40th JABA National Championship Started on November 1 at Kyocera Dome Osaka
By Baseball Federation of Japan
The 40th National Championship of Japan Amateur Baseball Association (JABA) co-hosted by The Mainichi and Osaka City, participated by 34 regional winners, opened at Kyocera Dome Osaka on November 1 for 11 days.
Preliminaries:
Day 1 November 1:
77 Bank (Miyagai) 1－2 Yamaha (Shizuoka)
Nichidai Corporation (Kyoto) 5－1 Nippon Paper Industries Ishinomaki (Miyagi)
TOYOTA (Aichi) 3－0 Nippon Shinyaku (Kyoto)
Day 2 November 2:
Japan Railway Kyushu (Fukuoka) 6－7 Japan Railways East (Tokyo)
Honda Suzuka (Mie) 4－5 Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance (Tokyo)
HONDA (Saitama) 2－1 Japan Railways East Tohoku (Miyagi)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Hiroshima (Hiroshima) 1－7 JFE East Japan (Chiba)
Day 3 November 3:
Japan Railways West Japan (Hiroshima － Nippon Life Insurance (Osaka)
Segasammy (Tokyo) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe (Hyogo)
PANASONIC (Osaka) － Toho Gas (Aichi)
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Day 4 November 4:
JFE West Japan (Hiroshima) – Saginomiya Seisakusho (Tokyo)
Vitalnet (Niigata) － Nippon Express (Saitama)
Toshiba （Kanagawa） － Winner of 77 Bank (Miyagai)／Yamaha (Shizuoka)
Day 5 November 5:
NTT West Japan (Osaka) － Seibu Gas (Fukuoka)
NTT East Japan (Tokyo) － Japan Railways Shikoku (Kagawa)
Japan Railways Hokkaido (Hokkaido) － Osaka Gas (Osaka)
Day 6 November 2:
Seino Transportation (Gifu) – Ibaragi Golden Golds (Ibaragi
Winner of Nichidai/Nippon Paper Ishinomaki － Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagoya
