BUTLER TWP — The Jeff Potter Baseball Tour doesn’t make stops.

It just keeps on going.

The Potter Tour will blow in and out of the Butler County area over the next few days, but will accomplish plenty before it leaves.

“I’ve been involved with them now for six years,” Butler High girls volleyball coach Meghan Lucas said. “I believe in what they do because the Potter Tour is about teaching athletes to give back to the community.”

This summer’s Potter Tour began July 1 and runs through July 26. Jeff Potter and his 22-player team of middle and high school aged players will visit 28 towns in four states — Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio — in 26 days, logging close to 5,000 miles.

“We get excited about every stop because we’re always doing different things,” Potter said.

They will take part in the sixth annual volleyball co-ed Tournament at 4 p.m. Thursday at Butler High School. That eight-team round-robin tournament raises money for Cancer CureSearch in memory of youth cancer victim Wesley Zablocki, a former East Butler baseball player who died at age 11 in March of last year.

Butler’s volleyball players will play in that tournament and will walk a 10-mile hike Saturday in North Park with the Potter players.

“Both activities raise money for CureSearch. We’ve raised about $10,000 in the past five years,” Lucas said.

The Potter Tour will stop in Cranberry Township Friday and participate in a sand volleyball tournament that will raise money for the Seneca Valley Autism organization.

Sunday, the Tour will be in Natrona Heights putting on a home run derby to raise money for cancer research. On Monday, the Potter Tour will be in Freeport working with the Freeport Little League putting on a baseball clinic.

The Potter Tour is back in Butler July 19-20. The players will be doing some painting at Emily Brittain school, including a closet the school will use while initiating a charitable back pack program this fall to feed children. McQuistion School ran this program last year and it is expanding to Emily Brittain and Northwest elementary schools this year.

The Carousel Shelter at Alameda Park will be painted by the Potter Tour players Tuesday as well. The players will help serve at a Lions Club dinner benefitting the Blind Association that night.

On July 20, the Tour will put on a free baseball clinic at the East Butler Complex from 2 to 4 p.m., then play a pair of games at Speed-O Field that night.

“The biggest challenge to all of this is getting the kids to their host families in each area, making sure their luggage and baseball gear are in order, picking them all up each morning ... It gets pretty hectic,” Potter said.

But it’s all worthwhile.

“It’s about getting kids into a mind-set of helping people while enjoying baseball,” Potter said.