Within an eight-day stretch earlier this month, the Pinelands Regional boys volleyball team sustained three of its four losses, including a 2-0 drubbing by Shore Conference Class B South rival Barnegat on May 7. Two days before hammering the Bengals back in mid-April, the Wildcats lost their first match of the season – a 2-1 downer to division foe Jackson Liberty, which Pinelands then knocked off in their regular-season rematch a few weeks ago.

Interestingly, that scenario depicts an in-season triangle that will play out again this week in some way.