MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- If the No. 1-ranked Buccaneers learned one thing, it's that nothing should be taken for granted.

Barry put up an 8-1 win over No. 20 Palm Beach Atlantic Wednesday at Buccaneer Tennis Center. And while the final score may seem lopsided, one look at all the individual matches reveals the true story.

It was no given.

All three doubles matches were decided by two games, and two of the six singles matches required a third set super tiebreaker for the Bucs to pin the Sailfish with a goose egg in singles play.

Carlos Gomez and Vivien Versier both pulled out the tiebreaker wins, and Blake Bayldon and Pierre Montrieul joined the aforementioned two to win two matches apiece against a game PBA team.

INSIDE THE MATCHUP
Final: Barry 8, Palm Beach Atlantic 1
Records: Barry (14-2, 6-1 SSC), PBA (12-7, 2-2 SSC)
 

DOUBLES:

• The Sailfish won the first point of the match when they put up a win at No. 1 pairs. Barry's Filip Zupancic and Fernando Tous led 6-5, but could not put it away as PBA's 46th-ranked duo of Pato Zarazua and Pietro de Silva rallied to win the match, 8-6.
• Gomez and Versier got out to a 6-5 lead, and held on for an 8-6 victory at No. 3 doubles over Rodolfo Hasegawa and Thomas Salmon. That tied the match at 1-1.
• Barry seized control of the team score when 37th-ranked Montrieul and Bayldon overcame a 7-5 deficit to beat Philipp Hoffmann and Bernardo Ferreira, 9-7, at the No. 2 position.

SINGLES:

• Mattias Larregina raced out to a 4-1 lead in the opening set of his No. 3 singles match with Hasegawa before cruising to a 6-2, 6-3 victory. That put the Bucs ahead 3-1.
• No. 53-ranked Daniel Ventura coasted to a 6-1, 6-2 win over Thomas Salmon at No. 5 singles to make it 4-1.
• Eleventh-ranked Montrieul was a 6-2, 6-4 winner over the 58th-ranked Zarazua at the No. 1 spot to clinch the victory for the Buccaneers.
• Gomez, who owns the No. 6 national singles ranking, according to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, split the first two sets with the 63rd-ranked Hoffmann before rolling in the super at the No. 2 position. Gomez, who dashed to a 4-1 lead in the opening set, won, 6-1, 6-7 (1-7), 10-1. 
• Versier dropped the first set before fighting his way back to pull out a 3-6, 6-4, 11-9 victory over de Silva at No. 4 singles.
• Bayldon put the finishing touches on the Bucs' sixth league win when he prevailed 6-3, 6-1 over Carlos Niemeyer at No. 6.

NOTEWORTHY:

• Gomez improved to 4-0 over ranked opponents, and has won five in a row.
• Larregina won his fourth straight match.
• Montrieul moved to 6-1 in matches against ranked opponents.
• Versier won for the ninth straight time.
• The Bucs swept singles for the second straight match and fourth time this season. They have went unbeaten in singles six times this year with two of the matches decided with unfinished singles matches.

ON THE HORIZON:

Barry will play No. 19 Azusa Pacific next Wednesday in Melbourne, Fla.

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