"Outstanding Little League players are recommended to enter school, and players like Little Senior League are directly invited to play games on both sides!
De Chuan has always maintained its strength through these methods. "
After hearing Little Sano's message, everyone fell silent. Akashi is no longer the ignorant noob that he was before.
They have seen the training of the top Little League Wildcats before. Little League is a professional baseball team for elementary school students. Senior, also known as Little Senior League, is the junior high school version of Little League. Although there are also beginners, the main players are basically players selected through professional training.
Many of them are even teams led by retired professional players. Of course, these are the strongest among the Seniors.
Just like Marugame Senior, where Chris belongs, is a top team, Edogawa Senior, where Miyuki belongs, is an ordinary team. Although the coach is also a person with relevant experience, he is at a semi-professional level at most. Of course, he is much better than Soft Baseball like them, who are just playing around.
Even the famous coach Soft Baseball of the student club is far inferior professionally to an ordinary team like Edogawa Senior where Miyuki plays.
Similarly, most of the senior players do not participate in school clubs and directly participate in team training after school.
Even the Senior players and teammates hired by De Chuan don't have much tacit understanding. Therefore, they either guard the outfield, serve as catchers, or simply replace the entire infield with Senior players. To achieve integration through this method, the main reason is that the gap between professionals and amateurs is too big.
"I remember what Sen-chan said, right? Even the most ordinary Senior team is not much weaker than the Wildcats because they are junior high school students and have stronger bodies! We Nagano don't have a strong Senior team, but...!" Aoki broke the silence.
"Stop saying stupid things!" Sendou said.
"But!..."
"I'm talking about a complete Senior team, and they may not be able to bring in a few, and the positions of those players are uncertain. You can't bring in half of the starters, right?" Sendou interrupted.
"Sendou is right. It's not very clear this year, but judging from previous years, it's very rare. There have only been a few in the past ten years.
And we haven't seen Senior players appear in recent years. It's just a possibility.
According to their practice, when the De Chuan team is weak, they try to go to the school to see if they can recruit a few senior students.
You can imagine the success rate!
But one thing everyone should remember is that the Little League teams make great efforts every year to recruit players, so their players are of high quality and have received professional guidance in elementary school. "Little Sano sat down to give the final summary.
"Look! It's just the Little League!"
"Really Little Sano will scare people."
"Where are you trying to scare people? Do you think someone from the Little League team is easy to deal with?"
"No, it is!"
"You should also know very well that you are still far from the level of the Little League team. Even in terms of fielding ability, fielding range, and attacking these basics, you are still far behind them.
Not to mention technical skills, they are from professional teams.
Those who are worth poaching are not ordinary players. "
"Sorry! Sen-chan!"
"However, this is really bad luck! All in all, as I said before, it is enough for us to implement our own baseball!
It doesn't matter whether we win or lose, we are much, much weaker than them, this is a fact.
But don't make a play that you will regret, and how much you can learn from the other party in the game!
The opponent is very strong, but it won't make us feel invincible like the Wildcats.
That's enough! "
"Yeah!"
Hearing this, everyone nodded firmly. After that, no one looked at the match list and silently started training with gloves and bats.
"De Chuan Middle School!" Sawamura clenched his fists tightly.
"Just because we can't win now doesn't mean we won't win in the future. Don't worry! Let's go!" Sendou comforted Sawamura.
Sawamura also followed everyone out.
"Little Sano! Thank you for your hard work!"
"Come on!" Teacher Sano waved his hand!
"Ha!"
Everyone trained vigorously that day, and the quality was surprisingly high. In the end, it was Sendou who urged them to disband early. After all, they still have Practice Match to play against Tokumei Academy Middle School tomorrow. For them, the top 16 are already strong enough.
De Chuan Middle School, Tokumei Academy Middle School, the difference between the first two words is only one word, but their strength is completely different.
De Chuan Middle School, that is, Akashi is the biggest stumbling block on the road to the country, and it is an opponent that may not be defeated even if it has been fighting for three years, but now Akashi is still new They are young buds, and their opponents are not the superior De Chuan, but the top 8 teams in the top 16 all year round. Compared with these teams, De Ming Middle School is just an emerging team.
The next day,
"Yo west! Is everyone here? Let's go! We want to win!"
"Oh!!!"
Before getting on the bus, they raised their morale as if they were swearing an oath. Everyone knew that today would be the beginning of Akagi Middle School's battle with the goal of going nationwide.
"Coach Yashiro, you've been waiting for a long time!" After getting off the bus, Teacher Sano took everyone and greeted the opponent's coach as usual.
"You are the ones, thank you for your hard work! I saw the schedule, you are really unlucky!"
"There's nothing we can do about it!"
"You're right, let's have a good game today!"
"Okay!"
In the end, De Ming Middle School won the guessing game, and they chose the final result, Akagi Middle School First Attack.
At the beginning, Coach Yashiro discovered that Sawamura's ball speed was much slower than a week ago. He immediately guessed that the catcher could not catch the opponent's full pitch, so the pitcher held back, and it was not like the moving ball that Coach Mitani said to him, although he had never seen it before.
As you know, with the cooperation of inside and outside feet and slight floating, the first round of batting still failed them. Likewise, they had nothing to do with the opponent's pitchers.
The two sides entered into a short pitching battle at the beginning. In the second round, De Ming Middle School took the lead. Taking advantage of Akashi's small fielding range and Sawamura's inability to contain it, Small Ball Strategy scored one point.
This score lasted until the 5th inning, when Ono aimed for a straight ball and hit the bases. When Aoki sent the bases, the opponent made a defensive error. In the end, Kondo's second base hit the third base, and Sawamura's four-base hit scored two runs.
Let Coach Yashiro sigh that this pitcher's hitting is too good.
However, in the second half of the seventh inning, the opponent once again got the opportunity to complete the batting, which made Sendou understand that the perfect defense against Qinghe and Sakura Girls was just a matter of their own luck and the opponent's lack of understanding of them. In Qinghe's battle, his partners were in too good shape and performed at a high level. In last week's Sakura battle, it was his and Sawamura's performance that gave Sendou the illusion that his team's defense was good.
"The road is still long! Everything has just begun," Sendou sighed.
In the end, the two sides shook hands and settled for a draw at 2-2.