When the Pinelands Regional High School baseball team stepped onto the field at Toms River South’s Ken Frank Stadium on May 24, many of the fans in the bleachers probably weren’t expecting much of a game. It was one of those proverbial David-versus-Goliath matchups, after all – the No. 1 seed against a lowly No. 24 seed.

But the Wildcats weren’t there to just show up and take on the team with the winningest high school baseball coach in New Jersey.