Deputies win competition

The Ventura County Sheriff's Department's Baker to Vegas Team recently won the Allen Heersch Memorial Cup, which is given each year to Ventura County's fastest law enforcement team.

The Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup is a 120-mile, 20-stage foot race that starts in Baker, Calif., travels through the Mojave Desert to Shoshone, Calif., north to Pahrump, Nev., over the Mountain Springs Pass and down to Las Vegas.

This year the race consisted of more than 250 teams of 20 runners each from law enforcement and criminal justice agencies from the United States and around the world.

Sgt. Allen Heersch was a member of the sheriff's department who died of cancer. The memorial cup was established in 2003.