[sumo] High School Sumo Tournament Records

[Joe Kuroda <joe_kuroda@yahoo.com>]

Moti reported about Kageyama of Meitoku Gijuku joining
Kasugano Beya. I noted about Sawai of Saitama Sakae
High. At least these two will be facing in Ozumo and
being from High School, they will start from Mae-zumo.

It will be interesting to see them compete against
each other in the future as they have faced more than
a few times in high school championships. 

So I thought it could be interesting to compile the
records of this year's high school national level
championships as I think we will soon see their names
(or shikonas) in Ozumo.

You will start noticing the same high schools and same
names keep cropping up among the top finishers.

Asashoryu/Asasekiryu are from Meitoku Gijuku while
Tochisakae and Hayateumi are from Saitama Sakae.

2004 High School Sumo Tournaments Results 
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1. February 8 - 18th All Japan High School Sumo
Hirosaki Open
At the Budokan, Prefecture of Aomori

Group:
1. Saitama Sakae (Sawai-Takayama-Sano)
2. Tottori Johoku (Takamura-Matsuda-Ito-Kimura)
3. Aomori Sanbongi Agricultural
(Matsubayashi-Aisaka-Sato)
3. Aomori Goshogawara Commercial
(Noro-Fujita-Sugiyama)

Individual:
1. Yuichiro Kageyama (Meitoku Gijuku)
2. Yu Kimura (Tottori Johoku)
3. Gotaro Sawai (Saitama Sakae)
4. Kazunori Takayama (Saitama Sakae)

Note: Kotomitsuki (Keiji Tamiya) graduated from
Tottori Johoku High before going to Nihon University.
Tamiya won High School Yokozuna in 1993. 

Kimura was 178 cm tall and 150 kg this January and was
among strong candidates to be a High School Yokozuna
this year, won eventually by Sawai of Saitama Sakae. 

All four have great potentials in Ozumo.


2. March 21 - 55th All Japan High School Rookie
Championship
At Prefecture of Kouchi Haruno Sogo Undo Park

Group: 
1. Saitama Sakae
2. Tottori Johoku
3. Meitoku Gijuku
3. Goshogawara Agricultural/Forestry

Individual:
1. Gotaro Sawai (Saitama Sakae)
2. Yu Kimura (Tottori Johoku)
3. Makoto Aoki (Meitoku Gijuku)
3. Yasunari Miyamoto (Saitama Sakae)

Note: I have no idea why they call this one "Rookie".


3. May 30 88th All Japan High School Kanazawa Open
At Prefecture of Ishikawa, Utatsuyama Sumo Grounds

Group:
1. Kanazawa City Engineering
(Arakiseki-Sakaguchi-Nakano)
2. Saitama Sakae (Miyamoto-Sano-Takayama-Sawai)
3. Kiso Forestryi, Nagano (Yokoyama-Suzuki-Fujitani)
3. Meitoku Gijuku (Kageyama-Aoki-Tateno-Teramura)

Individual:
1. Yuichiro Kageyama (Meitoku Gijuku)
2. Tsuyoshi Fukunaga (Hibiki, Yamaguchi)
3. Tsuyohide? Kasai (Goshogawara
Agriculutural/Forestry)
3. Kengo Arakiseki (Kanazawa City Engineering) 

Note: Dejima is a graduate of Kanazawa City
Engineering. 
Miyamato and Takayama of Saitama Sakae are potentials
to be in Ozumo.
As well as Kengo Arakiseki of Kanazawa and Aoki of
Meitoku Gijuku.


4. August 2-4 82th All Japan High School Sumo
Championships
At Prefecture of Yamaguchi, Town of Toyoura

Group: 
1. Saitama Sakae
(Takayama-Sano-Miyamoto-Okutani-Sawai)
2. Houtoku Gakuen, Hyogo (Shimosato-Lee Dai
Won-Sato-Tamogami-Shimako)
3. Tottori Johoku 
(Tomita-Takamura-Kimura-Kaneko-Ito-Matsuda-Otilupluv?
a katakana name)
3. Kanazawa City Engineering 
(K.
Arakiseki-Terashita-Nakano-Y?Arakiseki-Nishihara-Sakaguchi-Tsuji)


Best Eight: Meitoku Gijuku, Kinki University High,
AichiEngineering University Meiden High, Jutoku, Gunma
Prefecture 

Indivudual:
1. Gotaro Sakai (Saitama Sakae)
2. Yasunari Miyamoto (Saitama Sakae)
3. Kazunori Takayama (Saitama Sakae)
3. Kengo Arakiseki (Kanazawa City Engineering) 

Best Eight: Yu Kimura (Tottori Johoku), Kuniyoshi
Kawai(Nihon University Ogaki 
High), Akihiro Suzuki (Kiso Forestry, Nagano), Daisuke
Sugiyama (Goshogawara 
Commercial)


5. August 15 53rd High School Sumo Tournament Towada
Open
At Prefecture of Aomori, Towada City Sumo Grounds

Group:
1. Saitama Sakae
2. Kanazawa City Engineering
3. Hotoku Gakuen
3. Aichi Engineering University Meiden High

Individual:
1. Gotaro Sawai (Saitama Sakae)
2. Kazunori Takayama (Saitama Sakae)
3. Kengo Arakiseki (Kanazawa City Engineering)
3. Ken? Shinoda (Meiji University Nakano High)

Note: Taka/Waka brothers and Tochiazuma are graduates
of Meiji Nakano.


6. September 26 48th High School Sumo Championship Usa
Open
At Prefecture of Oita, Usa City Sumo Grounds

Group:
1. Meitoku Gijuku (Kageyama-Aoki-Tateno)
2. Kanazawa City Engineering
(Arakiseki-Nakano-Sakaguchi)
3. Sanbongi Agricultural (Sato-Aisaka-Iwasaki)
3. Saitama Sakae (Sano-Takayama-Sawai)

Individual:
1. Gotaro Sawai (Saitama Sakae)
2. Yuichiro Kageyama (Meitoku Gijuku)
3. Marvin Sano, Jr. (Saitama Sakae)
3. Takane (Sukumo High, Kochi Prefecture)


Note: In case you are wondering Marvin Sano Jr is
standing next to Captain Sawai in the back row , the
third from right in the pic I posted earlier on Sawai
thread. I wonder if he is a Japanese American... 

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