Barnegat football head coach Paul Covine certainly wasn’t expecting his squad to have just five possessions against Toms River East on Sept. 12. Nor did he expect his Bengals to have the ball for a measly minute, 18.5 seconds in the second half.
“We were there. We were in the game,” said Covine, after Barnegat lost its first game of the season following two victories to start the season. “When you get opportunities presented, you have to finish on those opportunities. We did not.”
Barnegat possessed the football for 6:18.5 minutes on four possessions and 6:44 on one possession bridging the first…
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