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Duke junior Amanda Blumenherst, who finished third in the NCAA Women's Golf Championships on Friday, received five awards at the National Golf Coaches Association banquet Saturday in Albuquerque, N.M., including PING NGCA Player of the Year for a record third year.
Blumenherst also won the Golfstat Cup and the Dinah Shore Trophy, and she was selected first- team All-America and NGCA All-East Region.
Duke junior Jennie Lee was named second-team NGCA All-America after a tie for 15th in the NCAAs. It was her third straight All-America honor.
ALSO SATURDAYTRACK AND FIELDNCAA DIVISION II: St. Augustine's mounted a furious rally, but Abilene Christian held on to win the NCAA Division II men's track and field championship in Walnut, Calif.
Abilene Christian also won the women's title, while St. Augustine's tied for sixth with South Dakota.
The Abilene Christian men outlasted St. Aug's 108.5-102 to claim their sixth championship in seven years and 17th overall. The Falcons, who last won a men's title in 2001, took second for the third straight year. The margin was the closest since 2006 when ACU nipped St. Aug's 80-77.5.
ACU led St. Aug's 88.5-56 with seven events remaining, but the Falcons' Dennis Boone swept the 100 and 200 meters, and St. Aug's 4x400 relay team of Josh Scott, Chris Cox, Antonio Abney and Randy Curry won the final event.
In the women's division, Barbara Pierre defended her crown in the 100 and helped the 4x100 relay team including Erica Young, Sheena Johns and Treva Hutchinson finish second for the Falcons.
WOMEN'S TENNISDUKE TEAM ELIMINATED: Duke's doubles tandem of Amanda Granson and Melissa Mang, No. 7 in the ITA doubles rankings, suffered a straight-set loss to second-ranked Melanie Gloria and Tinesta Rowe of Fresno State, 6-2, 6-4 in the NCAA Women's Doubles quarterfinals at Tulsa, Okla.
"I think they [Granson and Mang] have grown a lot as a doubles team," Duke coach Jamie Ashworth said.
"Going back to the first time we put them together at the end of October, it wasn't really a combination we were thinking about for doubles. I think they have done a good job as a team of getting better. They played their best at the end of the year, and making the NCAA quarterfinals is the best result we have had at Duke in a long time."
Granson and Mang ended the season with a 28-11 overall record in doubles, the sixth highest doubles win total in school history.
MEN'S TENNISWAKE TEAM OUSTED: Cory Parr and Steven Forman of Wake Forest saw their run in the NCAA Men's Doubles Championships end in the quarterfinals when they fell 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4) to 21st-ranked Bram ten Berge and Matthias Wellermann of Mississippi at Tulsa, Okla. Parr and Forman finished the season with a 22-9 record.
MEN'S LACROSSELed by repeat first-team selections Matt Danowski, Zack Greer and Nick O'Hara, Duke had nine players earn All-America honors from the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association.
Danowski and Greer, both attackmen, and midfielder O'Hara earned first-team honors, with Danowski becoming the first three-time first-team choice in school history and only the eighth in ACC history.
Midfielder Ned Crotty and defenseman Tony McDevitt garnered second-team honors, attackman Max Quinzani, goalie Dan Loftus and midfielder Brad Ross received third-team recognition, and defenseman Parker McKee got honorable mention.
North Carolina had three players honored. Midfielder Ben Hunt was a second-team pick, and midfielder Nick Tintle and defenseman Tim Kaiser received honorable mention.
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