The Pahrump Fall Festival lasted from Sept. 19-22 at Petrack Park, but next to the park was the rodeo at McCullough Arena.
Sports
Trojans sports teams are finishing off the week with tough competition as the girls soccer team and football team will face off with top three schools in their leagues.
With two minutes left on the clock, the Trojans girls soccer team was in the lead by one goal against one of the top two soccer teams in their league – seconds later that changed.
With 25 seconds left on the clock, Trojan Natalie Soto took the ball onto Mater Academy East Las Vegas’ side to take one of the longest shots in the game to seal the team’s fate.
This is a big week for the Trojans soccer teams as both teams are playing at least two league games this week.
There was absolutely no doubt the Lady Trojans were not going to let this game get away from them. The Trojans were not about to drop a second game and they let the Warriors know that right away. Pahrump triumphed over the Western Warriors last Tuesday 6-0. The Trojans improve to 5-2 overall and 2-1 in league play.
The Lady Hornets have shown in the past that they are a spunky and scrappy team. If there was a street version of high school volleyball, they would be the Division IV champions for sure.
This week is homecoming for the Trojans as they face the Western Warriors at home and hope to improve to 2-2 overall and 1-1 in league play.
The Pahrump Valley Adult Softball Association is having a Coed Mosh Ball Adult Softball Tournament for “Super Mikey,” who goes by Mike Welch.
Buy a student athletic pass for $35 and get entrance to all games for the entire year. Adults can save too with a $70 pass for adults, $100 for a couple, seniors are $50 and a family of four is $225. Booster cards are back for $10 and you get 10% off on participating businesses. Support the Trojans! Disregard last week’s post in this section, the pricing was wrong.
Ask anyone in Beatty if they thought its team would be that close to beating Spring Mountain last week, and they would have probably chuckled. Beatty faced the Spring Mountain Eagles last Friday and lost a tough defensive game, 16-0. The game came down to turnovers.
The Lady Trojans had their first home league match of the season last Thursday at Mountain Falls. The team finished third out of four teams.
The Trojans had a tough Friday night against the Mojave Rattlers and posted a 50 to 6 loss. It was the team’s second road game in a row.
The Trojans fell to 0-3 after losing to the Clark Chargers on Friday afternoon, 3-2. Clark was one of the conference leaders last year and came to Pahrump positive they would win.
The cross country team had two meets last week. On Wednesday they had a Sunset League meet at Village Green in Las Vegas and then went to a power-packed invitational at Red Rock. The boys and girls both finished in third at the league match. For the boys, Clark was first with Faith Lutheran in second. Chase Wood had the fastest time for the boys, finishing 17:45 and Filmon Fre for Clark finished second with a time of 17:46.
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.
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