Diamond Ace: Monster Slayer

Chapter 53 Quarterfinals
After finishing the game with Mishimon High School, Seidou High School got two days of vacation.

There are still competitions to come, and Coach Kataoka did not let everyone do too high-intensity training in the past two days.

Although the opponents behind are still not worth mentioning, it’s better to take a little more rest.

They are not trying to defeat the next round or the next round.

In their opinion, as long as there are no major problems in the first three games, they can win and advance directly.

After all, they are also a seeded team. If they lose in the first three rounds, it would be a disgrace.

Especially when you are not placed in the death group.

They still put more energy into the subsequent games.

If the game proceeds as planned, and if nothing unexpected happens and things go as they expected, they will face a strong opponent in the fourth round.

The third high school in the city!

Defeated by Seidou High School in the Spring Tournament!
Having said that, their strength should never be underestimated.

In the spring competition, the city's third high school lost to Qingdao High School, and they were already very angry. In addition, they have made targeted reinforcements during this period, so it will definitely be a tough battle for Qingdao High School to win.

After defeating the third high school of the city university, they will next face the ruler of West Tokyo in recent years.

Daocheng Industry!

The exciting match between the two West Tokyo giants will definitely fill the stadium with spectators and it will be difficult to tell who will win.

Seidou High School has greatly strengthened its lineup this year by introducing many first-year players, and these first-year players have also performed well.

Especially Xiao Jiangu and Zhou Hui.

One is a "speedball monster" and the other is a "home run monster."

The two newcomers combined not only give Qingdao High School immediate combat power, but also give it hope for the future.

Daocheng Industry is not far behind.

As a member of last year's Koshien, Daocheng Industrial's strength is definitely the best in West Tokyo.

They can be said to be the absolute overlords of West Tokyo.

The strong dialogue between these two teams is bound to become a good story.

Whether it is Seidou High School or Daocheng Industry that enters Koshien in the end, it will not be surprising.

Their strengths are too similar.

Of course, these are all things that would happen under the best of circumstances.

Daocheng Industrial has no strong opponents that can stop them from reaching the finals.

Xianquan High School, which only has a place in the semi-finals, may become a "stumbling block".

For Daocheng Industry, there is nothing to fear from anything else.

The situation on the Qingdao High School side is more difficult.

They must defeat the city's top three high schools before they can face Daocheng Industry.

No matter what, West Tokyo is a strong and fierce battle zone.

It's not difficult to break through here.

Whether it is Qingdao High School or Daocheng Industrial, they do not have a 100% chance of entering Koshien.

Everything depends on the luck of the players and the coach.

The time came three days later.

Seidou High School started their second round of competition.

The opponent is a metropolitan school, Fuming High School.

Fuming High School is one of the top three key high schools in western Tokyo.

Of course, this score refers to academic subjects.

Their accomplishments in baseball are a bit ugly.

Similar to Missimon High School, they were all teams that were eliminated in the first or second round. They had not even entered the second round of the regional tournament for fifteen consecutive years.

Although this is Seidou High School's second round opponent, to be honest, he is not even as threatening to Seidou High School as Mishimon High School.

They also managed to win the first round with a score of 2:0.

Why lucky?

Their first round opponent was the perennial bottom-ranked team, Teruri High School.

It’s not known whether Teruri High School’s strength is lacking or their luck is bad, but they have been eliminated from the competition early for five consecutive years.

It is a well-known bottom-ranked team in West Tokyo.

The match between Fuming High School and Teruri High School was also seen as a fight between weak teams. In the end, Fuming High School won the game and met Qingdao High School.

The scene of the game.

The students from Fuming High School and Qingdao High School all put on their jerseys and stood in the locker room ready to go.

Compared to the atmosphere at Qingdao High School, Fuming High School seemed to have lost its soul, and no one was happy.

"I believe everyone is confident that we can win today's match. Let's try to finish the game as soon as possible."

Kataoka Monitor said simply.

In his opinion, the outcome of this game was a foregone conclusion. If Qingdao High School lost, it would be a huge shame.

"As everyone has seen, we unfortunately met Qingdao High School this time. I believe everyone knows their strength. So as long as everyone has no regrets, winning or losing is not important."

The supervisor of Fuming High School is a middle-aged man who wears glasses and looks very gentle.

At first glance, you can tell that they come from a family of scholars, with the air of a scholar.

It is in stark contrast to the rough guys with muscular bodies in Qingdao High School.

The starting lineup of Qingdao High School this time is exactly the same as the previous game, and it seems that they want to win quickly.

As soon as the game started, Qingdao High School showed their attack that was like a rainstorm destroying flowers.

The offensive tempo was so fast that everyone could hit a hit, and the players from Fuming High School were simply unable to defend in time.

The defense was full of loopholes, the inaction of the ace pitcher, and the gap in hard power, and the game was about to come to an end.

In the end, in more than half an hour, Qingdao High School won the game.

Qingdao High School defeated Fuming High School 11:0 in five effective innings.

Fu Ming High School took the defeat for granted, so they didn't seem too frustrated.

They were already quite satisfied just to make it to the second round.

In this game, Akira Fōtani served as the starting pitcher for Seidou High School and completed his task with nine strikeouts in the first three innings.

Sawamura, who came on later, also used his own characteristics to get the next six outs, even including two strikeouts.

This shocked everyone at Qingdao High School.

Zhou Hui continued his performance in this game, getting three hits and three RBIs.

After two games, Zhou Hui's RBI has reached six points.

If he continues like this, Zhou Hui will sooner or later become the new hits king, RBI king, batting average king, and home run king of West Tokyo.

It is only a matter of time before Zhou Hui wins all these titles one by one.

Time is long. This is only Zhou Hui's first year. He still has three years to go.

After this game, Seidou High School is one step closer to the goal of Koshien!
Qingdao High School 11:0 Fuming High School!

Five valid games!

Seidou High School advances to the quarterfinals!

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(End of this chapter)