Jubilo substitute forward Norihisa Shimizu scored a hat trick in the second half as J. League Division One second-stage leader Iwata downed FC Tokyo 5-2 at Tokyo's National Stadium Wednesday.

J-League 1st-division GPWDLGFGAPts. Iwata 9 8 0 1 19 6 22 Kashima 9 8 0 1 21 12 22 Ichihara 9 5 2 2 18 14 17 Shimizu 9 6 0 3 26 17 16 FC Tokyo 9 4 3 2 21 19 15 Yokohama 9 5 1 3 12 11 14 Nagoya 9 4 1 4 16 17 13 Kashiwa 9 3 3 3 21 15 12 Hiroshima 9 4 0 5 24 20 12 Sapporo 9 4 1 4 21 20 12 Fukuoka 9 3 2 4 14 17 10 Osaka G 9 3 1 5 12 16 10 Kobe 9 2 2 5 15 22 8 Tokyo V 9 2 1 6 11 18 7 Urawa 9 1 1 7 10 18 4 Osaka C 9 1 0 8 8 27 2

In a seesaw scoring battle in the rain, Tokyo midfielder Fumitake Miura put his team ahead in the 55th minute with a close-range blast. But Jubilo midfielder Jo Kanazawa struck an equalizer in the 65th minute before Shimizu, who had come on for young forward Ryoichi Maeda after the break, knocked in a header off a Toshiya Fujita cross in the 73rd minute for his first goal of the season.

Tokyo canceled out Jubilo's 2-1 lead with substitute midfielder Kensuke Kagami's 80th-minute goal. But two minutes later, Shimizu quickly reacted to a Tokyo defender's clearance failure in the box to fire a tie-breaking blast into the net. Four minutes later, the 25-year-old Shimizu got to a rebound off a shot from Takahiro Kawamura, who also had come on as a substitute, to complete his first career hat trick and give the visitors a 4-2 lead.

A minute later, veteran striker Masashi Nakayama found the net to wrap up his team's scoring.

"Our players showed their strong determination to get the victory, which made the difference in the game after the score was tied 2-2," Jubilo manager Masakazu Suzuki, who also admitted his team didn't play a particularly good game, said afterward. "We have to win games like today's to win the (second-stage) title."

Tokyo forward Amaral's 33rd-minute goal was disallowed by referee Kiyoshi Ohta because of a foul on Jubilo goalkeeper Arno van Zwam in the area. The injured Dutch goalkeeper was soon replaced by Tomoaki Ogami.

No ticket resale

The Japanese organizing committee for the 2002 World Cup said Wednesday it had asked a major Internet company to prevent the resale of VIP tickets for next year's World Cup on its auction sites.

Resale of tickets for the May 30-June 31 tournament is banned and the company agreed to prohibit online auctions of the prestige packages, which are available at a range of prices up to 1.52 million yen.

A premier ticket to watch all three of Japan's first-round games is on offer from JAWOC for 400,000 yen but bids for a seat at just one of the host nation's matches have been seen for the same price.