Under immense pressure, the girls soccer team took on the top two teams in their league last week and stood their ground, but the same could not be said about the boys soccer team.
Sports
The Pahrump Fall Festival lasted from Sept. 19-22 at Petrack Park, but next to the park was the rodeo at McCullough Arena.
Trojans sports teams are finishing off the week with tough competition as the girls soccer team and football team will face off with top three schools in their leagues.
With two minutes left on the clock, the Trojans girls soccer team was in the lead by one goal against one of the top two soccer teams in their league – seconds later that changed.
With 25 seconds left on the clock, Trojan Natalie Soto took the ball onto Mater Academy East Las Vegas’ side to take one of the longest shots in the game to seal the team’s fate.
The Trojans will be sending five teams to postseason play. It’s the most teams since the Trojans were in 3A before the 2008 season.
Trojans Booster Club president Cindi Colucci is putting out a call for all Trojans fans to travel to the football team’s game on Thursday at Moapa Valley High at 7 p.m.
The Pahranagat Valley Panthers made history as they quietly won their 100th consecutive game on Friday due to a forfeit against Indian Springs, becoming only the third team to do so.
Beatty running back Michael Olson led the team with 247 yards to help the Hornets won in Tonopah on Friday, 60-20.
Cory Bergan had 4 interceptions and a pick-six to help lead Pahrump Valley to 30-8 win over Mojave on Friday. The win clinches the first winning season for the Trojans (6-3 overall, 3-2 Sunset League) since 1995. The win also secured the No. 3 seed in the Sunset League for Pahrump, which will travel to Moapa Valley (6-3, 3-1) on Thursday in the first round of Class 3A playoffs.
Nowadays, if you mention you are a fencer, people think you are talking about someone who can fix your fence. Of course, that’s wrong; a fencer is someone who practices the sport of fencing, which is a martial game where the objective is to score points by striking target areas on the opponent’s body with a sword.
Beatty volleyball had no problems beating Round Mountain in three sets for homecoming last week, 25-23, 25-11 and 25-10. They also came down to Pahrump and beat the junior varsity team in three sets on Tuesday, 25-18, 25-13 and 25-23.
Marvin Caperton is a former University of California at Los Angeles football wide receiver and track star who played football under Dick Vermeil.
Tristyn Wombaker and Katelyn Long were selected as Wendy’s High School Heisman Award winners for 2016. Wombaker is a senior who has been a standout performer in soccer and basketball at Pahrump Valley High School. Long is from Oklahoma and arrived in Pahrump last year. She is a senior standout in softball.
Beatty had a tune-up for their big game at Tonopah tonight as they flattened Round Mountain at homecoming last Friday, 58-0.
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.
