Brian Hug is preparing the Port Huron (Mich.) indoor football team he coaches for the Great Lakes Indoor League championship game, to be played Saturday night against the Rochester, N.Y., Raiders.

While he is doing that, the Pahrump Valley High School team he will coach will be working out in anticipation of the opening day of preseason drills Aug. 10. And those workouts will be designed to get the Trojans -- the defending Southern Nevada Class 3-A League champions -- ready for their season opener at Class 4-A opponent Las Vegas Chaparral Sept. 1.

In place at the moment is a schedule of daily conditioning programs, including weightlifting and running. On Aug. 10, the team will be in camp on campus, from 8 a.m. to noon. Equipment will be issued; there will be testing and conditioning exercises.

The same schedule is in place Aug. 11 and 12, at the same times.

Two-a-day drills will start Aug. 14, with sessions from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. through Aug. 17.

A single workout is scheduled Aug. 18, and on Aug. 19, the Maroon-Gold intrasquad game will be played from 9 a.m. to noon. Two-a-days will be held Aug. 21-22; a single workout is slated Aug. 23, and on Aug. 24 will be a scrimmage. The time and place for that scrimmage is to be announced. One workout is set for Aug. 25, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

The Trojans will practice from 2:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. throughout the remainder of the season. In succeeding weeks, the Trojans will play non-league games at home against Chino, Calif., Don Lugo Sept. 8; at Spring Creek (Northern Nevada Class 3-A League champion), Sept. 15; home vs. Yucca Valley, Calif., Sept. 22, and home vs. Las Vegas Legacy (a new school), Sept. 29.

League play starts Oct. 6, with the Trojans playing at Mesquite against Virgin Valley. In the 2005 season, the Trojans won 39-33 in overtime in a regular-season game, but in a playoff preliminary, the Bulldogs ran away to a 26-7 victory. Virgin Valley advanced to the state championship game, bowing 37-14 to Truckee, Calif.

The Trojans travel to Las Vegas to play Faith Lutheran Oct. 13; PVHS prevailed 32-21 against the previously-undefeated Crusaders in a league game last season.

On Oct. 20, Overton Moapa Valley will play at PVHS, the Pirates last lost to the Trojans in the 1993 season. Last year, Moapa Valley won 28-14 at Overton.

The league season concludes the following week, with Boulder City visiting. In 2005, the Trojans rallied from a 16-0 deficit, scoring all of their points in the second half to win, 32-16.

Pahrump Valley's other fall sports are boys and girls soccer, boys and girls cross country, girls golf and girls volleyball. Those teams will begin practice Aug. 14, but no details have been released on times and locations of those drills.

Julie Floyd, whose 2005 team won the Nevada Class 3-A state championship, will direct girls golf. Sherry Allison and Steve Coleman are to return as the girls' soccer coaches. C.J. Johnson is the boys' soccer coach. Vacancies remain in volleyball and cross country, although those spots could be filled at a Nye County School District board meeting Friday.