LEWISTON – Saturday was a day to start a state championship Class C team tennis streak for the girls from North Yarmouth Academy, while their neighbor to the south and Class B participant Yarmouth revived a broken one.

The NYA Panthers won their second straight title by beating Sumner of East Sullivan for the second straight time with a commanding 5-0 match victory on a bright and balmy afternoon at Lewiston High School.

The Class B battle saw Yarmouth win its third state crown in four years with a 4-1 victory over previously unbeaten Caribou, which was making its first state-final appearance in three years and first Class B state- final appearance overall.

“This is the first Western Class B opponent we’ve faced, but I don’t see much of a difference between Class A West and Class B West,” said Caribou girls coach John Habeeb.

In the Class A match, unbeaten Mount Ararat of Topsham downed Deering of Portland 4-1.

The 12-4 Yarmouth Clippers took care of the 15-1 Vikings in businesslike fashion in the singles matches as Louise Taylor, Ginny Petrovek and Kate Lepley won 36 of the 42 games.

Doubles victories came a bit tougher as Caribou’s No. 2 team of Rachael Willey and Candice Michaud stemmed the Clippers’ tide by defeating Rebecca Fischman and Caroline Smith 6-4, 6-2. In the other match, Jess Raines and Lisa Marshall only got past Kylee Morrell and Barbara Burgard with a 6-1 first-set win followed by a 7-6 decision capped by a marathon 12-10 tiebreaker.

“Our second doubles came through and our first doubles almost did. We were closer than 5-0, but you won’t see that reflected in the score,” said Habeeb. “It just seems like today we had way too many unforced errors in those first sets.”

With his top two singles players returning along with Morrell, who will be the top candidate to fill the third slot, Habeeb remains optimistic.

“We don’t have a ton of local courts and indoor facilities up there like they do in some of these Southern Maine areas, but we do have good girl athletes, a lot of whom play three sports, and it’s hard for them to juggle that stuff,” he said.

In Class C action, the score of the rematch was the same as the first meeting, but both coaches detected some differences a year later.

“This was a tough team for us, but I think we were more competitive with them than we were last year,” said Sumner coach Joe Haroutunian. “We still didn’t win a match, but you look across the board and we were in many of them. We had a chance in four of those matches.”

The match scores seem to support Haroutunian. Second singles player Kristen Lothes had to rally from an opening set loss to beat lone Sumner senior Brittany Dunbar 4-6, 6-1, 6-2. Only three of the 11 sets were 6-0 or 6-1 NYA decisions.

“I noticed a difference. They’ve certainly improved in their fundamentals and approach,” said NYA coach Julia Seely, whose Panthers wind up the season 13-3.

Still, everything looked easy to Seely after her team’s monumental comeback in the West regional final.

“Our second doubles and third singles both lost in the regional final and our top singles was down 4-1 while No. 2 dropped her first set,” she said. “We were there for nine hours I swear. This team just never gives up and a lot of it is just mental.”