During Kevin Peters’ first season as head coach of the Barnegat boys soccer program, his Bengals won 11 games and had a winning season, finishing four games over the .500 mark. The next season, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bengals were winless.

This year’s seniors were not part of that winless season, but they didn’t enjoy any more than five victories during the three following seasons. So, Peters has seen the good, the bad and the ugly.

“This was a special group from the get-go, and I don’t think we’d had as talented a group as what we came into this…