On home ice for the first time ever Friday night, the newly formed Northern Maine Pioneers gave up two early goals and never recovered.

Presque Isle’s first junior hockey team dropped their home opener 4-1 to the previously winless Woodstock Slammers.

“I don’t think we came with the mental mindset to play 60 minutes,” Pioneers head coach Jack Lowry said. “We showed in spurts what we can do when we’re all firing on the same page. Tonight, we got a little bit too much individual play.”

The new franchise is now 1-4 with the loss. Three of those losses come from the Presque Isle Frontiers, the National Collegiate Development Conference team that was supposed to play in the city this season but was revoked from its ownership group after just three games amid severe roster trouble.

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