Day 5 : 40th JABA National Championship at Kyocera Dome Osaka
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
