The win was nice, but St. Benedict’s was left wanting more after beating Seton Hall Prep, 1-0, in the semifinals of the Essex County Tournament.

The No. 1 ranked Gray Bees felt they played better than that scoreline indicated and in a rematch with the No. 14 ranked Pirates on Monday in the North, Non-Public A semifinals, they got a chance to show that with a 5-1 win at Rutgers-Newark.

“The first time, when we played them in the counties, the score line didn’t reflect our performance,” St. Benedict’s coach Jim Wandling said. “I thought that was a relatively dominant performance from us the first time around, but we didn’t get the goals to necessarily decide the game and put ourselves in a position where we were safe.”

After knocking on the door and exerting its play style on the game ear

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