Following the Pinelands Regional football team’s victory over Brick two weeks ago, Montrell Carter still felt a little disrespected that some people were still picking against the Wildcats. Jamie Jenkins insisted he and his teammates were for real, that the gas pedal was going to stay down.

Maybe everybody should start believing them, especially opposing teams.

Pinelands faced its biggest test of the season thus far when the Wildcats hosted Lacey on Sept.