After 42 years of football, a region championship at last for Pass Christian
Paris Trivillion had a hat trick in the first quarter, five touchdowns before the start of the fourth and held a banner in his hands when the clock hit all zeroes.
The Pass Christian quarterback led the Pirates (7-1, 3-0) to a 49-0 bruising of Moss Point (2-6, 1-2) Friday in a win that sealed the program’s first region championship in its 42nd season of classification football.
Trivillion got his first three touchdowns through the air and the last two on the ground in front of a home crowd that was treated to 42 first-half points and a moment in history.
“We’ve been working every day, staying motivated and doing the best we can,” Trivillion said after the game of the path to a Region 8-4A title. “The culture here is different. That’s how we win games.”
The Pass had come close to snagging a banner several times over the last four decades, including the first two seasons of third-year head coach Jeff Stockstill’s tenure.
An eight-point loss to Poplarville left the Pirates with a two-seed in 2023 and two one-score losses to the Hornets and Greene County created a 10-point difference between a road playoff game and a first-place finish in 2024.
Stockstill has emphasized a recentered and grounded focus throughout the present campaign, and it’s paid dividends.
“Their growth mentally handling situations, knowing how to prepare and not having one good week and then a bad week. Just putting it together back to back weeks, that’s made the difference from this group,” Stockstill said.
That approach was hammered home after a Week 3 loss to Presbyterian Christian. The Pirates immediately followed by putting together the most lopsided win in school history when it topped St. Stanislaus, 56-0.
Pass Christian then beat 5A East Central and has won its three district games with a 91-point advantage.
Stockstill’s offense comes loaded with the Mississippi Coast’s leading passer in Trivillion and the state’s leader in touchdown catches in Dwight Thomas.
The pair connected on The Pass’ first touchdown of the evening when Trivillion hit Thomas over the middle on fourth and long and Thomas did the rest, navigating through Tiger traffic for his 13th touchdown of the year.
Thomas was a target on another fourth-and-long conversion in the first quarter, leading to the second of Larkin Lewis’ two touchdown receptions.
“(Thomas) is a great, reliable target,” Trivillion said. “He’s a very reliable one-on-one guy I can always depend on to make a play.”
The senior wideout has now scored in all eight of the Pirates’ games this year.
Pass Christian has two games remaining on the regular season schedule. One a non-region bout with West Marion and the next a trip to Bay High before it enters the postseason a one-seed for the first time.
A stacked 4A on the south side of the state, particularly Poplarville’s District of Doom, ensure there will be no easy wins once the Pirates arrive. The Pass will prepare just as it has throughout the year: one week at a time.
“This isn’t our only goal for the season,” Trivillion said. “We still have two regular season games and then playoffs. It’s on to next week. We don’t look at our record and say we’re better than this team or better than that team. We study film, we go to practice, do what we do and put ourselves in good positions to win football games.”
Even with the banner in his hand, Trivillion is ready to move on.
“I’m the first one to do it, so I’m sure it’ll be brought up plenty,” he said. “I don’t even have to celebrate it. It’s on to next week.”
Moss Point has one regular season game remaining and comes at home next week against Greene County.
This story was originally published October 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM.
