BI B-League 2014

	P	W	L	FF	GB	Pts
*Dublin City Hurricanes B	16	15	1	0		–
*Belfast NorthStars B	16	13	3	0		2.0
*Cavan Comets	16	10	6	0		5.0
*Ashbourne Giants	16	9	7	0		6.0
*Dublin Black Sox B	16	8	8	0		7.0
*Greystones Mariners B	16	5	11	0		10.0
Dublin Spartans B	16	5	11	0		10.0
West Clare Dolphins	16	4	10	2		12.0
Dublin Tigers B	16	2	2	12		19.0

Playoffs

	Playoffs Round 1
2014	Cavan Comets	18	Greystones Mariners B	3
2014	Ashbourne Giants	12	Dublin Black Sox B	6
	Playoffs Round 2
2014	Cavan Comets	10	Ashbourne Giants	9
2014	Dublin City Hurricanes B	W	Belfast North Stars B	L
	Semi-Final
2014	Belfast NorthStars B	W	Cavan Comets	L
	Final (Best-of-3)
2014	Dublin City Hurricanes B	13	Belfast North Stars B	1
2014	Belfast North Stars B	1	Dublin City Hurricanes B	14
	Dublin City Hurricanes B won series 2-0

Regular Season

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
22.03.2014	Greystones Mariners B	1	Dublin Tigers B	16
22.03.2014	Dublin Spartans B	14	Dublin Black Sox B	4
23.03.2014	Cavan Comets	8	Ashbourne Giants	9
	Week 2
29.03.2014	Dublin City Hurricanes B	17	Greystones Mariners B	1
30.03.2014	Belfast North Stars B	12	Ashbourne Giants	1
30.03.2014	Belfast North Stars B	16	Ashbourne Giants	8
30.03.2014	Dublin Spartans B	3	Cavan Comets	10
	Week 4
05.04.2014	Dublin City Hurricanes B	18	Dublin Black Sox B	3
06.04.2014	Greystones Mariners B	16	Dublin Spartans B	22
	Week 5
12.04.2014	Dublin Black Sox B	8	West Clare Dolphins	2
12.04.2014	Dublin Black Sox B	24	West Clare Dolphins	9
	Week 6
27.04,2014	Ashbourne Giants	4	Dublin City Hurricanes B	14
	Week 7
03.05.2014	Dublin Spartans B	16	Greystones Mariners B	4
	Week 8
10.05.2014	Ashbourne Giants	7	West Clare Dolphins	0 #
10.05.2014	Ashbourne Giants	7	West Clare Dolphins	0 #
11.05.2014	Greystones Mariners B	2	Belfast North Stars B	16
11.05.2014	Greystones Mariners B	2	Belfast North Stars B	18
	Week 9
17.05.2014	Cavan Comets	5	Dublin City Hurricanes B	25
17.05.2014	Cavan Comets	9	Dublin City Hurricanes B	8
17.05.2014	Dublin Tigers B	9	Dublin Spartans B	8
	Week 10
24.05.2014	West Clare Dolphins	7	Dublin Tigers B	0 #
24.05.2014	West Clare Dolphins	7	Dublin Tigers B	0 #
25.05.2014	Cavan Comets	11	Greystones Mariners B	0
	Week 11
31.05.2014	Cavan Comets	2	Belfast North Stars B	5
31.05.2014	Cavan Comets	3	Belfast North Stars B	11
31.05.2014	Ashbourne Giants	8	Dublin Spartans B	10
	Week 12
07.06.2014	Ashbourne Giants	8	Dublin Black Sox B	7
07.06.2014	Dublin City Hurricanes B	8	Ashbourne Giants	5
08.06.2014	Belfast North Stars B	13	Dublin Tigers B	8
08.06.2014	Belfast North Stars B	12	Dublin Tigers B	11
	Mid-Week
11.06.2014	Greytones Mariners B	2	Dublin City Hurricanes B	18
	Week 13
14.06.2014	West Clare Dolphins	14	Greystones Mariners B	18
14.06.2014	West Clare Dolphins	7	Greystones Mariners B	15
15.06.2014	Belfast North Stars B	6	Dublin Spartans B	4
15.06.2014	Belfast North Stars B	12	Dublin Spartans B	5
15.06.2014	Dublin Tigers B	0 #	Cavan Comets	7
15.06.2014	Dublin Tigers B	0 #	Cavan Comets	7
	Week 14
21.06.2014	West Clare Dolphins	1	Dublin City Hurricanes B	16
21.06.2014	West Clare Dolphins	4	Dublin City Hurricanes B	24
22.06.2014	Greystones Mariners B	2	Ashbourne Giants	19
22.06.2014	Greystones Mariners B	10	Ashbourne Giants	9
	Mid-Week
25.06.2014	Dublin Black Sox B	3	Dublin Spartans B	6
	Week 15
28.06.2014	Dublin City Hurricanes B	10	Belfast North Stars B	6
28.06.2014	Dublin City Hurricanes B	24	Belfast North Stars B	1
29.06.2014	Dublin Black Sox B	4	Ashbourne Giants	11
29.06.2014	Dublin Spartans B	7	Dublin Tigers B	0 #
	Week 16
06.07.2014	Dublin Spartans B	8	Dublin City Hurricanes B	11
06.07.2014	Ashbourne Giants	7	Dublin Tigers B	0 #
	Mid-Week
09.07.2014	Ashbourne Giants	7	Dublin Tigers B	0 #
	Week 17
12.07.2014	Dublin City Hurricanes B	7	Dublin Tigers B	0 #
13.07.2014	Dublin Spartans B	0 #	Ashbourne Giants	7
	Mid-Week
16.07.2014	Greystones Mariners B	4	Dublin Black Sox B	14
	Week 18
19.07.2014	Cavan Comets	12	West Clare Dolphins	1
19.07.2014	Cavan Comets	15	West Clare Dolphins	9
	Week 19
27.07.2014	Greystones Mariners B	12	Cavan Comets	15
27.07.2014	Dublin Tigers B	0 #	Dublin City Hurricanes B	7
	Week 20
02.08.2014	Dublin Black Sox B	7	Dublin Tigers B	0 #
02.08.2014	Dublin Tigers B	0 #	Dublin Black Sox B	7
02.08.2014	West Clare Dolphins	7	Dublin Spartans B	0 #
02.08.2014	West Clare Dolphins	7	Dublin Spartans B	0 #
	Week 21
09.08.2014	Dublin Black Sox B	0	Dublin City Hurricanes B	11
10.08.2014	Dublin Spartans B	1	Cavan Comets	12
	Week 22
17.08.2014	Dublin Black Sox B	1	Cavan Comets	0
17.08.2014	Dublin Black Sox B	0	Cavan Comets	1
17.08.2014	Dublin Tigers B	0	Greystones Mariners B	7
	Week 23
23.08.2014	Belfast North Stars B	1	West Clare Dolphins	8
23.08.2014	Belfast North Stars B	19	West Clare Dolphins	18
23.08.2014	Dublin City Hurricanes B	6	Dublin Spartans B	4
24.08.2014	Ashbourne Giants	4	Cavan Comets	20
24.08.2014	Dublin Black Sox B	8	Greystones Mariners B	5
	Week 24
31.08.2014	Belfast North Stars B	10	Dublin Black Sox B	3
31.08.2014	Belfast North Stars B	11	Dublin Black Sox B	2

