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Summer 2013 Volume 5 Issue 3 Deep Run Valley Sports Association Deep Run Valley Sports Association A Special Thank You Baseball Deep Run continues to grow and be a wonder- Shawn Harty tions to the Brewers, Jack Flynn, ful community organi- Baseball and Manager Scott Tim Healy, zation because of you! Commissioner Kinky, for winning the Colleen Knapp and 2013 Majors-70 Rich Neher. Intramural Season To the Sponsor’s of Championship. Con- all of our programs gratulations to the If you see them Baseball’s 2013 In- Angels, and Manager around the complex, To the many volun- tramural season teers, including the Tim Long for winning make sure that you Board Members, wrapped up on June the 2013 Majors-60 stop and thank them th Program Directors, 8 with our Annual Division Champion- for all that they do. Coaches, and par- Skills Challenge and ship. Because of their ef- ents All Star games. forts, Deep Run con- To the children Overall it was a suc- I would like to thank tinues to be one of, if cessful and fun day all of the many volun- not, the best organi- for everyone! teers for helping to zation in the area. make 2013 such a Thank you! All Divisions saw successful season. I some exciting & would especially like 2013 Fall Baseball Inside this issue: competitive baseball to thank the following Baseball 1 throughout the sea- people for going that After such an overwhelm- Girls Lacrosse 1 son. Both of our Ma- extra mile this Baseball - Continued 2 jors’ Divisions fea- year......... Travel Baseball 2 tured exciting playoff Travel Baseball - Continued 3 series. Congratula- Travel Baseball - Continued 4 Travel Baseball - Continued 5 Girls Trailblazers Lacrosse Travel Baseball - Continued 6 Spring 2014 registration The 3rd & 4th grade, stick and goggles. Time Travel Baseball—Continued 7 will be available online 5th & 6th, and 7th & 8th is 6-7:30pm on Sunday Travel Baseball—Continued 8 Jan. 1st and walk in reg- grade teams will have 2 nights at the Telegraph Soccer 9 istration will posted on practices per week, par- Road fields and will Connie Mack Baseball 10 our website in Decem- ticipate in league play begin on August 11, Basketball ber. and tournament play. 2013. 11 Basketball - Continued 12 Deep Run Trailblazers New this fall we are of- Any questions please Softball 13 — Girls Lacrosse - will fering a fall Sunday Lax contact Kathy Loughery Softball—Continued 14 be open to all girls in program. This is an at: Softball—Continued 15 grades 1-8. open night of lacrosse [email protected] Softball—Continued 16 games. All are wel- 1st-2nd graders will come. No drills, just Boys Lacrosse 16 have practice 1 time a games! Never Message from President 17 week and participate in played before--just a few round robin tour- bring a mouth guard Message from President - 18 naments. and we will supply a Continued Page 2 Volume 5 Issue 3 Baseball - Continued ing success in the inaugu- It was an exciting end to a ral season, we are contin- successful travel season uing our Fall Baseball In- and amazing to see the terleague Partnership with boys grow as a team as Plumstead, Lenape Valley they carry on the Deep Run and Quakertown baseball baseball traditions. leagues. Congratulations to the 2013 Deep Run 8U Thunder- - 11/12 & 9/10 age hawks! groups will continue to play on teams of diverse 9U Thunderhawks – Blue skill levels in an intramural program that will have The 9U Thunderhawks sum- interleague games with mer travel season truly those organizations. TRAVEL heading into our own Field embodied our team’s mot- of Dreams (FOD) tourna- to: (including at least one mid BASEBALL -week night game “under ment held during the last week of July. the lights” in Quak- 8U Thunderhawks – Blue ertown.) To end the sea- See picture above Our opening game of the son, we will be organizing After some training clinics with FOD tournament was a Baseball our first “Fall Classic” our coaches and some assis- classic. Deep Run was where teams from each of tance from the Bucks County down 2-0 from the first in- these age groups and or- Baseball Academy, the 8U ning to the top of the 6th program selected a team of ganizations will compete when our bats finally came 12 players: alive and we took a 5-2 in a round robin type tour- Aiden Carey lead. Central Perk battled nament. Alex Carlson back but our Deep Run - 7/8 year old age Alex Derk boys held on to win a hard Summer 2013 groups will continue to be Ashton McCloskey fought game 5-4. Our team more of a “training camp” Bryce Binder then went on to win our