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The Matawan/Aberdeen Soccer League will be holding a try-out for a 9 and under girls team at 11 a.m. on July 15 for its Mid-Jersey League Team. For more information, call Rich Gerrity at 583-8598 or at (212) 390-5311.

The Middletown Soccer Club will be creating a new fall girls U-10 traveling team. For players interested in playing at a traveling level, please contact Ray Veth at 747-9588 (days) or 747-8647 (evening). Middletown residency is not a requirement. Coaches are also needed.

The Middletown Babe Ruth Challenge 2000 will beheld July 14-26 at McMahon Park, Middletown. This double-elimination baseball tournament will have the following age brackets: 8-year-old, 10-year-old, 12-year-old, 13-year-old, 15-year-old. Fee is $275 per team for 8-13-year-old brackets. $300 for 15-year-old bracket. Contact John Finnegan for more information at (732) 291-8535.

Summer Camp 2000 will be held by the United Soccer Academy for all ages and abilities between 3 and 14 years old in Fair Haven for the week of Aug. 14 -18. For more information check out the Web site at www.USAsoccer.net or call (908) 781-8887.

The Jersey Shore Summer Duals wrestling tournament will be held July 17-20 at Matawan Regional High School, Atlantic Avenue, Aberdeen, from 6 to 10 p.m. The format for the tournament will be as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday team competition, culminating in the crowning of the team champion. The top two teams will qualify for the Super Summer Duals in Toms River on Aug. 2. Thursday will be the individual competition, which is a double elimination tournament.

Weigh-ins will begin at 5 p.m. Awards will be given out for first through fifth place. For further information, call Art Perri (732) 566-0154.

Jersey Shore Baseball Academy, in conjunction with the Middletown Babe Ruth League, the Hazlet Youth Athletic League and the Holmdel Youth Athletic Association will hold summer baseball/softball camps at McMahon Field in Middletown for the weeks of July 17-21, July 24-28 and July 31-Aug. 4. Camps will be held at the HYAL Field in Hazlet the weeks of Aug. 7-11 and Aug. 14-18. Camps will be held at the Village School in Holmdel the week of July 17-21.

Camps run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the cost is $90 per child. The staff is former professional players, high school coaches, and college players and coaches. Call (732) 291-7701 for more information or to register.

Middletown Babe Ruth will begin registration for its ninth annual Fall Ball program for baseball divisions ages 10-16, softball divisions ages 10-17. Games will be played in September and October. Cost is $60.

Call Al Auerbach at 495-6608 for additional information and registration. League is limited to 400 children, so registration will be on a first-come basis. Recreational teams are welcome.