AUBURN – Two years of losing under the Auburn Suburban Little League lights was enough for Lewiston.

Eddie West sparked a four-run second with a solo home run, then settled down after a rocky start on the mound to lead the Blue Devils to their first victory in the third annual twilight meeting between the rivals at Austin Field, 8-4.

Jon Paradis clubbed three hits and scored twice while West, and Josh Leino collected two hits apiece for Lewiston (8-6), which tallied 11 hits overall. Kyle Bussiere, Mike Muise and Corey LaRue (two doubles) had two hits apiece for EL (8-6).

The Red Eddies pounded West’s fastball in the first inning for two runs on Bussiere’s RBI double and Muise’s RBI single. The Eddies managed single markers in the third (LaRue RBI double) and fourth (Bussiere RBI single), but West retired nine of the last 11 batters of the game, with one of those reaching on a dropped third strike.

“He got through to the end of the game because the rest of the repertoire of his pitches, his change-up and his curve ball, started getting over. If he didn’t have those, EL would have sized him up,” Lewiston coach Todd Cifelli said.

Besides better command of his off-speed pitches, West’s defense also helped him out with a couple of nice plays – an Alex Wong running catch in center and a nice grab of a liner by second baseman Mike Fontaine with his back virtually to home plate.

“I think maybe I was rushing things a little bit (early), maybe a little overanxious, but then I settled in and just trusted everybody out there in the field,” said West, who fanned seven, walked four and yielded eight hits in seven innings.

The Blue Devils changed their approach at the plate after Muise set them down in order in the first and started going after first or second pitches. West clipped a 1-0 breaking ball over the fence in left-center to lead off the inning.

“He hung a curve ball and I just tried to drive it back up the middle and it went out,” West said. “Everybody hit the ball. That was just one run. We had seven more.”

Paradis kept the rally going with a single, followed by an infield hit by Leino. Two EL errors and an RBI single by Chris Jacques put the Devils in front for good at 4-2.

“They were swinging early and being aggressive. Knowing that Mike is typically around the plate, that’s a pretty good gamble for any offense,” Edward Little coach Scott Annear said.

The Devils kept their foot on the gas in the third, making it 6-2 on a Paradis RBI triple and Leino’s run-scoring single, which chased Muise in favor of reliever Cody Goddard. An RBI single by Mike Fontaine in the fourth and a bases-loaded walk to Jacques in the fifth answered EL’s last two runs off West.