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After a successful season in which the varsity boys baseball team won the Prep League in decisive fashion, the Panthers victoriously began the CIF playoffs against Boron.
By BOBBY SAMUELS
Sports editor
After the loss of the varsity softball team in its opening CIF game, only the varsity baseball team remains in playoff competition. Storming through the regular season, the Panthers continued their dominance with a 12-1 victory over Boron in their opening CIF game.  Senior A.J. Talt led the way with fourteen strikeouts in only six innings.

The Poly varsity baseball team had won the Prep League title for the past thirteen years. However, despite the proven success over the past decade and a half, the players were unsure about how the team would fare at the beginning of this season.
“Initially, I didn’t know what to expect, especially after losing Rob Rasmussen, Tim Feess and the other seniors to graduation last year,” explained [...]

 
County champions
Abbeyfeale Vocational School won the Co. Limerick VEC U14 County Championship on Thursday last by the narrowest of margins when they defeated Hazelwood College of Dromcollogher. The match was played in ideal conditions in Dromcollogher.
Hazelwood College got to the better start and were 1-2 to no score after ten minutes. Matthew Broderick opened the scoring for Abbeyfeale with a well taken point This was followed by two points from team captain Adam Barry but Hazelwood struck back with another goal and a point leaving Abbeyfeale 2-3 to 0-3 in arrears.
The fact that several of the players had been involved in club games the previous evening was taking its toll. Hazelwood stretched their lead to seven points with another point. This triggered an Abbeyfeale fightback, a goal and a point from Shane Murphy, a goal from Matthew Broderick and another goal from Connor Kiely put Abbeyfeale in a one point [...]