LEWISTON – Dinner should be fun in the Racine household this week.

Zac, a senior forward for Lewiston, has been smarting since St. Dom’s, for which his father, John, is an assistant coach, took out the Blue Devils in a six-goal shellacking earlier this season.

Zac got his revenge Saturday in a big way.

The younger Racine converted a Robbie Leeman feed on a short-handed 2-on-1 break with 2:10 remaining in overtime to lift Lewiston a crucial 4-3 win over St. Dom’s in a thrilling renewal of the teams’ rivalry.

“I saw the wing pinch in and I tipped it by him,” Leeman said. “I was dead out there, but I had just enough.”

Leeman raced up the right side with the puck as Racine drove toward the net, making sure to stay onside. Leeman feathered a pass over the Saints’ defender’s stick, and Racine took his time and fired the puck past prone St. Dom’s keeper Shayne Curtis.

“I knew I had a little bit of extra time,” Racine said. “I just wanted to make sure.”

On the Saints’ bench, John Racine bowed his head as the play developed.

“All I can say is, I’m happy for Zac,” John said.

“Every now and then you see a play and you feel like it’s in slow motion,” St. Dom’s coach Steve Ouellette said. “That was one of those plays.”

In context, the win was almost necessary for Lewiston, which had recently dropped games to Thornton and Brewer.

“We’re not the same type of team Lewiston’s had in the past,” Lewiston coach Jamie Belleau said. “We have to play a sound defensive game first, gain the blue line, gain the red line, minimize mistakes and get the puck in deep.”

Lewiston erased a one-goal deficit quickly in the third. Devin McLellan picked the glove-hand corner over Curtis at 1:26 to tie the game at two, and Scott Ouellette’s innocent wrister from the right half board slid through traffic and past Curtis along the ice just 28 seconds later to give the Blue Devils a 3-2 advantage.

“They caught some breaks, for sure,” Ouellette said, “I thought that we played well enough to win, and obviously so did they.”

St. Dom’s captain Richard Paradis rallied his players on the bench, and then put his play where his mouth was, sniping the top left corner over Lewiston goalie Cam Poussard’s blocker from the left circle to square things at three apiece.

Lewiston applied much of the early pressure, as the Saints had a hard time getting things going early against a tough Lewiston defense.

Likewise, later in the period, Poussard turned back the Saints’ best chances, keeping things scoreless through one.

Casey Parker put the Saints on the board first at 3:09 of the second period when Richard Paradis lobbed the puck from deep in his own zone over the Lewiston defense. Parker swooped in, outraced the Devils’ defense to the puck and beat Poussard on a backhand deke.

C.J. Bergeron beat Poussard clean on a shot from the left circle, going high glove past the Lewiston netminder at 4:12 to double the Saints’ advantage.

But Sam Cloutier did the same for Lewiston at 6:31, only from the right circle, to cut his team’s deficit back to one at 2-1.

Things got heated late in the second, when a pair of saves by Poussard resulted in crowds of players in front of the cage. Both teams’ players shoved back and forth for a few seconds after each whistle, though officials called no penalties.