ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minot State's Leif Nelson and Nathan Trujillo-Aragon lived up to expectations Saturday at the NSIC Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Nelson came into the meet as the man to beat in the javelin and proved unbeatable as he claimed his first NSIC title in the event.

Meanwhile, Trujillo-Aragon clocked the fastest qualifying time in the 400-meter hurdle prelims on Friday and then beat that, and the rest of the field, Saturday for an NSIC title in that event.

While they led the way for the Minot State men, they had help from NSIC runner-up champions and teammates Jakob Braunstein and Chase Snyder as the Beavers finished 9th with 41 team points. Snyder was 2nd in the shot put Friday while Braunstein gave the Beavers a one-two finish in the javelin finishing 2nd to his teammate, Nelson, in the event.

Nelson won his first title with a throw of 198 feet, 1 inch, and Braunstein was runner-up with a throw of 186-2.

Trujillo-Aragon won his 400 hurdles title with a career-best time of 54.23 seconds.

All four earned NSIC All-Conference honors for their performances on the weekend.

Adding to the Beavers team total with top-eight finishes were Jacob Jensen, who finished 7th in the men's 1,500 meters in 3 minutes, 53.46 seconds, Charles Hardcastle, who was 8th on Friday in the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:33.65, and Trujillo-Aragon, who added a 7th-place finish to his day Saturday in the 110-meter hurdles in 14.94, a new NCAA Division II-era school record.

On the women's side, Summer Krebsbach led the way Saturday as she finished 23^rd in the 100-meter dash in 12.69 seconds, and Jessica Martinez was 27^th in the 5,000 meters in 18:58.28.

The Minot State women did not score as a team.

Minnesota State won both the women's and men's team titles as the Maverick women scored 272.4 points and the men scored 207 team points.s