Erie, Pa. ? University of Arkansas junior Amanda McCurdy, playing in her first U.S. Women’s Amateur, dominated a more experienced Paula Creamer 6 and 4 on Saturday to advance to the final.

McCurdy will face last year’s runner-up, Jane Park, 17, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Park beat Sarah Huarte, 22, of Shingle Springs, Calif., in a match in which Huarte three-putted the 18th.

McCurdy, 20, said that after making the semifinals she had 24 voice messages on her cell phone from family and friends.

“Nobody really knew who I was and everybody knew the marquee names, so I really did have nothing to lose,” said McCurdy, the only one of the four semifinalists who wasn’t on the U.S. Curtis Cup team.

Creamer, 18, of Pleasanton, Calif., had six bogeys Saturday.

McCurdy went 1-up on the third hole when Creamer bogeyed the 152-yard, par-3, and she never lost the lead.

Huarte was 2-up over Park after the par-4 13th hole, a 384-yard dogleg left. But she bogeyed the par-5 14th and the par-3 15th, evening the match heading to the 16th.

On the 338-yard, par-4 hole, Park drove the ball under a tree in the rough. She punched it out to the fairway and finished with a bogey-5. Park won the hole anyway and went 1-up, though, after Huarte three-putted for a double bogey. Huarte again three-putted on the 18th, losing the match.