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 Pahrump Youth Softball Association hosted a three-day softball camp put on by U.S. Fast Pitch Camps from Tuesday to Thursday at Ian Deutch park. Holly Wright, coordinator of the camp for PYSA, said a camp like this was necessary in Pahrump.
Tonopah Chuckers High Desert Showdown — June 21 and 22 at the Joe Friel Complex. The first tournament will be a sanctioned tournament. Registration will close at 9:30 a.m. and the tournament will start at 10 a.m. The cost is $12 and the tournament is on Sunday, which will be a high-low doubles tournament.
Jerry Adcox retires as the Beatty track coach after 44 years of coaching at various schools in New Mexico, Oregon and Nevada. For the last 23 years, he has been the Beatty Hornets track coach on and off. In his last five years of coaching, his girls’ team has won the regional title five times and he has won one state title.
Special Olympics athletes are not like any other athletes and yet they are like all athletes. In the realm of Special Olympics, these special athletes strive just to be treated like everyone else. In their fight to be normal, they learn life lessons about competition and what it’s like to win and what it’s like to lose. They are all winners in that respect, and learn life lessons that come with hard work.
The Pahrump Valley Junior Golf program is back and is as strong as ever. Long considered to be the main source of young golfers in the valley, the program under Frank Cox, former Willow Creek Golf Pro, has been a driving force in the valley to get kids interested in golf.
The results of the Nevada High School State Finals Rodeo are in. The three-day competition was in Ely and ended on Sunday.
Sierra Vista Coach steps down — Nate Selby resigned after 13 seasons as baseball coach at Sierra Vista and is being succeeded by assistant Justin Sherman, and Legacy football coach Dave Snyder is moving on after eight seasons with the Longhorns. Selby built the Mountain Lions into a baseball power. In 2005, his team won the 4A state championship. He steps down as the team moves to the I-A next year.
On June 21 the engines will roar once again for the fallen racer, Jonathan Burch, who was fondly known as “the Sandman” at the Pahrump Speedway. The memorial race will start at 7 p.m. Burch loved the speedway.
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.
