As the seasons change, Shirayama Town gradually returns to peace. Despite this, there are still a steady stream of visitors to Shirayama High School.

The towering mountains are continuous, the vast fields are stretching out, and the clouds flow out of the river.

In a public high school baseball stadium surrounded by leisurely scenery.

As a speed ball countermeasure, from a few meters in the pitching mound, young coaches began to hit the ball feeding pitchers.

"Clang!" "Clang!"

"Clang!"

The sound of hitting the ball sounded like this.

After the National Sports Conference, the third-year baseball department of Baishan High School retired from the department and no longer participated in club activities.

When Tsuji Hiroki's third-grade student enrolled, the baseball department was still recovering and there were only two members of the previous grade.

Third-grade players start to experience practical combat from the first grade, while players in their next grade have difficulty in getting a chance to play outside of practice games.

Now that the second semester of high school is about to begin, the White Mountain Baseball Department has formed a new team with only second and first grades.

From autumn to spring to the next six months, all high school baseball departments in Japan have only second-year and first-year staff.

Like other high school clubs, Baishan also faces the pain of generational alternation.

Public schools generally do not allow students with sports specialties. Even if private schools can do it, it will be next spring.

When all high schools can only be dominated by first- and second-grade players, private schools have obvious advantages, and those first- and second-grade sports special recruits can quickly fill the gap in strength.

The Autumn Conference is equivalent to a major reshuffle of combat power in one go.

Whether public or private, the team will decline due to generational alternation, but private schools will have stronger resources and recover faster.

Although Tokuoshi led the weak team to Jiaziyuan, he had no intention of treating this experience as a "memories of a lifetime and summer".

There are some central players with outstanding strength in the team, so how can they stop moving forward?

With this idea in mind, after Totaoji came back, he intended to improve himself and his coaches.

The initial approach was to learn from the supervision of other strong baseball schools.

The results of the semi-finals of Jiaziyuan have expanded their connections for the baseball department of Baishan High School. Many schools that have not fought and not fought have communicated with Baishan to learn from each other.

Those who made an appointment for the practice competition in advance include Osaka Kirie-yin, Rimasaki-samaki, Omi, Tokihaya Daki-kyukawa, Tokai Dasaki-kami, Hitoshi, Mie, Hoshino, Haixing, Baode Academy, Aigong Daming Telephone and other schools.

Over the period of time, Totokuji has often spoken with the supervisors of other schools on the phone.

When asked about the adjustment methods of other schools, he always puts a catchphrase.

"So there is such a way!"

Toshi Toshi was also surprised about high school baseball, reflecting on what he could do better.

Someone asked him why he had started to get busy so early, and Tokushi answered such questions with a smile.

"Because I'm just a first appearance, I want to make good use of every experience in the future."

This sentence seems to contain the idea of ​​"When you come to Jiaziyuan next time, you will become stronger and come back."

After the Jiaziyuan competition, Superintendent Totoshi silently told such a determination.

When he had free time, he would tour around a nearby middle school, lowering his head and saying to the student with a curious light flashing in his eyes.

"If you have a kid who likes baseball very much, please be sure to go to Baishan."

In the room beside the court.

Supervisor Totoshi looked at the team's training matches and regional preliminaries while pondering the team's next team building plan.

"Oh, the two consecutive losses in the regional qualifiers are really a headache."

"Although Nippura's injury is not serious, it will take several weeks to heal. It seems that he will not be able to catch up with the first autumn conference."

"If this happens, the candidates for Sanbay need to be carefully considered again."

Sitting on the sofa in the department and watching the competition information for a while, Toshitaoji raised his right hand and gently rubbed his temples on both sides.

The team's situation is not optimistic.

Currently, the second-year student in the team replaces the third-grade position, but the results he has achieved are hugely different from those when he is the main player in the third-grade position.

In fact, before the summer, the third-grade players had already won the strong teams in other prefectures in the training match, such as Ome from Shiga Prefecture and Tobaya Okikawa from Shizuoka Prefecture.

Baishan’s entry into Jiaziyuan is the result, not the reason.

What really plays a decisive role in Baishan’s entry into Jiaziyuan is the improvement of players’ strength.

The training volume of the first echelon in the county.

Every year, we will conduct 150 training matches with schools inside and outside the county.

Re-training using bamboo bats during daily strike training.

The 13 third-grade people have been engaged in baseball since they entered the department, and this kind of life has lasted for two and a half years.

High school baseball, strong and weak schools have widened the biggest gap in record gaps in performances is the player's strength. As for intelligence wars and on-site tactics, they can only help a certain extent.

The third-year group of Hiroki Tsuji can be said to be the strongest generation since the founding of the baseball department of Shiratsuyama High School.

Among the second-year players, Komada Meteor had the opportunity to play, and he relied on the advantage of being a versatile player to take the start.

The supervisor of Totoshi is not stingy to give lower-grade players the chance to play, but the premise is to have the ability to start.

Even Kazuya Nishino, who was booked as the future trump card by Totakuji before joining the department, failed to squeeze out the number and position of the third-grade seniors' backing number and position based on their strength.

The only one who really won the position without any controversy in the team was Nishino Tetsuya.

Even in public schools, it is not that easy for low-grade players to get on the post.

If it is not for the progress and the combat effectiveness that is convincing, Nishino Tetsuya is likely to be in the stands or on the bench in the first summer.

In the mind of the supervisor of Tokushi, Tetsu Nishino is not an ordinary low-grade player, but a person who can lead the team as the core.

"Hmm? What's wrong outside?"

Just as he was thinking, Toshitaoji noticed bursts of laughter from the stadium outside the headquarters, so he walked out to check it out.

"Xiaozhe, why are you here? Didn't I give you a few days off?"

Seeing Tetsu Nishino who was surrounded by his teammates in his training suit, Toshi Takuji felt relieved, but pretended to be dissatisfied and scolded him.

"Yes, supervisor, I want to come back to train early."

In front of him, Takashi Nishino smiled handsomely, and the temperament he exuded was even more heroic.

Young and immature, often with a hint of shyness, becomes sharp and confident and tenacious.

Supervisor Totoshi seemed to have seen something very special in him, and an idea that had emerged before became stronger.

"Xiaozhe, come in the department first, I will tell you something."

“Yes, supervise.”

Entering the department, Higashitaoji poured a glass of water for Takashi Nishino, then sat down on the sofa and asked.

"Kamida and Parma, I plan to let them serve as the team's vice captain. What do you think?"

Originally, Toshitaoji thought that Tetsu Nishino would consider whether the matter of the two deputy captains was feasible, but he was stunned when he heard Tetsu Nishino's answer.

My mind's plan was guessed.
Chapter completed!