
=== Update on 8/28 @ 5:28pm JST
Higashiyama ended up winning the game in the 24th inning after Koryo's Hashimoto loaded the bases with 1 out and walked in the game-winning run.
Hashimoto tossed a total 334 pitches between yesterday and today.
Morimoto tossed a total 282 pitches and struck out 23 batters.
Some High School Baseball News (8/26/2009)
by Gen on Aug.26, 2009 @ 2:14 pm, under High School
...Yusei Kikuchi returned to Iwate on Tuesday and announced that he'll be heading out to Tokyo to get treatment done on his back. No word on when that will happen yet.
...There has been an outbreak of the swine flu at Gifu Shogyo High School. As of the 26th, there were 96 reported cases of the swine flu amongst students.
Over 800 students from the school attended the Koshien and a number of them apparently caught the flu during that period. As a preventative measure, the school has canceled classes between 8/26 and 9/1.
...For the first time in Koshien rubber baseball history, Meiho University High School student Yuta Kobayashi (小林雄太) tossed a perfect game against Hatsushiba Tondabayashi High School to beat them 7-0.
Kobayashi recorded 2 strike outs, 8 ground ball outs, 8 infield fly ball outs, 2 out field fly ball outs and 7 foul outs and needed only 88 pitches.