by Jeff Clark, Staff Writer
PASS CHRISTIAN (GG) — If you’re going to make history, do it loudly. The Pass High Pirates did indeed make history on Friday, Oct. 17, and they did so in a resounding fashion. In a 49-0 shutout win over Moss Point, the Pirates won the region title for the first time (since 1981), writing their own history along the way.
“This win is great for the school and the community,” Head Coach Jeff Stockstill said. “We set goals throughout the season, and making the playoffs was one of our goals. Now, we shift focus to the next goal.”
The region 8-4A title is the first for the Pirates, who have fielded a football team for 95 seasons and have had only one 10-win season, which was 50 years ago in 1975. And while the win takes the Pirates to 7-1, the blowout over the Tigers is something to celebrate, if even for a moment.
“We set clear expectations for our team and continue to remind them about the commitment week-to-week of playing hard and not letting each other down,” Stockstill said.
The blowout win was a typical “Stockstill game” of explosive plays on offense, starting with quarterback Paris Trivillion, who finished the night with three passing touchdowns and put up 118 yards rushing, finding the endzone himself on two rushing touchdowns. The Pirates out-rushed the Tigers by almost 200 yards in Friday’s shakedown.
Two of Trivillion’s passing touchdowns were to Wide Receiver/Defensive Back Larkin Lewis, who had 52 receiving yards.
The Pirates scored almost every time they possessed the ball Friday night, which was a “Pink Out” for breast cancer awareness.
Dwight Thomas put the Pirates on the board first on Friday on a 34-yard dart from Trivillion. Kicker Kaiden Mooney got the extra point and was perfect on point-after attempts in the victory.
Leading 21-0 at the start of the second, the Pirates would find the endzone three additional times in the second quarter with a 47-yard run by Trivillion, a three-yard run by Cecil Lizana, and a 10-yard run by Ryland Shoulders.
The Pirates had 42 unanswered points at the start of the third, as the clock ran nonstop per regulation. The Pirates would find the endzone one more time in the third with a seven-yard TD run by Trivillion to ice the game 49-0 during garbage time.
The Pirates will face a 6-2 Region 8-3A champion West Marion Friday, October 24 at the Francis S. McDonald Stadium for Senior Night before finishing the regular season with a trip across the bridge to face Bay High on Thursday, Oct. 30.
(Photos by Aimee Cronan/The Gazebo Gazette via Associated Press)
