Shortly after the Camden Hills boys tennis team extended its streak of Eastern Maine regional tournament dominance Saturday, the Orono Red Riots ended someone else’s.

The top-seeded Windjammers shut out the No. 4 Fort Kent Warriors 5-0 in Rockport to advance to their fifth straight Eastern Class B final round match. A couple hours later on a sunny and sometimes searing Saturday, the No. 3 Orono Red Riots staged a gutsy comeback and edged No. 2 George Stevens Academy of Blue H ill 3-2 to end the Eagles streak of EM Class C titles at three.

The 13-1 Riots will try to win their first regional title since 1996 when they take on top seed and defending East C champion Madawaska in a 4 p.m. match Wednesday at Colby College in Waterville. The 14-0 Windjammers are looking for a fourth straight title when they play the No. 2 Caribou Vikings (12-2) in a 10 a.m. match at Colby.

At Blue Hill, it all came down to the quick feet, consistent ground strokes and quick feet of Orono junior Nimesh Patell, who found out just as he was winning the first set against GSA top singles player Cooper Moor that his match would be the decisive one of the day. It was information he definitely wanted to know.

“I think I play a little better when there’s more pressure on me, and I knew I had to do it for us to win,” said Patell, who beat Moor 6-4, 6-3 to clinch. “Plus it was easier because my coach was there and could help me.”

Dean Armstrong, now in his 10th season as Orono’s head coach, had to shuttle back and forth between the site of Patell’s match at the dual court near George Stevens Academy and that of the doubles match involving Parker Hill and Adam Chase at the Blue Hill Country Club.

Patell’s match wouldn’t have been nearly as significant had it not been for a big rally by Hill and Chase, who dropped their first set 5-7 and barely pulled out the second with a 7-6 win in which they won the tiebreaker 7-5. After that, Orono’s No. 2 doubles duo beat GSA’s senior team of Eric Harriman and Andrew Gagne 6-4 in the final set to tie the best-of-five team match at two apiece.

“We just kept cool. I think when we figured out they were really good at playing net, we started placing the shots more and hitting more lobs around the middle of the second set and that really helped us,” said Hall, a freshman who says his pairing with senior Chase was perfect. “It’s a good combination. He’s incredible at the net and I like to stay back.”

The Hall-Chase win was the second in which the Riots rallied from an 1-0 set deficit. Swiss senior exchange student Marc Schmid rallied to beat Zack Huckelbauer 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.

There wasn’t much separating the two teams. They split two team matches in the regular season and all the players except Patel and Moor had split their matches as well.

“I think the better team won,” said GSA coach Larry Gray. “I thought we could win one singles, but winning two would be more of a crapshoot. It came down to winning both doubles, to be honest with you. We were pretty close, but we couldn’t turn it on when we had to. It just came down to a few missed balls.”

In Class B, the last thing the Warriors wanted was a slow start after their six-hour bus ride to Rockport, but the Windjammers weren’t about to let them get their legs back under them as senior captain Peter Stein and junior Quinn Barden notched straight set wins quickly to set the tone.

When No. 1 doubles team Charlie Ash and Adam Lafleur took their match 6-2, 7-5 about 45 minutes later, it was all over.

“They have an excellent reputation and it’s obvious why when you see them play,” said Fort Kent coach Kip Plaisted. “They have a lot of tenacity and they go for balls, no matter where they are on the court. They’re a very deep team too.”

Camden coach Chris Walker-Spencer missed the match to attend his brother’s college graduation in Illinois, but his absence didn’t hurt his players.

“It’s harder to focus today without him, but we were still able to keep our minds on the key things,” said Stein.