LEWISTON – The unbeaten streak rolls on – barely.

Casey Poussard scored a pair of short-handed goals, including one on a bank shot off the center-zone boards into an empty net late in the third period, and Cam Poussard made 29 saves to record a shutout, lifting the Lewiston Blue Devils to their 13th win in 14 games, a 2-0 decision over the Waterville Purple Panthers.

“We’ve been having a hard time finishing,” Lewiston coach Norm Gagne said. “We’re getting chances, but we’re shooting high, hitting posts or just missing the net all together.”

Despite their shooting woes, the Devils also played solid defense in their own zone. Many of the Panthers’ 29 shots came from the outside, and Lewiston’s blue-line corps limited the rebound chances in front of Cam Poussard.

“We blocked the shots when we needed to,” Gagne said. “Killing off those penalties was big, too.”

Lewiston’s biggest kill came in the first period. A string of three straight penalties put the Blue Devils two men down for more than two minutes.

“That was big to kill that off,” Poussard said.

Waterville, meanwhile, has lost five games this season. Each of them have been shutouts.

“We’re just not finishing,” Waterville coach Denis Martin said. “It seems like when we score that first one, it loosens us right up, but if we don’t score early, we tighten up and put pressure on ourselves. I thought we played a good game tonight. We had our chances.”

Cam Poussard made sure none of those chances found the back of the net.

“Their young goaltender played well,” Martin said.

The Panthers outplayed Lewiston in every way in the first. They outskated the Devils, outchanced them and outshot them 14-10.

Yet, somehow, Lewiston won the period.

Casey Poussard struck for the Blue Devils just 10 seconds into Waterville’s first of three power plays, taking the puck through the center zone and into the Waterville end untouched on a breakaway. He faked goaltender Nolan MacDonnell to the ice and deked to his forehand and slid the puck into the cage.

“I knew what I was going to do, backhand to forehand, right away,” Casey Poussard said. “There was no doubt.”

While offense reigned in the opening stanza, a tight-checking, tentative style followed in the second. Neither team managed much offense, and through the eight-minute mark of the second, Waterville led Lewiston in shots, 3-1.

Casey Poussard wrapped up the scoring late in the third, again on the penalty kill. This time, he controlled the puck inside his own zone and, with MacDonnell off for an extra skater, he banked the puck out of the zone and it trickled into the empty net on the other end.