Last season, the Barnegat baseball team had a consistency issue. The Bengals won a game or two, or sometimes three, only to lose the next one or two, and sometimes three. Some days, they scored a bunch of runs. Some days, they couldn’t push even one across the plate.

“At the end of the day, we can coach them up, but they have to execute” was the message from head coach Dan McCoy following a loss to Manchester midway through last season.