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WT0522-FINAL
0
Point Loma Nazarene PLU (20-5)
4
Winner Barry BARRY-W (24-1)
Point Loma Nazarene PLU
(20-5)
0
Final
4
Barry BARRY-W
(24-1)
Winner

Match Recap: Women's Tennis | | Dennis Jezek, Jr.

Women's Tennis Sails Into National Semifinals

Bucs shutout Point Loma Nazarene 4-0

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. --  The top-ranked and top-seeded Barry University Buccaneers swept the 17th-ranked and eighth-seeded Point Loma Nazarene Sea Lions 4-0 in the quarterfinal round of the 2025 NCAA Division II Women's Tennis Championships at Sanlando Park in Altamonte Springs, Florida.

INSIDE THE MATCHUP
Final: No. 1 Barry 4, No. 17 Point Loma Nazarene 0
Records: Barry (24-1), PLNU (20-5)
Series: Barry leads 1-0

SUMMARY:

Doubles

  1. #15 Ailen Crespo / Andrea Di Palma (BARRY) vs. #9 Arianna Audelo / Quin Brady (PLNU) 5-2 unf
  2. #45 Viktoriia Dema / Maria Tatarnikova (BARRY) def. Anna Pallencaoe / Emely Valencia (PLNU) 6-3
  3. Dinara Alloiarova / Louanne Lutringer (BARRY) def. Antonia Barth / Melissa Zirkle (PLNU) 6-0

Singles

  1. #5 Alina Michalitsch (BARRY) vs. Arianna Audelo (PLNU) 4-6, 4-4 unf
  2. #15 Viktoriia Dema (BARRY) vs. Antonia Barth (PLNU) 6-3, 4-5, unf
  3. #22 Andrea Di Palma (BARRY) def. Quin Brady (PLNU) 6-1, 0-6, 6-1
  4. #52 Dinara Alloiarova (BARRY) def. Emely Valencia (PLNU) 6-4, 6-0
  5. #31 Angela Leweurs (BARRY) vs. Anna Pallencaoe (PLNU) 6-4, 5-4 unf
  6. Ailen Crespo (BARRY) def. Melissa Zirkle (PLNU) 6-0, 6-1

HOW IT HAPPENED:

  • The Buccaneers quickly won the doubles point. Alloiarova and Lutringer shutout Barth and Zirkle 6-0 at the bottom flight.
  • At the second flight, Barry's #45 Dema and Tatarnikova clinched the point 6-3 over Pallencaoe and Valencia.
  • The final match remained unfinished with the Bucs up 5-2.
  • Needing just three singles victories to complete the win, Barry won five of six first sets.
  • At #6 singles, Crespo quickly steam-rolled Zirkle 6-0, 6-1.
  • At the fourth flight, #52 Alloiarova made it 3-0 with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Valencia.
  • Twenty-second ranked Di Palma survived a roller-coaster match with Brady at the third flight, winning 6-1, 0-6, 6-1 to clinch the match.
  • The other three matches went unfinished, with Leweurs the only Buc up a set and up in the second.

NOTEWORTHY:

  • For Barry, it is their eighth time in a row to advance to the NCAA semifinals and the 17th time overall. 
  • Barry has won eight national championships, including six in a row from 2017-2023, both figures the best in NCAA D-II history.
  • It was the first meeting with the Sea Lions.
  • Alloiarova won her 20th singles match of the year, tops on the team.

ON THE HORIZON

Top-seeded Barry advances to face the eighth-ranked and fourth-seeded Flagler Saints in a semifinal match on Saturday, May 24 (9 a.m.) at Sanlando Park.

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