The Minot State University (MSU) track and field teams began their month-long race to the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) Indoor Championships with a huge performance last weekend, one the Beavers hope to build on at another big NCAA Division I-hosted event today and Saturday.

After setting six new school records last week in Grand Forks at the UND Open, the MSU runners, throwers, and jumpers head to North Dakota State in Fargo for the Bison Open on Friday and Saturday.

Action gets underway at 1 p.m. on today with the weight throw and at 3:30 p.m. on the track with the 3,000 meters. Saturday the action begins at 2 p.m. with the long jump and at 2:30 p.m. with the 60-meter hurdle preliminaries.

Leading the way so far this winter for the MSU women has been Summer Krebsbach who has broken the NCAA Division II school record in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.66, which ranks 8th best in the NSIC, and the all-time Minot State school record in the 200 meters with a time of 25.03, which is 11th in the NSIC.

Adding record efforts last week for the Beaver ladies were Bailey Wride and Sidra Sadowsky as Wride broke the all-time record in the 1,000 meters with a time of 2:58.02, which is currently No. 1 in the NSIC, and Sadowsky broke the NCAA D-II record in the mile with a time of 5:06.66, which is 13th in the NSIC.

On the men’s side, the Beavers saw Deuce Carr, Zaccharius Brown, and Peyton Tuhy set the pace as each wrote their name into the history books with NCAA Division II school records at the UND Open last week.

Carr broke the record in the men’s 60-meter dash with a preliminary time of 6.97 seconds, tying him for 15th fastest this winter in the NSIC, while Brown added a record run in the 200 meters of 22.37 which is 31st in the NSIC.

As for Tuhy, his time of 2:30.63 broke the D-II school record in the 1,000 meters and ranks 8th-best this winter in the NSIC.

The Beavers are racing toward the NSIC Indoor Championships hosted by Minnesota State, Mankato on February 28 and March 1. This weekend is the second of four consecutive meets for Minot State in that race to the Championships as the Beaver student-athletes fine-tune and prepare for a run at NSIC titles.

The next stop is at the South Dakota State Indoor Classic next weekend, February 14-15, in Brookings, South Dakota, followed by the Marauders Tune-Up hosted by the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota on Saturday, February 22.