With the NJSIAA sectional tournaments right down the road, the Barnegat boys and girls bowling teams got a little taste of bigger competition when they competed against the conference’s best squads in the Shore Conference Tournament on Jan. 23-24.

And while neither of the Bengals’ teams broke through the top 10, David MacGillivray managed to crack the top five as an individual, scoring a 689 series to finish fourth by just seven pins.