Sports

There are people that have a talent at a young age but never do anything to develop.

Beatty volleyball returns to state after beating Tonopah in a hard-fought match that went to five sets at Alamo on Saturday. The Hornets won 17-25, 25-20, 25-15, 17-25 and 15-13.

The coach wanted his team to just go out fighting.

The first mile at the state meet last Saturday was his fastest mile of the season for Trojans cross-country runner Bryce Odegard. It was too fast, and he knew he had to keep something in reserve. In the last 1,000 meters of the race he saw his opponent, William Fallini-Haas of Spring Creek, was breathing harder but so was he. He fell back a little and then he heard his uncle off to the side telling him, “to go.”

The road to state ended for one Nye County team. The Lady Trojans, the Sunset League champions and no. 1 seed, fell to second-seed Boulder City of the Sunrise League in five sets, 25-20, 25-22, 20-25, 23-25 and 15-11 at the 3A Southern Region playoffs in Boulder City.

Once again Beatty and Tonopah find themselves locked in battle in the 1A Southern League playoffs. The victor will go on to vie for the regional title and move on to state.

Photos by Horace Langford Jr. / Pahrump Valley Times

I rarely get riled up over sports. OK, I lied, but that happens mostly with NFL football and college football. For high school, I think I control myself well (My wife is snickering somewhere).

Beatty football went head-to-head against one of the best eight-man football teams in the country last week and found out why Pahranagat Valley (9-0 overall, 7-0 1A Southern) is ranked eighth in the nation according to a MaxPreps poll.

The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association announced yesterday, late in the afternoon that it had disqualified Pahrump Valley’s girls soccer team from tournament activity and forfeited all of the Trojans games.