SOMERSET — Zachary Deane would have approved of the venue. He loved the times he spent on the front soccer fields at Somerset Berkley Regional High School.

That is where friends, teammates, schoolmates, family members, teachers, administrators and more gathered at dusk on Wednesday for a candlelight vigil to honor the memory of Deane, the town resident and SBR senior who on Aug. 10 died of the rhabdomyosarcoma, a fast-attacking and lethal form of cancer.

As estimated 200-plus people took part in the vigil, adjacent to the scoreboard, which was lit up with Deane's soccer jersey number, 16. The event was also a fundraiser for both a scholarship and a memorial bench to be established in his honor.

“This just meant the world to me,” said Ashley Deane, Zachary's mother. “Just what I needed.”

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