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HAMPDEN — Falmouth survived a scare from Waterville Saturday afternoon inside the Bangor Tennis Club to win the Class B girls’ tennis state title for the sixth year in a row.

The 3-2 victory extended Falmouth’s winning streak to 93 matches.

Falmouth senior Libby Voccola won 6-4, 6-2 at No. 3 singles and teammates Abby Payson and Katie Ryan (6-1, 6-0) and Katie Carew and Caroline Ray (6-3, 7-6 (7-3) won at doubles.

In a No. 2 singles match between freshmen, Waterville’s Tiffany Suchanek rallied past Falmouth’s Julia Brogan, 4-6, 7-5 (10-5).

At No. 1 singles, individual state champ Olivia Leavitt – serving underhand because of a biceps injury – retired with a 3-2 lead in the first set after learning Falmouth had clinched the match, giving Waterville’s Colleen O’Donnell the win by forfeit.

Glenn Jordan joined the Portland Press Herald in 1994 to cover the fledgling Portland Sea Dogs. A native of Vermont, he studied philosophy in college and worked at two newspapers in New Hampshire and one...

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