Baseball game in the regional tournament

2009/7/21:club

On July 18, our baseball team played Ohbu Higashi senior highschool and suffered a 3-6 defeat in the very first game.

In the bottom of the 1st inning,Ohbu hit a single and loaded the first and second bases by a fielder's choice. With a bant and a left fly, Ohbu scored. In the 2nd innning, our team tied with two hits and a bant. In the bottom of the same inning, however, Ohbu took the lead again scoring another run. In the 3rd inning, Minami loaded the bases and scored 2 runs merely by wild pitches, regaining a lead. After the initial confusion, the game settled down to a series of naughts. Then in the bottom of the 7th inning, with a walk and a steal, Ohbu hit a single scoring to tie. In the 8th innning, Ohbu inflicted three hits to load all the bases. Ihara, the third hitter, smacked a 3-run double to decide the game.

Both teams looked quite awkward making some easy errors. The difference was that Ohbu hit at the right time and Minami didn't. With a single in the 2nd and 3rd inning with all the bases loaded, the rusult would have been completely opposite.

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Term-end ceremony for the 1st term

2009/7/17:topics

Today there was a term-end ceremony. The principal made a speech in which he praised students for having done well in the first term and and also mentioned his wish for the students that they will enhance the style of school refering to the best-selling book "Style of Nations" by Fujiwara Masahiko.

After the ceremony, certificates were given to the swimming team and track and field members.

After this, there was a send-off ceremony for Uchiyama Hajime who will represent Aichi Prefecture and display his photograph at the National Cultural Festival coming in August in Mie. Encouranged by the words of the principal and the president of the student council, he cheerfully talked and thanked all the people who helped him.

Finally there was a farewell ceremony for Aurelia who is an AFS exchange student from Austria. She tried to make friends with Japanese classmates and attended most of the lessons to master Japanese. She made a good farewell speech in Japanese without reading a script. She said that her only regret was that she had to leave Toyohashi without seeing the baseball match scheduled on the same day of her departure.

Ohta Koji reported on the newspaper

2009/7/14:topics

In the Chunichi Newspaper of evening edition on July 11th, there was an article about Ohta Koji who is a member of the baseball club. He is in the 3rd grade of senior high school but currently hospitalized for the severe disese which affected him at the end of the last year. He had been practicing for the purpose of becoming a regular member of his baseball team. He is now cheering his teammates from the bed. This article describes how much he loves the sport and how he gets in touch with other members. If you have not read it, please have a look.

Piano Recital by Yanagawa Mariko, our alumna

2009/7/7:topics

Yanagawa Mariko, who graduated from Minami four years ago, is planing to have a piano recital in Toyohashi. She is now studying at Den Haag Royal Academy of music in Holland. For further information, please read the leaflet.

Time and Date：August 30,13:30～

Place：Toyohashi Ekimae Bunka Hall, 10th floor

Exchange program canceled

2009/7/7:topics

We regret to announce that the program to accept students from Westbourne Grammar school in September is canceled. This is due to the current precarious health situation both in Australia and Japan. It is reported that the new type of influenza has been spreding in the south hemisphere. So Westbourne Grammar School decided to cancel the proram. If this problem have been settled by next summer, we will visit Westbourn next time.

Nohana; flower bed maintenance

2009/7/3:topis

Our volunteer activity group "Nohana" cleaned the flower beds on the street outside and planted sun flowers near the school main gate. They should have to work hard to keep them clean.

Visit to Welfare village

2009/7/3:topics

In the afternoon of the last day of the term-end exams, members of the brass band club, the music club and the drama visited the Welfare village to comfort the old and handicapped.

The facility they visited today is called "The Second Sawarabi-sou, special house for the old. Every year around this time we make a point of visiting here. Today they performed a short drama and a concert. The musci club sang a number of very popular songs for kids and traditional tunes. The audience sang and clapped their hands to the musci.