Ready for the next level
     Left: Allentown High School's Vincent Rini signs a letter of intent to play lacrosse at Pace University in New York, in the company of Athletic Director Brian Irwin (l-r), his parents, Charles and Augusta, and coach Michael Keys. Above: Lauren Salge, also a senior at Allentown High School, signs a letter of intent to play both field hockey and softball at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pa., in the company of coach Mary Ellen McCarthy (l-r), her father and mother, Edward and Linda, and Irwin.
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Fluke starting to bite
Fish On • RON NUZZOLO
      Fluke fishing in the Garden State is in full swing. Hundreds of boats covered the tip of Sandy Hook this week, drifting for enough keepers to make a dinner. Water temperatures in the bay reached 63 degrees, and this should turn on some good summer fluke action in the coming weeks.
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Sports Shorts
      Mary Ellen McCarthy is Allentown High School's first coach to be inducted into the New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association Hall of Fame. McCarthy has been the head field hockey coach at the high school for 14 years.
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