The Erskine Academy golf team showed off its mental toughness, as well as its physical ability, this past week.

THORNDIKE — It was the first football game on Mt. View’s new field. No more bus trips to Belfast for a home game, no more bus trips to Larrabee Field, a few miles from the school in Knox.

On the day that I was born, the Boston Red Sox swept a doubleheader from the Cleveland Indians, winning 5-1 and 2-0. The wins put the Sox 1.5 games ahead in the American League East. They went on to lose the division by a half game to the Detroit Tigers, and I was officially a member of miserable Red Sox Nation.

The last thing Lawrence High School football coach John Hersom wanted to see come to Keyes Field tonight is an 0-1 Bangor team. Not only did the Rams lose their opener to Brunswick, 36-28, they surrendered 428 yards rushing and five touchdowns to Brunswick’s Jared Jensen.

Xavier Lewis has been to Keyes Field. He’s seen the fans, lined up two, sometimes three deep along the rope that surrounds the field. He’s heard the fans heckle opponents. If he ran out of bounds, those fans would be close enough to whisper in his ear. They’re so close, you can tell if they had onions on their pregame pizza at Sonny’s.

Mt. Blue returned just four starters from an offense that averaged 47 points per game in 2011, but in their season opener at Brewer on Friday night, the Cougars didn’t miss a beat.

There is nothing like playing a football game. Before each game, you practice and plan for a week. Details are studied, then they’re studied again. From the second you step off the field at the end of one game, you’re slowly building yourself back up for the next one.

Lawrence was scheduled to take on Edward Little on Friday night at Walton Field, but a thunderstorm shortly before kickoff forced the delay of the game to Saturday afternoon. No matter. Led by a typically stingy defense, the Bulldogs rolled to a 39-16 victory over the Red Eddies, in the season opener for both teams.