BRUNSWICK

The defending State Class A champion Brunswick High School girls tennis team is headed back to the Eastern finals following Friday’s 4-1 semifinal verdict over No. 3 Brewer.

Brunswick (14-0) is scheduled to meet up with No. 4 Mt. Blue (11-3), a 3-2 semifinal winner over No. 1 Hampden Academy (13-1), Wednesday (4 p.m.) at the University of Maine.

“Except for the distance, it’s nice to go to Orono because this is where as the coach, the Brunswick boys won three titles in the late 90’s,” said Brunswick coach Rob Manter. “Also, it is where I played my college tennis, so it is special for me.”

Brunswick and Mt. Blue met twice in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference regular season with the Dragons prevailing 5-0 each time.

The second-seeded Dragons got individual wins from Maisie Silverman, Ali Stankiewicz and Leah Soloway, while the number-one doubles tandem team of Hannah Bobker and Samiera MacMullen toppled Catelyn Kimball and Hannah Dalton, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Silverman, runner-up in the MPA Singles Championships earlier in the week, beat Ashleigh Gibula, 6-0, 6-0, while Stankiewicz toppled Claire Valley, 6-1, 6-1, and Soloway defeated Megan Libby, 6-4, 6-1.

In the other doubles match, Brunswick’s Ari Kasabian and Ellie Mersereau fell to Laura Meyneri and Brittany Ezell, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.

Silverman is now 17-1 (including MPS singles play), Stankiewicz 16-2 and Soloway 15-1 in team play, each with one loss at state singles, while the doubles tandem of MacMullen and Bobker is 10-0, Kasabian and Mersereau 9-1, Elizabeth Day withvarious partners 4-0, Hannah Kressbach 2-0, and Maddie Stoll and Sammi Clark 1-0.

Boys ousted

Also on Friday, top-ranked Brunswick fell to No. 4 Hampden Academy, 4-1. Hampden is set to meet No. 2 Bangor (14-0), a 5-0 semifinal winner over Erskine Academy.

Hampden won all three singles matches.

Alex Townsend got past Mitch Cooney, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1; Ian Miller beat Jimmy Kenyon, 6-1, 6-3; and Sam Jordan defeated Joel Soloway, 6-2, 6-4.

In doubles play, Hampden’s Dan Neo and Oakley Kilgour beat Angelo Gerardi and Henry Ditzel, 6-4, 6-0, while Brunswick’s Damian Koch and Xander Knox slipped past Matt Harris and Logan Lafayette, 6-3, 7-5.

Brunswick ends with a 13-1 record, while Hampden improved to 12-2.

Brunswick seniors are Cooney, Kenyon, Ditzel and Patrick Kinney.

Freeport out

No. 5 Freeport boys lost to No. 8 York in the Western B semifinals on Saturday, 3-2.

Freeport closed out the season at 8-6.

Winning for the Falcons were the doubles teams of Landon Easler and Connor McLellan, and the duo of Ryder Bennell and Caleb Abbott.

York won all three singles matches, improved to 9-6 and will now face No. 2 Cape Elizabeth, a 5-0 semifinal winner over No. 3 Falmouth. The match is set for 12:45 p.m. Wednesday at Bates College.

Freeport seniors are Abrin Berkemeyer, Chris West, Easler and McLellan.