Trying to get a shot off
     CHRIS KELLY staff Brick Township's Anthony Desimone (3) tries to get his shot off against Jackson Memorial's Anthony Skwiat (40) during a Jan. 2 game that was won by Brick Township by the score of 52-49.
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Sports Shorts
      13U travel baseball team playing in the Central Jersey area is seeking a pitcher born after April 30, 1995. Indoor winter training workouts will begin this month for a spring travel baseball league, which will include tournaments.
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Memorial flexes its muscle on the mats
Mustangs make clean sweep of quad meet over weekend
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      Bill Miller learned a new move from Brick Memorial wrestling coach Dan O'Cone to help overcome the bigger, bulkier opponents he would take on as a "small" heavyweight. And it helped him score two pins in the opening seconds of his bouts in Saturday's quadrangular meet at Brick Memorial.
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Wojtaszek brothers off to strong start
Duo wrestles for Lake Riviera Middle School
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      There's a buzz of excitement around the Wojtaszek household this week as Dan and younger brother Kyle are taking to the mats for some of their biggest wrestling matches of the season.
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Lake Riviera wrestlers stay on top of competition
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      Lake Riviera's wrestling team, sparked by a pair of first-place finishes by Dan Rackliffe, Mak Bixenman, Dan Watson and Steve Cimino while winning holiday tournaments, is poised to defend its Ocean County Intermediate School Blue Division title in an 8-0 start, but has some of its toughest matches ahead.
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Sports Shorts
      Deweycheatumnhowe, the 2008 Hambletonian winner, has been selected as the New Jersey Standardbred of the Year for 2008 by the New Jersey Equine Advisory Board. The 3-year-old trotting colt, sired in New Jersey by Muscles Yankee, won 22 of his 25 career starts with purse earnings in excess of $3.1 million, of which more than $2.2 million was earned in '08.
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Memorial hoops teams enjoying early-season success
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer
      After playing games on the road for nearly a month into the season, Brick Memorial's boys basketball team finally has home games. Along with Monday night's game at home against Jackson Memorial, the Mustangs on Thursday this week play host to formidable Toms River North before heading back on the road on Monday against Southern.
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Getting out of harm's way
     CHRIS KELLY staff Brick Township High School's Nick Devereux (12) tries to work his way through the Jackson Memorial defense during a Jan. 2 game, which was won by Brick, 52-49.
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Sports Shorts
      Brick Township and Brick Memorial high school hockey teams, both off rousing tournament performances, renew their rivalry on Monday at 4 p.m. at the Ocean Ice Palace. Brick Township moved over the .500 mark by winning the Mackay Tournament in Englewood while Brick Memorial finished third in the Jefferson Tournament over the Christmas holidays.
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