RICHARD STEPHENS / PVT Trevor Hughes, 6, will be in the Beatty lineup Saturday, when the Hornets play at Sandy Valley; kickoff is at 3 p.m. for the non-league game. Beatty won its last start, 50-0 at Lund. Advertisement

Home at last ... the Pahrump Valley High School football team is home at last.

Spring Creek's Spartans, one of Northern Nevada Class 3-A's premiere teams, will play the Trojans on the PVHS field at 7 p.m. Friday.

The Trojans are 0-3, having lost 24-20 at Phoenix, Ariz., Christian; 61-0 at San Diego, Calif., Torrey Pines, and 33-6 at Chino, Calif., Don Lugo.

Spring Creek, expected to challenge Fernley, Sparks and Truckee, Calif., for the Northern 3-A championship, defeated county rival Elko 39-6, but lost 28-27 to Las Vegas Faith Lutheran, before taking last week off.

The home game is one of only three Pahrump Valley will play on its field this fall. The PVHS Hall of Fame Game is Oct. 5 against Southern 3-A rival and defending state champion Mesquite Virgin Valley, and on Oct. 12, the Trojans will take on Faith Lutheran.

Coach Brian Hug's team plays at Overton Moapa Valley Oct. 19, and at Boulder City Oct. 25 to close the regular season.

Sophomore quarterback Nick Murphy scored the Trojans' touchdown at Don Lugo, which turned an interception into an early touchdown and gave the Conquistadores an 11-0 lead. Don Lugo is 2-0 and has allowed only that one touchdown in two starts.

"It's simple. Our defense cannot be on the field all the time; give teams enough chances and they will score," said Hug. The Trojans have generated just two offensive touchdowns in three games; two of their scores against Phoenix came on intercepted passes.

An interception by Dijon Celius set up the drive that led to Murphy's touchdown run and was one of two picks by Trojan defenders.

In other games involving Nevada 3-A teams, it was Colfax, Calif., 22, Truckee 21; Hurricane, Utah, 24, Virgin Valley 14; Dayton 6, Winnemucca Lowry 0; Kanab, Utah, 35, Moapa Valley 25; River Valley, Ariz., 24, Boulder City 21 (OT), and Fernley 33, Faith Lutheran 6.

Nye County's Class A teams went 2-1, with Tonopah getting two second-half defensive touchdowns to edge Carlin, 14-8; Beatty taking advantage of short-handed Lund, 50-0, and Round Mountain falling 24-14 to Eureka.

Tonopah will be at home Friday against Wells (7 p.m.); on Saturday, Round Mountain goes to Smith Valley (1 p.m.), and Beatty plays at Sandy Valley (3 p.m.).

Tyler Bessire returned an intercepted pass 57 yards for a touchdown in the third period and recovered a fumble in the end zone in the fourth to lift Tonopah (2-1) past Carlin, in a battle of Nevada 1-A eight-man football giants.

Beatty (1-2) got big plays from quarterback Kyle Marchand and running backs Jose Mendoza, Junior Dare, and Joe Serrano to dominate Lund, which had only 10 players in uniform for the Friday afternoon game.

"We did everything we could not to get to the 45-point mercy rule," said Gus Sullivan, the Beatty coach. "We tried boys at different positions, but we just kept on scoring."

Round Mountain (0-3) played well in its loss to 1-A darkhorse contender Eureka, but the Knights didn't have enough firepower to prevail.

In key 1-A games Saturday, it will be Coleville, Calif., at home against Big Pine, Calif.; Pahranagat Valley at Eureka, and Carlin at undefeated Las Vegas Mountain View Christian, and Las Vegas Calvary Chapel at Spring Mountain.