Sports Shorts

The Ocean County College sailing team cruised to first place at the McCurdy Regatta, sponsored by the University of Delaware. At the two-day regatta, sailed out of Two Rivers Yacht Basin, on the Bohemia River in Maryland, Tyler Kennedy of Pine Beach and Sarah Salter of Toms River won the A division while Bradford Wright of Lavalette and crews Autumn Hoover of Lacey and Emi McCarthy of Brick placed second in the B division. The OCC sailing squad finished 21 points ahead of secondplace United States Military Academy. After qualifying last month for the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association (MAISA) Championships, which will be sailed at St. Mary's College in Maryland on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, the OCC team went on to place second at the Webb Regatta on Long Island Sound, and to also finish second, at the University of Pennsylvania Regatta, missing first place by just three points. For information on Ocean County College's Sailing Team, contact 732-255- 0348 or occsailing@yahoo.com.

The Lakewood BlueClaws will offer their Kids Eat Free program to all children age 12 and under on Sundays and Mondays in 2010, up from the standard Mondays at the program's 2006 inception.

Last year, children ate free at all home games as part of a special one-season program. According to a press release, the BlueClaws front office decided to expand Kids Eat Free from its original platform.

"2009 was a very unique year economically and we decided to offer Kids Eat Free at every home game," General Manager Geoff Brown said. "The plan was always to go back to Mondays, like we had done for the previous three years, but we thought it would be best for the area families if we expanded to Sundays and Mondays."

The Kids Eat Free program will once again be presented by ShopRite.

The BlueClaws recently announced that all ticket prices in 2010 will remain as they were in 2009.

Sundays, which already are Kids Character Sundays, will become the focal point of the new and improved BlueClaws Kids Club, which will be free for the first time this season, according to the baseball team.

Six of the eight Sunday home games will be Kids Club Days, where there will be special events and promotions exclusively for Kids Club members, including picnics, a player meet and greet, and ceremonial first pitches.

Senior citizens will continue to eat free on Tuesdays, thanks to TD Bank, when the BlueClaws also offer Baseball Bingo.

The 2010 season will mark the Blue- Claws 10th season of play, and the team will have a new logo and new uniforms.