Day 3 : 40th JABA National Championship at Kyocera Dome Osaka
Day 3 on Monday (Public Holiday) November 3 saw 3 games of second round and Nippon Life Insurance (Osaka), Panasonic (Osaka) and Segasammy (Tokyo) advanced to the third round.
Nippon Life Insurance came from behind to beat Japan Railways West Japan (Hiroshima) 5-2.
Segasammy scored 4 runs on tie-break in 12th inning and shook off Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe (Hyogo) 7-6. Panasonic, the record 35th participant in the National Championship, won a close game against Toho Gas (Aich) 3-2.
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 2－5 Nippon Life Insurance (Osaka)
Segasammy (Tokyo) 7–6 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe (Hyogo)
PANASONIC (Osaka) 3－2 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
