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WYALUSING &#8212; The Pittston Area girls won the team title at the Lasagna Invitational April 24 Friday night.The Patriots scored 94.5 points to win the championship by 21.5 points over Athens. Scranton Prep was third in the 22-team field with 66 points.Abby Norwillo matched her school record at 9-6 while winning the pole vault and the 3200 relay team also finished first to lead the championship effort.Samantha Mayers finished second in the 800 in addition to being part of the winning relay. Tara Johnson was on that team and took fourth in the 3200 run. They were also both part of the fourth-place 1600 relay team.Arianna Boccardi led off and Madison Mimnaugh anchored the 3200 relay win.Allie Barber and Kirsten Durling ran the first two legs of the 1600 relay.Olivia Giambra took second in the triple jump and third in the long jump while Mia Cain was third in the high jump.Scranton Prep&#8217;s Madison Ashby, a Jenkins Township resident, was fourth in the javelin while Pittston Area&#8217;s Allison Parrent and Marley O&#8217;Brien were fifth and sixth.Iana Davis added a sixth place in the shot put.The Pittston Area boys finished 12th with 27 points.Colin Tracy led the way, placing third in the 300 hurdles and fourth in the 110 high hurdles.Angelo Aita, Michael Barney, Naseem Guillaume and Josh John formed the third-place 400 relay team.

Pittston Area girls track and field team claims team title at Lasagna Invitational