Baseball: Toho wins last high school championship of Heisei era

Toho, the Aichi school that won the national high school baseball invitational championship held in the first year of Heisei 30 years ago, won the spring final on Wednesday in the last tournament of the current era.Toho beat Narashino of Chiba Prefecture 6-0, with captain Takaya Ishikawa a force both on the mound and at the plate. He drove in four runs on two homers and pitched a three-hit shutout in Toho's 30th Spring Koshien appearance.Ishikawa hit a two-run homer off Narashino starter Shota Yamauchi to spark a three-run first inning, then gave Toho a 5-0 cushion with another in the fifth…READ FULL ARTICLE