BUTLERTWP — The idea of doing just enough to advance to next week's WPIAL Track and Field Championships didn't apply at Tuesday's Class AAA Northern Qualifier at Butler High School.

School records and plenty of personal bests were reached by several Butler County athletes, who were not going to risk any chances of not making the WPIAL finals.

Among the highlights:

n Right off the bat, the Knoch boys 3,200-meter relay team of Brian Tackett, Ben Hutterer, Artie Black and Kyle Reeping shattered the school record with a time of 8 minutes, 4 seconds, besting the 1987 standard of 8:11.7.

"Their next goal is 8:02.4, the state qualifying time," said Knoch coach Wess Brahler. "That's definitely within reach."

• Seneca Valley's Da'Lynn Mills set the school mark in the girls 200 with a time of 24.86

"She's the first to ever run in the 24s," said Seneca Valley coach Wayne Roccia. "That's wonderful. I'm real excited about that."

Butler's Kendall Butch won three events: the pole vault (11 feet, ¼ inch), triple jump (35-7½) and the high jump (5-0, a seven-way tie with six others including Mills and Raiders teammates Jen Boyd and Chelsey Pavlick).

n Boyd also qualified in two other individual events, the long jump (second, 17-4) and the triple jump (third, 35-4¾) and was a member of the third-place 1,600-meter relay.

Other first-place performances in the girls qualifier came from Seneca Valley's Ashley Turici, who had a winning javelin throw of 130-3.

"We've asked her to throw the shot and discus from her during the regular season," said Roccia. "We needed that, but now that the season is over, the javelin's her ticket if she's going to make it.

"This is the best she's thrown at this time of the year,"Roccia added.

The Raiders' 3,200 relay team of Lauren Bezier, Aleisha Rees, Kelsey Sullivan and Emily Wolfarth also prevailed with a time of 9:50.1 (Mars was second, Butler fifth and Knoch seventh) while the Butler 400 relay team of Kelly Huth, Lyndsy Day, Haley Spinneweber and Lea Renwick also won with a time of 50.5.

"That's their best this season, and that's coming back after dropping the baton at Baldwin last Friday," said Butler girls coach Rod Harris

Butler's Amy Achesinski was the other double individual qualifier, placing fifth in the shot put and seventh in the discus.

On the boys side, Knoch had first-place showings from Kevin Flaherty in the 400 (50.7, tied with Seneca Valley's Dan Stanley) and Reeping in the 800 (2:00.0).

Butler's Matt Celestin (triple and long jumps), Nolan Brink (shot and discus), Doug Moran (100 and 200), Brian Burka (110 and 300 hurdles) and Seneca Valley's Tim Miles and Knoch's Bill Elliott (shot put and discus) also qualified in two individual events each.

Moran ran a fraction of a second under 10.8 in the 100, the best time by a Tornado since record-holder Nick Chiappini's 10.7 in 1999.

Despite the longer list of personal records, the idea still is to advance and run, throw and jump another day.

"There were no surprises," said Roccia. "I don't know if that's good or bad. We have some real, real, real good team athletes, but when you move through, the quality is better. That's the nature of it."

The top eight athletes in each event have qualified for the WPIALClass AAA Championships at Baldwin High School. The following are Butler County athletes with their respective times, heights or distances.

Boys3200-meter relay: 1-Knoch Brian Tackett, Ben Hutterer, Artie Black, Kyle Reeping) 8:04.0; 4-Butler (Wade Grubbs, Nathan Neff, Ian Haley, Cory Haley) 8:21.0; 7-Seneca Valley (Eric Geddis, Matt Marchese, Matt Buchelle, Ben Ronallo) 9:02.3

110-meter hurdles: 8-Brian Burka (Butler) 15.4

100-meter dash: 2-Doug Moran (Butler) 10.8; 6-Fred Pinto (Butler) 11.1

1,600-meter run: 3-Cam Stauffer (Seneca Valley) 4:43.2; 5-Oliver Flynn (4:44.3)

400-meter dash: 1t-Kevin Flaherty (Knoch) and Dan Stanley (Seneca Valley) 50.7; 4-Mason McLaughlin (Butler) 51.8

400 meter relay: 4-Butler (Fred Pinto, Casey Piper, Doug Moran, Jason Fair) 43.7

300-meter hurdles: 3-Dan Dickey (Seneca Valley) 39.4; 6-Brian Burka (Butler) 40.8; 7-Lee Layton (Seneca Valley) 40.9; 8-Deseree Williams (Butler) 41.7

