Last year as an 11th seed, the Barnegat girls soccer team made a surprising run into the NJSIAA South Jersey Group 2 semifinals, stunning the sixth and third seeds along the way before bowing out against second-seeded Haddonfield.

“We ended up in the semifinals last year, so we came in confident for the tournament this year,” said senior midfielder Kylei Grant, who scored a goal and gave out two assists to help lead the fifth-seeded Bengals to a 6-0 bruising of 12th-seeded Overbrook to start the…