After defeating the Blue Knights 15-0 on Monday, the Lady Trojans improved to 3-3 overall on the season and now have recorded back-to-back shutout pitching performances.
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Following a strong showing last year in which team finished 19-9, the Lady Trojans opened the 2025 season finishing 1-3 in back-to-back double headers.
This year, after stepping away from the Little League in 2018 due to health complications, Banuelos could no longer stand to be away from the league he loves and will return to serve.
Top scoring duos in two divisions split a $920 cash prize.
Throughout the season, teammates learn java programming for autonomous features, robot construction engineering skills, and 3D modeling of the robots and practice fields.
Last Tuesday the Pahrump Valley Little League building at Ian Deutch Park was burglarized according to Lou Banuelos, president of the Little League. He said he got the news that the crime had happened while he was on a trip to Elko.
Players 96 girls soccer club 18 and under, coached by Joe Sladek won the 2014 U.S. Youth Soccer Region IV Championship tournament, which included 13 states.
There is a sweeping change at the dirt tracks in California and it has made its way to the Pahrump Valley Speedway. This year there has been a big switch from International Motor Contest Association West Coast Super Stocks to the IMCA Modifieds and there may be a possibility the IMCA WCSS might be disbanded next season.
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association met on June 18 for their summer meeting. Of note, the association decided on a compressed spring schedule for next year. The board met and approved a new spring schedule to take the state championships out of the Memorial Day weekend schedule. Memorial Day interfered this year with the title matches falling on May 23 weekend.
June 7 results at Pahrump Valley Speedway: Coupe: 1st – Mike Belcher #311, 2nd – Mark Daub #88, 3rd – David Belcher #9, 4th – Jeri Patrick #10, 5th – Anthony Broadhead #19; Bomber: 1st – Mike Layne #3, 2nd – Ryan Layne #37, 3rd – Gary Wyatt #65, 4th – Verne Hill #31, 5th – JJ Nunn #33, 6th – John Pietrorazio #1, 7th – Russ Wilson #29, 8th – Arlie Daniel #10; IMCA Modified: 1st – Jason Pike #23, 2nd – Dan Fitzgerald #87N, 3rd – Beau Gott #32, 4th – Mark Allison #5, 5th – Tony Kinkade #59, 6th – Bryan Wulfenstein #29, 7th – Keith Gott #55, 8th – Tommy Kahele #9, 9th – Jon Jensen #8, 10th – Josh Stringer #47, 11th – Rich Horibe #13, 12th – Joe Wabsis #40; Mini Stock: 1st – Sue Smotherman #14, 2nd – April Mitchell #18X, 3rd – Matt Belcher #360, 4th – Dylin Smotherman #21, 5th – Kevin Belcher #311, Dwarf: 1st -Brett Gamble #47X.
Pahrump Valley High School has been going through some changes lately. The Nye County School District announced in October of last year that all Nye County schools will start on Aug. 11 and get out on May 22. These changes according to the district allow the students to complete the semester prior to Christmas. They said research said it was better for the kids to have the semester all finished before Christmas break. (see PVT Oct. 9, 2013)
Pahrump has team of shooters from the Nye County 4-H Club that will be going to the National 4-H Shooting Sports Invitational at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska on June 24-29.
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.
After defeating the Blue Knights 15-0 on Monday, the Lady Trojans improved to 3-3 overall on the season and now have recorded back-to-back shutout pitching performances.
Following a strong showing last year in which team finished 19-9, the Lady Trojans opened the 2025 season finishing 1-3 in back-to-back double headers.
This year, after stepping away from the Little League in 2018 due to health complications, Banuelos could no longer stand to be away from the league he loves and will return to serve.
Top scoring duos in two divisions split a $920 cash prize.
