When the Pinelands Regional and Barnegat girls volleyball teams first met this season, on Sept. 9 in Little Egg Harbor, the Wildcats absolutely scorched the Bengals, to the tune of 25-3, 25-15. However, that was Barnegat’s first match with a new coach, and Tom Lang was working in new setters as his squad transitioned to a bit of a new system.

The first game of their second meeting on Sept. 29 was starkly different.

“We underestimated them because we beat them the first time we played,” said Pinelands senior setter Molly…