Trojans end seven-game skid with 7-1 win over Boulder City

Pahrump Valley’s seven-game skid ended in Boulder City with a 7-1 road win that felt bigger than a single regular-season result. The Trojans had just gone through six games in eight days and were coming off a rough stretch that had piled up doubts, but they answered with their most complete performance in weeks and split the two-game series after a 12-2 loss in the opener.

Junior starter Samuel Mendoza was the difference. He no-hit Boulder City through four and one-third innings and carried the game into a complete outing, giving Pahrump Valley the kind of mound control it had been missing during the losing streak. The Trojans backed him with a clean defensive effort and steady execution, a sharp contrast to the errors and rushed play that can follow a heavy schedule.

The offense also settled in after a quiet start. Pahrump Valley did not score in the first inning, then pieced together an 11-hit attack and built separation as the game moved along. Prep Baseball Report described the win as a dominant complete-game pitching performance, and the final margin matched the way the Trojans controlled the night once Mendoza found his rhythm and the lineup began working through at-bats.

For coach Drew Middleton, the result mattered because of who stood across the field. Boulder City is widely viewed as one of the teams to beat in the league, and Pahrump Valley had already lost four road games before finally breaking through. Middleton, a 2014 Pahrump Valley High School graduate who returned home after coaching at Desert Oasis, has been trying to steady a program that needed a win like this to feel more secure in its direction.

The victory lifted Pahrump Valley to 10-13 overall and dropped Boulder City to 11-9, according to MaxPreps. It also marked the Trojans’ biggest win over Boulder City since April 15, 2023, a useful marker for a program trying to show it can still rise when the schedule tightens and the pressure grows. With the postseason nearing, the road win gave Pahrump Valley more than a split series. It gave the Trojans a reason to believe the rough stretch does not have to define the rest of the season.