HORACE LANGFORD JR. Pahrump Valley's volleyball team, coached by Jill Harris, goes through drills, as it prepares for today's opening match in the Las Vegas Invitational tournament at Las Vegas High. The Trojans will play Douglas Minden in their 2009 debut.

2009 FALL SPORTS: PV's spikers, booters ready for first action
In its first season in Sunset Region Southwest Class 4-A volleyball, the Pahrump Valley girls team qualified for the regionals and along the way, stunned heavily favored Las Vegas Durango in a division match.

GORMAN AT PVHS SEPT. 11: New coach in charge of Gaels football
It's not often that a successful program has to go through a coaching change.


PHOTO: SHARKS IN SCRIMMAGE

Driver dies during Vegas-Reno race
GOLDFIELD -- Anthony Sorenson, 46, of Salt Lake City, died while competing in the Vegas-to-Reno Offroad race Aug. 20.

South 3-A schools in dire straits? It depends
Moapa Valley was scarcely challenged on its way to a second straight Nevada Class 3-A state football title last season.

GAME DAYS

BE AWARE OF MANY CHANGES: Hunters should go scouting
During the hot days of August, it's difficult for most hunters, excluding archers, to give much thought to hunting this fall.

Mourning dove hunt starts Tuesday
When the sun comes up Sept. 1, many of Nevada's hunters will take part in the annual mourning dove hunt, long the unofficial beginning of the fall hunting season.

GOLF ROUNDUP
DEATH VALLEY -- The Furnace Creek Fall Kickoff Classic, a three-phase golf tournament, will be played here Oct. 9-10-11.

POKER TOURNAMENTS
Club MVC has started a series of four World Poker Tour qualifying tournaments, in the Mountain View Casino.

BOWLING

PHOTOS: WORKOUTS AT BEATTY

• Charity poker at the Nugget
A poker tournament to benefit Nathan Adelson Hospice will be played Sept. 16 in the Pahrump Nugget.