56°F
weather icon Partly Cloudy

Trojans girls golf searching for matches

Due to the realignment, the Pahrump Valley girls golf team find themselves in a league searching for competition.

Clark, Sierra Vista, Spring Valley and Faith Lutheran are now Class 4A. This year, Pahrump could be the only team in the Sunset League of Class 3A with a full team. By definition, the minimum amount of players is four, and the maximum number is six.

“I don’t know if we are the only team,” Trojans girls golf coach Bob Hopkins said. “I will find out next Monday with the match against Western.”

Regardless of what the coach finds out on Monday, he does admit he had to be creative with the schedule.

His first competition was in a Sunrise match at Virgin Valley, the next one after that was with Bishop Gorman, which was past deadline. The team plays another Sunrise game with Boulder City on Thursday, then the Western match on Monday. On the schedule, there are matches with Mojave and Desert Pines scheduled, but it is unclear if there are full teams with those schools.

Trojans athletic director Larry Goins said this is a concern for golf.

“It means that if we post one team score, we will be the Sunset League champs,” Goins said. “I am concerned that it might happen in other sports. Worse yet, is that many of them won’t have JV and “B” teams, so we don’t get to play!”

Despite the schedule, the team is going on with the season and Hopkins liked the results from the first match at Virgin Valley last Wednesday.

“I was pleased with scores for the most part,” he said. “It was three of the girls’ first high school golf match ever. Jordan (Egan) and Helen (Vann) are first-year players. Alexis (Norman) is just a freshman. We will improve as the year goes on.”

As far as how the team did, Hopkins liked the results.

“We had three girls make the cut after the front nine,” the coach said after the first match with Virgin Valley. “The cut was 58.”

Makalea Petrie, who shot a 95, Krista Toomer a 112 (which was 20 strokes worse than her qualifying score), and Alexis Norman, 114, are the three who made the cut. Desire Hembree shot a 61; Jordan Egan shot a 63 and Helan Vann shot a 64.

Boulder City’s Lani Potter shot 3-over-par 74, and the Eagles rolled to victory in a Class 3A Sunrise League golf match at Oasis Golf Club in Mesquite.

According to NevadaPreps.com, Boulder City shot 394, followed by Tech (452), and Chaparral (515).

Contact sports editor Vern Hee at vhee@pvtimes.com

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.
THE LATEST
Trojans home run isn’t enough for win

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.

SOFTBALL: Trojans top Moapa, fall to Needles

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.

Muckers baseball off to 1-3 start this season

By the end of the weekend, the Tonopah Muckers had played four games, where they scored over 17 runs.

Muckers start softball season 1-3

Tonopah softball started their season over the weekend with four games on Friday and Saturday.

RODEO 2024: Here are the winners

The Nevada State High School Rodeo was in Pahrump last weekend where junior and senior high school students from around the state came to compete after their winter break.

Trojans girls basketball moves on to the quarterfinals

After Avery Moore stole a pass from the Sports Leadership and Management (SLAM) girls basketball team she passed the ball to Paris Coleman who ran up and scored the team’s fourth two-pointer in less than two minutes.

Pastor opens boxing gym for Pahrump youth

Pastor Ruben Bajo, of Full Armor of God Ministries in Pahrump told the Pahrump Valley Times that decades ago the sport of boxing saved his life and kept him off the streets of Los Angeles.

Trojans struggle in nail-biting 4th quarter against Chaparral

It was all up to No. 14 Daxton Palmisano from the Pahrump Valley boys basketball team with less than 10 seconds on the clock to score a three-pointer to get the Trojans into overtime in a hard-fought game on Wednesday.