DULUTH — There were plenty of good things to take from Duluth East’s opener against Blaine Thursday at Ordean Stadium.

Defensively, they were sound, they possessed the ball well, but a pair of “mental mistakes,” according to coach Dave Bergan, allowed two second-half Bengals goals that the Greyhounds couldn’t match in a 2-0 loss.

“You take away those two mistakes, it’s a different ballgame that way,” he said. “We worked the middle of the field very well — our midfielders were able to control that part of the field — we just didn’t have the punch at the end.”

The Greyhounds certainly had some opportunities, and even a little bad luck — they rang one shot off the post that would have cut Blaine’s lead in half.

“We had some chances, we just didn’t capitalize and sometimes that’s how the g

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