BRUNSWICK – Kyle Dussault took a shot off his knee, flinched and scrambled back to the far post. The next ball came in moments later and smacked the Lewiston senior in the chest. It fell harmlessly into the crease below him, and he scooped it up.

Not bad for his first day at the office.

Dussault, playing in his first varsity game as a goaltender, stopped defending state champion Brunswick eight times in the fourth quarter, and made 13 saves overall, helping the visiting Blue Devils to a 5-4 win in the teams’ KVAC opener Tuesday.

“We were excited, playing the defending state champs on the road,” Lewiston coach Tom Fournier said. “Hopefully we can settle down in the next few games and play some better lacrosse.”

By “better,” Fournier meant with fewer penalties. The Blue Devils played through nine man-down situations Tuesday to Brunswick’s two.

“Despite that, I though we played well,” Fournier said. “We still played the defending state champs on their home field and came out with a win. You can’t be too upset.”

Ben Landry led the Lewiston offense with a goal and two assists, including a perfect feed to Zack Blauvelt for the game-winner, and Nate Rivet added a goal and an assist, too.

It was every bit the defensive matchup everyone expected from the two top teams in the conference, even if the game did come a bit early in the season.

“When you have a game between two quality programs like this, and there were only nine total goals scored, you know there’s a defensive stand going on,” Brunswick coach Don Glover said. “There was a lot of back and forth, a lot of good shots from both sides. It was a chess match.”

The Dragons (0-1) spent most of the first quarter in the Lewiston end, and came away from the first stanza with a 1-0 lead thanks to a shot that flew past Dussault and banked in off the crossbar.

The Blue Devils (1-0) got that one back just 25 seconds into the second, and took the lead on Landry’s goal with 8:54 remaining in the first half. They never trailed again, though the team traded goals through the end of the half, and went to the break knotted at three.

Blauvelt netted the winner on Lewiston’s only extended man-up situation early in the third. he set up at the left post and Landry found him on a pass from behind the right post.

“I saw (Blauvelt’s) man cutting in and his man trailing him,” Landry said. “I had to look to make the pass there, and he put it in.”

Alex Stone gave Lewiston a two-goal cushion, finishing on a fast break with help from Rivet. Lewiston would need the room, too, as Brunswick got one back with 1:20 to play on a Collin Schafer strike.

Dussault took over from there, though, and stuffed Brunswick four times from in close in the final minute.

“It felt good out there, I was seeing the ball well,” Dussault said.