Barnegat High School senior and Major League Baseball prospect Jason Groome was scheduled to pitch for the Bengals during Saturday’s Strikeout Autism Challenge fund-raising event at Count Basie Park in Red Bank.

The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association struck out the Bengals instead.

On Thursday, the NJSIAA ruled that Groome is ineligible to pitch until May 1 or through Barnegat’s first 12 games, whichever occurs first, on the basis that the NJSIAA’s transfer rule had been…