It was two years ago when the head coach of the Barnegat High School football Bengals, Rob Davis, found himself in an unenviable position.

The core members ofthe team that went all the way to theNJSIAA South Jersey Group 2 championship game in 2013 had all departed, and Davis was left to pick up the pieces with mostly inexperienced underclassmen. But those sophomores who were taking their lumps are now seniors, andthey look to help the Bengals end a playoff drought of three years.