Day 5 : 40th JABA National Championship at Kyocera Dome Osaka
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Two teams from Osaka, Osaka Gas and NTT West Japan, and NTT East Japan from Tokyo advanced to the third round on the Day 5.
Obata of Osaka Gas hurled a three-hit shutout to defeat JR Hokkaido (Hokkaido) 5-0. Seibu Gasu (Fukuoka) which made its debut at the JABA National Championship lost to NTT West Japan 6-4. NTT East Japan scored 3 runs in 12th inning after running into extra innings at 1-1 won against JR Shikoku (Kagawa) 4-1.
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) in 11 innings
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) 2–1 Saginomiya Seisakusho (Tokyo)
Vitalnet (Niigata) 1-10 Nippon Express (Saitama)
Toshiba(Kanagawa) 0-2 Yamaha (Shizuoka)
Day 5 November 5:
NTT West Japan (Osaka) 6-4 Seibu Gas (Fukuoka)
NTT East Japan (Tokyo) 4-1 Japan Railways Shikoku (Kagawa) in 12 innings
Japan Railways Hokkaido (Hokkaido) 0-5 Osaka Gas (Osaka)
Day 6 November 2:
Seino Transportation (Gifu) – Ibaragi Golden Golds (Ibaragi
Winner of Nichidai/Nippon Paper Ishinomaki - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagoya