# Softball at the 2002 Asian Games

Softball was contested by six teams at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea from September 30 to October 6. The competition took place at Gudeok Baseball Stadium.

## Schedule

| P | Preliminary round | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final | G | Grand final |
| Event↓/Date → | 30th Mon | 1st Tue | 2nd Wed | 3rd Thu | 4th Fri | 5th Sat | 6th Sun | 6th Sun |
| Women | P | P | P | P | P | ½ | F | G |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Women details | Japan Naomi Arai Masumi Mishina Emi Naito Misako Ando Yumi Iwabuchi Sachiko Ito Yuka Suzuki Mikiko Tanaka Yukiko Ueno Juri Takayama Kazue Ito Hiroko Sakai Noriko Yamaji Haruka Saito Reika Utsugi | Chinese Taipei Chien Pei-chi Lo Hsiao-ting Kung Hsiao-li Yen Show-tzu Tung Yun-chi Huang Hui-wen Chen Miao-yi Chung Kai-ning Wang Ya-fen Lin Po-jen Lai Sheng-jung Yang Hui-chun Pan Tzu-hui Chen Feng-yin Wu Chia-yen | Shared silver |
| Women details | Japan Naomi Arai Masumi Mishina Emi Naito Misako Ando Yumi Iwabuchi Sachiko Ito Yuka Suzuki Mikiko Tanaka Yukiko Ueno Juri Takayama Kazue Ito Hiroko Sakai Noriko Yamaji Haruka Saito Reika Utsugi | China Li Qi Zhang Chunfang Deng Xiaoling Xin Minhong Wang Xiaoyan Mu Xia Zhou Yi Wei Qiang Zhang Yanqing Zhang Lixia Yu Meifang Tao Hua Meng Lijun Ye Xiaohe Zhang Ai | Shared silver |

## Squads

| China | Chinese Taipei | Japan | North Korea |
| Li Qi Zhang Chunfang Deng Xiaoling Xin Minhong Wang Xiaoyan Mu Xia Zhou Yi Wei Qiang Zhang Yanqing Zhang Lixia Yu Meifang Tao Hua Meng Lijun Ye Xiaohe Zhang Ai | Chien Pei-chi Lo Hsiao-ting Kung Hsiao-li Yen Show-tzu Tung Yun-chi Huang Hui-wen Chen Miao-yi Chung Kai-ning Wang Ya-fen Lin Po-jen Lai Sheng-jung Yang Hui-chun Pan Tzu-hui Chen Feng-yin Wu Chia-yen | Naomi Arai Masumi Mishina Emi Naito Misako Ando Yumi Iwabuchi Sachiko Ito Yuka Suzuki Mikiko Tanaka Yukiko Ueno Juri Takayama Kazue Ito Hiroko Sakai Noriko Yamaji Haruka Saito Reika Utsugi | Kang In-sun Kim Song-ok U Chun-yong Kim Jong-ok Kim Yong Pak Hye-ok Ri Myong-hui Yun Kyong-hui Kim Song-chun Sin Myong-hui Ri Pong-suk Kim Un-ju Ri Kyong-hui Paek Un-hui Kang Hye-yong |
| Philippines | South Korea | | |
| Rodelie Gamazon Eldiza Yator Marites Arahan Nelia Lara Janebeb Balbuena Ailen Abello Nimpa Baral Corazon Soberre Loverly Parohinog Mechil Cristobal Hayde Bongas Belen Ramirez Gina Salvador Karina Aribal Jenny de Jesus | Park Jin-ri Pak Sun-yeo Jung Young-mi Hu Mi-jin Cho Hui-ju Kim Ji-eun An Yeon-soon Lee Eun-ju Park Young-soon Nam Hee-sun Park Eun-ok Kim Eun-jin Kim Jik-mi Lee Song-hui Cho Eun-sil | | |

## Results

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

### Preliminary

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | RF | RA | PCT | GB | Qualification |
| 1 | Japan | 5 | 5 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 1.000 | — | Semifinals |
| 2 | Chinese Taipei | 5 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 | .600 | 2 | Semifinals |
| 3 | China | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 11 | .600 | 2 | Semifinals |
| 4 | North Korea | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 9 | .600 | 2 | Semifinals |
| 5 | South Korea | 5 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | .200 | 4 | |
| 6 | Philippines | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 25 | .000 | 5 | |
* 1 2 3 Tied on head-to-head wins (1). Head-to-head runs against: TPE 3, CHN 6, PRK 7.
| 30 September 10:00 | Philippines | 0–5 | South Korea | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 30 September 10:00 | LP: Corazon Soberre | | WP: Park Young-soon | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| Philippines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| 30 September 12:30 | North Korea | 0–1 | Japan | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 30 September 12:30 | LP: Kim Song-chun | | WP: Hiroko Sakai | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| North Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 30 September 15:00 | China | 1–4 | Chinese Taipei | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 30 September 15:00 | LP: Zhang Yanqing | | WP: Lai Sheng-jung | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1 October 10:00 | North Korea | 2–1 | Chinese Taipei | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 1 October 10:00 | WP: Kim Song-chun | | LP: Chung Kai-ning | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 |
| North Korea | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| 1 October 12:30 | Philippines | 0–9 | Japan | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 1 October 12:30 | LP: Eldiza Yator | | WP: Juri Takayama | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 0 |
| Philippines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 1 October 15:00 | China | 3–0 | South Korea | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 1 October 15:00 | WP: Zhang Lixia | | LP: Kim Jik-mi | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | X | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 2 October 10:00 | China | 6–2 | North Korea | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 2 October 10:00 | WP: Zhang Yanqing | | LP: Kim Song-chun | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| North Korea | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | X | 6 | 11 | 2 |
| 2 October 12:30 | Chinese Taipei | 2–0 | Philippines | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 2 October 12:30 | WP: Lai Sheng-jung | | LP: Corazon Soberre | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| Philippines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Chinese Taipei | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 2 October 15:00 | Japan | 1–0 (F/8) | South Korea | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 2 October 15:00 | WP: Hiroko Sakai | | LP: Lee Song-hui | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 3 October 10:00 | Philippines | 0–4 | China | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 3 October 10:00 | LP: Corazon Soberre | | WP: Li Qi | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| Philippines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| 3 October 12:30 | South Korea | 1–3 | North Korea | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 3 October 12:30 | LP: Kim Jik-mi | | WP: Kim Song-chun | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| North Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 3 October 15:00 | Japan | 1–0 | Chinese Taipei | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 3 October 15:00 | WP: Juri Takayama | | LP: Chung Kai-ning | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 4 October 10:00 | Philippines | 0–5 | North Korea | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 4 October 10:00 | LP: Corazon Soberre | | WP: Kang Hye-yong | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| North Korea | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Philippines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 4 October 12:30 | Chinese Taipei | 2–1 (F/8) | South Korea | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 4 October 12:30 | WP: Lin Po-jen | | LP: Park Young-soon | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 4 October 15:00 | Japan | 5–0 | China | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 4 October 15:00 | WP: Juri Takayama | | LP: Zhang Yanqing | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | X | 5 | 12 | 0 |

### Final round

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Grand final | Grand final |
| 1 | Japan (F/6) | 10 | | | 1 | Japan |
| 2 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | | | | Bye |
| | | | 2 | Chinese Taipei | | |
| | | | 3 | China | | |
| 3 | China | 8 | | | | |
| 4 | North Korea | 1 | | | | |

#### Semifinals

| 5 October 10:00 | North Korea | 1–8 | China | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 5 October 10:00 | LP: Kim Song-chun | | WP: Zhang Yanqing | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 0 |
| North Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 5 October 13:00 | Chinese Taipei | 0–10 (F/6) | Japan | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 5 October 13:00 | LP: Chung Kai-ning | | WP: Juri Takayama | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | — | 10 | 15 | 1 |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 5 | 2 |

#### Final

| 6 October 10:00 | Chinese Taipei | Rainout | China | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| China | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chinese Taipei | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |

#### Grand final

| 6 October 13:00 | Japan | Rainout | Winner of final | Gudeok Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| Winner of final | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Japan | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
* The ranking was decided with preliminary round and semifinals results due to rainy weather on final competition. Japan was awarded the gold medal based on its unbeaten record in preliminary games. China and Taiwan shared the silver. Those two were to have played to decide who would meet Japan in the gold-medal match.

## Final standing

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L |
| | Japan | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| | China | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| | Chinese Taipei | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | North Korea | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | South Korea | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Philippines | 5 | 0 | 5 |