Barnegat Bengals

All season long, the Bengals have been one of the perennial powerhouses across the Shore Conference. Their skill and talent showed once more against No. 4 Collingswood, winning in straight sets and making it to their second sectional final in three years.

*Click here for video highlights by Chris Melvin* A 25-yard interception return for a touchdown by Ja’Quez Johnson with 1:55 left in the game gave the Green Dragons (8-3) a 38-24 lead and then junior running back Ray Fattaruso tacked on a 40-yard touchdown run for the exclamation point to send Brick to its first state championship game since 1994 with a 45-24 win over the Burlington Township Falco

The Bengals of Barnegat  (8-1) set the single-season school record for wins and rolled into the NJSIAA State Tournament semifinals as junior quarterback Cinjun Erskine ran for two scores and threw a pair of touchdown passes to junior Manny Bowen to knock off the Rancocas Valley Hornets (4-5) 41-13 in the Sonny’s Recycling Shore Sports Network High School Football Game of the Week.  Listen to the g