Sports

Summer is not summer without football, but usually it’s around August when we start talking about the sport. But with the return of Joe Clayton as head coach of the Trojans, the Southern Utah University football camp returns and this means the players were out in the heat preparing for next week’s camp.

On July 18-20 Jodi Weiss, an ultramarathon runner, will run one of the toughest ultramarathons in the world, the Styr Labs Badwater 135.

The Pahrump Youth Softball Association Extreme Heat 14U all-star team went to Las Vegas and took the Nevada state championship in their division at the Majestic Softball Complex.

Trojans coach Bob Hopkins, who already coaches girls and boys golf, will be returning to the basketball court after an eight-year absence.

Tuff-N-Uff was unsuccessful in finding an opponent for light-heavyweight champion Brandon Schneider for the annual Pack the Mack event.

Pahrump bowler Gary Evans has a passion for the sport. He’s at the Pahrump Nugget Bowling Center almost every day. The bowler is on a mission to compete in the nationals in Reno and to bowl a perfect game.

The Texas 4000 is riding through town on June 25. It sounds like a group of Western desperadoes, but instead it’s a group of 24 bike riders from Austin, Texas that are making their way through Nevada on their way to Anchorage, Alaska.

Ottawa University in Kansas signed Antonio Sandoval to a two-and-a-half year wrestling scholarship.

Pahrump really has no local fishing spots and so those who have the urge to fish will have to do some traveling.

Two Pahrump high school athletes, Trojans golfer Austen Ancell and cross-country runner Bryce Odegard, were honored at the Best of Nevada Preps sports banquet at the Red Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on June 4.