The Thornton Academy boys and girls tennis teams will send their top doubles teams to the SMAA championship match after both teams battled through the SMAA field on Saturday.
The TA boys team of Dylan Gooch and Jared Waterhouse will meet Portland’s Henry Gates and Daniel Mencher on Wednesday at Thornton Academy.
The TA girls team of Pilar Salcedo and Claudia de la Hoz Garcia will have to wait until next Monday when they will travel to South Portland to take on the No. 1 ranked team of Avery Arena and Lauren Poirier of Gorham.
Gooch and Waterhouse got to the finals by cruising through the SMAA field on Saturday.
The TA duo beat Marshwood’s Tate Whitesell and Ryan Long 8-0 in the second round and then took down Gorham’s Jaden Gaudreau and Dylan Weeks 8-0 in the quarterfinals.
In the semifinals, Gooch and Waterhouse took down Portland’s Ian McCallum and Sam Mermin by an 8-3 decision.
Gates and Mencher beat TA’s Simon Belliveau and Jackson Dohse in the other semifinals match.
In the girls’ tournament, Salcedo and de la Hoz Garcia, who came in to Saturday’s SMAA tournament unranked, won four matches to reach the finals.
The duo beat Massabesic’s Joanna LaFrance and Katie Dupuis 6-0, 6-2 in the first round and then took down Windham’s Paige Laferriere and Taylor Everett 6-1, 6-1.
In the quarterfinals, the TA team took down Gorham’s Lizzie Kutzer and Delaney Burns 6-4, 6-4. The Trojans would then beat Scarborough’s Olivia Booth-Howe and Caitlin Merrill 6-4, 6-3.
Arena and Poirier would take down TA’s Emma Nassif and Cordelia Perry in the other semifinals match to reach the SMAA finals.
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