NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — Heidi Cambron (Sherbrooke, Canada/Champlain College Lennoxville) won her opening-round singles match in the A draw as Smith College hosted the NEWITT tournament over the weekend. Cambron beat Middlebury's Caitlin Chan 7-5, 7-5. The Bears also picked up consolation wins in the A and B draws.

Ayla Hauser (Knoxville, TN/Bearden) played Middlebury's Diya Pachamuthu, who was nationally ranked during the 2025-26 season, in the first round of the A draw. Hauser fell in two close sets, 6-4, 7-6. In the A consolation bracket, Hauser and Cambron helped Smith get past Wellesley. Hauser won 6-4, 6-3, Cambron won 6-3, 6-4, and the pair added a 6-4 doubles win.

Ava Emrich (Smyrna, Delaware/Tower Hill School) pushed Skidmore's Ginevra Muratori, also nationally ranked in 2025-26, to a deciding 10-point tiebreak before falling 6-7(4), 6-3, 10-7. Lara Paunovic (Pozarevac, Serbia/Požarevac Gymnasium) beat Skidmore's Ellie Lake 6-3, 6-4 in the A back draw. Emrich and Paunovic then teamed up for a 6-2 doubles win over Muratori and Lake.

In the B draw, Sabrina Wang (Beijing, China/Princeton) and Sophia Dube (Portland, OR/Oregon Episcopal School) beat Emerson's No. 1 doubles team, Elora Hooge and Teah Chavez, 6-3. Wang also won in singles, 7-6(4), 6-1, and Dube added a 6-4, 6-3 singles win in the consolation round against Emerson.

NEWITT wraps up the fall season for Smith, which returns to action Saturday, Feb. 20, hosting Bates College at 2 p.m. at the Indoor Track & Tennis Complex.

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