Soka University surprised on Saturday by winning the five-stage outbound leg of the 97th Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay for the first time, giving itself a 2-minute, 14-second lead for the following day's return leg.Soka covered the 107.5-kilometer course staring in Tokyo's Otemachi business district in 5 hours, 28 minutes, 8 seconds after taking the lead in the fourth stage and holding on throughout the steep fifth stage ending at the mountain resort of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture.Yuta Mikami, the first-day anchor for Soka, started his leg with a 1:42 lead over Komazawa Universi…READ FULL ARTICLE