In the state tournament, a bad bounce here or an errant shot there can end a field hockey team’s run very quickly. Barnegat’s young team learned that lesson the hard way on Oct. 23, as the Bengals lost a 1-0, overtime contest against Lacey during the first round of the NJSIAA South Jersey Group II tourney.
“We just got unlucky,” said coach Jaime DiStefano, whose squad dipped to 10-8-1 with a divisional matchup with Jackson Liberty still to play. “There’s not much else to say about it.
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