New-look Hawks face familiar expectations
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Every football season brings new challenges. Last year, for Dave Callahan's Monmouth University Hawks, it was handling the pressures of high expectations. With a 10-2 record, a Northeast Conference championship and a bowl berth (the Gridiron Football Classic played on Kessler Field against San Diego), the veteran Hawks delivered.
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BlueClaws win, keeping their playoff hopes alive
      LAKEWOOD - A scheduled doubleheader was rained into one nine-inning game, but it was still a successful night on Monday for the BlueClaws at FirstEnergy Park. Lakewood picked up a 5-0 win over Hickory to move within five games of the firstplace Crawdads.
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Gottcha Gold a runaway winner at Iselin Stakes
Brother Bobby rallies for second; Indy Wind third in Grade III race
      OCEANPORT - Centaur Farms' Gottcha Gold broke on top but was headed early by Barcola before opening up around the far turn and romping home a four-anda half length winner in the $300,000 Philip H. Iselin Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday before a crowd of 11,114.
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World-record fluke caught in New Jersey waters
RON NUZZOLO Fish On
      The news is out - a potential worldrecord fluke was caught this week in New Jersey. Controversy, congratulations, disbelief or a fluke - the Internet fishing sites are loaded with all kinds of questions and comments. Monica Oswald of Neptune landed a 38- inch, 24.
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Sports Shorts
      The Atlantic Eagles, a U9 MOSA Peninsula club soccer team, will hold tryouts on Aug. 21, from 5:30-7 p.m. at the soccer fields behind Monmouth Park in Oceanport. For more information, call Craig at (732) 666- 1881, or Dave at (732) 890-0091.
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