The Husker women’s basketball team has named Shimmy Gray-Miller to their coaching staff as an assistant. Gray-Miller replaces the departing Kellie Lewis-Jay, who took the head coaching position at Florida Atlantic, on Connie Yori’s staff. Gray-Miller spent the last seven seasons as the head coach at Saint Louis University. She’ll be coming back to a conference she’s familiar with – she played her college basketball at Michigan and was a team captain in her senior season.

Eleven Husker track and field athletes were recognized by the Big Ten in their postseason awards. The Huskers saw three women earn All-Big Ten first-team nods – Marusa Cernjul, Ashley Miller and Anna Weigandt – while Mara Griva earned All-Big Ten second-team honors. On the men’s side, Bjorn Barrefors and Miles Ukaoma notched All-Big Ten first-team honors, and Chris Phipps, Luke Pinkelman and Chad Wright were named All-Big Ten second-team. The Big Ten Conference also recognized Tim Thompson and Breanna Bussel as Nebraska’s Sportsmanship Award recipients.

A ninth-inning rally fell short as the Colorado Rockies fell to the San Francisco Giants 3-2 in the first game of a brief two-game series in San Francisco. The Rockies wasted a brilliant start from Christian Friedrich, who struck out 10 batters in seven innings in his second big league outing. San Francisco scored twice off the Rockies bullpen in the bottom of the eighth inning to break a 1-1 tie, but the Rockies wouldn’t go quietly. Three walks and an error brought in a run and loaded the bases in the ninth, but Chris Nelson grounded out to end the game. Nelson was batting for Troy Tulowitzki, who had to leave the game in the seventh inning after getting hit in the left leg with a foul ball while standing in the dugout. X-rays were negative, but Tulo is expected to miss a few games. The Rockies face the Giants again tonight. ESPN Radio 1410 has the action, with the pregame show at 8:30 and first pitch at 9:15.

The Husker baseball team takes the field in Lincoln for the final time this season tonight, as they welcome Wichita State to town for a non-conference clash. The Big Red are coming off a series sweep of Minnesota over the weekend that propelled them into playoff position in the Big Ten. They’ll send Zach Hirsch to the mound to try and hold off the Shockers, who haven’t won in Lincoln since 2002. First pitch at Hawks Field tonight is set for 6:35.

The Husker men’s basketball team will face Wake Forest for the second consecutive year in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge this November. Nebraska hosted the Demon Deacons in their debut appearance in the event last season, and lost 55-53. The matchup is one of two rematches scheduled for the 2012 version. The Big Ten won the last three challenges after the ACC claimed the first ten. Nebraska’s trip to Winston-Salem, North Carolina is scheduled for November 27.

Nebraska freshman Pat Kelly earned Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Week honors for his performance in that sweep of the Golden Gophers. Kelly received the honor for the second time this season after blasting a pair of home runs in the series, both of which provided the game-winning runs in Friday and Saturday’s victories. Including Tuesday’s game at Creighton, Kelly had eight hits in eighteen at-bats.

Nebraska junior Brooke Thomason was named the Big Ten Conference’s Player of the Week for her performance in a Husker sweep of Wisconsin last weekend. Thomason ripped four hits, including two doubles, and drove in three runs in spearheading the Nebraska offensive effort. It’s the second time in her career Thomason has been named conference Player of the Week. The Huskers concluded their season with a 33-22 overall record, good for third place in the Big Ten.

The Husker baseball team finished off a vital series sweep of Minnesota with a 6-5 triumph Sunday afternoon at Hawks Field. After winning the first two games of the series by one run, the Huskers jumped in front early on Senior Day with three solo home runs – back-to-back jacks by Austin Darby and Kale Kiser in the second inning, and Chad Christensen’s rocket in the third. Nebraska added two more runs in the fourth and another in the fifth to hold a 6-2 advantage, but the Gophers fought back, scoring once in the sixth and twice in the eighth. Husker reliever Dylan Vogt, who pitched the final two and a third innings, held the Gophers off the board in the ninth to preserve the win. The Big Red move to 32-19 overall and 12-9 in the Big Ten, a mark that sees them sit in a fourth-place tie in the Big Ten with one weekend left in conference play. The Huskers are back in action Tuesday night, as they host Wichita State.

The Colorado Rockies don’t love LA. They stumbled into Dodger Stadium for a weekend series and left Chavez Ravine even worse for wear, after the Dodgers routed them 11-5 to complete a three-game sweep. The Rockies jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning, but it all got away from starting pitcher Alex White in the fifth inning, when he surrendered three runs and the lead and gave way to reliever Matt Reynolds, who promptly gave up three more runs to put the game out of reach. Carlos Gonzalez drove in a pair of runs for the Rockies in the losing effort. The Rox have now lost eight of their last nine games, including five of six on their road trip which continues tonight with the first of two games in San Francisco against the Giants. ESPN Radio 1410 has the action with pregame coverage at 8:30 and first pitch at 9:15.

Tim Miles hasn’t yet been the head coach of Nebraska’s mens basketball program for two full months, but he’s already got three scholarship commitments to his team. The latest player to sign a letter of intent is Terran Petteway, who is transferring to Nebraska after playing his freshman season at Texas Tech this past year. Petteway, a 6’6” wing, saw action in 28 games last year for the Red Raiders, averaging 3.1 points per game in 13 minutes per contest off the bench. He was rated as the tenth best high school player in Texas after his senior year at Ball High School in Galveston by TexasHoops.com. Petteway joins JuCo transfer Deverell Biggs and prep school big man Sergej Vucetic as Miles’ inagural signing class. Petteway will be required to sit out the entire 2012-2013 season, per NCAA transfer rules.