Nebraska's No. 31 ranked doubles team of Christopher Aumueller and Benedikt Lindheim fell 6-1, 6-4 to Virginia's Drew Courtney and Jarmere Jenkins, ranked fifth, in the first round of the NCAA men's doubles championship Thursday. Aumueller and Lindheim ended the regular season with a 32-9 doubles record and both finished their careers ranked in Nebraska's top five in career victories.

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Three more Nebraska athletes qualified for next month's NCAA track and field championships Friday at the West Region preliminary meet. Two members of the women's team advanced in field events by finishing in the top 12.

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University of Nebraska golfer Steffi Neisen of New Prague, Minn. and former Husker JC Weaver of Grand Island will play in next month's 2012 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship after advancing through sectional qualifying Thursday at Wilderness Ridge Golf Club.

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Stacy Underwood was named Nebraska rifle coach on Thursday. Underwood is a former member of the NU rifle team and had been an assistant at Kentucky.

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Nebraska's Chris Phipps, Mara Griva and Luke Pinkelman qualified for the NCAA championships Thursday at the NCAA West Regional. Phipps and Griva qualified in the long jump and Pinkelman in the shot put.

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Nebraska track and field coach Gary Pepin isn't exactly the biggest fan of NCAA Regional meets. “Oh, I'm totally opposed to them,” he said Tuesday. He'd rather the NCAA picked qualifiers for its outdoor championships on the strength of their performances during the season. Only men's decathletes and women's heptathletes are selected that way.

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Nebraska's Mary Weatherholt fell 6-4, 7-5 to California's Zsofi Susanyi in the first round of the NCAA women's tennis championships. Weatherholt's season ends with a 30-11 record.

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Nebraska's Mary Weatherholt earned on Monday an at-large bid to the NCAA tennis tournament.

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The Nebraska men look primed to improve after the school's first year in the Big Ten.

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The Nebraska women have found some unanticipated Big Ten success during their debut season.

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Nebraska's Scott Willman shot a 3-over 75 on Saturday to tie for 40th after the final day of the NCAA Norman Regional. Willman finished six strokes behind individual champion Alfred Kerstis of Arkansas-Little Rock.

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