Six competitive horseshoe pitchers met in a Nevada town with roughly 2,000 residents and home of the Clown Motel, which is next to a cemetery that dates back to 1901 in Tonopah.
Sports
The defending state champion Pahrump Valley baseball weren’t able to bring home another title this season, but three standouts for the Trojans ranked in the top 100 players in the 3A division for their batting averages.
Beatty was filled with off-road enthusiasts for last month’s BigHorn Outback Explorers’ annual Poker Run. In all, 176 vehicles, including ATV’s, UTV’s, Jeeps, and trucks, took to the 60-mile route through Beatty’s outback backyard
TONOPAH — High school softball season has ended after the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association wrapped up its state championships on Saturday.
Pahrump Valley’s softball team will need to win one more game to make it to the championship game of the regional playoffs.
UNLV freshman Ty Huel said walking to the Thomas & Mack Center to watch the NFR was like “walking through Mandalay Bay with the Oct. 1 shooting that happened.”
The Pahrump Lady Trojans basketball team thoroughly steamrolled Chaparral with a 54-3 score in a home game Thursday night.
The Muckers defensive line held the Sidewinders scoreless, while the team’s offense racked up 72 points to show why Tonopah (8-2) will be a serious contender for the 2023 1A state title.
The Pahrump Valley girls cross country team took fourth in the Class-3A state competition on Saturday at Rancho San Rafael in Reno. The five-member team was the top-finishing Southern Nevada team at the meet with a combined time of 2:06.42 and 114 points.
The best part of every fishing trip is always going to be a mystery. One never knows what will be attracted to a bait from the unseen depths.
See all the photos from Friday night’s game. Pahrump Valley (2-3) travels Friday to play Democracy Prep Agassi (2-2).
Despite the loss, head coach Thom Walker says the team is building “momentum.”
Columnist Dan Simmons just returned to Pahrump from a homecoming trip to British Columbia, Canada and was reminded that many in northern communities continue to be financially and culturally dependent on subsistence hunting and fishing, as were our American families in the not-too-distant past.
The Beatty High School football team will kick off the 2023 season on Friday, Sept. 1.
Tonopah head coach Duffy Otteson is looking to get his team back into the playoffs after having a down season in 2022, finishing third in the 1A Central league at 2-7.
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