The tennis season ended for the Presque Isle Wildcats Thursday as both the girls and the boys were eliminated in the quarterfinal round of the Eastern Maine Class B tournament.
The Wildcat girls fell at Caribou, 4-1. The lone match win recorded by coach Monica Bearden’s team came courtesy of No. 3 singles player Hilary Boucher, who stopped the Vikes’ Clara Collins in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3.
Kayla Girardin and Sara Gilson lost their singles matches for PI, as did the doubles teams of Blair Bailey-Michelle Cawley and Lora Ireland-Frances Castro.
The fifth-ranked Wildcats closed out the year with an 8-5 record. Caribou went on to lose to top seed Ellsworth, 3-2, in Saturday’s semifinal round.
The Presque Isle boys had a much longer trip that same day as the headed to Bar Harbor to take on the No. 1-seeded Mount Desert Island Trojans. The Wildcats were beaten by a 5-0 score. Liam Hughes, Chase Norton and Chris Carroll were defeated in singles matches, while Zach Breton-Byron Winslow and Clint Adler-Tyler Ayotte fell in doubles play.
Last Tuesday, PI advanced by beating Old Town in a preliminary playoff match held in Presque Isle.
The Wildcats, the No. 8 seed in the division, finished with a record of 8-6. MDI won its semifinal Saturday and will take on No. 2 Caribou in this afternoon’s EM championship match.
