Through the first 23 years of the Southern Regional girls swimming program, the Rams came across Manasquan only during the Shore Conference Championships and never outscored the Warriors.

This year, the conference’s division realignment forced a head-to-head clash between one of Monmouth County’s better programs – there are at least five or six excellent ones, after all – and the premier program in Ocean County for three years running, and Southern achieved its best week of swimming since its…