National High School Soft Baseball Tournament 2nd Kura Sushi Tournament 2021
Narashinodai One Pakuz is the best in Japan!
-The first final match LIVE distribution of the tournament will also be held-
Former major leaguer Munenori Kawasaki, a special guest, yells at children!
“The 2nd Kura Sushi Tournament 2021 School Children’s Soft Baseball National Tournament 15th Pop” sponsored by Kura Sushi Co., Ltd. (President: Kunihiko Tanaka, Location: Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture), which operates the conveyor belt sushi chain “Kura Sushi”. The final tournament of “Athlete Cup” was held on Saturday, January 15th and Sunday, January 16th at Meiji Jingu Stadium, and Narashinodai One Pakuz in Chiba Prefecture was brilliantly crowned the best in Japan.
Provided by: P&P Hamamatsu Co., Ltd.
This tournament is one of the largest free baseball tournaments in Japan with about 1,300 teams from all over the country, and we have been co-sponsoring since 2020 to support children who play baseball. increase. This year, a total of 12 teams, representing 10 districts who won from 1,330 teams nationwide, advanced to the final tournament. In the final match, “Narashinodai One Pakuzu (Kanto 2nd Representative, Chiba)” and “Shizu Youth Baseball Club (Kansai 1st Representative, Shiga)” will play against each other. After a fierce battle, Narashinodai One Pakuz won the first victory 7 to 1. At the award ceremony, Hiroyuki Okamoto, director of the Company’s Public Relations and Marketing Division, presented the winning Narashinodai One Pakuz players with a trophy and a Kura Sushi meal voucher as a supplementary prize.
In this tournament, as the first attempt of the tournament, the final match was broadcast LIVE on our official Youtube channel. As a special guest, we invited Munenori Kawasaki of Tochigi Golden Braves, a former major leaguer, to explain the importance of respecting opponents and teammates and tactical aspects based on his own experience of softball baseball as a boy. He also praised the children’s gutsy play and high level. In addition, at the opening ceremony held prior to the final match, he showed a dynamic pitching to elementary school students and told the players, “Because all the children will be professional baseball players of the future, we will be the first in the draft and will be a professional baseball player with a contract fee of 100 million yen. Let’s appeal so that we can go. Please do your best! “
In the previous year, the final tournament could not be held due to the announcement of a state of emergency due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection. This tournament was also held in the midst of Corona’s violence, but we were able to hold the final tournament under the thorough infection control measures of the organizers, team members, players, and parents.
In addition to regional revitalization through the utilization of “Kura Sushi Stadium Sakai,” which has acquired naming rights, we are engaged in sports regardless of professional or amateur, such as school children’s baseball tournaments, elementary school soccer tournaments, and sponsorship of women’s professional soccer teams. We are promoting activities to support people. As a company that handles “food,” which is the source of health, we will continue to work toward the development and revitalization of sports for the health of each and every one of us.
【Summary of the conference】
■ Tournament Name: 2nd Kura Sushi Tournament 2021 National High School Soft Baseball Tournament 15th Pop Athletes Cup
■ Organizer: NPO National School Children’s Baseball Promotion Association
■ Management: Pop Athletes Cup Executive Committee
■ Tournament Chairman: Masahiro Yamamoto (Japan Professional Baseball Meikyukai)
■ Special sponsorship of the tournament: Kura Sushi Co., Ltd.
■ Participation fee: Free
■Conference period: July 3, 2021 to January 16, 2022
July-November Prefectural Qualifying
September-December climax (representative match of 10 districts nationwide)
* December 11 Kansai Climax (Kura Sushi Stadium Sakai)
January 15th and 16th Final Tournament (Meiji Jingu Stadium)
[Opening ceremony by special guest Munenori Kawasaki]
Provided by: P&P Hamamatsu Co., Ltd.
[Final tournament final]
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[Result of final tournament]
[Delivery of the final LIVE]
You can watch the game from the following
ＵＲＬ： https://youtu.be/ytg42qGiAp4
* Please credit for images with the notation “Provided by: P & P Hamamatsu”.
