The girls head out to begin their intensive training camp before preliminaries start. Coach Kido has stopped drinking and it is making some of the girls uncomfortable to see him like that. Izumi, the ace batter, is having problems and yet still takes things out on the team and especially Ryo. Izumi later tells Ryo that she knows about the medal and Ryo realizes that Izumi must be jealous of her. Izumi calls Hiroki but cannot bring herself to tell him what is wrong. The next day Hiroki arrives in town. At practice Yuki loses her doll Fifi-chan and is horrified.