800-meter run: 1-Kyle Reeping (Knoch) 2:00.0; 5-Brian Tackett (Knoch) 2:03.4

200-meter dash: 3t-Doug Moran (Butler) 22.7; 5t-Casey Piper (Butler) and Frank Campisino (Seneca Valley) 22.9

3,200-meter run: 3-Artie Black (Knoch) 9:52.8; 6-Chris Cipro (Seneca Valley) 9:57.1

1,600-meter relay: 2-Seneca Valley 3:25.3; 4-Knoch (Kevin Flaherty, Joel Berger, Luke Tabacchi, Kyle Reeping) 3:28.0; 6-Butler (Shane Snyder, Rob Miller, Mason McLaughlin, Ian Haley) 3:33.6

High jump: 3t-Connor Barrett (Seneca Valley) and Brian McCandless (Butler 5-9

Long jump: 2-Matt Celestin (Butler) 21-5

Triple jump: 3-Mike Martin (Butler) 41-2¼; 7-Matt Celestin (Butler) 40-6¼

Shot put: 3-Bill Elliott (Knoch) 50-9½; 4-Tim Miles (Seneca Valley) 50-1½; 5-Nolan Brink (Butler) 48-6½; 7-Marcus Hough (Butler) 46-9

Discus: 2-Tim Miles (Seneca Valley) 146-3; 4-Nolan Brink (Butler) 141-6; 5-Bill Elliott (Knoch) 137-3; 6-Marcus Hough (Butler) 134-8; 8-Joe Harmon (Butler) 127-9

Javelin: 2-Harold Dunn (Butler) 171-7; 4-Zac Gross (Knoch) 153-10; 7-Ben Mitro (Seneca Valley) 148-8

Pole vault: 6-Andy Strutt (Butler) 12-6

Girls3200-meter relay: 1-Seneca Valley Lauren Bezier, Aleisha Rees, Kelsey Sullivan, Emily Wolfarth) 9:50.1; 2-Mars 9:52.0; 5-Butler (Amanda Malecky, Abby Herrit, Tess Crispin, Jessica Tomsey) 10:05.1; 7-Knoch (Libby Burris, Kayla Davis, Audrey Scott, Amanda Sharbaugh) 10:12.8

100-meter dash: 3-Lea Renwick (Butler) 12.7; 5-Kelly Huth (Butler) 13.4

400-meter dash: 4-Kristin Robb (Knoch) 1:01.3

400 meter relay: 1-Butler (Kelly Huth, Lyndsy Day, Haley Spinneweber, Lea Renwick) 50.5; 3-Seneca Valley (Da'Lynn Mills, Aly Triscuit, Logan Gamelier, Jenny Jergel) 50.8

300-meter hurdles: Hannah Rekich (Butler) 46.9

800-meter run: 3-Brittany Zaborowski (mars) 2:21.7; 5-Amanda Malecky (Butler) 2:22.7

200-meter dash: 2-Da'Lynn Mills (Seneca Valley) 24.86

1,600-meter relay: 2-Butler (Hannah Rekich, Amanda Malecky, Tess Crispin, Abby Herrit) 4:10.7; 3-Seneca Valley 4:12.8; 4-Mars 4:13.7

High jump: 1t-Kendall Butch (Butler), Jen Boyd (Seneca Valley), Da'Lynn Mills (Seneca Valley), Chelsey Pavlick (Seneca Valley) 5-0

Long jump: 2-Jen Boyd (Seneca Valley) 17-4; 6-Lyndsy Day (Butler) 16-8¾; 7-Haley Spinneweber (Butler) 16-8½

Triple jump: 1-Kendall Butch (Butler) 35-7½; 3-Jen Boyd (Seneca Valley) 35-4¾

Shot put: 5-Amy Achesinski (Butler) 34-7; 7-Laura Ankrom (Butler) 33-10¾; 8-Carol Cress (Knoch) 33-10½

Discus: 4-Sarah Cooper (Knoch) 102-11; 6-Katherine Sylvia (Butler) 100-2; 7-Amy Achesinski (Butler) 100-1

Javelin: 1-Ashley Turici (Seneca Valley) 130-3; 6-Maria Baroffio (Butler) 104-5; 7-Jordan Bossong (Mars) 101-9; 8-Danielle Diamond (Seneca Valley) 99-7

Pole vault: 1-Kendall Butch (Butler) 11-0¼; 4-Jess Clouse (Butler) 9-3; 7-Bria Nelko (Seneca Valley) 8-6¼