<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/married-couple-sets-5k-records-at-bc3s-third-pioneer-pursuit.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>09/21/2025 03:46:46 PM</pubDate><title>Married couple sets 5K records at BC3’s third Pioneer Pursuit</title><subtitle>Community helps to raise nearly $11K to support college’s athletics programs</subtitle><description>(Butler, PA) A Venango County couple married for just longer than three years and competing in the Butler County Community College Pioneer Pursuit 5K race for the first time won male and female divisions with record times in the event and with others helped to raise $10,900 to support BC3’s intercollegiate athletics programs.</description><author/><image-caption>Ryan Irwin (740) leads runners during the Butler County Community College Pioneer Pursuit 5K race held Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, on the college’s main campus in Butler Township. Irwin, 41, and his wife, Sara, 31, residents of Seneca, Venango County, won the male and female divisions with record times. The event raised $10,900 to support BC3’s intercollegiate athletics programs. From left are Jason Judy (647), Matthew Reagle (800) and BC3 student Nate Boley (685). Reagle is from Oil City and Boley, of Slippery Rock. Judy’s hometown was not listed.</image-caption><tags><tag>BC3 Education Foundation</tag><tag>BC3 Future Fund</tag><tag>Community Impact</tag><tag>Giving</tag></tags><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2025/bc3-pursuit-hero.jpg" alt="Image: a photo of runners at a 5K"/></image></item>