SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In 2010 at the Mondo Invitational, the Portland State track and field team set records and established itself for the Big Sky Championship. This year, the result was no different. The Vikings relay teams led charges to the top of the Viks record book and Karene King, Sean Mackelvie and Joenisha Vinson highlighted individual performances at Sacramento State.

After nearly setting the school-record March 19 at the Oregon Preview, the women's 4x100 relay team shattered its season-best time of 45.92 seconds, by recording a meet record of 45.24 seconds, winning the event by a margin of .40 seconds. Members of the relay were Geronne Black, Vinson, Anaiah Rhodes and King.

The time is fastest in Portland State history and one of the fastest in Big Sky history. Cal-State Northridge set the record in 1999 with a 44.82.

The 4x400 relay was also in Marshawn Lynch's coined phrase "Beast Mode," when they recorded a time of 3 minutes, 47.81 seconds to set a new PSU record. The quartet of Rhodes, Dominique Maloney, King and Vinson finished fifth overall at the meet, behind Fresno State's winning time of 3:44.30. According to Head Coach Ronnye Harrison, Maloney ran her leg of the race around the 55 second mark.

Individual performances at the meet, as teased before, were just as spectacular.

Mackelvie, a native of Wilsonville and a transfer from Oregon State, won the javelin competition at the meet with a heave of 221 feet, four inches, a career-best throw by an astonishing 21 feet, 10 inches. This is his first year throwing the javelin collegiately, after winning the 2008 OSAA 5A State Championship for Wilsonville High School.

King, already one the region's top-200-meter sprinters, proved her worth in the 100-meters as well when she finished second with a time of 11.67, trailing only to Wichita State's Audacia Moore. To finish her day individually, King took top-honors in the 200-meters with her PR of 24.18 seconds.

Before assisting in both school-record relay times, Vinson recorded her season-best time in the 100-meter hurdles of 13.85 seconds, .01 shy of tying her school-record. The Phoenix, Ariz., native recorded the school-record time at last year's Mondo Invitational and qualified for regionals with the mark.

Also recording noteworthy times in the 100-meters were Black, finishing fourth overall with an 11.69 and Rhodes besting her personal-record with a 12.21.

Sophomore Amber Rozcicha, one week removed from a victory in the 5,000-meters at the Willamette Invitational, finished 13th in the 800-meters with a time of 2:16.89 and qualified for the Big Sky Championship in the event.

Also qualifying for the conference outdoor championship was sophomore Nate Lightner in the 400-meter hurdles, with a time of 55.37 seconds. Lightner just missed the qualifying mark last weekend in the event, falling short of the 55.40 second mark by .40 seconds.

The meet at Sacramento State's Hornet Stadium has served the Vikings well over the last two years and will hopefully provide the same kind of results for PSU at the Big Sky Championship May 11-14, hosted by Sac State.

While the team gets a week off from competition, Vinson will be competing at the Mt. Sac Relays Heptathlon, April 13-14 in Asuza, Calif. Vinson will look to qualify for the Big Sky Championship in the event, after falling short due to the day two cancellation of the Cal Multi March 24.