CJ Dimmick feel. It will run on Sunday next 2 games over Hatfield Colin Finley and Northampton Orange afternoon for two hours Conor Flynn by the 10 run mercy rule and will consist of basic Gannon Perlini sending us into the champi- fundamental baseball skill Luke Mastrogiovanni onship rounds on Sunday. stations, fun training Matt Campione Tyler Sabol games, and the last 45 In the semi-final round Deep Run defeated the minutes will be a split They were coached by Steve Northeast Titans by a score squad game using the McCloskey, Matt Campione, of 8-1 to take us into the Al Perlini and Steve Sabol. pitching machine. The last championship game versus two weeks of the season #1 seed Harleysville. we will be scheduling a The 8U travel team played in 2 tournaments this season. The few games to played first was a double elimination In the championship game, Please contact Colleen against the 7/8 year old tournament in Levittown. It our boys jumped out to 3-0 Knapp [email protected] programs from the organi- was a long trek to Lower lead in the top of the first zations listed above. Bucks County during the 90+ and never looked back, de- for questions or needs degree heat feating Harleysville 10-0 to relating to newspaper wave. Unfortunately, our boys win our very own Field of submissions or any other Dreams tournament! lost both of our games but it publicity requests. gave us great experience Deep Run Valley Sports Association Page 3 Travel Baseball - Continued “It’s No Fun Playing Deep play better. The coaching staff could Back Row, left to right: Run.” not be happier for each of Coach Greg Mastrogiovanni, The Pennridge tournament the boys. The 9 year olds Coach Bryan Monahan, At the very first practice the brought out some of the best “Effort” resulted not only in Manager Tim Healy, Coach coaching staff asked the effort in our boys as they wins, but an appreciation of Ken Rush boys to do one thing: Give battled to make Sunday’s one another and the devel- Middle Row: Anthony all the Effort they can de- playoff round against the opment of new friendships Buccafuri, Abel Saft, spite any circumstance – host team late on Saturday. along the way. and boy did they answer all It was heroic time again as Colin Monahan, Ryan Healy, 10U Thunderhawks season. another two out, full count, Alex Podraza, Trent Fisher What an amazing season walk-off RBI single got the Front Row: Matt Thompson, for the 10U Thunderhawks. The 9U boys earned a repu- team to Sunday. Ultimately Clark Baker, The summer tournament tation for fighting through falling to a strong Bran- Timmy Mastrogiovanni, team participated in four adversity and coming back dywine team to finish 5th of Christian Rush and tournaments and made it to from early inning deficits 12 teams that week. Michael Eissler and battled to the very end the Championship game in of every game. The 9U Our very own Field of all of them! Taking home This group of boys exempli- ‘cardiac kids’ were truly a Dreams tournament was a 1st place at Boyertown, fies teamwork as every player team from top to bottom tremendous success. Before Deep Run Field of Dreams, on this team were main con- with each player contrib- any pitch was thrown our 9U and Pennridge. They took tributors to the team success. uting in tough situations to families really stepped up by 2nd place at Harleysville, They prided themselves on help earn every victory and devoting their time, money, losing a close game against great defense, solid pitching, earn even more respect with supplies and sweat to en- rival Lenape Valley. That and timely hitting. They fin- every defeat. No one want- sure all who visited the Deep loss was the only one the ished the season throwing ed to play the Deep Run 9s. Run complex would walk team surrendered all sea- five shutouts in their last nine away impressed with our son, finishing the summer games. This team won games The 9U team played in 5 organization. With another season 21-1! tournaments in 6 weeks year under our belt the next highlighted by finishing in FOD will run even smoother. 2nd place twice against fierce competition at Boy- The boys played their best ertown and Souderton. Both baseball of the season dur- semi-final playoff games ing FOD week but despite a saw the boys fight back and 2-1 record with the second win on walk-off RBI singles most runs scored, we failed with 2 outs in the last inning to make the playoff round to advance to each champi- against some great baseball onship game before ulti- teams – thanks to the dread- mately falling just a bit shy ed tie breaker scenarios.