Splitting the defense
     ERIC SUCAR staff Brick Township's Ken Brancaccio tries to elude two Jackson Memorial defenders during the third quarter of their game in Brick on April 10.
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Dowd in the thick of NHL playoffs
19-year veteran playing with Philadelphia Flyers
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      Jim Dowd, a Brick Township native, is not thinking about possibly ending his 19-year NHL career with the Philadelphia Flyers, where he has scored five goals and had five assists in 73 games played this season coming into this week's action.
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Brick Twp. baseball squad looks to get back on track
Team off to sluggish 1-5 start
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      Jason Groschel and his Brick Township baseball teamare not about to push the panic button and start pressing for a berth in the NJSIAA and Shore Conference tournaments, despite coming into this week with a 1-5 record. "We played six games andwe havemany more on the schedule," said Groschel. "We knewthis is a toughweek playing four of the top five teams in the Shore.
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Gordon delivers in the clutch as Memorial defeats Southern
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      Justin Gordon said he can't remember ever getting a walk-off hit before Friday night when he lined an outside fastball into short right field in the eighth inning to lift Brick Memorial's baseball team to a 7-6 victory over Southern Regional in Shore Conference A South action at Brick.
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Worsley leads team to NCAA bowling crown
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      For the second straight year, a Brick bowler is on a national collegiate championship women's team. But this time, it is former Brick Memorial All-Stater Jessica Worsley, who was named theNCAAMostValuableBowler this season and who led the University ofMaryland Eastern Shore to the title on Saturday at ThunderAlley in Omaha, Neb.
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Twins provide plenty of pop at youth level
Twins having no problem transitioning from Little League
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      Tom Nerney, said he has never seen anything like it in his 30 years around kids, many of them as league president. Neither has Gene Carafa, who has managed teams for 19 years in the league that went from Little League to Cal Ripken.
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Hahn, Brodeur pace teams with record-setting performances
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      Another week, another record for DeAnne Hahn and the Brick Township girls track and field team. The senior thrower, bound for the University of Minnesota, sparked the discus and shot put relays to command performances in the West Deptford Invitational Relays on Saturday.
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Sports Shorts
      The Clifton T. Barkalow PTO, Freehold Township, will hold a 5K race on Saturday, May 31, starting at 10 a.m. at the township's Turkey Swamp Park. This is the first Blue Jay 5K run/walk and is being managed by the Freehold Area Running Club (FARC), according to race director Jan Caputo, a sixth-grade language arts teacher and cross country coach at Barkalow.
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