BALDWIN — Seneca Valley didn't waste much time kicking off the Baldwin Invitational Friday.

Before a lot of fans got a chance to settle in, the Raiders picked up a pair of wins, including a meet-record time of 9 minutes, 26.38 seconds in the girls 3,200-meter relay.

The quartet of Kate Kelly, Megan Powell, Emily Wolfarth and Erin Lopresti defeated Latrobe by a little over a second to open the track portion of the invitational.

On the field side, Conor Barrett extended his school record in the high jump with a 6-foot-8 effort, besting the 6-5½ set earlier this year.

"I truly expected a 6-6 this year," said Raiders assistant coach Dan Sample, who works with the jumpers. "But 6-8, that was stretching it."

The unique part is that as member of the Raiders boys volleyball team, Barrett doesn't practice his high jumping much at all.

"We never get a full practice," said Sample. "The one good thing with volleyball is he gets to jump. ... Conor could be better in technique, but he has a great leap."

In the 3,200 relay, the foursome's best time before Friday was 9:56.0, so slicing 30 seconds this late in the season is a tremendous effort.

So was Lopresti's split as the anchor leg, a sizzling 2:12.

"We're very pleased where she is," said Sample, who also saw Lopresti earn a sixth-place finish in the 400 with a personal-best 58.62.

Teammate Da'Lynn Mills also had a big day, placing second in the high jump (5-6), third in the 200 (25.34) and fourth as a member of the 400 relay team (1:50.42) with Jenny Jergel, Aly Triscuit and Logan Gamelier.

In the high jump, Mills tied Hopewell's Becky Novacek at 5-6, but Novacek won the tiebreaker.

"We had a jump-off," said Mills. "They lowered the bar one inch (5-5) and we both missed. They lowered it another inch and we both missed again.

"They lowered the bar again (5-4) and we both made it. They raised it an inch and she made it and I missed it," Mills added.

Also medaling for the Raiders was Dan Dickey, who was fourth in the 300 hurdles (40.37) and a member of the fifth-place 1,600 relay team (3:29.32); Frank Campisino was fifth in the boys 200 (22.96), Chris Cipro was sixth in the 3,200 (9:22.17) and Jen Boyd was fifth in the girls triple jump (34-7½).

Dickey couldn't see himself running this event three weeks ago because of what amounted to "an air leak in my lung. I thought (my season) was over.

"Physically, I feel fine. Now I think can get myself back to where I was a few weeks ago," he added.

"Then, Dan ran a 51-plus in the 1,600 relay (as the anchorman)," said Sample. "It was amazing when he came back that he wasn't that far out of shape."

Cipro ran a personal-best 9:38.94 at last Friday's Mars Invitational, but knocked off 16 more seconds Friday against some state-caliber performances by Smethport's Ben Hahn (9:09.75), Gettysburg's Bryan Beegle and Meadville's Zac Ross, who grabbed the top three places.

Cipro's time places him third on the Butler County all-time honor roll for the 3,200.

The Butler boys picked up four medals, although coach Rick Schontz gave his sprinters, among others, some much-deserved rest.

"We left the sprinters at home," said Schontz. "A lot have a touch of the flu or are banged up. A couple came just to watch. We have to rest up because we have two big meets (the WPIAL Northern Qualifier Tuesday and the Class AAA team championship Thursday) coming up."

Mike Martin (44-3½) and Logan Renwick (43-4¾) placed fourth and sixth, respectively, in the boys triple jump while Rob Miller was fifth in the 1,600 (4:22.61) and Andy Strutt was seventh in the pole vault (13-6).

The Tornado's lone female medalist was Skye Sankey in the pole vault (9-0).

Mars' Justin Piocquidio and Derek Workman worked double time, finding a way to compete in both the Baldwin and Pine-Richland invitationals.

Piocquidio placed sixth in the boys long jump (21-6½) at Baldwin, while Workman was at Pine-Richland helping the 3,200-meter relay team win the event and clocking a split time of 1:57.

Mars boys coach Joe Cioc then drove Piocquidio from Baldwin to Pine-Richland to compete, then drove Workman back down to Baldwin to compete in the 800.

"I tell the kids if you go to states the year before, you can go to Baldwin," said Cioc. "We could have won Pine-Richland, but I think we can do both.

"Justin was the only Class AA boy in the finals. ... Derek comes down here just before the start of the 800, gets in the (second-fastest) heat and runs a (1:59+),"Cioc added.

Workman just missed out on medaling at Baldwin.

Grove City's Kristy Woods was the area's other medalist, turning in a third-place effort in the discus (130-9) and sixth in the shot put (39-¾).

Notes: Baldwin's Chris Wolfe and Laurel Highlands' Breehana Jacobs were named the boys and girls MVPs, respectively. ... North Allegheny won the girls title with 63 points, followed by Laurel Highlands (53.5) and Erie McDowell (46). Erie McDowell won the boys team title with 85 points, followed by Baldwin (66) and Kiski Area (31.5). ... Erie McDowell won the boys-girls combined points title with 13.1 ... Brentwood won the Class AA trophy with 23 points. ... Jacobs set the meet and stadium record in the 400 with a time of 55.33. The stadium record's previous owner was Butler's Annessa Schnur, who established the mark in 1998.