LEWISTON — There’s little doubt that Sofie Mavor of Yarmouth High and George Cutone of Kennebunk know how to serve on a tennis court and they showed it Monday. The two seniors won the Maine Principals’ Association’s state singles titles at the Wallach Tennis Center on the Bates College campus in dominating fashion. Both entered as the top seeds and both can claim an unbeaten career in the MPA singles tourney.
Mavor played in and won two tourneys, as a freshman and senior, opting to pursue the USTA junior circuit the other years. Cutone won the three he participated in, also winning as a freshman and sophomore and skipping last year’s event in favor of a national tournament. They are also headed to military academies where they will play Division I tennis and prepare for a career in the armed forces.
Mavor will attend Air Force, Cutone the Naval Academy. “I’ve grown up playing with Sofia. We actually hit the day before the tournament,” Cutone said.
“Her making that commitment and deciding to go to the service academies is really cool and to have two state champions go and serve our country that’s something that I hope would inspire people to do.” Both champions made short work of their semifinal and final matches. Mavor lost one game in each, beating defending champion and No.
2 seed Coco Meserve, a senior from Brunswick, 6-0, 6-1, in the final after taking down hard-hitting Falmouth sophomore Sofia Kirtchev, the fourth seed, 6-1, 6-0, winning the final 1.
