Sports

The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association had their annual summer meeting last week, approving a new mercy rule for softball/baseball, and an 11-game regular-season football schedule for Bishop Gorman.

Battling fatigue and intense 106-degree heat, 23 cancer awareness riders from the organization Texas 4000 arrived in Pahrump around 1:30 p.m. from Las Vegas on Saturday.

In the ongoing battle to improve the skate park at Ian Deutch Park, Nye County commissioners approved a proposal that would allow funds to be raised to go toward the installation of a “properly developed lighting system designed for skating to illuminate the skate park.”

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.