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2014-11-10

Day 9 : 40th JABA National Championship at Kyocera Dome Osaka
The 4 winners advanced to semi-finals on November 10





Photos by The Mainichi  (Adachi of Panasonic scoring by homerun to leftfield in the bottom of 5th inning with no out. Starting pitcher Sakayori of JR East Japan at the bottom of the first inning. Pitcher Obata of Osaka Gas got homered by Sawaragi of Segasammy in the top of 9th innin with no out.Agata of Nippon Life raise his arms triumphantly after hitting two-run double with runners on 1st and 2nd bases in the bottom of 1st inning. )

Seino Transportaion (Gifu), 2014 Intercity Tournament Champion, got a clobbering by Nippon Life Insurance (Osaka) 7-0. Toyota (Aich) defeated JR East Japan (Tokyo) on tie-break 2-1 in the 13th inning. Segasammy (Tokyo) got past in a close match against Osaka Gas (Osaka) 3-2. The 4 winners advanced to semi-finals on November 10.
 
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 6:
Seino Transportation (Gifu) 4– 0 Ibaragi Golden Golds (Ibaragi)
Nichidai Corporation (Kyoto)  1-2  Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagoya (Aichi)
Yamaha (Shizuoka) 0-1 Japan Railways East (Tokyo) - Third Round

Third Round

Day 7 November 7:
TOYOTA (Aichi) 6 -1 JFE East Japan (Chiba)
PANASONIC (Osaka) 3-2 JFE West Japan (Hiroshima) 
HONDA (Saitama) 1-2 NTT West Japan (Osaka)

Day 8 November 8:
Seino Transportation (Gifu) 1-0 Nippon Express (Saitama)
Segasammy (Tokyo) 3-1 NTT East Japan (Tokyo)
Osaka Gas (Osaka) 11-4 Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance (Tokyo)
Nippon Life Insurance (Osaka) 11-4 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagoya (Aichi)

Quarter-Finals

Day 9 November 9:
Japan Railways East (Tokyo) 1– 2 TOYOTA (Aichi) in 13 innings
PANASONIC (Osaka) 6-5 NTT West Japan (Osaka)
Segasammy (Tokyo) 3-2 Osaka Gas (Osaka)
Seino Transportation (Gifu) 0-7 Nippon Life Insurance (Osaka)

Semi-Finals

Day 10 November 10:
Toyota (Aichi) - Panasonic (Osaka)
Segasammy (Tokyo) – Nippon Life Insurance (Osaka)