Fifteen local schools and more than 500 athletes will compete Saturday in the Mercer County Track and Field Invitational at Hickory High stadium.

The event, which opens at 9 a.m., is geared to allow athletes to tune up for the upcoming District 10 meet at Hickory or to have a chance to earn D-10 qualifying times or distances.

No team scores are kept, but awards go to the top 8 in each event.

Following are the to 3 seeds in each event (meet record in parentheses):

Key: Commodore Perry (CP), Farrell (F), George Junior Republic (GJR), Greenville (G), Grove City (GC), Hickory (H), Kennedy Catholic (KC), Lakeview (L), Mercer (M), Reynolds (R), Sharon (Sn), Sharpsville (Sv), Slippery Rock (SR), West Middlesex (WM) and Wilmington (W).

BOYS

3200 relay (8:20.63, Greenville, 2005) — 1 Slippery Rock 8:21; 2 West Middlesex 8:22; 3 Grove City 8:31.42.

110 hurdles (14.72, Ben Steingrabe, WM, 1977) — 1 Issac Osborne (SR) 15.40; 2 Luke Yohman (W) 15.70; 3 Ethan Gisler (SR) 15.82.

100 (10.66, Torrance Gash, H, 1997) — 1 Earl Banks (GJR) 10.80, 2 Chris Burns (W) 10.80; Ian Campbell (SR) 10.90.

1600 (4:26.97, Jed Christianson, G, 2004) — 1 Shane Sigler (Sv) 4:31:20; 2 Matt Lawhead (WM) 4:37.10; 3 Jake Kildoo (GC) 4:40.35

400 (49.38, Nick Grant, SR, 1994) — 1 Jacques Moss (Sn) 51.73; 2 Patrick Morris (W) 52.0; 3 Jack Cravener (SR) 52.40.

400 relay (43.35, Wilmington, 2002) — 1 Wilmington 43.32; 2 GJR, 44.07; 3 Slip.Rock, 44.80.

300 hurdles (39.56, Josh Hauser, R, 1998) — 1 Bill Altman (Sn) 39.50; 2 Ethan Geisler (SR) 40.63; 3 Luke Yohman (W) 41.70.

800 (2:00.34, Chad Hartzell, SR, 2001) — 1 Adam Shrawder (WM) 2:00; 2 Matt Lawhead (WM) 2:04.80; 3 Bill Marstellar (Sv) 2:04.96