I've always thought that Raichi is Sawamura´s rival. Can't wait to see them fight in their 3rd year
Year 3 is going to be missing so much from Tokyo though.
I admit that the crazy pitcher from Hokkaidou blocking the way does mean that this manga could stretch into year 3 for the domination of the entire koushien tournament, but with Narumi and Sanada both graduating, in addition to Miyuki being lost from Seidou, I just don't think a third year of preliminaries can be "interesting" without a bunch of unnecessary errors being forced upon the team by the writer.