When Haddon Heights’ Sophia Bordi no-hit the Barnegat softball team during the NJSIAA South Jersey Group 2 quarterfinals, then-freshmen Brianna Dato, Riley Schmidt, Eva Watts and Jadeyn Bodziak had no thought whatsoever they’d be playing on the final day of the season just over three years later.

“If you would have told me then that we’d be playing for a state title my senior year, I would have said you’re crazy,” Dato said shortly after the Bengals pulled off a 4-2 victory to beat A.L.