The
Select teams play in the VIGS Sunday Select League. VIGS stands for Valley Intercommunity
Girls Softball, VIGS member organizations include recreational softball leagues
from Deep Run Valley, Doylestown, Harleysville, Lenape Valley, Nor Gwyn, Montgomery,
North Penn, Souderton, and Towamencin among others. For more information on VIGS
please check out their website at www.vigs.net.
Deep Run Sunday Select teams are formed after tryouts in September and October.
The Deep Run Sunday Select teams are formed from the Deep Run intramural players
who desire to play at more competitive level then the intramural program can provide,
as well as a desire to play additional games. You may sign up on line at drvsa.org
starting in late July each year. It is a requirement of the VIGS rules that members
of a Sunday Select team must also play on a Deep Run intramural softball team
thru the entire season. Deep Run will sponsor a U-10 and two U-12 teams for the
2006 season. Deep Run will sponsor a 10U and two 12U teams for the 2007 season.
The Select teams play a 10 game Sunday afternoon schedule and two tournaments
during the season.
Hitting questions?
Click on the Ask Ron icon to email Ron Shoemaker. Ron coached the
Blzing Angels to an 18U ASA A National Championship. Ron coached at the High School
level and was the assistant coach at Temple University for 4 years at Temple University.
LADY
LIGHTNING 10U SELECT TAKES HOME SECOND PLACE TROPHIES! - The Lady Lightning
10U Select team played in their first tournament at North Penn on May 18th, 19th,
and 20th, and made it to the championship. Deep Run fell to a strong North Penn
squad, 14-11. Alyssa Hughes had a three run double and Brady Tillotson had and
RBI single to get Deep Run off to a 4-0 lead. Powerful hitting pushed North Penn
to a 14-6 lead. In the sixth inning, the Lady Lightning got to within 14-11, and
had the tying run at the plate before coming up just short. Lisa Bahmueler had
three hits for Deep Run and Lauren Weidler kept us in the game with a strong pitching
effort in relief.
The tournament was highlighted by multiple hit games from
Lisa Bahmueler, Alyssa Hughes, Niki Sarnese, and Lauren Weidler, as well as clutch
hits and runs scored by Samantha Thomson, Brady Tillotson, Morgan Labs, Brianna
Gery, Kelly Hennigan, and Kara Wireman. Lisa Bahmueler made numerous outstanding
defensive stops, while Niki Clements, Angie Napolitano, and Sarah Murgia contributed
key defensive plays. Morgan Labs and Niki Clements were tireless behind the plate,
while Lauren Weidler and Brianna Gery put forth several gutsy pitching performances. This was the first time in 4 or more years that a Deep
Run Select team played in the final round of the Select Tournament!
10U
Select Team Front row l to r: Liz Nace, Keely Spangler, Julia Cardie, Alex Villella,
Brooke Souder, Julia Rufe Second row: Becca Tate, Sammy Siwert, Becca Shanks,
Haley Taylor, Cortney Leib, Emma Lewis, Kelly Wolff, Amanda O'Hara Coaches:
April Nace, Jim Nace, Ken Shanks, Chris Villella
2005
Highlights
U-10
& U-12 Deep Run Lady Lightning VIGS Select team took the runner up position
in the 2005 Douglas Sofield Memorial Tournament: The first annual Douglas
Andrew Sofield Memorial Tournament was held at the Legion Field in Souderton on
August 26 & 27 and September 3, 2005. Douglas Andrew Sofield was the 42 year
old husband of Suzette and the father of Leah and Christine. He was brutally murdered
inside his home in Drexel Hill on July 23, 2005. The tournament seeded the Sofield
Family Education Fund with a donation of $6500.00 for Doug’s children’s
future college education. The Deep Run team composed mostly of 2005 U-10 VIGS
Sunday Select team members with three 2005 U-12 VIGS Sunday Select Team members
added to the roster, was coached by Sharon DeCew. The Team won both games before
the rains came and postponed the remainder of the tournament until September 3,
2005. The Deep Run Team was seeded in second place going into the single elimination
round. The team won it's first game on September 3 with a 12-2 score over Nor-Gwyn,
before losing to Lenape Valley in the Championship game with a score of 9-6. Deep
Run had the best tournament record of 3 wins and 1 loss. Congratulations Ladies
on a job well done for a good cause!
Members of the 2005 U-10 & U-12 Deep Run Lady Lightning
VIGS Select team: (Kneeling L-R) Shannon Alexander, Corrie Ryan, Hannah Reed,
Morgan Leatherman, Brooke Labs, (Standing L-R) Paige DeCew, Ashley Ferrante*,
Sarah Yerk, Megan Conley*, and Amanda Koenig*. Missing from photo - Allie Desko,
Chrissy Catlett. * Indicates member of the 2005 Deep Run U-12 Lady Lightning
Select Team
If
you have any questions now concerning our Softball Program, please contact Jeff
Koenig, Intramural Softball Commissioner; Mary
Ann Hennigan, Travel Softball Commissioner; or Brad
Hughes, Softball Player Agent.
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Run Sports Complex Field Map 
