XXXVIII JABA National Championship: Results Day 5, November 7

The XXXVIII JABA National Baseball Championship is played from November 3 to 13 at Kyocera Dome in Osaka

The fifth day of the competition saw Nippon Shinyaku (Kyoto), Toyota Motors (Aichi) and Nichidai won to proceed to the 2nd stage of the tournament.

Nippon Shiyaku defeated JFE East Japan (Chiba), semi-finalist of the 2012 Intercity Championship, 6-3.
Toyota, the 2011 Champion narrowly won against Honda Kumamoto (Kumamoto) 5-3. The win for Nichidai Corporation recorded the first win by the 3rd attempt in the Championship against Hitachi (Ibaraki).

Results XXXVIII JABA National Championship:

Saturday, November 3:
NTT West Japan 1 – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Yokohama 0
Vitalnet 3 – Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Tokai Rex 2
Toho Gas 11 – Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Kashima 6

Sunday, November 4:
JR East 6 – Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Hirohata 0
Nippon Life Insurance 13 – JR Shioku 0
Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Kazusa Magic 2 – JR Tokai 0

Monday, November 5:
Panasonic 5 – Saginomiya Corp. 0
77Bank 2 – Japan Self-Defense Force Chitose 0
JFE West Japan 3 - Shiga Takashima BBC 2

Tuesday, November 6
JR Kyushu 2 – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 1
Nippon Express 4 - Hakua Victories 3
Honda 5 – Seino Transpotation 3

Wednesday, November 7
Toyota 5 – Honda Kumamoto 3
Nippon Shinyaku 6 – JFE East Japan 3
Nichidai Corp 2 – Hitachi 0

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Photo by The Mainichi Newspaper