Recent sporting events (continued)

As I mentioned in my last post, there have been many sporting events recently. Continuing on the volleyball theme, Japan played much better when Yuko Sano was playing, and in the end they beat Turkey easily. Apparently, what they are playing now is the 2nd round, and there are 2 matches left. Japan has been defeated only once, but they still have to play Korea and Russia. It seems that there is a pretty good chance of going through to the semi-finals if they lose only one of their remaining matches. Russia is considered a very strong team, so probably they need to beat Korea tomorrow night.

Another major event is the Japan Series baseball. The penultimate match, on Saturday, was the longest in Japan Series history, I heard. Last night's decider was won by the Chiba Lotte Marines.