ALAN WEEKS / SPECIAL TO THE PVT Pahrump Valley runners McKenzie Dean, David Jacobi and Stephanie Andros will compete in the Nevada Class 3-A Cross Country Championships Saturday, at Rancho San Rafael Park in Reno, just north of the University of Nevada campus. Advertisement

McKenzie Dean, Stephanie Andros and David Jacobi will run for Pahrump Valley in the Nevada Class 3-A State Cross Country championships at Rancho San Rafael Park in Reno Saturday.

Dean, a junior, won the Southern regional championship for the third consecutive year, turning the 3.1-mile course in Mountain View Park at Laughlin in 20 minutes, 25 seconds.

Dean will go after her third straight state cross country championship -- and the fifth in her PVHS career as a runner -- starting at 10 45 a.m. Saturday at the park course, located just north of the University of Nevada campus. Dean's other state titles came in the 2006 and 2007 state 3-A 3200-meter runs.

Andros was ninth in 25:26 to qualify as an at-large entry for the Lady Trojans. At the regionals, PVHS was third in team points with 72, as Ashlee Wolf was 17th in 27:55, Nicole Dillon 23rd in 32:46, Pam Hunter 24th in 35:28 and Sabina Statz 25th in 37:05.

Las Vegas Faith Lutheran won the team title in the girls' meet with 28 points, as its runners placed 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8. Gioia Rhodes was third for the Crusaders in 21:53, trailing Boulder City's JoJo Stanton (21:49).

Boulder City has 53 points, and Mesquite Virgin Valley was fourth with 73. Overton Moapa Valley had only one runner compete.

Jacobi was 12th in 20:20 in the boys' race, won by Boulder City's Matt Lundgren in 18:01. Faith Lutheran won the boys' championship with 30 points' its runners were fifth through ninth in the scoring, and also had the next two runners.

Boulder City had 53 points, with Moapa Valley at 75 and the Trojans 78.

For Pahrump Valley, David Binderim was 13th in 20:27; James Lucas 17th in 20:50; Alex Anderson 18th in 21:17; Ryan Howard 23rd in 22:13; Connor Chenevert 25th in 22:34, and Josh Armendariz 27th in 23:00.

The boys' 3-A state race starts at 1:10 p.m.

In the Northern 3-A regional finals contested at Rancho San Rafael Park, Theresa Hardy of Dayton won in 22:58.43, with Incline's Briana Drago second in 22:59.50. Spring Creek's Kelsie Blanthorn was third in 23:12.65.

Winnemucca Lowry, which had its runners place 4, 5, 8, 13, and 15, won the regional title with 45 points. Spring Creek (2, 11, 14, 16, 18) was second at 61. Dayton, with 1, 7, 12, 19, 22, was third with 61 points. Truckee, Calif. had 87 and Yerington scored 92.

Micah Silver of Truckee won the boys' finale in 18:08.83, well ahead of Winnemucca Lowry's Matt Pike (18:30.01). Nick Belanger of Lowry was third in 18:52.05.

Lowry (2, 3, 9, 11, 14) won the team title with 39 points. At 49 was Truckee (1, 4, 8, 15, 21) and at 62 was Dayton (5, 10, 12, 16, 19). Spring Creek had 78, Yerington 144, Sparks 163 and Fernley 190.

NOTES -- The Class 2-A girls' championship race starts the competition at 10 a.m. ... The girls' 4-A race is at 11:25 a.m. ... Other boys' races are at 12:30 p.m. (Class 2-A) and 2:15 p.m. (Class 4-A) ... Sunset Southwest runners, against whom PVHS will compete in the 2008 season, were led by Jacob Thornell (Bonanza), second in the Boulder City regional boys' finals in 16:38.63 and Kourtney Moody (Spring Valley), first in 20:16.06 ... Leah Ballard of Clark, who lost to PV's McKenzie Dean in a race held in Pahrump in September, was third in 20:29.73.