At the start of the school day on Jan. 11, Barnegat High School senior Shannon McCoy had it in her mind that the milestone coming up for her career still was another day away – particularly Tuesday, when the Bengals’ girls basketball team was scheduled to play Jackson Liberty.
“I’m not going to lie. I wasn’t expecting to do it today,” McCoy said after she led the Bengals past Point Pleasant Borough, 59-50. “I was thinking next week.”
But head coach Tammy Nicolini had another plan in mind. She wanted McCoy to reach the 1,000-point mark in her home…
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