JOSH CHASE / SPECIAL TO THE PVT Daniel Miller pitches and John McHug is at shortstop for the Pahrump Valley American Legion Post 22 baseball team that lost two games to visiting Las Vegas Calvary Chapel, at Honeysuckle Park. Advertisement

The big bats were cracking Monday night as Pahrump Valley Post 22 faced the Las Vegas Calvary Chapel Lions in an American Legion match-up at Honeysuckle Park.

But it wasn't the hometown boys knocking them over the fence; it was the visiting Lions, who pulled out a 15-8 victory to give the Trojans their first loss of the season. The Trojans are 2-2 in all Legion starts.

Most of the Calvary Chapel players were on the high school team that won the Nevada Class A state baseball championship in May.

Pahrump Valley trailed from the beginning, after Calvary Chapel's Cory Welch led off with a homerun off Danny Miller and T.J. White came in on a passed ball later in the inning. The Trojans scored in the bottom half of the first, when John McHugh scored Alex Bietar on a line drive to centerfield.

But that would be the last Pahrump run until the fourth, when five Trojans came home.

In that inning, A.J. Craighead grounded to left field to score John McHugh, Brandon Uyeno scored Tyler Raymer on an infield single, Craighead came home on a liner from Bietar, Uyeno came in on a wild pitch and Cody Nielsen hit a grounder past second base to score Bietar.

Unfortunately for the Trojans, the team's explosive inning came after the Lions had already scored 14 runs.

In addition to the pair of first-inning runs, the Lions scored four runs in the third and eight in the fourth, including three homeruns, two of them coming from Welch, who tallied three big flies in the game.

Lion Bryce Harper scored his team's final run, in the seventh, when he belted one out of the park and onto the roof of a nearby apartment building.

The Trojans would score twice more, both in he seventh, when Danny Miller doubled to left-center to bring home Bietar and Nielson.

"We just had some good innings, some bad innings," said Manager Jim McHugh. "It was just a little bit of everything."

McHugh said it's pretty much impossible to go undefeated in a 21-game season, so the Trojans should simply forget about their Monday night loss and move on.

"We made a comeback and we just fell short," the manager explained. "You can't let one game affect our whole season. We just play with as much intensity as we can."

Pahrump Valley's next games will be June 24 at VoTech High School in Las Vegas, where the Trojans will face Cheyenne at 5 p.m. and Legacy at 8 p.m.

NOTES -- Calvary Chapel is 7-1 in American Legion Silver Division games played through June 12 ... Henderson Foothill is 7-2, while Las Vegas Rancho is 6-0 ... Del Sol is 5-2, state 3-A champion Faith Lutheran 4-1, Liberty 4-2, Palo Verde 4-1, and Shadow Ridge 4-3 ... Sierra Vista is at 4-3, Chaparral 4-4, Legacy 3-1, Eldorado 3-4, Cheyenne 2-4, Arbor View 2-4, Green Valley 1-4, Centennial 1-5, Western 1-5, Bishop Gorman (the state 4-A champion) 1-4, Durango 0-7, and Desert Pines 0-4. ... Silverado leads the AAA Gold Division at 6-0.

... Coronado tops the AA Junior Division at 6-0, with Rancho at 6-1 and Faith Lutheran 1-3, among others.