Budding Beckhams
     PHOTOS BY ANDREW MILLER staff Above: Youngsters participate in the Red Bank Recreation Kindergaraten Soccer Clinic held at Count Basie Park in Red Bank Sept. 22. Below: Youngsters watch as a practice drill is explained.
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Time to celebrate
     Top, Shore Regional celebrates after a goal on a penalty stroke during a recent 2-0 victory over Keyport. At right, Shore Regional's Marquerite Chavez chips the ball up in the air during the first half of the game at Keyport last week. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff
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Heads up
     PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Top, Monmouth defender Bryan Davis uses his head to direct the ball to a teammate during a 2-1 loss to the Iona Gaels, snapping a 13 game home win streak. Bottom, Monmouth's Damon Wilson (l) and Iona's Ben Williams (r) battle for the ball during Saturday's game.
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RU soccer bounces back from West Coast defeats
Scarlet Knights shut out FDU before resumption of conference schedule
BY DOUG McKENZIE Staff Writer
      Coming into this season, the Rutgers University (RU) women's soccer team felt it could play with the very best teams in the country and they recently had the chance to prove it, playing in the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif.
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Fishing is solid and getting better
RON NUZZOLO Fish On
      Weakfish and striped bass are showing up along the coast in flurries from Raritan Bay to Barnegat Bay. Porgies are showing up along the local piers in big numbers, and plenty of slammer blues are still patrolling the coastline in pursuit of peanut bunkers. Bluefish have been fattening up before they head out for the winter.
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Sports Shorts
      Work, nonstop and on schedule, continues at Monmouth Park as the track prepares to host the first-ever two-day Breeders' Cup World Championships on Oct. 26-27. Monmouth will install some 28,000 temporary seats for the Breeders' Cup.
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RBC harriers sweep all races at Battle of Monmouth meet
Caseys look toward Shore Coaches meet next weekend
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      It was a clean sweep for Red Bank Catholic's highly regarded girls cross country team. The Caseys put their depth on full display Saturday at the Shore Coaches Battle of Monmouth Invitational Class Meet held at Monmouth Battlefield State Park in Manalapan.
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