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The Lincoln Blue Tigers will send eight athletes in six events to the NCAA Division II outdoor track and field championships, which are set to begin today and run through Saturday in Emporia, Kan.

The Lincoln Blue Tigers had a pair of All-American finishes in relays Saturday night to conclude the NCAA Division II indoor track and field national championships at Robert W. Plaster Center.

The Lincoln Blue Tigers had a tough first day Friday at the NCAA Division II indoor track and field national championships, failing to make it past the preliminaries in their three events on Day 1 at Robert W. Plaster Center.

LINCOLN, Neb. — The Lincoln men’s and women’s track and field teams combined for six wins Friday at the Nebraska Tune-Up, the Blue Tigers’ final regular-season indoor meet. Lincoln swept titles in both the 4x400-meter relays and the triple jump.

The Lincoln women’s cross country team will make the trip north on Highway 63 to Columbia for the MIAA Cross Country Championships, which will be held today at Gans Creek Cross Country Course. Thirteen MIAA women’s teams will compete in the 6K race, starting at noon, and 11 men’s teams in the MIAA are set to compete in the 8K race starting at 12:45 p.m.

The Lincoln Blue Tigers took ninth place out of 11 teams in the women’s standings Saturday during the Brian T. Simpson Invitational, which was hosted by Missouri-St. Louis at Gans Creek Cross Country Course.

The Lincoln track and field teams competed Friday in both the Arkansas Qualifier and the Illinois College Hilltop Invite.

COLUMBIA — The Lincoln women’s cross country team opened its season Friday with an 11th-place finish at Columbia College’s Larry Young Invitational at Gans Creek Course. Lincoln finished with 314 points in the women’s team standings. Truman State won the team title with 41 points.

The Lincoln Blue Tigers will have several athletes in action at the NCAA Division II outdoor track and field national championships, which begin today and continue through Saturday at Grand Valley State in Allendale, Mich. Heading into the national championships, both Lincoln teams are ranked in the top 10 in Division II by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. The men are ranked No. 7 and the women are ranked No. 8.

The Lincoln Blue Tigers won a total of nine events at the MIAA outdoor track and field championships, a three-day event that concluded Sunday at Emporia State. The men finished third out of 10 teams with 96 points, while the women also placed third out of 12 teams with 93 points in the final standings. The Lincoln women won five conference titles and the men won four.