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LEWISTON — It will be a battle of the top-two seeds in the boys singles final and a No. 1-vs.-No. 6 showdown in the girls title match Monday morning at Bates College.

Falmouth’s Matt Morneault and Kennebunk’s Alberto Cutone set up a boys final showdown with quarterfinal and semifinal victories Sunday at Bates. Thornton Academy’s Emily Winkler and Hyde’s Marta Amaros Juan will face off for the girls championship.

The boys and girls finals will begin at 10 a.m.

Top-seeded Morneault, who had swept Claus Hinck of Lincoln Academy and Luis Chávez of Fryeburg Academy on Saturday, began Sunday with a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Deering’s Vivaan Churiwalla. He then beat No. 5 seed Andriy Vykhodtsev of Thornton Academy 6-0, 6-2 in the semis.

“I thought my forehand and attacking (were key),” Morneault said of the quarterfinal victory over Churiwalla. “He had a good second-serve return. He was pretty tight on my first serve, and he hit a bunch of winners and hit some good passing shots, so I had to be careful.”

Cutone beat seventh-seeded Joey Scardino of Camden Hills 6-0, 6-2 in the quarterfinals before topping No. 3 Adrian Mazurenko of Falmouth 6-1, 6-3 in the semis.

Morneault and Cutone met in the state semifinals in 2024 and ’25. Two years ago, Morneault outlasted Cutone 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in a match that lasted nearly three hours, before falling to Cutone’s older brother, George, in the final. Morneault defeated Alberto Cutone 6-1, 6-3 in last year’s semis, then claimed the state title with a win over Camden Hills’ Will Meyer.

In girls action, top-seeded Winkler beat Ruby Glenn of Lincoln Academy 6-0, 6-3 before topping 2025 state finalist Molly Tefft of Brunswick 6-2, 6-3. Amoros Juan, the No. 6 seed, beat Presque Isle’s Sabine Wells-Puckett 6-4, 6-3 in the quarterfinals and took down Kira Gregor of Cony 6-2, 6-3 in the semis. 

Gregor, the No. 2 seed, marked her return to the tournament this year after missing all of last season with a torn ACL. She previously swept Olivia Turner of Calais and Calie Soderberg of Orono on Saturday before defeating Falmouth’s Sophia Turker 6-1, 6-2 earlier Sunday.

“It’s exciting just to even be here at this tournament, after last year,” Gregor said. “Just playing in my first match yesterday, it was a feeling of, ‘Wow, I’m here.’ It’s a great feeling.”