Irish Baseball & Softball Federation Irish Baseball League 2003

Final League Table

	P	W	L	FF	GB	Pts
*Hurricanes	14	11	3	0	–	47
*Spartans	14	11	3	0	–	47
Panthers	14	9	5	0	2	41
Black Sox	14	8	6	0	3	38
Greystones Mariners	14	7	7	0	4	35
Belfast NorthStars	14	4	10	0	7	26
Blue Devils	14	4	9	1	7.5	24
Tigers	14	2	12	0	9	20

4 Pts Win / 1 Pt Loss / -1 Pt Forfeit

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Championship Game		(Corkagh Park, Clondalkin)
31.08.03	Spartans	5	Hurricanes	8

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
12.04.03	Hurricanes	10	Spartans	3
12.04.03	Panthers	6	Blue Devils	10
	Week 2
26.04.03	Panthers	10	Greystones Mariners	8
26.04.03	Tigers	13	Belfast NorthStars	11
27.04.03	Hurricanes	8	Black Sox	3
	Week 3
03.05.03	Black Sox	0	Spartans	11
03.05.03	Blue Devils	7	Hurricanes	11
04.05.03	Greystones Mariners	9	Panthers	13
	Week 4
10.05.03	Greystones Mariners	2	Black Sox	20
10.05.03^	Black Sox	7	Greystones Mariners	11
10.05.03	Spartans	21	Tigers	5
10.05.03	Hurricanes	6	Belfast NorthStars	3
	Week 5
17.05.03@	Belfast NorthStars	9	Greystones Mariners	15
	Week 6
24.05.03	Greystones Mariners	24	Belfast NorthStars	5
24.05.03	Spartans	9	Panthers	4
24.05.03	Tigers	1	Hurricanes	17
	Week 7
31.05.03	Spartans	9	Panthers	4
31.05.03	Hurricanes	7	Panthers	6
01.06.03	Blue Devils	15	Tigers	4
	Week 8
07.06.03	Belfast NorthStars	11	Blue Devils	14
07.06.03~	Blue Devils	7	Belfast NorthStars	17
07.06.03	Greystones Mariners	7	Hurricanes	8
07.06.03^	Hurricanes	11	Greystones Mariners	7
07.06.03	Panthers	22	Tigers	10
07.06.03	Tigers	16	Panthers	21
	Week 9
14.06.03	Blue Devils	14	Black Sox	19
14.06.03	Black Sox	17	Tigers	2
14.06.03	Tigers	1	Blue Devils	13
14.06.03	Belfast NorthStars	4	Spartans	0
	Week 10
21.06.03	Greystones Mariners	17	Tigers	3
21.06.03^	Tigers	5	Greystones Mariners	8
	Week 11
28.06.03	Black Sox	9	Blue Devils	8
28.06.03	Panthers	15	Hurricanes	8
29.06.03	Spartans	13	Belfast NorthStars	3
	Week 12
19.07.03	Panthers	10	Spartans	9
19.07.03	Hurricanes	15	Blue Devils	0
	Week 13
26.07.03	Blue Devils	3	Spartans	25
26.07.03	Black Sox	8	Hurricanes	5
26.07.03	Belfast NorthStars	9	Panthers	7
26.07.03~	Panthers	7	Belfast NorthStars	11
	Week 14
02.08.03	Tigers	0	Spartans	13
02.08.03	Blue Devils	3	Greystones Mariners	6
02.08.03	Belfast NorthStars	4	Black Sox	5
02.08.03~	Black Sox	13	Belfast NorthStars	5
	Week 15
09.08.03	Panthers	21	Black Sox	8
09.08.03	Belfast NorthStars	5	Hurricanes	6
	Week 16
16.08.03	Blue Devils	4	Panthers	16
16.08.03	Hurricanes	16	Tigers	3
16.08.03	Greystones Mariners	4	Spartans	6
16.08.03^	Spartans	10	Greystones Mariners	2
	Week 17
23.08.03	Tigers	2	Black Sox	16
23.08.03	Spartans	7	Blue Devils	0
23.08.03@	Belfast NorthStars	17	Tigers	23
	Week 18
30.08.03@	Greystones Mariners	10	Blue Devils	9
30.08.03	Black Sox	6	Panthers	10
31.08.03	Spartans	5	Hurricanes	1

Reference: [2]

Home Venues

Team	Home Field
Belfast NorthStars	Belfast
Black Sox	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Blue Devils	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Hurricanes	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Panthers	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Spartans	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Tigers	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Greystones Mariners	Greystones, Co. Wicklow
Games marked with @	Played at Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Games marked with ^	Played at Greystones
Games marked with ~	Played at Belfast

Reference: [2]

Report

Hurricanes won the 2003 Irish Baseball League, beating Spartans 8-5 in a Playoff, after they both finished the season with identical 11-3 Win-Loss Records. Panthers (9-5), Black Sox (8-6) and Greystones Mariners (7-7) finished mid-table. Belfast North Stars (4-10), Blue Devils (4-9 & one forfeit) and newcomers Tigers (2-12) finished at the foot of the table.

Hurricanes – Irish Baseball League Champions 2003 [4]

About

The 2003 Season was the 7th year of the Adult Irish Baseball League. There was an increase of one team on the previous season as the Tigers, a team based in the Cuban Community in Ireland [5] entered the League making 8 teams in Total, an All-Time Record High.

References

Websites

[1] Wayback Machine Web Archive (2017) Irish Baseball – Adult League [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20031001124151/http://www.baseballireland.com/adult_league [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[2] Wayback Machine Web Archive (2017) 2003 Irish Baseball League Results to Date [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20031116104746/http://www.baseballireland.com:80/adult_league_past.htm [Accessed 24 March 2017]

Media

[5] The Emerald Diamond Feature Film.

Images

[3] Irish Baseball and Softball Federation (1999) IBSF Logo [Internet] Available from: http://www.geocities.ws/dbpackers/images/ibsf_logo_99.jpg [Accessed 11 May 2017]

[4] Baseball Ireland (2019) Hurricanes 2003 Irish League Champions [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/images/Hurricanes_2003.jpg [Accessed 2 December 2019]