YATESVILLE — Pittston Area’s final home football game of the regular season turned into a night of celebrations for the Patriots at Charley Trippi Stadium.

The Patriots saluted a record-setting individual, a special class and a team accomplishment.

Lucas LoPresto caught 11 passes while moving into the school record books and Pittston Area completed an unbeaten run through the Wyoming Valley Conference Division 1 schedule with a 49-13 rout of visiting Hazleton Area.

A championship celebration more than two decades in the making included a game ball presentation and a poster marking some of LoPresto’s accomplishments, post-game fireworks and T-shirts commemorating the Division 1 title.

The Patriots won a WVC title in 2022 during a two-year foray into Division 2 to rebuild the program, bu

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