LEWISTON – Any time the St. Dom’s-Lewiston hockey rivalry hits the ice, you can throw the win-loss records out the window.

More often than not, the game comes down to which team plays with more discipline or the team that comes up with the big plays.

Saturday night, St. Dom’s did both as the Saints executed their game plan to perfection and received an outstanding effort from senior goalie Will Emerson in earning a 4-2 win over the Blue Devils at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

The Saints (9-8) left a forward high in the slot in an attempt to keep the Blue Devils (14-2-1) bottled up in their zone and minimize the breakouts up the middle of the ice.

“We played a 2-3 and tried to intercept that pass up high,” said St. Dom’s coach John Pleau. “We did that for most of the game.”

The Saints outplayed their rivals in the first period while the Blue Devils took one penalty after another.

“We got outplayed in the first period,” said Lewiston coach Norm Gagne. “They beat us to every puck.”

St. Dom’s got on the board with just 22 seconds left in the initial period on a power-play goal by C.J. Bergeron.

The junior forward set up shop in front of the Lewiston goal and Simon Hebert found him from the wing. Hebert fed a quick pass to the covered Bergeron who got just enough on the puck to slide it past freshman goalie Cam Poussard (17 saves).

“We took too many penalties,” said Gagne. “We killed (most of them), but you can’t do that and expect to win.”

Richard Paradis put the Saints up 2-0 3:54 into the middle period. Carrying the puck on a 2-on-2 rush with a teammate on his right wing, Paradis decided to take a wrist shot from 25 feet out. The puck launched over the left shoulder of Poussard and into the net.

“The game plan was to go upstairs (on Poussard),” said Pleau. The last time we played, he stopped everything down low.”

The Blue Devils carried the play for the remainder of the second period, but couldn’t put the puck past Emerson (29 saves).

Robbie Leeman fed a beautiful pass from the left wing to an onrushing Matt Letourneau who was stoned by Emerson. Seconds later, Letourneau clanged a shot off the post from in close. As the puck squirted back to the top of the crease underneath Emerson, the Blue Devils failed to capitalize.

“I thought they were going to turn the game around in the second period,” said Emerson of the Blue Devils’ increased offensive pressure. “But we held tough and did what we had to do.”

Late the in period, Lewiston’s Casey Poussard was whistled for a retaliatory crosscheck well behind the play which would put the Blue Devils down two men to start the third period.

The Saints took advantage just 34 ticks into the final period. Bringing the puck across the blue line to the right of Cam Poussard, Saints’ defensemen Jeff Lewandowski let a slap shot fly that appeared to be nothing more than a dump in with some mustard on it.

Poussard never saw the shot as it flew over his left shoulder.

That ended the night for Poussard and, essentially, the Blue Devils.

A goal by Zac Racine cut the deficit to 3-1 at the 4:41 mark.

Paradis extended the lead back to two after he scrambled for a loose puck in front of the Lewiston goal and wristed another roof shot, this time over back-up netminder Alex Lafrenniere.

Racine’s second goal with 8.1 seconds remaining capped the scoring.