LINCOLN, NEB. ? Kansas bounced back from a 9-4 loss to Nebraska and split a Big 12 doubleheader Wednesday at Bowlin Stadium with a 3-2 victory in the nightcap.

The Jayhawks (30-22, 6-10) scored all three of their runs in the third inning and made the lead stand up against NU starter Peaches James (18-7). The victory snapped a four-game losing streak for KU.

Serena Settlemier (10-7) went the distance for KU. She allowed four hits and no walks in the complete-game effort while fanning seven. Both runs scored against her were unearned. She also helped herself with three RBIs.

Shelly Musser was 3-for-4 with a run scored, and twin Christi Musser had two hits.

In the first game, fourth-ranked Nebraska (40-11, 9-5) used one big inning to pull away from Kansas in a 9-4 victory that took nearly three hours.

Nebraska led 4-2 before the Cornhuskers scored five runs in the bottom of the sixth of reliever Kara Pierce. Amber Burgess and James both tripled in the inning.

Kansas had plenty of chances but stranded eight runners against Nebraska starter Leigh Ann Walker (22-4), who allowed nine hits but went the distance. She walked three and struck out five.

James, who was 2-for-4 with three RBIs, had an RBI single in the first as the Huskers jumped out to a 2-0 lead.

KU got one run back in the second with help from an errant pickoff throw by Burgess, NU’s catcher.

Nebraska loaded the bases against KU starter Kirsten Milhoan (6-5) in the third inning and took a 3-1 lead on Cindy Roethemeyer’s RBI single. Milhoan allowed six hits and three runs in three innings.

Amanda Buccholz made it 4-1 when she clubbed a two-out double off Pierce and scored on single by Nicole Trimboli.

Kansas loaded the bases with no outs in the top of the fifth. With one out, Leah Tabb hit a long fly ball that the wind kept in the stadium. Tabb settled for a sacrifice fly that made it 4-2.

Nebraska then blew the game open in the sixth.

Christi Musser hit a two-run homer for KU in the seventh inning.