BUTLER TWP— Xandria White earned an appointment to get her nails done.

Karns City's senior sprinter got a lot more than that done Saturday during the sixth annual Butler Girls Track and Field Invitational.

White won the 200 meters, placed second in the 100, fifth in the long jump and helped the Gremlins' 400-meter relay team to a seventh-place at Art Bernardi Stadium.

She earned her team 18 points in the standings. She earned herself the Most Valuable Track Athlete award for the meet.

And the appointment to get her nails done.

"My mother told me that if I won this race (200 meters), I could get my nails done,"a beaming White said. "Someone told me I had the best time in the semifinals, but I tried not to think about that.

"I wanted to come to this meet to see if I could get faster. I guess I stepped it up. This feels good."

White ran the 200 in 26.35 seconds. She ran the 100 in 12.81 seconds, but was beaten to the wire by the 12.63-second time of Butler's Lea Renwick.

The Butler Invitational consisted of 20 teams, Karns City one of the smallest schools among them.

"I love the competition — and the warmer weather,"White said. "I've had an inflamed tendon in my left leg and the warmer weather helps it."

Butler senior Renwick has been battling back from a pulled hip flexor and has endured a high school career beset by nagging injuries.

Her goal is to break the school record in the 100, a 12.14 held by current Golden Tornado assistant coach Annessa Schnur.

"I'm trying to take aim on that record and this was a big step forward for me,"Renwick said. "Our dual meet schedule is winding down and this is the first of a lot of bigger meets for us.

"Being able to come out here and win the 100 is a tremendous confidence booster for me."

Butler coach Rod Harris agreed.

"I'm excited for Lea, her being able to win the 100 in her final big meet at home,"Harris said. "We've needed this weather and she took full advantage of it."

So, too, did the unexpected Tornado 3,200-meter relay unit of freshmen Sam Farabee, Amanda Dymun, Emily Petrak and senior Jess Vernon.

That group ran a 10:22.30 to edge Oakland Catholic and win the event despite having never run together before.

"I only ran the 800 once before in my life,"Vernon said. "Then all four of us come out here and run personal records."

"Every meet we've been in, we've lost the 4x800 relay,"Harris said. "I figured we had nothing to lose. Just throw something together and see what happens. No doubt, this is the find of the day for us."

Harris said that quartet will remain together in the second half of the season.

"This is just something new for me to get excited about,"Vernon said. "Those three (freshmen) are good. They're just young. They're only going to get better.

"They were a little nervous before the meet. I told them to not be nervous, we're all just out here to have fun. And that's what we had today."

North Allegheny won the meet for the fifth time in six years, tallying 112 points to easily out-distance runner up Butler's 76.

McDowell's Ajla Glavasevic won the Most Valuable Field Athlete award, finishing first in the long jump and triple jump. She set a meet record in the long jump.

Meet records also fell in the 400 meters, 1,600-meter relay, shot put and pole vault. McDowell's Alexandrea Acker set the pole vault meet record (11 feet, one inch) as a freshman in 2004 and broke it as a senior Saturday, vaulting 11-9.

Knoch junior Carol Cress placed in three field events, finishing second in the javelin, third in the shot put and sixth in the discus. Her javelin toss of 119 feet, 11 inches was a personal record.

"I was a little surprised because I usually throw better in the cold weather,"Cress said. "My teammates always tease me about that.

"But I like the bigger meets, too. I like when there's a lot more throwers. It gets the adrenaline going."