Last spring, the Barnegat girls lacrosse team was powerful enough that winning a Shore Conference Class B South title for the first time in program history was very much a possibility. The Bengals didn’t get the chance to fulfill that goal when COVID-19 wrecked the season.

But even after graduating nine seniors, including one of the program’s most prominent scorers, Maddie Schleicher, coach Lyndsey Torre had enough players returning – including a handful of seniors – to make that run for the…