Sitting undefeated in the 3A South-Mountain baseball standings, the Pahrump Valley Trojans got their fifth win in a row.
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Kayne Horibe (8) has been essential in the last two games the Pahrump Valley baseball team has played, earning the most RBIs on the team.
A home run from Madison Rodriguez (6) wasn’t enough for the Pahrump Valley softball team to beat the Sports Leadership & Management (SLAM) Bulls in a conference game on Wednesday.
The Trojans softball team suffered their first loss this season against a school from a neighboring state on Monday, but it also added a win in a weekend game against Moapa Valley (2-1) at home.
By the end of the weekend, the Tonopah Muckers had played four games, where they scored over 17 runs.
The Trojans upset second place Sierra Vista with great passing and solid defense in the second half. Pahrump (4-5 overall, 3-4 Sunset League) hosted the Mountain Lions (6-3, 4-3) in the last game of the season and won 39-27.
The Trojans cross-country regular season is over and now the team is concentrating on the division finals this Saturday.
Beatty: Melynda Gross, a former state champion for Beatty High School is asking for help for her brother, who was in a tragic car accident that took his wife and left him in the hospital. The accident was in July.
The Trojans hosted Clark on Wednesday night and posted a win in three, 25-16, 25-15 and 25-13.
The nation’s football fans were in mourning for the three high school students who died playing the game they loved at the end of September. The deaths have refocused the nation on head injuries and concussions and the safety of the game, which brings fans to the question, should our youth be playing this violent sport and is it safe? And can the game be made safer? The experts say youth under 14 should not be playing the sport but one mother speaks out and is out to save the game.
Injuries and turnovers were the difference in the game in this heated rivalary between Beatty and Tonopah. Tonopah lost some key players and had four interceptions and three fumbles in the 55-33 loss at home.
The Trojans boys soccer team hosted Spring Valley on Wednesday. Pahrump (5-12-2 overall, 2-10-1 Sunset League) held the Grizzlies (10-5, 10-4) scoreless in the second half but could not keep them out of the goal in the second half and lost 3-0.
Greg Benson’s three touchdown passes propel the Crusaders past the Trojans 38-14.
The Division I-A Southern Nevada Girls Golf Regionals were at Boulder Creek and for the sixth straight time the Crusaders took the title with a team score of 340. In second was Clark, with 353 and Tech was third with a 442.
The Trojans are hanging onto fourth place and the last playoff spot by a thread with their last home win last Thursday against Western 25-14, 25-18 and 25-6. For Pahrump, the last three games will be key matches. Although the Trojans (12-15 overall, 5-5 Sunset League) dominated this opponent, Western (1-13, 0-10) is at the bottom.
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.
