Saturday, it was goaltending. Sunday? Penalties.

“We have to be a smarter hockey team than that,” Lewiston Maineiacs’ head coach Ed Harding said. “If players want to be selfish and not think about playing as a team, they’ll sit.”

Already tired from playing their third game in fewer than 72 hours, the Maineiacs spent much of their game against Acadie-Bathurst on Sunday shorthanded, and the Titan took advantage.

Tomy Joly, Tomas Svoboda and Mathieu Perreault had a goal and an assist each to lead the Titan to a 5-3 win over the visiting Maineiacs in front of 2,112 at the K.C. Irving Regional Centre.

“We were tired, there’s no question, it was our third game in three days,” Harding said. “I thought we played well in the first and even into the second, but this is a game we should have been able to at least force into overtime.”

As a result of some penalties, Harding benched defenseman Kevin Marshall for the better part of the third period.

The loss is the Maineiacs’ second in a row and third in four games, dropping the team to 18-12-1-1 (38 points).

Acadie-Bathurst, buoyed by two wins over Lewiston, now sits at 16-10-1-1 (34 points) and holds four games in hand on the Maineiacs, who have already played 32 of their 70 games.

Lewiston again jumped out to an early lead. Goals from Marc Bourgeois and Chris Tutalo gave the maineiacs a 2-0 lead in the opening period.

The Titan drew to within one at the end of the first on a Nicolas Sigouin goal.

Vincent Couture and Joly put the Titan ahead 3-2 early in the second, and Marc-Andre Daneu evened things up later in the second with his seventh of the season.

In the third, Perreault potted his 19th of the season, and Svoboda picked up an empty-netter late in the game to seal the victory.

Lewiston returns home this week to face Halifax on Wednesday and Quebec on Friday.