Episode Title:
In My Father’s Footsteps.
Episode Description:
Ryo is accepted into Kisaragi School but worried about leaving her mother to run the Oden bar by herself. After being reassured, Ryo decides to accept. Her mother decides to show Ryo 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 girls' baseball team. However, she has already hired a coach who happens to be the man who umpired the pitching challenge earlier. At the tennis courts, Izumi offers to play Ryo at tennis, and Ryo manages to return one of the star's serves, even though it goes slightly out of bounds. The coach shows up and gets Izumi to try and hit Ryo's pitch, which she does. The challenge ends with both girls feeling as though they lost to the other.
