Irish Baseball & Softball Association | Leinster Championship 1990-1994

Leinster Championship 1990

DateWinners Runners-Up 
 Championship Final   
30.09.90Marlay Martyrs9Odd Sox5

Reference: [1][2]

Leinster Championship 1991

DateWinners Runners-Up 
 Semi-Finals   
 Dodder DynamoesWMarlay MartyrsL
 DatalexW  
 Championship Final   
09.91Dodder Dynamoes17Datalex8

Reference: [3]

Leinster Championship 1992

DateTeam 1 Team 2 
 Championship Semi-Finals   
20.09.92Marlay Martyrs AWFat CatsL
20.09.92BatpakWFlyersL
 Championship Final   
04.10.92Marlay Martyrs AWBatpakL

Reference: [4][5]

Leinster Championship 1993

DateTeam 1 Team 2 
 Championship Semi-Finals   
 Dodder DynamoesWMarlay MartyrsL
 Batpak25Flyers4
 Championship Final   
 Dodder DynamoesWBatpakL

Reference: [6]

Report

The Irish Baseball & Softball Association ran the first Leinster or Eastern Division Softball Championships in 1990. There was a separate League and Knockout Championship, much like in the GAA, with the Championship being the Premier Competition, judging by news reports in the Evening Herald.

Marlay Martyrs won the Championship in 1990 beating Odd Sox 9-5 and again in 1992, defeating Batpak in the Final. Dodder Dynamoes, their arch rivals, and the oldest Softball team in Ireland, won the title in 1991, a 17-8 win over Datalex, and the 1993 title, Batpak again the runners-up.

References:

Websites:

[1] Naughton, Lindie (1990) Softball Evening Herald Thursday, September 27, 1990. pg. 49 [Irish Newspaper Archive]

[2] Naughton, Lindie (1990) Softball Evening Herald Thursday, October 4, 1990. pg. 53 [pg. 54 Irish Newspaper Archive]

[3] Naughton, Lindie (1990) Dynamoes Dynamite Evening Herald Thursday, October 3, 1991. [pg. 54 Irish Newspaper Archive]

[4] Naughton, Lindie (1990) Softball Evening Herald Thursday, September 17, 1992. pg. [pg. 76 Irish Newspaper Archive]

[5] Naughton, Lindie (1990) Softball Evening Herald Thursday, October 8, 1992. pg, Sport 7.

[6] Naughton, Lindie (1990) Marley all out Evening Herald Thursday, September 23, 1993. pg, 55 / Sport 1

Past editions of the Evening Herald are available to view online at the Irish Newspaper Archive: https://www.irishnewsarchive.com/, which is a subscription service.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Austin Purton and Ciaran Columb, Marlay Martyrs.

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