Both the Pinelands Regional and Barnegat field hockey teams sustained significant losses to graduation in the spring and will spend much of the fall season trying to fill those voids, particularly when it comes to scoring goals.

In each squad’s second game of the season on Sept. 3, a 1-1 tie, it was evident that learning to develop an offensive rhythm and consistently get shots on goal was still a work in progress.

“Things are moving along,” said Barnegat coach Tammy Nicolini, in her first season with Barnegat after taking a long…