PCHS girls, Foxcroft boys fall in state tennis championships
LEWISTON — The Piscataquis Community High School girls tennis team fell in the Class C championship and the Foxcroft Academy boys tennis team lost in the Class B championship on Wednesday, June 11 at Bates College.
PCHS (11-5) fell 5-0 to Maranacook Community High School of Readfield (15-1). The Pony boys (15-1) were defeated for the first time this season 5-0 by Yarmouth High School (16-0) which captured the state title for the sixth consecutive season.
In the late afternoon the Black Bears swept three singles and a pair of doubles matches against the Pirates. No. 1 singles senior Claire Dwyer over junior Arianna Crosby 6-3, 6-4. No. 2 singles freshman Lydia Garafalo over senior Khloe Kimball 6-0, 6-1. No. 3 singles sophomore Julia Thaller over senior Gabriella Koscielyn 6-0, 6-1.
CLASS B RUNNER-UP — The Foxcroft Academy boys are the 2025 Class B tennis runner-ups after falling to Yarmouth High School 5-0 in the state championship on June 11 at Bates College in Lewiston. The Ponies appeared in the final for the second time in school history (2023).
No. 1 doubles sophomore Leah Hildebrandt and senior Ava Candage over sophomore Karrigan Wilson and junior Bella Buhne 6-1, 6-2. No. 2 doubles seniors Molly Woodford and Lilly Brossey over junior Audrey Chadbourne and Ava Goulette 6-3, 6-4.
Maranacook won the program’s second state championship, joining the 2023 Class C crown.
The state championship berth was the first for a PCHS girls team since the 1992 field hockey team claimed that year’s Class C championship.
CLASS C RUNNERS-UP — The PCHS girls are the 2025 Class C tennis runners-up after falling to Maranacook 5-0 in the state championship on June 11 at Bates College in Lewiston. The Pirates reached the final for the first time in program history.
Earlier in the day on June 11 the Yarmouth boys swept the three singles matches and two doubles matches.
No. 1 singles senior Andre Vilette over Jerry Nguyen 6-3, 6-0. No. 2 singles sophomore James Hartnett over junior Max Balliet 6-2, 6-3. No. 3 singles junior Alexander Gordon over senior Fynn Eigen 6-4, 6-4.
No. 1 doubles juniors Aidan Forrest and Aiden Brooks over senior Tom Nguyen and junior Lucas Machado 6-3, 6-0. No. 2 singles senior Chris Augur and junior John Nicholas over juniors Henry Holman and Beckett Taylor 6-0, 6-0.
Foxcroft appeared in its second boys tennis state championship, doing likewise in 2023 when that Yarmouth team earned the title for the fourth year during the now six-year championship run. The Clippers’ 2025 crown is the seventh overall in program history (2009 and 2019-25 with no matches being played in the spring of 2020 amidst the pandemic).