Isabella Dessoye got the Pittston Area girls track and field team off to the right start.
Ali Butcher served as the closer for the Lady Patriots.
Emily Savakinas fit right in with them in her varsity debut Wednesday as Pittston Area opened its Wyoming Valley Conference Division 1 schedule with a 101-43 rout at Berwick.
All three won four times – twice as individuals and twice on relays – to lead the Lady Patriots to victory.
Dessoye showed she could be effective at three different distances.
The sophomore got the Lady Patriots started by running the first leg of the opening 3200-meter relay and also won the 800 in 2:39. Dessoye’s other individual win came when she ran the 1600 in 5:52 and she also ran a single lap as the leadoff for the winning 1600 relay.
Butcher, a senior, and Savakinas were teammates with Dessoye on the 1600 relay and also won in the 400 relay.
Butcher added two sprint victories while Savakinas swept the hurdles. Butcher ran the 100 in 13.1 seconds and the 200 in 27.7. Savakinas won the 100 hurdles in 18.1 and the 300 hurdles in 53.3.
Paige Bittman pulled out narrow victories in the long jump, by an inch, and the high jump, on the tiebreaker for fewest misses.
Olivea Scalese (3200), Annika Lien (triple jump) and Elinor Schardien (pole vault) each won individually and as part of a relay.
Nadia Rawhouse contributed to two relay wins.
Pittston Area boys 100, Berwick 41
Nicholas Logan, Caden Boettger and Jalen Moore each won two individual events and a relay in Wednesday’s WVC opener.
Logan won both hurdles races, the 110-yard high hurdles in 18.7 and the 300 hurdles in 48.4 seconds. He also ran on the 1600 relay.
Boettger won the 1600 in 5:21 and the 3200 in 10:52, then led off the winning 1600 relay.
Moore won the 200 (22.8) and 400 (53.0) along with anchoring the 400 relay.
Lucas Lopresto won the triple jump and javelin.
Brady Tucker led off the winning 3200 relay and also came in first in the 800.
Wyoming Area boys 100½, Lake-Lehman 48½
Jack Gravine and Lidge Kellum ran the last two legs of the winning 1600 relay Thursday when Wyoming Area defeated visiting Lake-Lehman in a WVC Division 2 meet.
The Warriors improved to 2-0 to share the early division lead with Tunkhannock.
Gravine ran the 100-meter dash in 11.60 seconds and threw the javelin 173-9.
Kellum won the two hurdles races in 16.9 and 44.2 seconds.
Lake-Lehman won eight of 18 events, but Wyoming Area outscored the Black Knights 50½-8½ in second- and third-place points.
Wyoming Area girls 110, Lake-Lehman 40
Taylor Gashi won four individual events to lead the way as two-time defending champion Wyoming Area moved right to the top of the Division 2 standings.
Gashi swept the jumping events and threw the discus the winning distance of 103-7. She posted a 17-0 in the long jump, 36-10 in the triple jump and 4-7 in the high jump.
Wyoming Area is 2-0, Lake-Lehman is 1-0 and the rest of the Division 2 teams have already lost. The Lady Warriors are scheduled to face the Lady Rangers in the make-up of a meet that was postponed Tuesday.
Ella McKernan won the 800 in 2:26, led off the winning 3200 and anchored the win in the 1600.
Lake-Lehman won six events, but Wyoming Area took second in 13 of 15 individual events and third in 11 of 15.
