OKLAHOMA CITY – The MACU Men's Track and Field team makes its return to the track this weekend for the program's first ever outdoor season as the Evangels will be running in the Oklahoma Baptist Invitational at the Hurt Memorial Athletic Complex in Shawnee, Oklahoma on Friday and Saturday.

MACU will be in-action for the first time since running in the NCCAA Indoor National Championships from Feb. 7-8 in Cedarville, Ohio.

Overall, nine Evangels will be running in three events over the weekend, including the 5000-meter (5k) at 8:30 p.m. on Friday as well as the 1500-meter at 1:10 pm and 800-meter at 3:15 pm on Saturday.

Two Evangels will be running in the Friday option events for the 800-meter and 1500-meter with Jaydon Robinson going in the 800-meter at 7:30 pm and Jonathan Figueroa competing in the 1500-meter at 8 pm.

On-the-whole, seven of MACU's runners will be competing in the 5000-meter event with Jaden Rodriguez posting the fastest seeding time of 15:30.40 while Alexander Pebeahsy and Aidan Collins have also set sub 16-minute seeding marks of 15:50.00 and 15:59.45.

For Saturday's 800-meter, Mohamed Zairi and Collin Seely will run for MACU with Zairi setting a seeding mark of 1:56.00 and Seely tallying a 2:00.00.

The 1500-meter event will have five Evangels legging it out with Rodriguez and Pebeahsy setting the fastest seeding marks of 4:09.40 and 4:15.04.