Koshien: Summer 2006 Round 1

The first round of the 2006 Koshien Summer National Championships have just 6 games to go. 18 out of 49 team remain going into the 6th day of the tournament.

Hokkaido's Komazawa (Komadai) continues their Summer winning streak, now having won 11 games in a row (all 5 games in 2004, all 5 games in 2005, and the first game in 2006).

Anyway, if you're having trouble reading this chart, here is the first round of results:

August 6
Game 1: (Northern Hokkaido) Shirakaba Gakuen 7 - 10 Kochi Sho (Kochi)
Game 2: (Western Tokyo) Waseda Sojitsu 13 - 1 Tsurusaki Ko (Oita)
Game 3: (Kanagawa) Yokohama 6 - 11 Osaka Toin (Osaka)

August 7
Game 4: (Nagasaki) Seiho 22 - 3 Konan (Fukushima)
Game 5: (Toyama) Fukuoka 1 - 8 Fukusho (Fukui)
Game 6: (Miyagi) Sendai Ikuei 5 - 1 Tokusho (Tokushima)
Game 7: (Yamagata) Nichidai Yamagata 6 - 2 Kaisei (Shimane)

August 8
Game 8: (Okayama) Kanzei 10 - 11 Bunsei Geidaifu (Tochigi)
Game 9: (Ibaraki) Jyoso Gakuin 8 - 11 Imabari Nishi (Ehime)
Game 10: (Tottori) Kurayoshi Kita 6 - 7 Matsushiro (Nagano)
Game 11: (Okinawa) Yaeyama Shoko 9 - 6 Chiba Keidaifu (Chiba)

August 9
Game 12: (Wakayama) Chiben Wakayama 4 - 1 Ken Gifu Sho (Gifu)
Game 13: (Ishikawa) Kanazawa 9 - 3 Urawa Gakuin (Saitama)
Game 14: (Shizuoka) Shizuoka Sho 8 - 2 Hachiman Sho (Shiga)
Game 15: (Kyoto) Fukuchiyama Seibi 6 - 4 Aikodai Meiden (Aichi)

August 10
Game 16: (Mie) Mie 4 - 6 Kumamoto Ko (Kumamoto)
Game 17: (Nara) Tenri 7 - 5 Honjyo (Akita)

I'd like to keep track of the first round happenings here. Time permitting, I'll try to write something up about each game. If anyone would like to volunteer to give us game reviews, please post them below.

[Edited by: westbaystars on Aug 12, 2006 8:39 AM JST:
Removed Game 18 which was actually the start of the second round. Please see the Round 2 entry for a continuation.]