It may be fair to say last week was the Pinelands Regional boys basketball team’s biggest in its history to date. But it wasn’t because the Wildcats won three consecutive games; they’d already done that this season. What set apart last week was the fact head coach Fred Johnson’s crew won three straight contests at the most crucial time of the season – right before the Shore Conference Tournament qualification cutoff.

But not only did Pinelands earn its second-ever trip to the SCT, it qualified well above the .500 mark for the first…