After a 4-0 start to the season, the Barnegat boys basketball team had a rough stretch in which head coach Mike Puorro’s Bengals lost five of their next six contests.
“We were playing OK basketball and getting away with it,” said senior Mason Krey shortly after he and his teammates scored a 51-37 win against Pinelands Regional on Jan. 31. “But you can’t play OK basketball all season and get away with it. Playing mediocre basketball caught up to us, and that was an eye-opener.”
The last time the Wildcats squared off with them, it didn’t help the Bengals were shorthanded and physically lacking,…
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