High School Career
Egawa entered Sakushin Gakuin High School. In his high school career, he recorded two perfect games of nine no-hitters of 20 shutouts of 30 complete games in 44 games. He closed out his high school career with an earned run average of 0.41, which was quite higher than Daisuke Matsuzaka (1.12) and Masahiro Tanaka (1.31). In the spring of 1973, he set a still-standing record of 60 strikeouts in National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament. He was nicknamed "The Monster", which Matsuzaka was also nicknamed later. However, he was different from Matsuzaka in not having strong teammates. His team had never won the championship at the Koshien Stadium.
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