NISHINOMIYA -- Fukui Shogyo rallied for five runs in the top of the ninth inning to defeat Tokyo's Obirin High School 11-9 Sunday and join Tokaidai Daiyon of Hokkaido in the second round of the 73rd Japan high school baseball national invitational tournament.
Asaka High School of Fukushima Prefecture, making its debut in the 11-day spring classic, fell to Kanazawa 5-1 as the tournament got under way on a chilly, rainy day at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture.
In Sunday's second game, Fukui Shogyo squandered a four-run lead to Obirin but later overcame a three-run deficit with five hits in the ninth, including Naohiro Nambu's go-ahead single, to set up a second-round date with Naniwa High School of Osaka.