It’s championship time for the Minot State track and field teams as they head to Minnesota State, Mankato this weekend for the NSIC Outdoor Championships.

The Beavers compete Friday and Saturday at the Championships, which begin Thursday with the multi-events. Friday’s action begins at 10 a.m. with the women’s 10,000 meters, and Saturday the women’s javelin gets things started at 11 a.m.

At stake will be NSIC titles in each event, the team championships, and All-NSIC honors for the top three individual finishers in each event and top two relay teams.

The Beavers head into the weekend with several student-athletes poised to score team points, compete for All-NSIC honors and possibly bring home NSIC titles.

Leading the way on the men’s side are freshman high jumper Jasiah Hambira and junior hurdler Ramon Duran.

Hambira set the all-time Minot State record this spring in the high jump clearing 6-11.75, an NCAA qualifying mark that ranks him No. 15 in the nation and 2nd in the NSIC heading into the weekend. The men’s high jump will be contested at 12:30 p.m. on Friday.

As for Duran, he heads into this weekend No. 3 in the conference in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 53.44 seconds. Preliminaries for the 400 hurdles will be Friday at 4:40 p.m.

While they are poised for potential All-NSIC honors or a title, lurking in the Top 10 and ready for a big weekend are senior thrower Samiel Kreins, who is 9th in the shot put with a mark of 53 feet, 1 inch headed into the Championships, junior distance runner Gabriel Plummer, who also is 9th in 10,000 meters with af 34:31.94 time, and the men’s 4×400 relay team of Zaccharius Brown, Devontae Daley, Duran and Hambira who have the 4th-fastest time in the NSIC this spring of 3:16.37, which also is an NCAA Division II Minot State school record.

As for the women, sophomore distance runners Nicole Reeves and Emery Smith, junior hurdler De’Andre Cornwall and junior middle-distance runner Sidra Sadowsky lead the way as all are in position to score team points for the Beavers and ready to make a run at All-NSIC honors or a title.

Cornwall set the all-time Minot State record in the 100 hurdles with an NCAA qualifying time of 14.12 seconds which ranks her No. 42 in the nation in a highly competitive NSIC event where she is 6th in the league. Reigning NCAA National Champion Denisha Cartwright of MSU, Mankato is No. 1 in the NSIC and nation in the event with a time of 12.71 seconds. The women’s 100 hurdles prelims are at 2 p.m. on Friday.

As for Reeves, she heads into the weekend No. 5 in the NSIC in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a 11:25.93 time. The women’s steeplechase final is at 12:30 p.m. on Friday.

Smith heads into the weekend No. 7 in the league in the 10,000 with a time of 39:05.86, and Sadowsky has the No. 10 time in the 800 of 2:16.59. The women’s 10,000 final is at 10 a.m. on Friday and the 800-meter prelims are at 3:30 p.m. on Friday.