For the second straight year the Barnegat High School girls volleyball team tripped over the same hurdle on its way to a New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association State Group II Championship. The hurdle is the semifinal round.
The fall hurt more this time around.
In 2013, the upstart Bengals were only the 32-team championship tournament’s nine-seed. They easily handled their first-round opponent, a 24th-seeded Orange team, 25-7, 25-14, and then went on to beat Mahwah, the eight-seed, 25-22, 25-21.
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