Trying to break free
     Brick Township High School's Kurt Loftus tries to break a tackle during the first quarter of the 2008 Shore Football Coaches Foundation Shore Gridiron Classic at Brick Township High School on July 18. The annual game featured All-Star players from Monmouth and Ocean counties. JEFF GRANIT staff
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Dad and daughter hoping for big season at Georgian Court
Francisco and Angie Casado are ready to hit the volleyball court
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      The Casados are back for another year on Georgian Court's women's volleyball team. Francisco Casado, the coach, again will have on the roster his daughter, Angie, who played an important part in the team's going unbeaten in the conference and earning its first region ranking last season.
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Multiple Brick National baseball teams prosper
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      It's a summer for the ages for Brick National's baseball program. Along with its 12-year-old Majors All- Stars on Thursday winning only their second state title ever, the other one coming in 1990, its 10-year-olds also claimed what is believed to be its first state championship that same evening, both on gamewinning rallies in the final inning.
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Sports Shorts
      Rutgers senior quarterback Mike Teel was named to the Watch List for the 2008 Davey O'Brien Award. The Watch List spotlights 31 Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) quarterbacks who will vie for the award honoring the nation's best quarterback for the 2008 football season.
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Township's Jordan Marsch heading to Rowan in fall
Brookdale star eager to return to baseball after year off
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      Jordan Marsch remembers the last high school football game he played. It was representing Brick Township in the Ocean-Monmouth Gridiron Classic in 2005 and, like this year's game on Friday night, it was at his school's stadium.
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Brunner has sights set on discus greatness
BTHS freshman also competes in shot put
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      When Katie Brunner grabbed the eighth and final spot at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions in the discus with a throw of 119 feet 5 inches in May, it was a special moment for her in many ways. For one thing, she is a freshman and that tremendous throw was called the best by any freshman in the quarter-century of competition in the MOC in the discus.
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Sports Shorts
      The Ted Hendricks Foundation named its list of pre-season candidates for the 2008 Ted Hendricks Defensive End of the Year Award and Rutgers senior defensive end Jamaal Westerman was named to the list. Westerman is the eighth Scarlet Knight to be named to a Preseason Award Watch List heading into the 2008 season.
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