Kanagawa Prefecture's Keio high school ended a 106-year drought, winning Japan's prestigious national summer high school baseball championship and dethroning last year's champs Sendai Ikuei high school 8-2 in Wednesday's final.
Sendai Ikuei, from Miyagi Prefecture, last year became the first school from Japan's northeastern Tohoku region to win one of each year's two big tournaments held at Hyogo Prefecture's historic Koshien Stadium near Osaka.
Playing in the school's third summer final and its first in 103 years, Keio's title was its first since the tournament's second edition in 1916.
Keio opened the game with a leadoff home run from Minato Maruta. Leading 3-2 in the fifth, Keio scored five runs after two were out to take a commanding lead.
