Sports

Game Time basketball camp will be coming to Pahrump from June 6-9 this year, but it almost didn’t.

Fundraising is hard to do in this town without a large amount of businesses here carrying a big burden and funding many of the events in town. Shoot, we have five major festivals in town now.

Repairs for the Pahrump Valley High School athletic track will commence after graduation is over on May 30.

The Trojans boys track finished 16th (9 points) out of 21 teams and the girls finished in 19th (1) out of 19 schools at the state meet in Carson City on Friday and Saturday.

Beatty track finished the season running at the state meet at Carson City against some fierce competition from the North. At the meet the Lady Hornets, the Southern regional champs met their match, finishing fifth (23 points) out of 14 teams and the Beatty boys team finished in 10th place (9) out of 15 teams. Sierra Lutheran finished in first for the girls (103), Smith Valley was second (45), Eureka was third (38) and Wells was fourth (25). Spring Mountain finished in first place for the boys (72), Sierra Lutheran was second (63), Virginia City third (37) and Excel Christian fourth (33).

The former Pahrump Valley High 2015 state wrestling champ graduated from basic training as a U.S. Airman with honors at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Austen Ancell came within three strokes of repeating as champion at the Nevada State Golf Championship at the two-day tournament at Mountain Falls on Wednesday. He went head-to-head with Faith Lutheran’s Charlie Magruder, who in the end won the individual state title.

The Lady Trojans softball team went farther than they expected to go, according to Trojans coach Eli Armendariz.

The Trojans baseball team finished in fifth place with a young team, 13-16 overall.

Pahrump Valley High School honored four senior students at their annual awards ceremony last Wednesday.