LEWISTON – Baie-Comeau used to be a quick fix for whatever ailed the Lewiston Maineiacs. In ten games all-time between the two teams, Lewiston held a 9-1 record, including a perfect 5-0 at the Colisee.

Not anymore.

Alexandre Blais scored on a perfect backhand feed from Benjamin Breault just two minutes into a penalty-filled second period and the Drakkar held fast from there, shutting down Lewiston’s forwards en route to a 4-1 win in front of 2,258 fans at the Colisee on Sunday.

“Finally, we have found a way to beat Lewiston,” said Baie-Comeau coach Martin Laperriere. “We finally broke their streak against us tonight.”

Michael Dupont made 39 saves for the Drakkar, who at 11-10-2 are now tied with Lewiston for fourth in the Eastern Division with two games in hand.

“We got an outstanding game from our goaltender,” said Laperriere. “Our other goalie (Loic Lacasse) had a bad game against Quebec on Friday night, and Dupont had played well in his chances this year, so we went with him tonight.”

Of the 40 shots on Dupont, though, just six were deemed dangerous in the final statistics. One that was in fact hard to stop was a clean pick on a Sheldon Wenzel breakaway at 10:36 of the second period, with Lewiston trailing 2-1. Wenzel skated in from the blue line and picked out the top left corner. As he shot, Dupont flashed his catching glove and snagged the puck before it crossed the plane of the goal mouth.

“He gave me the high side,” said Wenzel. “It was there, I just didn’t think he was that fast.”

“I saw his eyes,” said Dupont. “He was looking at that corner and by the time I had to decide, he was already back and ready to shoot, so I knew where he was going.”

The Drakkar were on the board early, taking the home crowd out of the game just five minutes in, when Breault tipped home a nice feed from defenseman Patrick Simard at the right post.

Alex Bourret knotted the score at 7:03 on a play that made nearly every jaw in the Colisee drop. After intercepting the puck while killing off a penalty, Bourret slid to his left, going 1-on-2 against two Baie-Comeau defenders. Bourret hurdled one check on the left boards, and cut to the middle, just inside the Drakkar blue line. After faking the second Baie-Comeau blueliner to the ice, Bourret shifted twice to his left and the back to the right, lifting a soft backhander over a confused Dupont.

“I don’t really know about that,” Bourret admitted after the game. “I don’t know how that happened.”

Blais scored the game-winner in the second period, and then in the third, Alexandre Picard never returned from the locker room. According to Maineiacs’ coach Clem Jodoin, Picard was “dizzy,” and did not feel well enough to return to the ice. As for the rest of the team, Jodoin was less than pleased.

“We didn’t move the puck well,” said Jodoin. “The game is simple, and I don;t know what else to say. You have to skate. When you don’t skate, you don’t check and you don’t draw penalties. When we did have a power play, our players didn’t generate any chances there. Now we have to get back to work on Tuesday, look in the mirror and figure out what is wrong.”

Mathieu Gravel scored an insurance goal at 12:11 of the third period and Jean-Francois Jacques added an empty-netter with 45 seconds remaining to complete the scoring.

“After that third goal, we gave up,” said Jodoin.

The Maineiacs return to the ice at home on Friday against the Shawinigan Cataractes.