LEWISTON — In a perfect scenario for Brunswick High School girls’ tennis coach Rob Manter, Monday’s State Class A championship was going to come down to top singles players Maisie Silverman of Brunswick and two-time Maine Principals Association Schoolgirls champion Olivia Leavitt of Falmouth. Figure, Leavitt had defeated Silverman in their last two meetings, both […]
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Tennis: Yachtsmen grab boys’ title
The odds were certainly stacked against the Mt. Ararat High School boys’ tennis team. Arguably, Falmouth has two of the top tennis players in the state of Maine in Justin Brogan at No. 1 singles, and No. 2 Brendan McCarthy, only this year’s Maine Principals Association’s Schoolboys champion. Yes, Brogan came into Monday’s State A […]
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H.S. tennis: Winthrop, Spruce Mountain fall in regional finals
PORTLAND — Rivals in the Mountain Valley Conference, Winthrop and Spruce Mountain were two peas in a pod at the Western Maine regional tennis finals at the Racket and Fitness Center. Both girls’ squads are filled with players who rarely — if ever — play indoors, and neither team had faced an opponent with the […]
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H.S. Tennis: Leavitt, McCarthy make it a Falmouth sweep; Silverman tops Hammond in semifinals
The Brunswick senior gutted out a first-set win over Falmouth’s Olivia Leavitt and went ahead two games in the second, destined to atone for last year’s loss to Leavitt in the state singles final. But Leavitt had the last laugh Monday, rallying to win six straight games to force a third set, where she battled […]
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H.S. Tennis: Team tourney underway this week
Falmouth High School may be the new school on the Class A block, but make no mistake, the Yachtsmen will be the presumptive favorites in both the boys’ and girls’ team tournaments when things get rolling this week. Long dominant at the Class B level, Falmouth moved into Class A this season. All three of […]
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H.S. Tennis: Hammond slices into the semifinals; Smith, Grignon, Letourneau bow out
WATERVILLE — Running laps and wind sprints practice after chilly practice this season at St. Dominic Academy helped condition freshman Bethany Hammond for Saturday’s marathon day of tennis at the MPA singles championships. Three matches and three wins later, Hammond is on her way to the Maine Principals’ Association state singles tournament semifinal round in […]
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H.S. Tennis: Rain shortens first day of singles tourney; Letourneau, Smith among those advancing
Lewiston freshman Cole Ouellette went through it all Friday in his first foray into the MPA state singles tourney. And he came away from the experience ready to do it all over again. After breezing through his round-of-48 match against Alex Chamberland of Winthrop, 6-1, 6-2, Ouellette fell behind quickly in his second-round contest against […]
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H.S. Notebook: Rare loss didn’t slow Saints
St. Dom’s bounced back from its first loss of the season, 4-3 at Wiscasset on May 7, in impressive fashion. The Saints have won four in a row and sit atop the Western Class C Heal Points with a 9-1 record. They’ve handed their two closest pursuers, Dirigo and Monmouth, their only losses of the […]
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H.S. Girls’ Tennis: Devils bounce back in big way
LEWISTON — To say that Lewiston girls’ tennis is back deceptively implies that it ever went away. The only losing season in Anita Murphy’s hall-of-fame coaching career ended with the Blue Devils sneaking into the 2013 Class A East playoffs, thanks to a late-season win over Mt. Blue. “I never told the girls that if […]
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H.S. girls’ tennis: Lewiston, St. Dom’s, Mt. Blue, Spruce Mtn. singles emerge from qualifier
LEWISTON — Kyleigh Letourneau was rushing through the early stages of her Region 4 tennis singles qualifier match at Bates College’s Merrill Gym on Saturday, and it was no mystery why. “I have prom after this, so I think my mentality was, ‘OK, the faster you’re done, the faster you get to go home,’” the […]