Professional Japanese baseball coach impressed with baseball skills of Mindanao kids

Shota Kimura, pitching coach of Yomiuri Giants share some baseball tips to the campers.



DAVAO CITY---A professional Japanese baseball coach is impressed with the baseball skills of some teenagers from Mindanao who attended their baseball clinic at the Davao City National High School on January 11.
Shota Kimura, pitching coach of Yomiuri Giants one of the top professional baseball club in Japan is happy and surprised with the baseball skills of the 300 elementary and high school baseball player from different parts of Mindanao who attended their baseball clinic.
Through an interpreter, Kimura also said that he is happy to share some important tips on pitching to the participants of the one day baseball clinic.
Aside from pitching, the Giants also thought the campers the fundamentals of baseball and other matters regarding one of the most popular sports in the world.
The one of a kind of baseball clinic was earlier organized by Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) in cooperation with the Philippine Nikkei Jin Kai International School (PNJKIS), Mindanao Kokusai Daigaku and Department of Education (Deped) Davao City Division.
PNJKIS president Ines P. Mallari said the baseball clinic is aimed to promote the sport of baseball in the grassroots and to deepen the relationship of the Philippine and Japan.
Guesting before the weekly Davao Sportswriters Association (DSA) Forum at the Annex of SM City Davao last January 9, Mallari said all of the participants in the baseball camp are the players who will join their annual Baseball Cup on February 7-8 in Calinan, Davao City.
"Some of the children joining the baseball camp are kids from Kapalong, Davao del Norte and Veruela in Agusan del Sur," Mallari said.