WATERVILLE — Windham High School boys’ tennis coach Wayne Martin never knew Dan Crocker could jump so high.

Neither did Crocker, the team’s No. 2 singles player. But as the slim senior watched Eric Hall’s shot sail wide, he wasn’t thinking so much about jumping.

More like flying.

“I knew I could clear it,” Crocker said. “I didn’t know by how much, but it didn’t matter.”

Crocker rallied after losing the first set to Lewiston’s Hall, gutted out a 6-4 win in the second and cruised to a 6-1 win in the third. He pumped his fists, yelled as loudly as he could and hurdled the net as legions of Eagles fans along the fencing followed suit.

He was a giant-killer.

His match win lifted Windham to the Class A state tennis title, the first time a team other than Lewiston has captured the crown since 2002, and the first time the Blue Devils have suffered a defeat of any kind since the third match of the 2003 regular season, a run of 119 consecutive wins.

“Lewiston is a program that we’ve looked to pattern ourselves after,” Martin said. “They’re the standard, and they’ll continue to be the standard. Four years ago, we set out on a mission. It took a lot of hard work, and these kids worked tirelessly at it to get to this point.”

All week, Lewiston coach Ron Chicoine worried about trying to keep the match close.

“We knew how strong they were,” Chicoine said. “We knew we were in for a tough one. Honestly, I was just hoping to keep it close.”

The Devils did more than that. Three of the five matches went in Lewiston’s favor in the first set, including a heart-thumping first-set victory by Keagan Cote and Brett Vallee at second doubles. Cote and Vallee began the match with a 3-0 lead, and were again ahead by three games at 5-2. Dan McGovern and Andy Brix fought back to send the set to a tiebreak, which Lewiston won.

Cote and Vallee won the second set 6-3 to offset a straight-sets loss at No. 1 doubles. Windham’s Nick Rallis and Kurt Staltz defeated Lewiston’s Alex Chicoine and Jon McDonough, 6-3, 6-4.

That set the stage for a wild day in singles. Eric Morin and Hall each won their first sets, 6-2, while Scott Gagne fell in his first set at No. 1 singles, also 6-2.

The Eagles’ Ryan Johnson won the second set against Eric Morin 6-4 to send it to a third, while Crocker also earned a 6-4 victory in the second set at No. 2 singles.

Gagne nearly made it 3-for-3 for three-set singles matches, taking a 5-2 lead over Nate Johnson, but the Eagles’ top gun recovered, won four of the next five games and outlasted Gagne in the second-set tiebreak.

“When you’re up, you can’t play like you’ve already won the set, and that’s what I started doing,” Gagne said. “That was my mistake.”

Morin rallied from down 3-4 in the third to win at No. 3, evening the match at 2-2.

But by that point, Hall’s match was nearly out of reach for the Devils.

“At 2-1, I could see some bad body language,” Crocker said. “I saw him starting to lose it. At 3-1, I was feeling pretty good, and at 4-1, I really started to feel in control of the match.”

Windham graduates six of its seven varsity players this season, while Cote is Lewiston’s lone graduate.

“They had the capability of winning 5-0 today,” Chicoine said. “”I thought we could win at the individual matches, but I never thought we’d put all five together and win 5-0 ourselves, either. Scott gave Nate a great match at No. 1, Eric Hall had a great match at No. 2 and Eric Morin pulled out his match. It was a good day of tennis.”