Facing a certain loss, its third straight, with just over five minutes left in the game, the Barnegat football team could have packed it in and called it a night against perennial NJSIAA Central Group II and Shore Conference power Manasquan.
“We never, ever, give up,” said senior quarterback Matt Xiques, who engineered the Bengals’ only scoring drive late in the fourth quarter of a 28-8 loss to the Warriors on Nov. 6. “We always talk about it in practice and drive it down everyone’s throats.
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