News
2014-11-02

40th JABA National Championship Started on November 1 at Kyocera Dome Osaka
By Baseball Federation of Japan



Photo by The Mainichi. (Day 2: Nagashima of Honda hits game-winning double bottom of the 11th inning.See his photo below. )(Day 1: Maeno of Yamaha's run-scoring hit top of 6th inning.)

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