ARLINGTON, Texas – The 40^th ranked Cameron men had to come from behind on Thursday after losing the doubles point, but made it look easy in singles with four quick wins to earn the 4-1 victory over Western New Mexico in the Lone Star Conference Championship quarterfinal. 
 
After a 5-2 conference record this spring, the Aggies entered this week's LSC Tournament as the 3-seed, setting them up for a meeting with the 6-seed Mustangs on Thursday afternoon at the Arlington Tennis Center. 
 
The Aggies fell behind early as the upset-minded Mustangs won the doubles point. They earned a 6-1 win at two and then after CU's duo of Tomas Almeida and Thomas Cardona won 6-1 at one, WNMU won 7-6 at three with Joao Duleba and Marek Slojewski falling 8-6 in the tiebreak.
 
Cameron's comeback in singles play was started by Kristian Kubik at four, who won 6-3, 6-0 in less than an hour's time. Duleba immediately followed with a 6-3, 6-3 win at five to put the Aggies up 2-1. 
 
Carlos Vidal added the third point via a 6-1, 6-3 win at three and then the clinching point came on line one as Almeida won 6-2, 6-0 to give the Aggies the 4-1 win to advance to the next round. 
 
In the unfinished matches, Cardona won 6-0 in set one, but was down 6-5 in the second, and Sean Batkis battled to a tiebreak in his opening set but lost 7-5 on the deciding point before the match was stopped. 
 
Cameron advances to face the 2-seed UT Tyler, who beat UT Permian Basin 4-0 in their quarterfinal match on Thursday. When the Aggies and Patriots met earlier this spring, it was the Pats who came away with a 4-3 win on CU's home court. That semifinal is set for 1 p.m. on Friday. 
 
Additionally, the ITA announced a new round of rankings on Thursday morning with CU staying at their No. 40 spot as a team. Cardona dropped four spots in the singles rankings to No. 26 and Almeida went from No. 51 to No. 64 this week.