ORLANDO – Cameron ran into a wall, as in undefeated No. 1 Barry, on Saturday afternoon in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division II National Championship Tournament at the USTA National Campus, falling to the Buccaneers 4-0.
BU opened with a demanding 6-0 win at No. 3 doubles as Daniela Farfan and Xiyao Wang topped Jenna Goessel and Magda Wawrowska. Lea Manga and Karolina Glowinska had a battle on two but could not hold off Deniz Khazan and Nathalia Gasparin, falling 4-6.
Vasilisa Polunova and Anastasia Uspenskaia led Angela Leweurs and Dinara Alloiarova 5-4 when Barry secured the point.
The Bucs were not messing around once the teams broke into the singles matches, as they would win the opening set on all six courts. BU would take a 2-0 lead after Farfan would take No. 3 6-0, 6-0 over Manga. Wawrowska squared off against the 63rd-ranked individual Clara Versier on six, falling 1-6, 3-6 to make it 3-0 for Barry.
BU would close out the 4-0 match with a 6-3, 6-4 win on two, as Uspenskaia could not stop No. 19 Alloiarova.
There were three unfinished matches; at No. 1, Polunova dropped the first set 4-6 and was trailing 0-4 in the second set, Kateryna Rudenko fell in the opening set 4-6 on four and was tied 3-3 in the second, and on No. 5 Goessel was down 1-5 in set two after falling in set one 3-6 when the match was called.
Barry advances to Monday's Final Four and will take on the winner of Flagler and Washburn.
Cameron finishes the year the regular season Lone Star Conference Championship with a record of 17-4 and a 9-1 record in league play.