Before Jackson Liberty could move the ball 20 yards on offense, the Barnegat football team was up by 13 points.

“When there’s a pick-six on the second play of the game, that helps a lot,” said senior linebacker Jared Schworn, who registered a pair of sacks to help lead the Bengals to a 26-0 win over the Lions on Sept. 17. “We went back out for the second possession and took the ball back again when a pass somehow ended up in a defensive lineman’s hands.