August opened the annual big game hunting in Nevada with the limited entry Antelope season.
Sports
The Trojans football team will play its homecoming game Saturday after coming off a big win last week.
Beatty’s fall sports teams are moving into the second phase of the season – the conference season.
Under immense pressure, the girls soccer team took on the top two teams in their league last week and stood their ground, but the same could not be said about the boys soccer team.
The Pahrump Fall Festival lasted from Sept. 19-22 at Petrack Park, but next to the park was the rodeo at McCullough Arena.
Jason Voss won the The Best in the Desert Vegas to Reno Race for the second year in a row in the 1400 Division. This year Voss battled a rain-soaked course and huge ruts all the way to the finish line. His time was 8:29:28.337. Dale Dondel also in the 1400 Division, took second. Dondel’s time was 8:44:09.222.
The first official Trojans cross country practice was over the weekend on Saturday. Trojans Coach Matt Kolozieczyk hopes to continue building a quality team for both girls and boys. The team lost 13 seniors last year, seven girls and six boys.
Last Friday the Mountain Ridge Little League team from Las Vegas made history in San Bernardino, Calif. by beating a team from Northern California 11-2. The Mountain Ridge team will be the first team from Nevada ever to make it to the Little League World Series, which is held annually in Williamsport, Pa.
The Kung Fu sisters, Ekaterina and Natasha Venola, scored big at the seventh annual International Chinese Martial Arts Championships at the Tuscany Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Aug. 1.
It can happen at any race track at any given time. “You can’t control the emotions of a driver in a race car,” Pahrump Valley Speedway owner Chad Broadhead told the PVT.
Special Olympics is looking for a few good volunteers who care to work with special needs children. Jim Soltz, the area director, said they are looking for coaches of all ages from teens on up. “No one really gets turned down here. We will put everyone to work,” Soltz said.
The General Tire Vegas to Reno race is the longest off-road race in the United States at 535 miles. This year there will be 299 vehicles entered, 40 Trick Trucks, 34-1500 class (dune buggies), 41 UTV’s, and 27 Ironmen (riders riding solo).
Just before July 4, the monsoon season started in Beatty and unfortunately destroyed the efforts of the Nye County School District to make good on a promise to fix the Beatty High School football field. The rain washed away the seed. This meant that the field would not be ready for the upcoming football season.
The Division I-A continues to grow in the south. Currently the division has 16 teams in it and the Northern region has nine teams. The Southern region just added three more teams, Del Sol, Spring Valley and Sierra Vista. This has some of the schools in the Northern I-A a little uneasy.
For those clamoring for some football action, the long drought is over. Football is back. The NFL preseason started last week and high school football in the valley is gearing up to start with the first game scheduled against Bonanza on Aug. 29 at home at 7 p.m.
August opened the annual big game hunting in Nevada with the limited entry Antelope season.
The Trojans football team will play its homecoming game Saturday after coming off a big win last week.
Beatty’s fall sports teams are moving into the second phase of the season – the conference season.
Under immense pressure, the girls soccer team took on the top two teams in their league last week and stood their ground, but the same could not be said about the boys soccer team.
