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.
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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.
At one time in Pahrump, there were a group of youth bowlers in town that could have filled a varsity and junior varsity high school bowling team. In fact, about four to five years ago, it was close to becoming a sport at the high school.
I truly believe baseball and softball will be one of the premier sports in high school in this town in the next five years because of the quality of athletes being trained in the youth leagues.
GameTime Basketball wasn’t too popular with the kids last year, drawing only seven players to its Pahrump camp.
TONOPAH – There is no other sporting event in the county like the Nevada State Mining Championships at the Tonopah Historic Mining Park during Jim Butler Days. It truly is one of a kind, for it’s the only place one can throw dirt or hand drill and win money for doing it.
Nattaphon Wangyot of Alaska is not going to make the Olympic team with his 100-meter time of 13.41 anytime soon and yet this athlete made the national news.
Brandon Schneider, Pahrump’s amateur mixed martial arts fighter, announced he will try to go professional after his next fight on June 25 at the Tuff-N-Uff Pack the Mack event.
Connie Mack is back this summer, stronger than ever. This year Pahrump has three teams as opposed to just two last year.
Marvin Caperton went to San Mateo, California last Sunday and participated in a USA Track and Field event and competed in the 60-64 age bracket.
He was born Cassius Marcellus Clay on January 17, 1942. But to the world he was known as Muhammad Ali. Forever in my mind he will be the boxing champion that I will never forget. To me he brought boxing into every living room in the country.
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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.
