Gophers doubles team of Siim Troost and Vlad Lobak loses in NCAA tennis quarterfinals

One day after beating the top-seeded doubles team in the NCAA tournament on a tiebreaker, Siim Troost and Vlad Lobak of the Gophers lost to Guy Den Ouden and Adrian Oetzbach of Pepperdine on Wednesday in the quarterfinals in Orlando, Fla., on another tiebreaker.

Den Ouden and Oetzbach won 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (7). Troost and Lobak, ranked No. 29, finish the season 12-3 with four wins against doubles teams ranked in the top five in the nation at the time. They became the third doubles team in program history to reach the quarterfinals.

None advanced farther and none ever will because men's tennis is one of the three programs the athletic department is dropping after this school year.

Elizabeth Giguere, who won the 2020 Patty Kazmaier Award as the top player in women's college hockey, is transferring to Minnesota Duluth.

Giguere, a Quebec City native, played four seasons at Clarkson, collecting 99 goals and 134 assists in 137 games. The 24-year-old forward has one year of eligibility left.

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Kostas Zaltos of the Gophers finished second in the men's hammer throw in the West Preliminary meet in College Station, Texas.

The top 12 advance.

Fifteen current Gophers will compete at the 2021 United World Wrestling U23 National Championships this week at the Bob Devaney Center in Lincoln, Neb.

The champion at each weight class in Greco-Roman and freestyle will represent Team USA at the UWW U23 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, in November.

The two most prominent Gophers among their group are sophomores Patrick McKee, who finished third at 125 pounds at the 2021 NCAA Championships in March, and Brayton Lee who became a two-time All-America with his sixth-place finish at 149 pounds. Earlier this month, he earned a third-place finish at the UWW Senior Nationals to qualify for the World Team Trials in September.

Greco-Roman competition will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday with a second session at 4 p.m. Freestyle competition will run Friday through Saturday with 10 a.m. starts each day.