LEWISTON – St. Dom’s got the win it needed Monday, while Bangor’s futility in midseason games at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee continued.

Richard Paradis had a goal and two assists and Max Wiley turned back 32 shots to lead the Saints to a 5-2 matinee win over the Rams on Monday.

“Bangor’s a good team,” Wiley said. “A win like this is good for our confidence level going into the rest of the week.”

Bangor gave the Saints (6-6-0) all they could handle in the third period. Down by three, the Rams fired at will against Wiley. One early chance in particular tested Wiley’s mettle, as Bangor’s power play tried to cash in. Wiley kicked a rebound out into the middle, but dove to his right to stop Bangor’s second chance.

“I tried to kick the puck to the corner, but it went more to the middle than I thought it would,” Wiley said. “I saw the kid coming in, and I just dove to try and get a piece of it.”

Wiley made a paddle save to preserve the three-goal lead. In all, Wiley stopped 19 shots in the third. The teams see-sawed in the first. Bangor got on the board first just 36 seconds into the game when David Pardilla scooped up a rebound after Max Wiley made a solid save on a Johnny Warren breakaway. Pardilla popped the puck over Wiley’s outstretched pad to give the Rams the early lead.

“Whenever we let up an early goal, our team starts to go down a bit this year,” Wiley said. “We knew we had to keep it at one this time.”

The Bangor lead didn’t last long, though, as the Saints’ Daniel Lajoie picked up a rebound goal of his own at 2:41 to even the score. Cameron Brown made it 2-1 for St. Dom’s at the 7:46 mark when he stuffed the puck through Bangor keeper Andrew Riley.

Pardilla notched his second of the game at 12:36, beating Wiley to the short side on a 2-on-1 after catching the goaltender cheating toward the pass.

“After a period, we were pretty happy,” Bangor coach Ted Taylor. The Saints made their move in the second, thanks in large part to three power plays, two of which came back to back and gave St. Dom’s more than a minute of 5-on-3 time.

“The penalty killing hurt us tonight,” Taylor said. “We knew they were a fast team. We were prepared for that, but it’s a lot tougher when you’re down a man against them.”

Casey Parker went in alone and scored after Paradis sprung him on a breakaway for a 3-2 lead. Parker returned the favor later in the period, setting up Paradis for a goal at 6:42 on the power play to run the lead to 4-2, and Paradis set up Spencer Teixeira for another power-play goal at 10:38, putting the host Saints ahead by three.

“We finally got the power play rolling,” St. Dom’s coach John Pleau said. “It’s taken some time, but it’s working now.”

The Saints’ next test will be against Portland on Wednesday, followed by a date with Edward Little on Saturday.