ISA Cup Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Round 1
08.06.04	Oddsox Black	10	Castleknock Bearcats	29
08.06.04	Shutout 7	14	1Z Blazers	17
08.06.04	Renegades	7	Keough Rolling Rocks	0 #
09.06.04	Usual Suspects	14	Mockingbirds	12
09.06.04	Bray Allsorts 97	1	Diamond Dogs	9
09.06.04	Marlay Martyrs B	16	Dublin Bay Packers	9
09.06.04	Loan Homers Krusty	16	Icons	23
09.06.04	Base Devils	13	Renegades 2	12
09.06.04	Sluggers	7	Kiely’s Kegs	0 #
09.06.04	Beachers	0 #	Y2 Kegs	7
09.06.04	Flyers	7	The Braves	0 #
	Round 2
03.08.04	Dodder Dynamoes	12	Diamond Dogs	4
03.08.04	Base Devils	0 #	Marlay Martyrs A	7
03.08.04	Flyers	5	Batpak	18
	Last 16
01.09.04	Dodder Dynamoes	13	Oddsox Green	3
02.09.04	Oddsox Red	7	Castleknock Bearcats	0 #
02.09.04	Y2 Kegs	7	Marlay Martyrs B	0 #
02.09.04	Marlay Martyrs A	7	Blazzers	0 #
02.09.04	Renegades	12	Sluggers	8
02.09.04	Usual Suspects	0 #	1Z Blazers	7
02.09.04	Slammers	11	Batpak	10
02.09.04	Icons	0 #	Loan Homers Barney	7
	Quarter-Finals		Venue: ALSAA
05.09.04	Marlay Martyrs A	0	Dodder Dynamoes	4
05.09.04	Renegades	9	1Z Blazers	4
05.09.04	Slammers	7	Loan Homers Barney	14
05.09.04	Oddsox Red	7	Y2 Kegs	0 #
	Semi-Finals		Venue: ALSAA
05.09.04	Oddsox Red	4	Dodder Dynamoes	14
05.09.04	Renegades	7	Loan Homers Barney	9
	Final		Venue: ALSAA
05.09.04	Dodder Dynamoes	19	Loan Homers Barney	5

Reference: [1][2]

ISA Plate Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Plate Round 1
03.08.04	Loan Homers Krusty	9	Shutout 7	30
03.08.04	Keough Rolling Rocks	7	Trinity Titans	0 #
03.08.04	Bray Allsorts 97	7	Quinlan’s assets	0 #
03.08.04	Renegades 2	31	Global Zephyrs	4
04.08.04	All Sinners	31	Oddsox Black	23
04.08.04	Mockingbirds	26	The Braves	7
04.08.04	Kiely’s Kegs	15	Jensen Jets	11
04.08.04	Dublin Bay Packers	17	Beachers	9
	Plate Last 8		Venue: ALSAA
05.09.04	Renegades 2	7	Keough Rolling Rocks	0 #
05.09.04	Dublin Bay Packers	4	Shutout 7	29
05.09.04	Bray Allsorts 97	W	Mockingbirds	0 #
05.09.04	Kiely’s Kegs	16	All Sinners	8
	Plate Semi-Finals		Venue: ALSAA
05.09.04	Renegades 2	12	Shutout 7	7
05.09.04	Bray Allsorts 97	11	Kiely’s Kegs	28
	Plate Final		Venue: ALSAA
05.09.04	Renegades 2	17	Kiely’s Kegs	18

Reference: [1]

Report

Cup Report

The First Round of the Cup, played in June featured a cracking match between Usual Suspects and Mockingbirds, with excellent batting by Sam Robinson and Martha McGrath setting the pace for the Suspects. Mockingbirds had to wait for the 5th Inning before retaliating with a great Home Run by Eoin Lyons. Suspects responded well with superb hitting from Adrian Forster and Dave Killian to take the game 14-12.

The big hitters of Dodder Dynamoes, Marlay Martyrs and Batpak entered in the Second Round, and also comfortably won their Last 16 games, along with Oddsox Red, 1Z Blazers, Loan Homers Barney and Y2 Kegs who received walkovers, and Renegades who had a close 12-8 win over Sluggers.

The Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals were held at Aer Lingus Sports and Athletic Association at Dublin Airport. There the Dynamoes and Martyrs met in a low-scoring affair with Dodder’s 9 players managing to shutout Marlay to take the game 4-0, before a comfortable 14-4 victory over Oddsox Red. In the other half of the draw, Loan Homers Barney chalked up wins over Slammers and Renegades to reach the Final.

The Cup Final was won by Dodder Dynamoes for the second year in-a-row with an relatively easy 19-5 win over Loan Homers Barney.

Plate Report

The Plate Renegades 2, Shutout 7 and Kiely’s Kegs had an easy time reaching the Semi-Finals, although the Kegs were pushed all the way by All Sinners who had reached their first ever Quarter-Final. The Kegs then smashed the Bray Allsorts 97 28-11 with some excellent batting and very aggressive base running, and in the other Semi-Final Renegades 2 beat Shutout 7.

The Final, then, was between two well-matched teams, who went to the 11th inning before Kiely’s Kegs won out 18-17 with their superior hitting and possible experience giving them the title after the two teams traded runs and home runs for hours.

References:

Internet Archive:

[1] Irish Softball Association | Wayback Machine (2004) ISA Cup & Plate 2004 [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20041205071037/http://www.softball.ie:80/isa_cup.htm [Accessed 5 July 2019]

Sources

[2] Naughton, Lindie (2004) “Suspects set pace” Evening Herald Thursday, June 17, 2004. pg. 76

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Austin Purton, Ciaran Columb, Conor Sayles & Marie Fogarty

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