For 14½ years, Barnegat High School’s athletic trophy case has been void of one particular piece of hardware. When the boys swim team arrived to the school parking lot and stepped off the bus just around 9 p.m. on Feb. 14, the Bengals brought that piece of hardware with them. Finally, for the first time in school history, a Bengals’ squad captured an NJSIAA state sectional championship.

“This is insane,” said Dylan Cappuccio, after he and his teammates scored a 106-64 rout of Cedar Creek in the South…