Diamond Ace: Monster Slayer

Chapter 55 Pre-match analysis
At the end of the game, Mingchuan Gakuen defeated Kamiyayama High School with a score of 3:0 and met Qingdao High School in the quarterfinals.

Mingchuan Academy showed its strong strength in today's game.

It is not just Yang Shunchen who can stand up, others can also give Yang Shunchen certain help.

On the defensive end, Mingchuan Academy's defense can be said to be impenetrable, and it is difficult to find flaws.

On the offensive end, they don't rely entirely on Yang Shunchen.

The captain Shiratori in the fourth batting position, Ninomiya in the first batting position, and many others can help Mingchuan Academy score.

Mingchuan Academy is not just Yang Shunchen's team.

It’s just a little bit inferior compared to strong schools like Qingdao High School.

The enrollment resources of Qingdao High School are incomparable to those of metropolitan schools like Mingchuan Academy.

As a metropolitan school, Mingchuan Academy focuses more on academic performance rather than sports performance.

Even if there are places for special sports admissions, only a few will be given out every year.

Not that generous.

Moreover, in terms of scholarships, it is far behind Qingdao High School.

Schools like Qingdao High School are designed to excel in sports, and as private schools, their funding is incomparable to that of metropolitan schools like Mingchuan Academy.

This also caused polarization between the two schools in sports.

There are more opportunities and more money at Qingdao High School, so why come here?

Are you full?

But Mingchuan Academy doesn't care about that.

They care about grades and academic performance.

As for sports performance, just take a look at it, it’s no big deal.

This time, Mingchuan Academy made it to the semi-finals, which is considered the best record in the school's history.

It was a miracle that Mingchuan Academy entered the second round before.

But even though Mingchuan Academy made history, the school did not express any appreciation, nor did it provide the baseball club with more resources.

It's nothing more than a few words of praise.

Unless Mingchuan Academy makes it to Koshien, the top management of Mingchuan Academy won’t even give it a second glance.

This is the difficulty of metropolitan schools.

After learning about the next opponent, Qingdao High School will make targeted tactical arrangements.

I'm afraid that the students of Qingdao High School will have to sit in the conference room every day these few nights.

7 p.m.

All the students in the first army put down their work and went to the meeting room.

The meeting room of Qingdao High School is on the first floor of the dormitory building.

The space here is relatively large, and is equipped with a blackboard and a projector, which makes it convenient for Qingdao High School to watch video tapes of their opponents.

Here, there are also several championship flags won by Seidou High School in the West Tokyo District Conference.

These are the outstanding achievements created by Senior Zhou Hui and his colleagues.

At the top of the projector, there is a flag that is most obvious.

That is the championship flag of Seidou High School Koshien!

That is the proof that Qingdao High School is at the top of the country!
Looking at the flag, Zhou Hui seemed to be thinking about something.

In the future, he will definitely bring more to Qingdao High School!

While Zhou Hui was still fantasizing, Director Kataoka came in.

When they saw Supervisor Kataoka come in, everyone fell silent and sat up straight.

Watanabe and Chris followed behind Kataoka. The two were responsible for explaining the tactics of Mingchuan Academy, while Kataoka was responsible for checking for omissions and providing inspirational speeches.

During the days when Seidou High School was competing, Watanabe was not idle either.

He runs around here and there every day, running from one court to another.

All the opponents that Qingdao High School might encounter in this game were recorded.

He also paid a lot for Qingdao High School.

"Senior Chris?"

After seeing Chris, Zhou Hui was a little confused.

Didn’t he become the first catcher of the first team?

"Senior Chris's analytical ability is top-notch. While playing for the first team, it is no problem for him to analyze the opponent for us."

Yuki explained beside him.

Only then did Zhou Hui realize that he had been conquered by Chris!

Chris is worthy of being the top catcher of Seidou High School.

Not only is he good at playing basketball, but his ability to analyze the game has also not fallen behind.

It was indeed Miyuki’s “nightmare” at that time.

"Okay, Chris, Watanabe, you two can start now."

Director Kataoka gave up the big screen in the middle and handed it over to Chris and Watanabe.

Watanabe didn't just stand there, he took out a videotape and put it in.

"This video tape is of our next opponent, Mingchuan Academy's ace pitcher Yang Shunchen."

As he spoke, an animation of Yang Shunchen pitching appeared on the picture.

"Yang Shunchen is a ball-control pitcher who is good at controlling the ball in the corners, which are the four corners of the strike zone, namely the high inside corner, the low inside corner, the high outside corner, and the low outside corner."

Watanabe introduced the basic information about Yang Shunchen's pitching, and it was up to Chris to add to the information.

"That's right. Mingchuan Academy doesn't look like a weak team this year. They shut out their opponents in the first four games and advanced to the quarterfinals. Even if we meet them, we can't say that we can beat them 100%."

"That's right, because we can't get any advantage from Mingchuan Academy. Mingchuan Academy's physical fitness is not that good. But they all play with their brains and change their positions according to the batter. In addition, Yang Shunchen's pitching is tricky for a long time. So we won't get a chance for him to throw a sweet ball. We have to swing actively for every ball."

Seeing Watanabe talking so much, Chris felt relieved.

At least there is a successor.

Seidou High School will not have a successor without video analysis after his retirement.

This is always the best.

This way Chris can retire with peace of mind.

"Well said."

After Chris said this, Watanabe breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

After receiving Chris's praise, Watanabe felt that his preparations over the past few days were not in vain.

"Mingchuan Academy is not a seeded team, so they played four rounds to get here, two more than us. Their stamina is definitely a problem up to this point. The way for us to win is to take advantage of Yang Shunchen's lack of stamina, so that we have a chance."

Chris pointed out the key to Qingdao High School's success.

"What Watanabe and Chris said is correct. Mingchuan Academy is no longer like Mishimon High School and Fuming High School. They can already be considered a strong team. So I hope everyone will not be careless in the next game and play with all their spirits. If we can't even beat Mingchuan Academy, how can we compete with the City University Third High School and Daocheng Industry for a place in Koshien?!"

After hearing what Director Kataoka said, the eyes of the students in the first army seemed to warm up.

Everyone clenched their fists.

"We must win Mingchuan Academy! We must go to Koshien!"

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(End of this chapter)