Here are the all-region and all-league girls volleyball teams, as selected by coaches.
Lake Mead
Nicholas held off hard-charging Massimiliano Swenson of Bishop Gorman to become Desert Oasis’ first region cross country champion. The Diamondbacks also won the boys region team title, another first in school history.
Conner Nicholas picked up his fourth victory in an invitational meet this season by capturing the large-school race of the Lake Mead Invitational on Saturday at Veteran’s Memorial Park.
Claire Rawlins trailed Basic’s Raquel Chavez for much of the race, but stayed within striking distance to the end. She then raced past Chavez and held off Sierra Vista’s Sarriah Brown to win the 3.1-mile race in 19 minutes, 16 seconds.
Puskas surged to the lead entering the final mile and held off the rest of the field to finish the 3-mile course in 18 minutes, 25.7 seconds, for her biggest cross country win of a still-young prep career.
Caitlyn Covington was 3-for-4 with two home runs and four RBIs to lead Shadow Ridge’s softball team to a 7-5 road victory over Centennial on Friday afternoon.
Starting pitcher Nik Dobar threw a perfect game to lift Centennial’s baseball team to an 11-0 home victory over Shadow Ridge in five innings on Friday afternoon.
Tre Harley won three individual events and ran on the winning 1,600-meter relay team Wednesday to help the Centennial boys track team to an 87-59 win at Faith Lutheran.
Ashlyn Western and Natalie Mills each won one individual event, finished second in another and ran on a winning relay team Wednesday to help Moapa Valley’s girls track team win a five-team meet at Del Sol.
Sever Stewart swept the hurdle events Friday to lead Faith Lutheran’s boys cross country team to victory in the Richard Lewis Invitational in Overton.
Spring Valley 132-pounder Andres Garcia beat the Sunrise Region champion, the Sunset runner-up and last week’s Sunset Region champion to claim his first Class 4A state championship Friday at The Orleans Arena.
Analiyah Matthews had 23 points to power Durango’s girls basketball team to a 49-35 home victory over Sierra Vista on Tuesday.