Final League Table

	P	W	L	FF	GB	Pts
Championship
*Hurricanes	6	6	0	0	–	24
*Spartans	6	3	3	0	3.0	15
Black Sox	6	2	4	0	4.0	12
Greystones Mariners	6	1	5	0	5.0	9
Trophy
^Panthers	8	7	1	0	–	29
^Belfast North Stars	8	6	2	0	1.0	26
Belfast Wolves	8	4	4	0	3.0	20
Giants	8	2	4	2	6.0	10
Trojans	8	1	1	6	9.0	-1
1st Half
+Greystones Mariners	8	8	0	0	–	32
+Hurricanes	8	6	2	0	2.0	26
+Spartans	8	6	2	0	2.0	26
+Black Sox	8	5	3	0	3.0	23
Giants	7	3	4	0	4.5	16
Trojans	8	3	4	1	5.5	15
Belfast North Stars	7	2	5	0	5.5	13
Belfast Wolves	8	1	7	0	7.0	11
Panthers	8	1	6	1	7.5	9

[2] Note: + Qualify for 2nd Half Championship / * Qualify for Championship Final / ^ Qualify for Trophy Final.

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	League Trophy Series
20.08.2005	Panthers	0	Belfast North Stars	7
28.05.2005	Panthers	8	Belfast North Stars	1
28.05.2005	Panthers	15	Belfast North Stars	3
	(Panthers won series 2-1)
	League Championship Series
13.08.2005	Spartans	8	Hurricanes	9
20.08.2005	Spartans	2	Hurricanes	18
	(Hurricanes won series 2-0)

Reference: [3]

Regular Season Results 1st Half

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
09.04.2005	Hurricanes	3	Spartans	4
09.04.2005	Panthers	6	Black Sox	10
10.04.2005	Trojans	13	Belfast North Stars	15
10.04.2005	Giants	12	Wolves	4
	Week 2
16.04.2005	Giants	0	Hurricanes	21
16.04.2005	Greystones Mariners	5	Panthers	3
17.04.2005	Belfast North Stars	5	Spartans	13
17.04.2005	Belfast Wolves	6	Spartans	14
	Week 3
23.04.2005	Panthers	2	Spartans	10
23.04.2005	Trojans	9	Giants	12
23.04.2005	Belfast North Stars	5	Hurricanes	6
23.04.2005	Belfast Wolves	8	Hurricanes	23
	Week 4
30.04.2005	Hurricanes	17	Black Sox	6
	Week 5
07.05.2005	Greystones Mariners	7	Hurricanes	6
07.05.2005	Panthers	5	Giants	17
07.05.2005	Black Sox	5	Spartans	4
08.05.2005	Trojans	13	Belfast Wolves	7
	Week 6
14.05.2005	Hurricanes	21	Trojans	5
14.05.2005	Panthers	13	Belfast North Stars	12
14.05.2005	Black Sox	8	Giants	7
15.05.2005	Greystones Mariners	8	Spartans	7
	Week 7
21.05.2005	Spartans	10	Giants	8
21.05.2005	Hurricanes	25	Panthers	5
21.05.2005	Black Sox	0	Greystones Mariners	7
21.05.2005	Belfast North Stars	17	Belfast Wolves	0
	Week 8
28.05.2005	Spartans	7	Trojans	0 #
28.05.2005	Giants	7	Greystones Mariners	11
28.05.2005	Black Sox	4	Belfast North Stars	2
	Week 9
04.06.2005	Trojans	9	Panthers	7
04.06.2005	Trojans	2	Greystones Mariners	24
04.06.2005	Black Sox	14	Belfast Wolves	0
05.06.2005	Giants	p	Belfast North Stars	p
	Week 10
11.06.2005	Greystones Mariners	5	Belfast North Stars	4
11.06.2005	Greystones Mariners	15	Belfast Wolves	0
11.06.2005	Panthers	0 #	Belfast Wolves	7
12.06.2005	Black Sox	5	Trojans	11

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Championship Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 11
18.06.2005	Hurricanes	11	Black Sox	7
18.06.2005	Black Sox	4	Hurricanes	16
	Week 12
25.06.2005	Hurricanes	13	Spartans	5
25.06.2005	Spartans	2	Hurricanes	3
25.06.2005	Greystones Mariners	8	Black Sox	16
25.06.2005	Black Sox	13	Greystones Mariners	12
	Week 13
02.07.2005	Hurricanes	25	Greystones Mariners	10
	Week 14
16.07.2005	Greystones Mariners	8	Hurricanes	16
16.07.2005	Black Sox	1	Spartans	8
16.07.2005	Spartans	7	Black Sox	6
	Week 15
23.07.2005	Greystones Mariners	11	Spartans	10
23.07.2005	Spartans	7	Greystones Mariners	6

