It was business as usual Friday for the YAIAA track and field championships.

Two years ago COVID-19 wiped out the spring season. Last year, safety guidelines turned the meet into a two-day affair.

This year it was back to one day in Dallastown's stadium. Under skies that alternated between bright sun and dark clouds, runners, throwers and jumpers gave it one last try to qualify for next week's District 3 meet at Shippensburg University.

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Here is a look at some of the meet's highlights.

Cierra Miller didn't quite hit her seed distance, but the Dover senior's throw of 116-3 worked out just fine. She topped the field to win the girls' javelin, the first event to finish.

Central York's Abigail Gotwals was second at 113-3, nearly 4 feet better than her seed throw and Eastern York's Kendall Felix was third at 110-4, also better than her seed throw.

Central York's Maslyn Soisson cruised past her seed distance of 17-1 to win the girls' long jump at 17-10.5. Susquehannock's Ryleigh Marks finished second at 17-1 and Bermudian Springs' Alison Watts was third at 16-10.5.

She's the defending District 3 and PIAA Class 3A champion. She already held the YAIAA records at 100 and 200 meters. The PIAA meet is two weeks away, and Spring Grove sophomore Laila Campbell has already blown past the 100 meter meet record.

Friday she shattered her own YAIAA records, lowering the 100 from 11.97 to a stunning 11.24.seconds and the 200 from 24.23 to 23.58. Both record-breaking times came in the prelims. She didn't lower them in the finals, but her 11.51 in the 100 beat her previous mark.

Campbell said she is happy with the way she ran Friday, but believes she can go faster this year.

"I hit 11.2 in the 100 and I think I can go 11.0 before the end of the season," Campbell said after winning the 100. "In the 200 I would like to go 23.0 or 22.9."

Red Lion senior Isabella Vanover finished second in 12.74 and Dajae Boardley-Wise of Red Lion was third in 12.75.

Dallastown records old and new fell on the track.

The new one was by Kristian Phennicie, who broke his one-year 100-meter record with a 10.63 in the final.

Even as the defending District 3 and PIAA Class 3A champion, the Dallastown senior had his eye set on Friday's race.

"It's the title I didn't have," he said after pounding his chest as he crossed the finish line. "This is the one I really wanted. Last year I won districts and states, but I didn't win counties."

Moments after Phennicie ran his race, senior Lydia Tolerico wiped off a name that has been on Dallastown's record board since 1980.

And the former record-holder was in the house to see her record fall.

"This is the first meet I've been to in about 10 years," Susan (Kotek) Sprague said. "I thought there was a chance a couple of years ago. There was a girl whose times were coming down, but then COVID hit and the season was shortened."

Sprague was the first to let people know that her record was broken. She asked about Tolerico's time, and when she heard 5:03.42, she said "that breaks the school record."

Sprague knew it was true, she said, because her time of 5:04.24 stood for 42 years.

Ryleigh Marks was a little surprised she didn't have to run against Olivia Kay in the 100 hurdles. The defending league champ, who finished second in districts and fourth in states, opted out of the meet to attend York Suburban's prom.

"We always compete against each other," Marks said after she won the 100 finals in 15.26. "Every season I've gotten a little stronger and the races have been closer. I'll see her at districts."

Kay had the fastest time of the season among York-Adams hurdlers until Marks' win.

The Susquehannock junior said her results have improved as she put a new focus on the sport. And she feels good about where she is going into districts and states.

"I'm happy where I am," Marks said. "I decided I want to do this in college, and that has helped me focus. I've already started looking at schools and going on some visits."

Marks said she is hoping to compete at a Division II or low-Division I college.

York High's Amahj Walker ran a personal best in the boys' 400 final. He crossed the line at 50.2, followed closely by West York junior Nico Wright-Phillips at 50.95.

Walker stood behind the first-place step of the medals podium while he and the other finalists waited to get their medals. And then everything ground to a halt.

York High's coaches were called to the timers' tent, where they were told Walker had been disqualified for interfering with another runner.

"I took two steps into another lane, but I was allowed three," Walker said. "I made sure I didn't do it again."

PIAA officials said a District 3 referee was standing in the area where Walker's infraction occurred. It's a judgment call, and although York High coaches appealed the ruling, the decision stood.

After the appeals meeting, York High coaches said they were as upset with the handling of the disqualification as the DQ itself.

A number of athletes won multiple individual events Friday. Most came in similar events - sprints, distances, throws or jumps.

Campbell led the way with three golds. She added a win in the 400 to her 100 and 200 sprint titles.

Phennicie was the YAIAA's fastest athlete Friday, claiming the 100 and 200 sprints in 10.63 and 21.70, respectively.

Susquehannock's Matthew O'Brien ruled the distance races. The junior won the 1600 in 4:23.43 and the 3200 in 9:28.58, just off the YAIAA record.

Bernard Bell took care of both hurdle races. He won 110 high hurdles in 14.40 and 300 hurdles in 39.15. Bell tied for the fastest seed time in the 110, but was still "a little surprised" he won the title, he said after the race.

Red Lion's Kylyn McIntire won two of the three throwing events. She won the discus by more than 5 feet at 123-2 and shot put by 2 feet at 37-1.

A pair of freshmen won individual league titles Friday, and they are both Dallastown Wildcats.

Victoria Rodriguez was one of two Dallastown freshmen to finish in the top five of the 800-meter race. Rodriguez won it in 2:23.28, two seconds faster than her seed time and just ahead of teammate Kailey Granger. Freshman Natalie Good was fourth.

Rodriguez also finished third in the 1600.

Michael Scott was the top seed in the boys' long jump and the freshman lived up to his billing. He was just off his personal best, but his leap of 20-9.5 was nearly 2 inches beyond Dover's Thomas Smyser and good for the win.

Scott also finished third in the triple jump behind a pair of seniors, and was part of a winning relay.