DON McDERMOTT / PVT Elliott Owens filled a major gap in the Pahrump Valley wrestling lineup, when he began competing at 103 pounds this season. DON McDERMOTT / PVT Three-time Nevada Class 3-A champion Elias Armendariz wrestled one match at 119 pounds and two at 112 Wednesday at Boulder City. Advertisement

BOULDER CITY -- With three more clashes with the Virgin Valley Bulldogs certain, there was no great excitement generated among Pahrump Valley High School wrestlers because they had won a Southern Nevada Class 3-A League dual here Wednesday.

"They next time we wrestle them, I expect them to be at full strength; they had some wrestlers missing today," Craig Rieger, the Trojans coach, said after his team defeated the Bulldogs 56-21. `

The most important thing was, according to Rieger, "We are 3-0 in the league ... that's a great start." The Trojans defeated Overton Moapa Valley 72-12 and the host Boulder City Eagles 56-22. Pahrump Valley has won the last three regular-season and regional championships, which means league teams will be fighting hard to end those streaks.

Motivating the Trojans, course, is the fact that this is their final season in Class 3-A; in the 2008-2009 school year, Pahrump Valley will be in the Class 4-A Sunset Regional Southwest Division.

Pahrump Valley, which wrestles league matches in the Ninth Grade Academy gym Wednesday (3 p.m.) against Las Vegas Faith Lutheran and Boulder City, goes to St. George, Utah, today to compete in the Desert Storm Invitational at Dixie High School. Some of the top Utah prep wrestlers will be on the brackets for the individual-bracket format tournament which concludes Saturday.

The results

How the Pahrump Valley wrestlers fared Wednesday; matches against Virgin Valley, Moapa Valley, Boulder City, respectively: Overall record

103 pounds -- Elliott Owens, lost by pin, 3:36; won by pin, 1:54; won by pin 0:25. won 14 lost 3.

112 -- Joe Hallenback, won by forfeit; 1-5.

112 -- Elias Armendariz, won by pin, 0:54 (MV) won by forfeit (BC). 16-1.

119 -- Elias Armendariz, won by technical fall, 17-0 (VV);

119 -- Josh Armendariz, won by pin, 1:55 (MV); won by pin, 1:50 (BC). 10-6

125 -- Paul Miller, lost 9-7 in overtime; won by forfeit; lost by pin, 3:47. 8-9

130 -- Chris DeMille, won 10-8 in overtime; won by forfeit; won by decision, 8-6 OT; 11-6

135 -- Gueran Fenicle, lost by pin, 3:50. lost by pin, 1:40; lost by pin, 4:53. 8-9.

140 -- Kyle Abreu, won by pin, 1:42; won by pin, 0:10; lost by decision, 13-4, 10-7

145 -- James Chapman, won by forfeit; won by pin, 1:09; won by tech fall, 18-2. 15-0.

152 -- Connor White, lost by pin, 0:32; lost by pin, 1:42; lost by pin, 0:49. 0-3.

160 -- Ande Floyd, won by forfeit; won by pin, 0;28; won by pin 0:52. 13-4.

171 -- Zach Weldon, won by forfeit; won by pin, 1:05; won by pin, 0;30. 17-0.

189 -- Joe Colucci, won by pin, 1:43; won by pin, 3:59; won by pin, 0;37.11-6

215 -- Pierce Henkel, won by forfeit; won by pin, 0:59; won by pin, 2:33. 15-2.

285 -- Frank Lopez, won by pin, 2:49; won by pin, 0:57; won by forfeit. 16-1