Ryo is accepted into the school and, when her mother tells her that she'll be able to run the Oden bar by herself, she agrees.  Her mother shows her her father's baseball uniform that he wore when they won at Koshien.  Ryo never knew that her father played baseball.  Meanwhile, the board at the Kisaragi school are having a hard time accepting Chairwoman Keiko's proposal of having a girl's baseball team.  She's hired a coach though, the drunk man that umpired at Ryo's pitching challenge.  By the tennis courts, Izumi offers to play Ryo at tennis and she actually returns one of her serves, even though it was slightly out.  The coach shows up and gets Izumi to try and hit a pitch, which she does.  The challenge ends with both girls feeling as though they lost.