Dodging defenders
     PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Left: Long Branch running back Travis Patterson eludes a tackle from a Princeton defender during the third quarter of the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III playofff game at Matawan High School last Saturday. Right: Long Branch quarterback Isaiah Hall escapes multiple tackles...
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Shore area teams ready to do it for real this time
RFH, Holmdel football to square off Friday night in state semis
BY DOUG McKENZIE Correspondent
      Both the Rumson-Fair Haven and Holmdel football teams won their Central Jersey Group II openers on Friday. Now everyone gets the second-round match-up they were hoping for. The Bulldogs traveled to North Plainfield and beat a game Canucks team, 21-14, overcoming an early deficit in the process a...
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Leading the pack
     CHRIS KELLY staff Rumson-Fair Haven's Ashley Hopkins (No. 1007) leads a small pack to the finish line in the NJSIAA Group II Girls cross country race at Holmdel Park last Saturday.
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Fish On
Bass are plentiful throughout the area
RON NUZZOLO
      Water temperatures are finally in the low 50s and the bass are in full swing. From the Raritan Reach, Sandy Hook rips, Romer Shoals, Flynn's Knoll or wherever you were, the birds were working. Bass have been plentiful but mostly shorts, with a mix of small blues. Jigs are producing mostly shorts,...
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Caseys finish second at state X-country
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      In the latest round of Red Bank Catholic-Monsignor Donovan girls cross country rivalry, the Toms River school came out on top. A week after finishing second to RBC at the New Jersey Catholic Track Conference Championships, Monsignor Donovan regained the upper hand in the rivalry by capturing the ...
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Sports Shorts
      Drew University's Glenn Fitzgerald (Red Bank/Red Bank Regional) was named to the inaugural All-Landmark Conference men's soccer team. Dan Bonder and Greg Zizik were named to the Landmark first team, and Glenn Fitzgerald and Jeff Rogers earned second team honors as the conference coaches selected ...
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