Since Brian Jones has been at the helm of the Pinelands Regional boys tennis team, the Wildcats hadn’t started a season with a perfect record through its first 10 matches. Of course, there’s a first for everything.

“The team we have this year would have been the team we had last year, so it stinks we lost the experience we could have gained,” said Jones, whose Wildcats bounced previously undefeated Point Pleasant Beach, 5-0, on May 7. “These guys are good. They want to play. They want to learn.