Pittston
August 2025
Cole West leads North Pocono Trojans over Pittston Area
August 30, 2025 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski
With starting running back sidelines early in the contest West picks up the pace in a key early season showdown YATESVILLE- North Pocono’s starting running back Joe Briskie, came out of the game on the third play of the contest due to shoulder injury, coach Greg Dohhon, needed someone to step up to fill the […]
The J-Man’s View Of District 2: 2 games in before Labor Day!
August 27, 2025 | Jared Samuel
Who else remembers the days when the season started later? I remember, and though I might be dating myself a bit I recall those were the days before the State playoff system began. I’ll gladly take the trade-off! And now it means teams will have 2 games in before Labor Day — that will sure […]
2025 Wyoming Valley Conference Media Day
August 10, 2025 | Jared Samuel
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2025 PFN Team Preview: The Pittston Area Patriots
July 28, 2025 | Jake Mills
Head Coach: Paul Russick PIAA DISTRICT 2 Class 5A 2024 Record 2-9 Key Starters Lost Gerry Groom, Matt Walter, Colin Smith, CJ Pietzrak, Sam Hankey, Gavin Wolfe Key Newcomers Kayden Walker, Dan Girman, Jordan Talarico, Christian Cerasaro, Logan Slater, Deondre Miller, Kayden Bailey, Returning Starters Offensive Starters Returning: 6 OL – Brandon […]
Pioneers Win 74th Annual Unico Game 21-7 (Video Highlights)
May 29, 2025 | Jake Mills
The Pioneers defeated the Miners 21-7 in the 74th Annual Unico Game. The Pioneers were led by Wyoming Area running back Lidge Kellum who had 2 touchdowns. The Pioneers consisted of players from Wyoming Area, Berwick, Hazleton Area, Holy Redeemer, Lake-Lehman, Nanticoke, Wilkes-Barre Area and Wyoming Seminary. Anthony DeLucca out of Wyoming Area scored the […]
2025 PFN Player Profile: Getting to Know Pittston Area IOL/DT Gunnar Zaledonis
May 2, 2025 | Hunter Myers
Gunnar Zaledonis IOL / DT Pittston Area High School Class of 2026 Jersey #74 HT/WT 6’2 / 275 Other Sports – Track & Field 2022 – 1st Team All Wyoming Valley Conference Twitter – @GunnarZale Coach says “Gunnar will be a four-year starter on our offensive line, which speaks volumes about his consistency and talent. […]
District 2 Playoff Preview
November 1, 2024 | Jared Samuel
Final District 2 Standings 1A 1. Lackawanna Trail (9-1) 2. Old Forge (4-6) 3. Holy Cross (3-7) 2A 1. Riverside (9-1) 2. Susquehanna Community (6-4) 3. Dunmore (4-6) 4. Lakeland (3-7) 5. Holy Redeemer (0-10) 3A 1. Scranton Prep (9-1) 2. Western Wayne (9-1) 3. Wyoming Area (9-1) 4. Mid Valley (7-3) 5. Lake Lehman […]
Wyoming Area’s strong run game aids in win over Pittston Area 28-0
October 26, 2024 | EJ Samuel
When you think of rivalries in NEPA, you may think of ones such as Gerry’s vs Angelo’s, KRZ vs Rock107 or Froggy101, WBRE vs WNEP or Fox56 even for a while the WV Mall vs Steamtown…but when it comes to football, it’s Wyoming Area vs Pittston Area. Both teams knew this and with only 1 […]
Jr High Football Spotlight: Pittston Area defeats arch rival Wyoming Area 28-20 (Video Highlights)
October 21, 2024 | Jake Mills
On a Monday night in Yatesville, The Pittston Area Patriots hosted arch rival Wyoming Area in the Jr High edition of their annual rivalry game. After no scoring for almost 2 quarters, Deondre Miller of Pittston Area opened up the scoring with 20 seconds left in the 1st half. Pittston Area jumped out to a […]
4th Quarter Comeback leads Hazleton Area over Pittston Area 20-14 (Video Highlights)
October 12, 2024 | Jake Mills
Hazleton Area comes back late in the 4th quarter to defeat Pittston Area 20-14. Hazleton Area started the game off on the right foot as Freddy Corrado found Yohansel Moran to give the Cougars an early 6-0 lead. But Pittston Area came right back, Quarterback Paulie Ferintino ran in for the score and the Patriots […]
Wilkes-Barre Area uses strong second half to defeat Pittston Area
October 5, 2024 | Jared Samuel
It certainly looked to be a good matchup on paper as the Pittston Area Patriots made the short trip down River Street to face the Wilkes-Barre Area Wolfpack. Both teams entered at 2-4, Pittston coming off a tough loss against Crestwood and Wilkes-Barre reeling a bit from a shutout loss to Hazleton. Prior to the […]
Pittston Area at Wilkes-Barre Area — PHOTO GALLERY
October 4, 2024 | Sherryl Samuel
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Crestwood gets past Pittston Area
