BANGOR – When he arrived at Cameron Stadium on Friday night, Tom Robinson had no recollection of the last time his Mt. Blue of Farmington football team left Bangor High’s home field with a victory.

He could be excused for that lack of memory. The year was 1991, and Robinson was 3 years old.

By the time Robinson and his teammates left that same field a few hours later, they had plenty of memories, and they were all good – as Mt. Blue spoiled the Rams’ Homecoming with a 42-0 victory in their Pine Tree Conference Class A encounter.

“We came up here ready to play,” said Robinson, a two-way tackle. “We were all psyched up in the locker room, and we just came out here and hammered it right to them.”

Mt. Blue scored on its final four possessions of the first half to take a 28-0 lead, then immediately quashed any Bangor comeback hopes as Kevin Averill returned the second-half kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown.

“No one expects to win 42-0 against the Bangor Rams,” said Mt. Blue quarterback Mason Barker. “We wanted to come up here and show Bangor what we were about, but no one expected this.”

Barker completed 9 of 11 passes for 131 yards and rushed for 61 yards and two touchdowns on 10 carries in leading the league-leading Cougars to their seventh victory of the season. Mike Toothaker added 67 yards and a TD on 14 carries as Mt. Blue used offensive balance – 179 yards rushing and 131 yards passing – to keep the Bangor defense guessing.

“We’ve been known over the years as a big passing team, but when we can run the ball and cram it down people’s throats like we did tonight we do it,” said Barker. “The big hogs up front gave us that big push tonight, and we’re going to do whatever’s working best for us. We call it Mt. Blue football.”

While Mt. Blue is poised to earn the home-field advantage throughout the PTC playoffs, Bangor fell to 4-3 and saw its playoff hopes severely diminished, if not dashed entirely.

“They just beat us in every single aspect tonight, including the coaching,” said Bangor coach Mark Hackett, whose team plays Oxford Hills at South Paris in its regular-season finale next Saturday.

Bangor stopped Mt. Blue on its first possession, but a 60-yard John Moloney punt pinned the Rams at their 9-yard line. Two plays later, Bangor quarterback Ian Edwards was stripped of the ball, and Mt. Blue’s Byron Staples recovered at the 18.

Three plays after that, Toothaker took a quick pitch 13 yards into the end zone, and Moloney made the first of his six extra-point kicks to give Mt. Blue a 7-0 lead with 6:50 left in the first quarter.

“John in pregame didn’t kick the ball more than 25 yards, I thought he was kicking rocks,” said Mt. Blue coach Gary Parlin. “And then he comes up with that punt, which was a big play for us. But we expect him to make big plays because he’s made so many for us the last two years.”

Mt. Blue drove 67 yards on 14 plays to make it 14-0 on a 5-yard run by Barker early in the second quarter. Barker added a 16-yard TD run on the Cougars’ next possession before Justin Lowe closed out the first-half scoring with a 2-yard run.

Averill gathered in the second-half kickoff at the Mt. Blue 5, and worked his way up the right sideline, avoiding a Bangor tackler at midfield before racing the distance to make it 35-0 17 seconds into the third quarter.

Alex Johnson scored on a 9-yard run with 3:16 left in the third for the game’s final touchdown.

“Over the years we hadn’t done much against them,” said Robinson. “But we were so psyched up, we just wanted to come up here and give it everything we had.”

Bangor finished with 233 yards of total offense. Edwards completed nine passes for 127 yards, including four to Tyson Barron for 80 yards. Ben Silver led Bangor’s ground game with 61 yards on 12 carries.

“They were just better than we were tonight,” said Hackett. “I’d still like to play them again, I just don’t want to play them anymore tonight.”

COUGARS 42, RAMS 0

Mt. Blue (7-0) 7 21 14 0 – 42

Bangor (4-3) 0 0 0 0 – 0

MB – Toothaker 13 run (Moloney kick)

MB – Barker 5 run (Moloney kick)

MB – Barker 16 run (Moloney kick)

MB – Lowe 2 run (Moloney kick)

MB – Averill 95 kickoff return (Moloney kick)

MB – Johnson 3 run (Moloney kick)

Mt. Blue Bangor

First downs 18 10

Rushing att.-yards 44-179 28-105

Passing comp.-att. 9-11 9-25

Passing yards 131 127

Total yards 310 233

Punts-avg. 2-44.5 5-25.4

Fumbles-lost 2-1 3-3

Intercepted by 1 0

Penalties-yards 5-25 3-35

Rushing

Mt. Blue: Toothaker 14-67, Barker 10-61, Hutchinson 6-19, Johnson 5-13, Gilbert 1-7, Trask 1-4, Lowe 2-4, Robbins 1-3, Duley 2-2, Begin 1-2, S. Luker 1-(minus 3); Bangor: Silver 12-61, Gallant 9-25, Clukey 2-8, Edwards 2-4, Batchelder 1-3, Bambrick 1-2, Vanidestine 1-2

Passing

Mt. Blue: Barker 9-11-0-131; Bangor: Edwards 9-25-1-127

Receiving

Mt. Blue: Trask 3-47, Moloney 2-45, Robbins 2-27, Averill 1-7, Lowe 1-5; Bangor: Barron 4-80, Crews 3-32, Weston 2-15

A-1,600 (est.)