A raucous home crowd packed into Peabody Stadium eager to enjoy a Friday night football game in August.
But the celebration of normalcy didn’t last long for the Santa Barbara faithful as visiting Saugus pounded the Dons 35-0 in the season opener for both teams.
“We’re a talented team. I’m not discouraged by any means,” said Santa Barbara High coach J.T. Stone. “We played a good football team tonight, but we have a lot of things to fix at practice and hopefully we can get the ball rolling.”