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Trophy Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 11
18.06.2005	Belfast North Stars	8	Panthers	4
18.06.2005	Panthers	15	Belfast North Stars	1
	Week 12
25.06.2005	Panthers	7	Trojans	0 #
25.06.2007	Trojans	0 #	Panthers	7
	Week 13
02.07.2005	Giants	6	Panthers	14
02.07.2005	Panthers	6	Giants	5
02.07.2005	Belfast North Stars	7	Trojans	0 #
02.07.2005	Trojans	0 #	Belfast North Stars	7
	Week 14
16.07.2005	Giants	15	Trojans	8
16.07.2005	Trojans	16	Giants	2
	Week 15
23.07.2005	Giants	9	Belfast North Stars	1
23.07.2005	Belfast North Stars	18	Giants	10
23.07.2005	Belfast Wolves	5	Panthers	20
23.07.2005	Panthers	24	Belfast Wolves	6
	Week 16
30.07.2005	Belfast Wolves	7	Giants	0 #
30.07.2005	Giants	0 #	Belfast Wolves	7
	Week 17
07.08.2005	Belfast Wolves	0	Belfast North Stars	22
07.08.2005	Belfast North Stars	45	Belfast Wolves	7
	Week 18
13.08.2005	Belfast Wolves	7	Trojans	0 #
13.08.2005	Trojans	0 #	Belfast Wolves	7

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Home Venues

Team	Home Field
Belfast North Stars	Belfast
Belfast Wolves	Belfast
Dublin Black Sox	Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
Dublin City Hurricanes	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin Panthers	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin Spartans	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Giants	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Trojans	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Greystones Mariners	Greystones, Co. Wicklow

Reference: [2]

Player Awards

Award	Player
Andy Leonard MVP Award	Steve DiVito
Tommy Bond Pest Pitcher Award	Shawn Miskiman
“Dirty” Jack Doyle Silver Slugger Award	Pat Nolan

Reference: [6]

Report

Hurricanes marched through the 2nd Half of the season (the Championship) with a 6-0 record, winning the Playoff Final by 2 games to nil against their arch nemesis Spartans. Greystones Mariners had finished the first half with an unbeaten 8-0 record, but collapsed in the second half Championship with a 1-5 Win-Loss Record. Hurricanes had finished with a 6-2 record in the first half, and the Spartans qualified for the Final with a 3-3 Record in the Championship, after finishing the first half 6-2. Black Soc were the fourth team to qualify for the Championship. finishing the first half 5-3, and then narrowly missing out on a place in the Final with a 2-4 record in the Championship.

The League had been split at the halfway point into a Championship (Top Half) and Trophy (Bottom Half) with the four Championship teams making up the new A-League in 2006 along with the Trophy winners, and the other teams were to be made B-teams of these teams in the new B-League. Panthers, after surprisingly struggling in the first half with just one win from 8, went 7-1 in the 2nd Half Trophy and then came from one game down to beat the Belfast North Stars in the best-of-three Final. Belfast North stars (6-2) also had a much better 2nd half after a disappointing 1st half (2-5). The other three teams all struggled – Belfast Wolves going 4-4 after going 1-7 in the first half, and the Giants (a new team) and Trojans bringing up the rear after both going 3-4 in the first half.

About

The 2005 Irish Baseball League season was the 9th season of the Adult Irish Baseball League. It featured 9 teams – a drop of one on 2004, with new team Giants replacing the Blue Devils & Tigers who both dropped out.

The League was split halfway into a Championship and Trophy sections to determine which teams would play in the new A-League in 2006, and which would be made B-Teams of the A-League in the new B-League, after it was decided to consolidate the players on a smaller number of clubs, each with its own B-team.

Sources

[3] Anon. (2005) “Panthers claw title Out of the fire”. Tallaght Echo Thursday, September 8, 2005.

Websites

[2] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Baseball Ireland (2005) 2005 Adult Irish Baseball League [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20050828155124/http://baseballireland.com/adult_league.htm [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[6] Baseball Ireland (2019) Baseball Ireland – Award Winners [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/news.php?search_id=6 [Accessed 2 December 2019]

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 2005 Irish League Champions [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/images/canes_2005.gif [Accessed 2 December 2019]

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

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Brian Connolly (Panthers) & Peter Mullen (Black Sox)

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