The Girls Professional Baseball League held their awards convention at Kyoto Royal Hotel & Spa on Friday. The event was also broadcast live over Ustream.

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Best Nine

Additional Awards

MVP

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Player Additions (via tryouts)

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2012 Season

Start Date: 3/26, 3/27
Venue: Kyocera Dome Osaka

The Girls Professional Baseball League (GPBL) announced today that the Osaka Brabee Honeys will be joining the league.

On the name:

Brave + Bee = Brabee Honeys

The hope is for the team to show "bravery" to its fans, to play with the intensity of a "bee," and to become beloved "honeys" (when used as a term of endearment)

On the uniform colors:

Honeys Yellow (main color) = happiness, cheerfulness

Brabee Black = strong-willed

Current Roster (additional players TBAL)

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UPDATE @ 10:19pm - In other league related news, the GPBL announced that INF Miwa Fukasawa (25) and INF Satoko Nonomura (24) will not be returning to Hyogo next year.

1st Women's Baseball Japan Cup
Dates: 11/11 - 11/13
Venue: Wakasa Stadium Kyoto
Official site

Schedule and Results

* Games are 7 innings long, unless:

- the game will not move into the next inning if after 4 innings the game is already 1.5 hours long.
- the game won't go into extra innings (or the next extra inning) if a game is still tied after 1.5 hours. If a game ends in a tie, a drawing will be held to determine which team advances.
- the finals game will be a 7-inning game. The 1.5 hour long rule will not apply. Games will be played until a winner is decided.
- games will be considered official after 4 innings or 1.5 hours, which ever is first.
- games will be called if one team has a 10 or more run lead after 4 innings or a 7 or more run lead after 5 innings.

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November 11

Game 1

Called after 4

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Game 2

Called after 4

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Game 3

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November 12

Game 4

Called after 5

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Game 5

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Game 6

Game ended in tie due to 1.5 hour rule. Kamimura Gakuen advances after winning the drawing.

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Game 7

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November 13

Game 8

Saitama Sakae advances after winning the drawing.

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Game 9

Fukuchiyama Seibi advances after winning the drawing.

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Game 10

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Cal Ripken was on hand to throw out the ceremonial first pitch on the final day of the tournament before the semifinals.

The Girls Professional Baseball League announced on Thursday that of the 93 players that took their tryouts, 17 passed.

The Girls Professional Baseball League announced the teams that will be participating in the 1st Women's Baseball Japan Cup.

The following 11 teams will take part in the 3-day tournament (11/11 - 11/13 at Wakasa Stadium Kyoto).

• Hyogo Swing Smileys (Hyogo)
• Kyoto Asto Dreams (Kyoto)
• Asahi Trust (Tokyo)
• Heisei Kokusai University (Saitama)
• Shigakkan University (Aichi)
• Osaka Taiiku University (Osaka)
• Minami Kyushu Tanki University (Miyazaki)
• Hanasaki Tokuharu High School (Saitama)
• Saitama Sakae High School (Saitama)
• Fukuchiyama Seibi High School (Kyoto)
• Kamimura Gakuen High School (Kagoshima)

The Girls Professional Baseball League (GPBL) announced today that they were going to host the 1st Women's Baseball Japan Cup over a three day period, beginning on 11/11, at Wakasa Stadium Kyoto.

The goal of the tournament is to help promote women's baseball by having professional, high school, university, and club teams compete against each other in order to determine Japan's best.

Additional details regarding the tournament (like participating teams, schedules, and rules) will be posted by the GPBL at a later date.

First Half

Second Half

Cinderalla Series

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Title Winners

Hitting

Pitching

The Hyogo Swing Smileys won the 2011 Cinderella Series (it actually ended in a 5-5 tie but Hyogo scored more runs: 35-31).

Games

Sendai Municipal Stadium

Cinderella Series: Hyogo leads series 5-4-0

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The Girls Professional Baseball League (GPBL) played a charity match at Sendai Municipal Stadium on Thursday (9/15).  The GPBL held clinics in Sendai and Natori back in July, but this was their first game in the Tohoku region.  Admission was free and proceeds from merchandise sales will be donated to relief and reconstruction efforts in northern Japan.  The Kyoto players also held a baseball clinic for about 50 people before the game.

The Girls Professional Baseball League (GPBL) announced that a third team, based out of Kansai, will be joining the league next year.  A press conference announcing the name of the new team, in addition to the manager and players, will be held in early December.

The players for the new team will be selected during tryouts that will be held in Kansai and Kanto later this month.  Around 20 players will be selected.  A number of players from the two teams currently in the league will also probably be shuffled around.

Incidentally, the GPBL has a Ustream account: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/girls-probaseball