Barnegat girls basketball head coach Tammy Nicolini sent an important message to her squad at the beginning of the season.
“I told them this is the team, that if they put in the work this is the team,” she said, referring to the group of Bengals who could make history, which they did March 3 by not just advancing to the NJSIAA South Jersey Group 2 semifinals with a 56-46 win over Haddonfield, but also becoming the first team in the program’s history to win 20 games.
“They’ve worked like dogs and bought into everything we were telling them and teaching them.
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