Las Vegas Sun

May 3, 2024

Moapa Valley’s win in the rain brings back memory of another wet game

2023 Las Vegas Sun High School Football Media Day

Christopher DeVargas

Members of the Moapa Valley High School football team are pictured during the Las Vegas Sun’s high school football media day at the Red Rock Resort on July 20, 2023. They include, from left, Ryan Bellavance, Gavyn Frederick and Degan Jones.

Jared Evans recovered a fumble on the last play of the first half for the Moapa Valley football team and raced for a touchdown, helping the Pirates blank visiting Chaparral, 33-0.

Brent Lewis has been roaming the Moapa Valley sideline for more than two decades. Only once — in the early 2000s at Hurricane of Utah — does he remember there being this kind of rain.

“That was a grass field,” he recalled, detailing standing in deep puddles on the sideline.

Tyson Redd and Shandon Matheson accounted for rushing touchdowns in helping Moapa Valley improve to 2-1 overall.