Pahrump Valley opens league play Friday against a winless Virgin Valley team that has beaten the Trojans three straight years. Both coaches built demanding nonleague schedules to prepare for this moment.
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Pahrump Valley played Equipo Academy to a scoreless draw Sept. 17, extending its unbeaten stretch to three matches while continuing to seek its first league victory.
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There is more to the dove and bird hunt than pulling the trigger.
Sophomore quarterback Wyatt Cross directed the offense, Angel Ware delivered back-to-back scoring plays for Pahrump, and relentless defensive pressure helped the Trojans pull away from Valley in a 64–26 road victory.
Mike Norton is always looking to see new faces at Nevada Horseshoe Pitchers Association tournaments, even if the new face is an old one.
Saturday, March 16 was a pretty good day for Pahrump resident Anthony Matassa.
Most horseshoes tournaments in Pahrump are open only to sanctioned players and operate under the rules of the Nevada State Horseshoe Pitching Association. But with a chili cook-off Saturday drawing a large crowd to Petrack Park, someone had the bright idea of running a tournament in which anyone could participate.
It was a situation any kid who has held a baseball bat fantasizes about: two outs, bottom of the last inning, the winning run on base.
Arianna Plant isn’t much for words, but if the 10-year-old Pahrump resident continues to do what she did last weekend in Reno, other people will do plenty of talking about her.
Senior Kyrstyn Peugh knows the Pahrump Valley High School Rodeo Club covers a lot of miles during the school year. During the fall, there were rodeos in Battle Mountain, Ely, Elko, Spanish Springs, Alamo and Boulder City. And, after opening the spring at home, they spent a weekend in Fernley.
For 35 years, neither rain nor snow nor dark of night, or even occasional March heat, has stopped the Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Relay. Not even major construction on Highway 160 can stop it.
You would not have guessed the score by the amount of coaching that was going on between at-bats of the Pahrump Valley High School softball team’s 20-0 rout of Chaparral on Monday in Las Vegas.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary presented a check for $2,755 to the Pahrump Youth Softball Association on Friday at Petrack Park, the group’s share of the proceeds from the Batting 1.000 Classic earlier this month.
The annual Las Vegas High School Newcomers Meet gives track and field coaches an early look at how their younger athletes stack up, and Pahrump Valley coach Fred Schmidt saw some very good signs.
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The Mexican national men’s soccer team defeated Jamaica, as an early goal by Henry Martin set the tone for a dominant El Tri performance
A project to construct more than 400 single-family homes on Blue Diamond Hill near Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area can move forward.
Nye County recorded nine new cases and four deaths from COVID-19 between March 16 and Wednesday, but data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed all of Nevada in the “low” community transmission level, a positive sign as the state moves forward in its pandemic response.
Nevada hospitals overwhelmed as omicron variant surges.
