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Sep. 05, 2007
TROJANS LOSE AT SAN DIEGO County teams scoreless, winless
By DON McDERMOTT
Nye County football teams took no offense in weekend games ... literally. None scored. Pahrump Valley lost 61-0 at San Diego-area No. 7-ranked Torrey Pines. Beatty fell 44-0 to visiting 2006 Nevada Class A playoff contender Las Vegas Calvary Chapel. Round Mountain had perennial 1-A power Carlin visit Friday, with the Railroaders going home 40-0 winners. Tonopah, favored to win a fourth straight Central 1-A Division title, couldn't get anything going with its shotgun-option offense in Las Vegas against 1-A South's Mountain View Christian and was stopped 16-0 Saturday afternoon. "Despite the loss, it was a good trip for the team," said Brian Hug, the Pahrump Valley coach. "The boys got a chance to see a classy program and a great atmosphere to play in. There was a big crowd, a lot of community spirit. And the team ... it got the way it is (ranked seventh in the San Diego area) by working hard in the off-season, lifting weights and other programs. "And," said Hug, "if Torrey Pines is only seventh in the area, I'd like to see how good those six teams ahead of them area. "Torrey Pines had top athletes starting at every position -- and they all had speed," said Hug. "Our kids played hard; we were down 47-0 at the half, but we went out in the second half and didn't let up." Hug changed practice hours this week, avoiding the afternoon heat by switching workouts from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday and today, before reverting to regular hours Thursday, game plan preparation day. "We never got anything going," said Gus Sullivan, coach of the Beatty Hornets, now 0-2 against Southern 1-A opponents this fall. "Calvary Chapel is a good team, but I thought Laughlin was stronger." Laughlin prevailed 40-30 Aug. 24 at Beatty. "I don't know if it was the heat, but we had a couple days during the week when we didn't have our assistant coaches, so we missed out on doing certain drills that would have helped our offense," said Curt McElroy, the Tonopah coach. Assistants Harvey Gonzalez and Jeff Harrison were reportedly denied access to the practices because they did not have proper first-aid training. Both got their certification in CPR and other emergency medical training completed, but too late to help with pre-Mountain View workouts. Tonopah fell to 1-1, which is the same record the Muckers had at the same stage of the season in 2006. They won nine straight and advanced to the state 1-A finals before losing to Pahranagat Valley Alamo. After winning 25 consecutive games over two seasons, plus the 2007 opener, Alamo was defeated 42-40 by Avalon High School, in a game played on Santa Cataline Island, off the California coast. Round Mountain fell to 0-2 with the loss to Carlin, which plays at Tonopah Friday night. In other Friday games, it will be Pahrump Valley, 0-2, going to Chino, Calif., Don Lugo; Beatty traveling to Lund for a 1 p.m. kickoff, and Round Mountain hosting Eureka at 7 p.m. NOTES -- Elsewhere in Class 3-A, Las Vegas Faith Lutheran held off a late Spring Creek threat to edge the Northern League Spartans 28-27; Boulder City edged Bullhead City, Ariz., Mohave, 21-17; Mesquite Virgin Valley romped 49-6 at Layton, Utah, Christian, and Overton Moapa Valley lost 24-20 to Hurricane, Utah ...In Class A, it was Wells 22, Eureka 6; Spring Mountain 44, Beaver Dam, Utah, 36; Laughlin 40, Diamond Ranch Academy, Utah, 14, and Indian Springs 36, Las Vegas Agassi Prep 20 ... In key 3-A contests Friday, it will be Virgin Valley at Hurricane and Moapa Valley at Kanab, Utah, with Mountain View Christian at Spring Mountain. |
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