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.
Check out this week’s PVHS sports news and and standings.
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.
For the past 14 years, the Lakeview Executive Golf Course at 1471 E. Mount Charleston Drive has been under private ownership and just getting by. This could all be coming to an end as the Nye County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 to move forward in the process of buying the course. They made an offer of $650,000 (see front page story).
The boys and girls Pahrump Valley High School cross-country team gears up every weekday for a morning workout. Those runners thinking of joining the team this year are free to run with them.
The Trojans football team is hitting the gridiron in mid-July in preparation for the upcoming season.
The Pahrump Valley Trojans girls soccer team will be at Draft Picks washing cars on Saturday, July 22 from noon to 4 p.m. The girls will be accepting donations and proceeds will support the girls soccer team.
A letter in response to Wednesday’s sports column: We live in a sports void … seriously.
A Sacramento, California man has been arrested for suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the death of Robert Douglas Shaffer, a former Truckee High School football coach.
If you’ve got that urge to go out and eat a lot of spaghetti for a good cause, it’s that time of year again.
DEATH VALLEY—Wataru Iino of Japan, a 37-year-old rookie runner, set a harsh pace in brutal humidity to win the 135-mile STYR Labs Badwater race on Tuesday through Death Valley, winning in 24 hours, 56 minutes 19 seconds.
In the continuing effort to keep kids and their parents informed about upcoming sports clinics in Pahrump, Dominique Maloy returns to the area for a “Back2School – A Youth Sports Experience” clinic.
These days in Pahrump we live in a sports void called Southern Nevada. We are on the border of California, where there are five major league baseball teams, four NFL teams (soon to be three) and a boatload of college teams in every sport. Not to mention, the NBA and NHL teams available. But here the pickings are few and far between.
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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.
