Pahrump Valley Junior All-Stars open Division 4 run with 12-2 win
Pahrump Valley's Coco Locos opened Division 4 play with a 12-2 win over Lone Mountain, then kept climbing toward the championship game.
The Pahrump Valley Little League Junior All-Stars made their first statement in Las Vegas with a 12-2 win over Lone Mountain Little League at Children’s Memorial Park on Thursday, June 18. The Coco Locos from Pahrump backed up the opening-round result with the kind of control that can carry a youth team through a bracket that leaves little room for mistakes.
That opener came in the first days of the 2026 District 4 Junior All-Stars tournament, which ran June 18-23 at Children’s Memorial and Mountain Ridge Parks. The junior bracket is part of Little League Baseball and Softball’s annual postseason ladder, with district play feeding into the state tournament July 8-12 at Heritage Park in Henderson. For Pahrump Valley, the 12-2 margin mattered because it showed the team could score early and stay composed in a tournament setting away from home.
The victory also fit into a larger pattern for the Pahrump program. District 4’s historical bracket records show Pahrump Valley has been in the mix before, including a 2023 Junior championship game won by Summerlin South over Pahrump Valley and a 2021 Junior championship game won by Peccole over Pahrump Valley. That history gives this year’s run added weight in Nye County, where the junior all-stars are carrying the local flag against deeper Las Vegas-area competition.
Pahrump Valley kept the push going. On June 22 at Mountain Ridge Park, the Coco Locos beat Summerlin South 18-8 to reach the Division 4 championship game, using timely hitting, aggressive baserunning and steady defense to move one step closer to a title. The two wins showed more than one hot inning or one isolated breakout performance; they pointed to a balanced team that can score, run and defend under tournament pressure.
With the Division 4 bracket still feeding into the July state tournament, Pahrump Valley’s run had already moved beyond a single opener. For a program based in Pahrump, the Coco Locos’ start in Las Vegas gave local fans a team still alive in the postseason picture and a chance to keep following its path deeper into July.
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