The Pinelands Regional football team’s official homecoming game is scheduled for Oct. 11. But its opening night game against Asbury Park at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 13, will be the team’s true homecoming.

The Wildcats will be playing on a brand new field that evening in front of what should be a huge and passionate crowd, considering the football complex was closed last year due to renovation and forced the team to play away games or on an open field at nearby Freedom Fields County Park.

Returning to their own field – plus a new locker room, thanks to the high school building rehabilitation – has already…