Vikings?€™ Kerry-Ann Blackwood and Nate Boyer are scheduled to make their outdoor season debuts when Portland State?€™s track & field team heads to Eugene, Ore., for the University of Oregon Preview Saturday. Both Blackwood and Boyer last competed at the Big Sky Conference Indoor Championships on Feb. 24 and 25. Blackwood, who placed third in the 60m hurdles final with a school record tying time of 8.91-seconds, will take her first strides toward defending her 2005 Big Sky title in the 100 meter hurdles. Boyer is penciled to run the 400m after claiming fourth in the indoor 800.

Junior Kenneth Mackins, the 2006 Big Sky 60m Champion, hits the outdoors and the 100m in hopes of carrying over his momentum from the indoor season. Mackins ran two school record breaking flights in the 60m championship before claiming the title with a time of 6.78, the sixth fastest finish in Big Sky history. The Thousand Oaks, Calif., product current personal record in the 100m is 10.79.

Running the 400m hurdles this weekend is sophomore Trevor Rollinger. Rollinger ran 54.40 in the 400m hurdles last weekend to at least secure an attempt at repeating as Big Sky champion. Rollinger won the Big Sky?€™s 2005 title with a personal best of 51.83.

Peter Jason Tait, one of the Vikings?€™ most promising freshmen, takes on the 110m hurdles and 100m, while junior Brandon Lopez will either race the 1500m or 3000m.