おめでとう！！

The Taiyu girls' table tennis team is officially the 2nd best team in all of Akita!!! I'm so excited and proud! My little ちびs did great! This means that they will be advancing to the 東北大会 (Tohoku tournament), I'm guessing in early August. I think this is the first time I've seen the whole team advance so far. It might have happened 3 years ago when Megumi (now at Omagari) was on the team, but I didn't really understand what was happening then. Congratulations and good luck girls!!
Side bar, 明桜 will be Akita's representatives at Koshien this year. I pretty surprised when I saw the result. When I first saw the top 4 teams, I thought that 本荘would win again. From what I could make out, it looks like 明桜had a 2nd year ace pitcher. Hopefully, I'll be able to catch some Koshien games on the internet.

Maybe I miss the drive...

Alas, my OBs are wrapping up their regional (Tohoku) tournaments.
Looks like Omagari girls' (with a few Taiyu girls) lost one and won one (Not sure how the tournament structure is). And Noshiro's basketball team (with some of my Omonogawa boys) is doing well, winning 115-68 over Yamagata. I always watch this team with special interest. One of the players wrote on his English assignment that he would join this team, even though its basketball program is tough and the school is like a 3 hour drive. He made it though, so now I'm waiting to see if the last part of his dream will come true...Ganbatte Ito-kun. If they win their next match, it's off to 全国！
Some of my other boys at Seriyo made it as well, but they got knocked out yesterday.
One boy's handball team took 2nd. And of course there's volleyball. Omonogawa lost yesterday but Yokote won. I think they're still in round robin though.