Overview

• The 107th National High School Baseball Championship will feature 19 morning-evening two-division games and opens Aug. 5 with Komatsu Otani taking on Soseikan at 5:30 p.m. after the ceremony.
• The Inter-High national championships began Aug. 2 across seven prefectures with 11 sports, including newly added rowing, hockey, canoeing and men’s softball.
• Aichi’s Aikōdai Meiden men’s table tennis team saw its bid for a ninth consecutive title end with a 1–3 semifinal defeat to Hyōgo’s Ikuei.
• Kamimura Gakuen of Kagoshima captured its first Inter-High men’s soccer title by prevailing over Otsu in a penalty shootout.
• Individual highlights at the Inter-High included Matsuyama Gakuin’s Esaki Yui finishing a close second in the women’s keirin and Takamatsu Kōgei’s Tanaka Soyuki advancing to the women’s bantamweight boxing final.