Sports

A year ago, the Beatty High School football team easily handled Green Valley Christian, beating the Guardians by a 40-6 score.

It was an odd stretch of schedule for Pahrump Valley High School girls soccer team.

I know, every game is the “biggest game of the year” during the week of that particular game. But no matter you look at it, when it comes to Friday night’s game against Del Sol, the phrase sticks.

With his team down a set and not playing well in the second, Beatty High School girls volleyball coach Steve Sullivan made a lineup change, sending Evelin Moreno in to serve.

Senior Grant Odegard covered Veterans Memorial Park’s 5,000-meter course in 17 minutes, 57.5 seconds to finish sixth and lead the Pahrump Valley High School boys cross country team to a solid sixth-place finish in the Varsity A small schools race at the Lake Mead Invitational on Saturday in Boulder City.

All of those eerie similarities to last season can be put to rest for the Pahrump Valley High School football team.

The road to the Sunset League girls soccer championship officially goes through Pahrump.

These days, the first thing you do when you visit a Pahrump Valley High School football practice is count the number of healthy bodies going at full strength.

■ Who: Pahrump Valley (1-4) vs. Cheyenne (5-1, 1-0 Sunset).

Lathan Dilger of Pahrump had a couple of goals when he became president of the Nevada Horseshoe Pitchers Association, and he has the same goals for the Pahrump Dust Devils: increase participation and increase sponsorships.