LEWISTON – Lewiston goes ahead by one. Cape Breton answers.

Wash, rinse, repeat – until the shootout.

Joey Haddad capped an entertaining, back-and-forth game with a shootout goal that beat Lewiston goalie Peter Delmas low to the blocker side on Cape Breton’s third attempt to lift the visiting Screaming Eagles to a 4-3 win over the Maineiacs in front of 2,634 at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

“I’ve still got a smile on my face right now,” Maineiacs’ head coach Ed Harding said. “Our guys played well, they played hard. I couldn’t ask for anymore. If I could take this, bottle it and play that way the rest of the year, I would.”

The Cape Breton win came less than 24 hours after Lewiston took the first game of the two-game set in a penalty-filled and mistake-marred 5-4 contest. The Maineiacs were still less than pleased Sunday after Cape Breton still carried a better than 2-to-1 power play advantage.

“There were other, outside elements involved here,” Harding said. “When you have to kill a penalty late in the third and again in overtime, our guys dealt with adversity pretty well.”

“We had to play against Cape Breton and two other guys out there,” Maineiacs’ forward Stefano Giliati said. “Considering how many penalties we got, I thought we played well.”

Haddad’s shootout goal followed two unsuccessful attempts from Jordan Clendenning and Dean Ouellet. Giliati had a chance for Lewiston as the Maineiacs’ final shooter, but just fanned on a backhand deke that had Cape Breton goalie Olivier Roy prone on the ice.

Roy, just 16, got the start after missing Saturday’s game because he was just coming back from the World U-17 Championships.

“He plays like a veteran more than like a rookie,” Cape Breton coach Pascal Vincent said. “He’s only 16 years old, but he has a tremendous head on his shoulders.”

“I’m sure he came into this game looking at me, thinking he had to beat me, just like I thought it was basically me versus him,” Delmas said. “We’re both young goalies and we’ll be going against each other a lot in the future, I’m sure, down the road.”

Delmas stood tall in his return to action, too, after Kirk Rafuse earned the win Saturday.

“He played well,” Harding said matter-of-factly.

Sunday’s first period was a completely different story than Saturday’s. The hockey was clean, crisp and defensive, and the goalies each made solid saves when they needed to.

The best part? No controversy.

Lewiston got on the board on the power play at 15:56 of the period on Danick Paquette goal, his third of the weekend. Eric Gelinas coralled a pass from Michael Ward at the point and fired a low shot on net. Paquette redirected the puck to his forehand and flipped the puck over Roy.

“I tipped it to myself and found my way to the net,” Paquette said. “It’s my job to score goals like that on the power play. That’s why the coach put me there.”

Cape Breton showed its late-period prowess again on its own power play. Chris Culligan fired a shot from the right point that hit Jordan Clendenning’s stick and bounced to captain Dean Ouellet, who slid the puck past Delmas to even the score at 19:05.

A testament to the defensive play from both teams, the shot totals were low, just 7-6 in favor of the Eagles.

The second provided more back-and-forth hockey. Again, Lewiston came out on the short end of the power play tally, but again the teams traded goals.

Dominic Savoie scored just his first goal in front of the home crowd on an Alex Beaton rebound to put Lewiston up 2-1 at the 6:54 mark of the middle frame after three straight minutes of Cape Breton power play time.

The Maineiacs surrendered a short-handed goal on their own power play at 9:12 on Mathieu Brodeur’s first QMJHL goal. Brodeur one-timed a wobbling puck and caught Delmas by surprise as it blasted by the goaltender’s glove and just missed the crossbar.

Marc-Andre Daneau potted his eighth of the year just 1:09 into the third to again give the Maineiacs the lead, only to see Clendenning even things again at the 5:42 mark.

“The timing of our goals was very important,” Vincent said. “That more than anything made them unable to get any momentum.”

The teams will meet three more times this season, all in Sydney, Nova Scotia.