Sitting undefeated in the 3A South-Mountain baseball standings, the Pahrump Valley Trojans got their fifth win in a row.
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Kayne Horibe (8) has been essential in the last two games the Pahrump Valley baseball team has played, earning the most RBIs on the team.
A home run from Madison Rodriguez (6) wasn’t enough for the Pahrump Valley softball team to beat the Sports Leadership & Management (SLAM) Bulls in a conference game on Wednesday.
The Trojans softball team suffered their first loss this season against a school from a neighboring state on Monday, but it also added a win in a weekend game against Moapa Valley (2-1) at home.
By the end of the weekend, the Tonopah Muckers had played four games, where they scored over 17 runs.
The last conference game in baseball and softball with Faith Lutheran is today. As many of you who follow high school sports know, Faith Lutheran and Clark will no longer be in the same conference next year. They are going to be in Class 4 next year and we will be in Class 3.
Whatever happened to parents watching kids? Does that happen these days? I see this all the time. The parent is there, but ignores his or her kids!
On Wednesday it was reported that the Trojans boys track team finished third at the Boulder City Invitational. The officials at the Boulder City Invitational made two errors in recording events at the meet and this gave second place to the wrong team, Virgin Valley, when it should have gone to Pahrump. For the boys, this means they get a trophy.
The game was tied at 2-2 on Tuesday and the Trojans had runners on first and second with the go-ahead run at second and no outs in the bottom of the sixth inning. It was the perfect opportunity and then it was over in a flash as Sierra Vista turned a double play and then picked off the winning run at home plate on the next play. The Mountain Lions then won the game 3-2 in the next inning.
On a windy afternoon Beatty hosted Tonopah and was swept in a doubleheader on Friday and then traveled to Indian Springs on Tuesday and lost a non-league game to Indian Springs.
Beatty track ran at the Meadows Weekday meet, which was a Division III and IV event.
The Trojans came close to winning a major invitational on Friday. For the Trojans boys, the title of the Boulder City Invitational on Friday came down to one event, the pole vault. A first-place showing would have given Pahrump the win. Trojans pole vaulter Nico Cipollini had bested the vaulters at the meet before, but it wasn’t to be.
The Lady Trojans got pounded by Spring Valley on Friday on the road 11-1 with the Grizzlies getting back at Pahrump for their only loss earlier in the season, where the Trojans downed them 3-2. The team then got their frustrations out at Desert Pines (1-21 overall, 0-11 Sunrise League) in non-league action on Saturday, beating up on them 21-5.
Like the Energizer bunny, Christopher Badia keeps on going. He is a one-man show dedicated to getting a BMX course in Pahrump for the kids. For the past three to four years he has been like a broken record, hitting up every person that would listen to him and telling people that Pahrump needs a BMX course for kids.
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