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The Bayview Rod & Gun Club is seeking members for its Junior Rifle League team. The team is open to ages 10-18 and competes in target shooting events throughout the state and region. The team meets on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the club’s facility on South Pine Street in Sayreville to train and practice. Team members are taught safe and correct use of firearms in addition to developing the concentration, discipline and sportsmanship necessary for tournament competition. All instructors are National Rifle Association certified. For more information, call Val Tarr at 525-0324 after 6 p.m. or stop at the club on Tuesday evenings.

East Brunswick High School is seeking varsity head coaches for boys and girls volleyball and field hockey as well as a freshman field hockey coach and a defensive coordinator for the football team for the 2000-01 academic year. For more information on the positions, call Frank Noppenberger at 613-6930.

The 11th Annual Jersey Shore Summer Duals Team/Individual Wrestling Tournament is slated for July 17-20 from 6 to 10 p.m. each day at Matawan Regional High School. The USA Wrestling sanctioned tournament is for youth wrestlers; no 2000 high school graduates are eligible. For more information, call Art Perri at (732) 566-0154 or e-mail: Huskysport@aol.com.

The Kendall Park skating and hockey facility, Route 27 and New Road, is now accepting registrations its youth summer leagues set to begin July 12. The eight- week sessions (to Aug. 30) will be held on Wednesday evenings for all divisions. For more information or to reserve a space, call Donna Dawe at (732) 297-8765.

Dwight Stones, a two-time Olympic bronze medalist and former world record holder in the high jump, will be among the world-class instructors participating in the On the Road Track and Field World Tour that will be making a stop at Lenape High School, Medford, July 8 and 9. This unique track and field camp is staffed exclusively by Olympians who will share their secrets to success with the campers. Joining Stones, the top-ranked high jumper in U.S. history, are the likes of Andre Phillips, Olympic champion in the 400-intermediate hurdles; Mike Tully, Olympic silver medalist and former world record holder in the pole vault; and Tom Petranoff, former record holder in the javelin and a two-time silver medalist at the World Championships.

For more information or to register for the On the Road Track and Field World Tour 2000, call Mike Pascuzzo at (856) 231-9696 or fax him at (856) 722-1789 or e-mail MPScooze@aol.com.

The Marlboro Little League will be holding a tournament for 8, 9, 10 and 11-year-olds on Aug. 5. Entry fee is $250 per team. Contact Gary Gleitman at 536-4578 for more information.

The Serie A Soccer Academy will be conducting camps for girls July 24-28 and Aug. 14-18 at North Brunswick High School. The first week, Georgetown University Coach Diane Drake will instruct at the camp. All campers will receive an Adidas training T-shirt and gift. Enrollment for both programs is limited. For an application or more information, call (732) 951-0322 or visit the organization’s Web site at www.seriesocceracademy.com.

The Old Bridge Parks and Recreation Department will conduct a wrestling camp for seventh- to 12th-graders on July 10-14 from 9 a.m to 3 p.m. The commuter camp is directed by Joe Dougherty, the head wrestling coach at South Brunswick High School. Clinicians include Ray Nunamaker, four-time Pennsylvania Wrestling Coach of the Year, Bill Pavlak of South Plainfield High School and the New Jersey Coach of the Year, Michael New the head coach of Princeton University and Glen Pazinko of East Brunswick High School. For more information call the Old Bridge Parks and Recreation Department at (732) 721-5600 ext. 4999 or write: Old Bridge Parks and Recreation Department, 1 Old Bridge Plaza, Old Bridge, NJ 08857. A camp brochure will be provided upon request.

The New Jersey Historical Society, 52 Park Place, Newark, is currently presenting the exhibition "Pride of Newark: Baseball’s Bears and Eagles" which explores the two teams, their players, their fans and the Newark of their time. The exhibit will be on display free of charge five days a week, Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Using video and sound effects as well as photographs, vintage film and audio, the exhibit will examine baseball’s golden years in Newark during the 1930s and ’40s. Old Rupper Stadium, the Ironbound baseball arena of its day, will be used as an entry into life in the city at that time. The Eagles were Newark’s entry in the National Negro League while the Bears were one of the legendary teams in the International Minor League. The teams played on separate days to different audiences.

For more information on the baseball exhibit, call (973) 596-8500.

The second annual MacKenzie Farrell Golf Classic will be held on July 24 at the Knob Hill Golf Club in Manalapan. The classic will benefit the Save A Limb Fund at the Maryland Center for Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction. Call 780-5965 for additional information.

Colts Neck High School boys basketball coach Lou Piccola will direct the 2000 Cougar Basketball Camp at Colts Neck High School. The camp is for boys and girls ages 7-14 and will run daily from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be three camps, July 10-14 for girls, and July 17-21 and July 24-28 for boys. The primary emphasis of the camp is the development of fundamental skills through group and individual instruction and game experience.

A complete staff of high school coaches and players with camp experience will instruct the campers through group lectures, small group drills and fundamental stations.

Piccola coached the Xaverian (N.Y.) High School varsity basketball team for 16 years. He won two New York State Class State Championships. His 1981 Class A State Championship win was led by Chris Mullin, who went on to star at St. John’s University and in the NBA, where, as a member of the Indiana Pacers, he helped win the Eastern Conference Championship and played for the NBA title this year.

Call 577-9625 after 3:30 p.m. for additional information.