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      Sports April 3, 2008  RSS feed
      Twp. baseball looks for big results on the diamond
            Greg Page's versatility has been a welcome asset for Brick Township's baseball team. A year ago, Page filled a need behind the plate last season when the catcher was injured, It's a position he played at times in youth baseball.
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      Fish On
      Local rivers have large amounts of fish
            With New York flounder season opening up April 1, New Jersey anglers get a head start. Winter flounder and striped bass combos if you're lucky. Flounder season is in full swing with the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers producing some action over the weekend. Over the next two weeks we should see numbers pick up as more and more boats get back in the water to kick off 2008.
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      Cal Ripken league baseball gets under way
      750 players involved
            The number of players who have been eagerly practicing for the past three weeks is about the same, but the name and the fields will look a little different when Brick National and Brick American open their baseball seasons Saturday under new Cal Ripken charters after spending a half-century affiliated with Little League.
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      Mariners want to keep streak alive in Ripken league
      Team trying for threepeat
            Manager Gene Carafa does not settle for second best, which explains why his Mariners team has reached the Brick American Little League championship game five of the last nine years and won it every time after a runnerup finish a year earlier in 1998.
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      Mets looking for another title; this time in Ripken league
            Jeff O'Neill has managed the Mets'drive to three championships in four years in the Brick National Little League, which has switched its charter to Cal Ripken for this season, by cutting down mistakes and the ugly results that often follow.
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      High school golf teams ready to tee off this spring
            Brick Memorial's golf team will be hard pressed to repeat at Ocean County champion after enjoying perhaps its greatest season ever as the Mustangs and crosstown rival Brick Township are fielding young teams for the season that begins this week.
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      Boys lacrosse teams ready to hit the field
      Brick Memorial opened against Jackson Liberty; Twp. faces TR East today
            Tom Lindquist and Jayson Franceschini, who helped Brick Memorial's hockey teamreach theNJSIAAPublic A semifinals last month, were looking to bring greater success to the school's boys lacrosse team as it opened Wednesday this week at home against Jackson Liberty under new coach BrentMiddlemiss.
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      Twp. girls ready for big track and field season
            Senior distance runner Amber Hessenkemper could make the difference for Brick Township in its big meets this season. "This could be a big meet team, but a championship team, I don't know," said coach Bill Brunner, whose Green Dragons during the indoor season finished two points out first place to Roxbury in the NJSIAAGroup III championships.
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      Judgment day for Rutgers NFLhopefuls at Pro Day
      Rice, Zuttah attract the most attention at annual event
            Anybody who has followed Rutgers football over the past three seasons knows that Ray Rice will be among the first running backs selected in the NFLDraft later this month. But what some may not realize is that there are a slew of other draft hopefuls on the team, many of whom showed scouts what they can bring to a team at Rutgers Pro Day last Wednesday.
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