英語検定ライティング準１級（第332回）

常連校「甲子園大会こそが全国大会なのか？」

数年に一度は必ず甲子園に出る常連校なるものが各県にある。私たちの県にもある。私立の高校で野球部員は寮生活を強いられる。多くのプロ野球選手を輩出している。彼らからの寄付で専用の球場もある。週刊誌にすっぱ抜かれた選手も複数いる。
In almost all the prefectures, there are a few regular high school baseball teams, which has the ability to take part in the national tournament competition, called Koshien Championship, and our prefecture also has one of them.
Almost all the members of this baseball team are forced to lead a peculiar life in the dormitory only for them.
Their traditional advantages, naturally, have produced numerous superior professional players into the NPB.
So this baseball team has been equipped with supplies and equipments such players have donated as well as the remarkable and splendid stadium near the school.
Sometimes a notorious weekly magazine features a certain graduate with repeated sexual scandals, he says.

その学校の野球部が公立高校の野球部に負けるなんてことが数年に一度ある。私たちはその私立高校には何の縁もないが負けてほしくない。公立高校が甲子園に出ても勝つイメージが湧かない。優勝を常に求めるわけではないが１回戦は勝ちたいね。
Despite this, this baseball team sometimes fails to win in the prefectural tournament competition against the rival teams, several of which might be the public schools.
We actually consider these happenings as something unreasonable because the public schools absolutely possess their own stadium only for the baseball games.
We haven’t had any connections with this high school, however, we find their absence from Koshien something disappointing because we cannot have the image that the public school’s team win several opponents there.
We never wish our representative team could win the championship, but they might win at least one match.

今年の大会は昼間には試合をしない。熱中症の犠牲者が出ないためだ。場所をドーム球場に変更しようとの案もあったらしい。だが高校野球の全国大会は甲子園でなければならない。どんなに人類を苦しめる地球温暖化も甲子園の伝統には負ける。
This year, a couple of matches during the daytime would be cancelled due to the fact that a notorious heatstroke should bring some athletes into the critical, deadly and lethal situation in the hospital, an online article says.
Alternative suggestion seemed that Koshien Stadium could be replaced with the dome-style stadium nearby.
However, almost all the participants absolutely want to play baseball in the “Holy Stadium” called Koshien.
Global warming phenomenon has suffered our species so far, which would continue to damage our precious environment, but these destructive natural disasters haven’t had any untouchable authorities to cancel the “Holy Koshien Championship,” which is unbelievable.