However hard it may be to think fall with temperatures hovering in the 80s, at least one autumn rite has come: The Wiscasset Middle High School fall sports season has started.

The Wolverines returned to the field and course on Monday, Aug. 17, for the first week of preseason practices.

The teams will have to train fast, as competition comes quickly to Wiscasset: A week after practice starts, the teams will begin hosting scrimmages.

The boys varsity soccer team will go against Medomak at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24, at home, then welcome Morse High School to Wiscasset on Monday, Aug. 31, for a 7 p.m. tilt. The boys squad won't have long before the next opponent stops by for a scrimmage, as Richmond is expected to visit Wiscasset Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 6 p.m. for a scrimmage.

The team will have its first official game the following week when the Wolverines travel to Carrabec to face the Cobras at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9. The team will have its first home game Monday, Sept. 14 against Hall-Dale at 6 p.m.

The girls varsity soccer team only has one scrimmage on the schedule so far: a Monday, Aug. 24, date with Medomak at 5 p.m.

The Wolverines will play at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, in Carrabec for the first official game of the season, and won't return home until Thursday, Sept. 17, to face the Lisbon Greyhounds at 6 p.m.

The cross country team will forgo scrimmages and instead will run competitively for the first time Wednesday, Sept. 9, in Winthrop at 4:15 p.m. then come a little closer to home for a Wednesday, Sept. 16, meet in Boothbay Harbor at 4:15 p.m.