September 28, 2024 | John Kotsko
There was one word that Crestwood head coach Ryan Arcangeli can say about senior Lincoln Bibla. “Special.” Arcangeli said. “He’s a strong kid, his character is strong. He works so hard and deserves this.” Arcangeli continues. Bibla had two rushing touchdowns as Crestwood got their road victory at Pittston Area 21-14. Bibla on his performance […]
Geskey, Zapoticky power Dallas to second straight win beating Pittston 30-22
September 21, 2024 | EJ Samuel
Dallas wanted to continue the ride in the win column, and Pittston Area didn’t make it easy by any stretch. Dallas won the toss and elected to receive, and although I was personally puzzled by this decision, it appears Dallas knew what they were doing as Dallas’ Dylan Geskey threw the first punch, putting them […]
Mid Valley defeats Pittston Area 32-0 in Season Opener (Video Highlights)
August 24, 2024 | Jake Mills
Mid Valley beats Pittston Area 32-0 in their season opener. Jakob Lesher of Mid Valley scored all 5 of his team’s touchdowns. 2 of those touchdowns came on the defensive side of the ball. Mid Valley hosts Berwick next week and looks to keep the momentum going. While Pittston Area will travel to North Pocono […]
2024 WVC Division 1 Preview
August 19, 2024 | John Kotsko
Crestwood Comets Head Coach: Ryan Arcangeli 2023 Record: 5-6. Lost in District 2 4A Quarterfinals to Nanticoke 2024 Schedule The Comets are led by junior quarterback Jaden Shedlock whose last season ended early due to an injury. Shedlock rushed for 859 yards and 10 touchdowns. He threw for 472 yards and four touchdowns. Colin […]
2024 Wyoming Valley Conference Media Day — PHOTO GALLERY
August 8, 2024 | Sherryl Samuel
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2024 PFN Player Profile: Getting to know Pittston Area OL/DL/FB Brody Spindler
August 3, 2024 | Jared Samuel
Brody Spindler DL/OL/FB Pittston Area Class Of 2026 Jersey # 55 HT/WT 5’11″/230 Sophomore year stats of note: 267 rushing yards, 4 rushing TD’s as FB Other sports: Wrestling (went 31-9 as a Sophomore at 215 lbs) Coach says “Brody is a returning 2 year starter for the Patriots who also played nearly every minute […]
2024 PFN Player Profile: Getting to know Pittston Area DB/WR Lucas Lopresto
July 30, 2024 | Jared Samuel
Lucas Lopresto DB/WR Pittston Area Class Of 2027 Jersey # 1 HT/WT 5’10″/ 170 Freshman year stats of note: 38 receptions for 679, 8 TD’s Other sports: Basketball, Track & Field Twitter/X: @lucaslop46 Coach says “Lucas played in just about every minute of every game as a freshman last season and became one of the […]
73rd Annual UNICO Game: Miners pound the Pioneers
June 2, 2024 | Jared Samuel
Coming out of last year’s UNICO Game, the de-facto “Senior Bowl” for the Wyoming Valley Conference, the talk was unfortunately centered around the unsportsmanlike play and several player ejections. This season, in the 73rd edition of the UNICO game, sportsmanship was on full display early and often. Players from the Miners and Pioneers squads met […]
Kotsko’s View of the WVC Week 3 2023.
September 7, 2023 | John Kotsko
Labor Day is past and now we have hit Week 3 of the 2023 High School Football season. We’ve seen some pretty impressive accomplishments in the first two weeks of the season. We saw a shootout in Mountain Top where Brady Zapoticky and Jaden Shedlock traded blow for blow with Dallas taking the victory over […]
District 2 2023 Week 2 Recap
September 4, 2023 | John Kotsko
Abington Heights 35 Wilkes-Barre Area 28 Declan Walsh returned a fumble 55 yards and ran for 73 yards and a touchdown as the Comets got their first win of the season with a victory at Wilkes-Barre Area. Wolf Pack running back Howie Shiner added two touchdowns as Wilkes-Barre Area fell to 0-2. Scranton 29 Valley […]
Kotsko’s View of the WVC: Week 2
August 31, 2023 | John Kotsko
Week 1 is now in the books or is it Week 0? I always just call it Week 1 to make things easier. So we are now onto Week number 2. Football is racing through my brain and I just can’t contain this feeling that remains. Bonus points if you know the song I was […]
Kotsko’s View: Welcome to 2023!!
August 24, 2023 | John Kotsko
The 2023 Season is upon us!!! Hard to believe that it feels like it hit June 1st and now it’s suddenly the end of August and Week 1 is finally here. Several contenders from last season were hit hard by graduation and quite a few are hoping this will be the year that their program […]
