Will Saibi win Koshien this year?

I started watching this team after they won Senpatsu 2004, and they are awesome. Saibi High School, located in the relatively rural Ehime prefecture and formerly an all girl's school, has a great high school baseball team (two years old when it won senpatsu, since boys entered the school in 2002) and could be a contender again. Maybe people were expecting Tohoku High to win the 2004 Senpatsu (even though Yuu Darvish was pitching) and the coach made the mistake of putting Darvish in the field.

One 3-run home run later, one of the most meaningful high school songs was played over the sound system as Saibi went home with the Senpatsu flag.



By the way, as a former Osaka resident, I certainly don't mind Osaka Toin winning again like they did last year (17-0), but it's refreshing to see teams like Saibi win.