Industrial League Baseball

1997 Industrial League Championship

The 1997 industrial league championship tournament started on October 4 at the Osaka Dome.

First Round

Games of October 4:

Oji Paper (Komaki)       0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  1    2
Nihon Seimei (Osaka)     0  2  0  0  0  2  1  2  x    7

HR: Oka (Nihon)


Nikoniko Do (Kumamoto)   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    0
Mitsubishi Juko (Nagoya) 0  0  0  0  2  4  2  1  x    9

HR: Mesa 2 (Nikoniko)


Nakayama Steel (Osaka)   3  0  1  0  0  4  0  0  0    8
NTT Chugoku (Hiroshima)  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  1  0    2

HR: Takano, Morita, Nishi Masa. (Nakayama)
    Sakamoto (NTT)


Games of October 5:

Yamaha (Shizuoka)        0  0  0  0  0  0  1  1  2    4
NTT Hokuriku (Ishikawa)  3  0  1  2  0  0  1  0  x    7

HR: Funami (NTT)
    Kobayashi (Yamaha)


Mitsubishi Juko Kobe (Hyogo)     1  0  2  3  1  1  0  0  0    8
Hitachi Manufacturing (Ibaraki)  0  0  2  0  0  3  0  0  0    5

HR: Ogawa (Mitsubishi)


NTT Shikoku (Ehime)        1  0  0  1  0  1  0  0  0    3
Nissan Jidosha (Kanagawa)  0  1  0  0  3  0  0  0  x    4

HR: Ogawa (NTT)
    Watanabe (Nissan)


Games of October 6:

JR East Tohoku (Miyagi)   0  1  0  0  0  0  0  1  0    2
Nihon Tsuun (Saitama)     0  0  0  3  0  0  2  1  x    6

HR: Suzuki Y., Itano Atsushi (JR)
    Aigata (Nitsu)


Mitsubishi Jidosha Kawasaki (Kanagawa) 0  2  0  1  0  0  0  1  2   0  0   6
Kawasaki Steel Mizushima (Okayama)     0  0  2  3  0  0  0  1  0   0 2x   8

HR: Suzuki Aki. (Mitsubishi)
    Yamamoto (Kawasaki Steel)


NTT Hokaido (Hokaido)      0  0  2  0  0  0  2  0  1    5
Sumitomo Metals (Wakayama) 1  2  0  0  3  1  0  0  x    7

HR: Nonomura (NTT)


Games of October 7:

Shin Nitetsu Nagoya (Aichi) 0  0  0  3  0  0  0  0  6    9
Hokuriku Ginko (Toyama)     0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  1    2

HR: Hayashi (Shin)
    Hasegawa (Hokuriku)

Second Round

Toshiba (Kanagawa)    0  0  0  4  0  0  4  0  0    8
Nihon Seimei (Osaka)  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    0

HR: Utsumi (Toshiba)


Nikoniko Do (Kumamoto)  0  0  0  0  0  2  1  2  1    6
Nakayama Steel (Osaka)  2  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  2    5

HR: Sakaki, Alvarez (Nikoniko)
    Nishi Masa. (2) (Nakayama)


Games of October 8:

Nihon Shinyaku (Kyoto)    2  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    2
NTT Hokuriku (Ishikawa)   0  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0    1

HR: None


TDK (Akita)                  2  2  0  0  0  0  1  0  0    5
Mitsubishi Juko Kobe (Hyogo) 1  0  0  0  1  4  0  0  x    6

HR: None


Matsushita Denki (Osaka)  0  0  0  6  0  0  0  0  1    7
Nissan Jidosha (Kanagawa) 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0    1

HR: Kuki  (Matsushita)


Games of October 9:

Honda Giken Kumamoto (Kumamoto) 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    0
Nihon Tsuun (Saitama)           2  0  0  4  1  0  0  2  x    9

HR: Aigata (2) (Nitsu)


Sumitomo Metals (Wakayama)         2  3  0  1  2  1  0  0  0    9
Kawasaki Steel Mizushima (Okayama) 1  2  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    3

HR: Tamaoki 2 (Sumitomo)
    

Shin Nitetsu Nagoya (Aichi) 1  0  1  0  0  0  0  4  3    9
Kobe Steel (Hyogo)          0  0  1  0  0  1  2  0  0    4

HR: Uehara, Uebane (Kobe)

Quarter Finals

October 10:

Nikoniko Do (Kumamoto) 1  0  0  0  0  2  1  0  0    4
Toshiba (Kanagawa)     3  0  0  0  0  1  0  2  x    6

HR: Mesa (3) (Nikoniko)


Mitsubishi Juko Kobe (Hyogo) 0  4  7  0  0  0  1  0  0   12
Nihon Shinyaku (Kyoto)       0  2  2  3  1  0  0  0  0    8

HR: None


Matsushita Denki (Osaka) 0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    2
Nihon Tsuun (Saitama)    0  0  0  1  1  0  1  0  x    3

HR: None


Shin Nitetsu Nagoya (Aichi) 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    0
Sumitomo Metals (Wakayama)  0  0  2  3  0  1  1  0  0    7

HR: None

Semi Finals

October 11:
Results unavailable

Finals

October 12:


Sumitomo Metals (Wakayama)   0  0  2  0  2  0  0  0  0    4
Mitsubishi Juko Kobe (Hyogo) 0  1  0  2  0  0  3  4  x   10

HR: None

Tournament MVP: Masahiro Arai (26) P, Mitsubishi Juko Kobe. Arai pitched in relief in five games and won the final game against Sumitomo Metals, allowing just one hit in four innings.



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