DULUTH, Minn. – Sidra Sadowsky led the charge for the Minot State women's track and field team with her 4^th-place finish on Friday in the 3,000-meter steeplechase while Nasir Dilworth's NCAA qualifying mark in the 110-meter hurdles led the way for the Beaver men on day two of the NSIC Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

Sadowsky scored five team points with her finish for the Minot State women who find themselves in 12th place with 8 team points after the second of three days of competition. The Minot State men have yet to score.

The NSIC Outdoor Track & Field Championship concludes Saturday.

Sadowsky just missed earning All-NSIC honors as she finished 4^th in the grueling steeplechase in 11 minutes, 16.48 seconds on Friday.
While she led the team scoring, Emery Smith added to the Minot State women's total with her 6^th-place finish in the 10,000 meters in 37 minutes, 17.36 seconds.

Adding a top-10 finish was Beaver multi-eventer Kaydee Boyce who started a busy weekend with a strong performance Thursday in the first half of the women's heptathlon and finished 10^th overall with a new Minot State NCAA Division II-era school record score of 4,037 points, breaking her own D-II record set early this season of 3,901.

Boyce was 7th in the javelin on Friday with a throw of 98 feet, 7 inches, 13th in the 800 meters in 2:42.75, and 14^th in the long jump among the heptathlon competitors with a leap of 15-6.

Adding to a strong day for the Minot State women was Summer Krebsbach who raced into the 200 meters finals with the seventh-fastest qualifying time on the day in the event of 24.23 seconds, which broke her all-time school record of 24.50 which she ran earlier this season.

On the men's side, a record-setting NCAA mark earned Dilworth a spot in Saturday's event final in the 110 hurdles as he broke his own school record of 14.33, also run earlier this season, with a time of 14.10 in Friday's qualifying. Dilworth was third fastest in qualifying and his NCAA mark currently ranks tied for 25th in the country.

Joining him in racing their way into Saturday finals were Zaccharius Brown and Peyton Tuhy for the Minot State men as Brown was third fastest in qualifying in the 400 hurdles with a time of 53.87, and Tuhy was eighth fastest in the 800 meters in 1:56.15 to advance to Saturday's finals.

Deuce Carr added one more highlight on Friday, racing to a new Minot State NCAA D-II record in the men's 100-meter dash, finishing 18th in 10.69 seconds.