The goal of the year in New Jersey – perhaps a candidate for all of America, actually – came from the star player on the nation’s top-ranked team in the biggest of spots.

And that description may not even do Amadou Hann’s golden strike justice.

One-timing a shot from 35 yards away in transition with his left foot, but sending it right into the back of the net, and with his team down a man, Hann powered top-seeded St. Benedict’s – No. 1 in the NJ.com Top 20 – to a 3-2 victory over No. 5 Delbarton in the NJSIAA North Jersey, Non-Public A final at Frederick Douglass Field on the Rutgers-Newark campus.

Now 18-0-1, the Gray Bees are onward to the Non-Public A final on Sunday, where they will take on South champion Pingry. St. Benedict’s, which was not in the NJSIAA from 1991-2023, will go

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