Local high-scholers getting ready for some football
     Above: Middletown High School North's Uly Gibson (with football), and Middletown High School South's Danny Suarez (left photo) participated in recent preseason scrimmages, and are just two of the many student-athletes in the area ready to make twoa days and the summer heat a distant memory starting ...
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South's Toto is Ga.'s Eaves Scholarship winner
      Julianne Toto has made the grade in the classroom and in pole vaulting at the University of Georgia, Athens. The Middletown South High School graduate was the winner of the 2008-09 Joel Eaves Scholar AthleteAward given out by the University of Georgia Athletic Association.
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Holmdel football will look to youth in 2008
Many sophomores will be in lineup Friday against RFH
BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Staff Writer
      The Holmdel High School football team returns just three starters from last year's Shore Conference Northern Division champion team, but coach Andy Carlstrom is optimistic that his youthful players will have a strong campaign.
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Art Official joins greats as Cane Pace winner
      Art Official joined the greatest standardbreds in the sports history when he won the $392,850 Cane Pace at Freehold Raceway on Labor Day. His driver, Millstone's Ron Pierce, has put his name alongside the greatest drivers in the sport's history.
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Golden Grand Prix concludes
BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Staff Writer
      The Jersey Shore Golden Grand Prix series of road races came to a close on Labor Day with the Pier Village 5K in Long Branch. Dersce Deriboba of Ethiopia outdueled fellow countrymen Genna Tuffa to win by two seconds with a time of 14:45.5 on a relatively cool day.
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Red Raiders seek a winning record in '08
Keyport faces difficult schedule
BY DOUG McKENZIE Correspondent
      While it doesn't feel like it's been five years since the Keyport High School football team was the class of the Patriot Division, there are those in the local football community that believe that the Red Raiders are on the verge of reclaiming that status.
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Rockets football looking to bounce back in '08
Raritan suffered through numerous injuries a season ago
BY DOUG McKENZIE Correspondent
      As the Raritan High School football team was struggling through a 2-8 season a year ago, fans throughout the Shore Conference football community were left shaking their heads, wondering how a program that had grown so accustomed to success could slip so much in a year.
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Big Brown heads nomination list for Monmouth Stakes
      Kentucky Derby and Haskell Invitational winner Big Brown tops a list of 35 nominations for the Monmouth Stakes, a mile-and-an-eighth turf test to be contested at Monmouth Park on Saturday. Trained by Richard Dutrow Jr.
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Many kinds of fish waiting to be caught in local waters
Fish On
RON NUZZOLO
      It's that time of the year again. With fall approaching, anything is possible. This is the time of the year you can land three, four or even five different species of fish. Anglers in the Garden State are doing just that. Porgies, sea bass, weakfish, fluke and bluefish are just a handful of the v...
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Sports Shorts
      Monmouth University goalie Melissa Katz stopped all but one for the Hawks field hockey team (0- 4) as they lost an overtime match, 1-0, with the West Chester Rams (2-1) on Sunday afternoon at So Sweet A Cat Field.
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Mayo, Dietrich will be key parts in Vianney grid attack
Lancers look to improve upon last year's 4-6 record
BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Staff Writer
      With several seniors returning at key positions, the St. John Vianney High School football team will be looking to improve upon the 4-6 mark it recorded last spring. Tailback Chris Mayo, who rushed for more than 800 yards a year ago, is back along with quarterback Ken Dietrich, who displayed a st...
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