Report

There was an expanded Baseball Ireland B League in 2014, featuring B teams of all five returning A League teams (Dublin teams the City Hurricanes, Spartans and Black Sox as well as the Greystones Mariners and Belfast North Stars), as well as the B team of new team the Dublin Tigers, representing a Venezuelan company in Ireland, and regional teams the West Clare Dolphins, Cavan Comets and Ashbourne Giants. Dublin City Hurricanes B won the League Pennant and Championship, defeating Belfast North Stars B 13-1 and 14-1 in the best-of-three games Final Series. Cavan Comets reached the Semi-Finals after knocking out Ashbourne Giants, both teams best season yet, knocking out Greystones Mariners B and Dublin Black Sox B respectively in the Playoffs First Round. Cormac Eklof pitched superbly for the Hurricanes in Game 1 of the Final and Jose Martinez in Game 2 in what was a one-sided Final Series.

About Baseball and Baseball Ireland

Baseball is a bat-and ball game where players aim to hit a ball thrown at them by a pitcher and run around four bases back home without being caught or run out. A run is scored when a player gets back to home base. It is similar to the GAA game of Rounders, but the bases are 90 feet apart rather than 60 and pitching can be overarm. There are 9 Innings for each team in a standard Baseball game (seven in the case of thw Baseball Ireland B-League) and when three players on a team are out that is the end of the innings for the team. A teams innings is not over until three outs are made. It was first played in America, but is thought to have an ancestor in the Irish and British game of Rounders (and also similar games in Germany and Scandinavia such as Branboll). In Ireland it is Coed (Mixed).

References

Images

[1] Baseball Ireland (2017) Baseball Ireland Logo Car Sticker [Internet] http://www.baseballireland.com/images/carsticker.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017]

Websites

[2] Baseball Ireland (2013) Schedule [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/schedule_new.php?search_year=2014&search_team= [Accessed 21 September 2016]

Internet Archive

[3] Baseball Ireland – Wayback Machine Internet Archive (2014) 2014 League Tables [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20141219024651/http://www.baseballireland.com/tables.php?search_year=2014 [Accessed 19 June 2018]

Newspapers

[4] Anon. (2014) “Bittersweet for Hurricanes in Final”. Tallaght Echo. Thursday, October 9, 2014.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tom Kelley and Adrian Kelly (Baseball Ireland) and Peter Mullen (Dublin Black Sox).

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