39th JABA National Championship Started on October 21 at Kyocera Dome Osaka
By Baseball Federation of Japan
The 39th National Championship of Japan Amateur Baseball Association (JABA) co-hosted by The Mainichi and Osaka City, participated by 32 regional winners, opened at Kyocera Dome Osaka on October 28 for 11 days.
Preliminaries:
Day 1 October 28:
JFE East Japan (Chiba) 10 – 9 NTT West Japan (Osaka)
Vitalnet (Niigata) 2 – 1 Seino Transportation (Gifu)
Yamaha (Shizuoka) 3 – 4 Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Kazusa Magic (Chiba)
Day 2 October 29:
JFE West Japan (Hiroshima) 0 – 1 HONDA Kumamoto (Kumamoto)
Nippon Express (Saitama) 6 – 0 Nipon Suteel Sumitomo Metal Hirohata (Hyogo)
PANASONIC (Osaka) JX-Eneos (Kanagawa)
Day 3 October 30:
Tokyo Gas (Tokyo) – Toho Gas (Aichi),
Japan Railway Kyushu (Fukuoka),
Segasammy (Tokyo) – Nippon Life Insurance (Osaka)
Day 4 October 31:
TOYOTA (Aichi) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe (Hyogo)
77 Bank (Miyagai) – Shikoku Bank (Kochi)
Osaka Gas (Osaka) – Japan Railway East (Tokyo)
Day 5 November 1:
Muroran Sharks (Hokkaido) – Japan Railway Tokai (Aichi)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Hiroshima (Hiroshima) – Kyushu Mitsubishi Motors (Fukuoka)
Minoshima Baseball Club (Wakayama) – HONDA (Saitama)
Day 6 November 2:
Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance (Tokyo) – Nippon Shinyaku (Kyoto)
Photo by The Mainichi Newspaper
