AUBURN – The Fryeburg Academy girls’ soccer team has been fighting off one of those stomach viruses so common in the world of stale, school bus air and shared water bottles.

Somewhat surprising, then, that late heroics by the Raiders left St. Dominic Regional High School as the team with that not-so-peaceful, queasy feeling Wednesday afternoon.

Anna Barber scored with 4.2 seconds remaining in regulation, and Fryeburg weathered seven shots on goal through two, five-minute overtime periods to escape town with a 3-3 Western Maine Conference deadlock.

“Just to come back with 4.2 seconds left to tie it is a feat,” said Fryeburg coach Terry MacGillivray. “I’m missing three starters right now. The team’s pretty beat up with injuries and mostly sicknesses.”

Janna Kurnick’s hustle helped the Raiders (4-4-3) earn a final change of possession in the final 15 seconds.

Fryeburg’s free kick flew into a swarm of bodies near the Saints’ defensive zone. Rochelle Albert put a foot on the ball and found senior classmate Barber, who unleashed a shot past the dive of St. Dom’s goalkeeper Elise Applegate just inside the left post.

“We didn’t step to give five yards. We dropped back 10. We should have delayed that by stepping in front of the ball right away,” said St. Dom’s coach Kathy Little. “It’s unfortunate, in the hype and everything.”

St. Dom’s (5-5-1) dominated play during the extra sessions, but Fryeburg netminder Ellen Head made four of her 21 saves – including a diving denial of Sophie Goulet with three minutes remaining in the second OT – to preserve the tie.

It wasn’t the first comeback for Fryeburg. The Saints took advantage of some friendly bounces to snag an early 2-0 lead.

Maggie Gamble was credited with the ice-breaker only 89 seconds into the contest, when Erynne Landry’s left-footed corner kick landed perilously in the center of the box and deflected into the net off a Fryeburg defender’s leg.

The Saints used another deflection away from the cage to make it a two-goal advantage. Jess Chamberlain’s bid to push the ball into the Fryeburg zone was partially blocked by the Raiders. Emily St. Pierre quickly recovered and finished the job, serving up a slow, rolling shot that squirted through Head’s grasp at 20:33.

“That was a tough start for us,” said MacGillivray, “but we came back with two strong goals.”

Senior midfielder and captain Coreen Hennessy, a difference-maker at both ends for Fryeburg, sliced the lead in half on a breakaway goal with 9:44 remaining in the half.

Just over two minutes later, Anabel Buhles pounced on a 50-50 ball deep in St. Dom’s territory and scorched a shot past Applegate (10 saves).

“I think we were just a little flat,” Little said of St. Dom’s brief letdown with the 2-0 lead. “We started to lose our game. We had plenty of opportunities. We just didn’t capitalize. It’s tough to maintain that.”

The Saints broke out of their halftime huddle and uncorked as many shots in the first 15 minutes as they did in the entire first half. That persistence paid off with a goal by Ali Desjardin, courtesy of Landry’s second assist of the afternoon.

Fryeburg was held to six shots in the second half prior to Barber’s equalizer. In all, St. Dom’s enjoyed a 33-17 cushion in that category.

“I think the teams are matched up pretty well. I’m missing my starting left (fullback), and I think a couple of those goals came from that side. It’s pretty obvious that person’s missed,” MacGillivray said. “This keeps us at .500, for a team that’s primarily basketball players. I don’t have any kids that play year-round.”

St. Dom’s, ranked No. 7 in Western Class C Heal Points and assured of a playoff berth, will tangle with Traip, Freeport and North Yarmouth Academy to conclude the regular season.