With 10 minutes to go, the Southern Regional girls lacrosse team was in dire straits. Barnegat had just taken a two-goal lead and outplayed the Rams for much of the first 40 minutes of their Shore Conference Tournament first-round clash.

Until that point, no other team in Ocean County had stuck the Rams on the ropes and pounded at them like the Bengals. Of course, 10 minutes is a lot of time in lacrosse, but Southern needed somebody to rise and deliver a couple of counter punches.