Rebounding isn’t just an important element of basketball, it’s also vital to a team after a bitter loss. Such was the case for both the Barnegat and Southern Regional boys basketball teams during the past week.

While the Rams rebounded from a tough loss to Atlantic City with a win over Shore Conference B South foe Barnegat on Jan. 29, the Bengals were able to shake off the defeat by the Rams with back-to-back victories against Absegami on Jan. 31 and Brick on Feb. 2.

With the latest of their victories, the Bengals improved to 8-9 after they took a 17-11 lead in the first quarter and…