Throughout the season, the Pinelands Regional girls soccer team had shown flashes of brilliance. In the first round of the NJSIAA South Jersey Group II tournament on Oct. 30, the Wildcats’ brilliance was tempered by Manasquan, as the 10th-seeded Warriors managed a 3-1 victory and ended Pinelands’ season.

“We knew before the game that Manasquan would play an offside trap, and we didn’t do a good job of recognizing when they set it up,” said coach Dawn Paget, whose seventh-seeded Wildcats finished…