LEWISTON – Sometimes all of the momentum, all of the culture-changing moves a team can make, and all of the hustle and effort the players can put into a game just isn’t enough.

Sometimes, one team is just better than another.

Drummondville proved one more time Tuesday that it is one of the premier teams in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, and for the fifth time the Voltigeurs proved their point against the Lewiston Maineiacs.

Yannick Riendeau, Philippe Lefebvre and Samson Mahbod all scored and Antoine Tardif turned aside 21 shots to lead the Volts to a 4-1 win over the Maineiacs in front of a modest crowd of 1,657 at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

“I’m not thrilled with the loss, but I’m certainly not discouraged by it, either,” Maineiacs’ coach Don MacAdam said. “The bottom line was, we played a better team that’s very well-coached, and has a lot of talent and experience. We have lots of talent, but we don’t have the same experience.”

Peter Delmas, despite the loss, had another strong game for the Maineiacs (16-33-0-0) in as many outings since the team changed coaches early last week. Delmas, a Colorado Avalanche draft pick at last year’s NHL draft, stopped 35 of the 39 pucks that came his way.

“I feel like I’m playing a lot better,” Delmas said.

“Goaltending has nothing to do with why we lost this game,” MacAdam said.

Marc Bourgeois netted Lewiston’s lone goal late in the second, which at that point tighted things up at 2-1.

It didn’t take long for the Volts’ offensive machine to produce a goal, though it wasn’t the perfect tic-tac-toe play the team is used to setting up.

Mahbod cruised through the middle of the slot in time to tip a long floater from Patrick Prokop up and over Delmas’ left shoulder as the Lewiston keeper slid in the opposite direction.

“That’s the kind of goal we need,” Drummondville coach Guy Boucher said. “From the beginning of the season, we’ve been working on getting away from the pretty stuff and working on driving hard to the net, because come playoffs, that’s where we’re going to score the goals.”

Drummondville’s second goal was more typical of its high-flying style. The Volts’ power play connected on three consecutive tape-to-tape passes, the last landing on the stick of the league’s leading scorer, Riendeau. He had no problem finding the top corner over Delmas’ glove for his 34th of the season, putting his squad on top 2-0.

Delmas gave Lewiston a scare 8:10 into the game, when a Drummondville shot from 10 feet out caught the 18-year-old goalkeeper in the mask with a rocket of a wrister. Delmas made the save, but fell backwards into the net. Officials blew the play dead, and Delmas took about five minutes to recover while team staffers fixer his helmet, which suffered a bit of damage from the puck’s impact.

Ten minutes later, as time ticked away in the second, Lewiston got on the board. Dominic Savoie followed the puck after a broken play to the left halfboard from behind the net, looked over his shoulder and saw Bourgeois sitting all alone in front. He backhanded the puck to Bourgeois in the low slot, and the Glace Bay native roofed the puck over Tardif to cut the Volts’ lead in half.

“It got broken up a bit, but then it was just pure hard work and determination,” MacAdam said.

After his run-in with the puck earlier, Delmas was stellar the rest of the period, turning aside all 13 shots Drummondville threw his way.

“It’s a great improvement over the last time we played these guys,” Delmas said. “Things are looking up for this team.”

Delmas was helpless on Drummondville’s third-period goal that made it 3-1, the victim of a double tip. Philippe Lefebvre ended up with the goal after Marc-Antoine Desnoyers’ shot was first tipped in the high slot by Maxime Frenette.

Chris DiDomenico scored his second goal since joining the Volts – his 13th of the season overall – on a blast from the left circle that popped the water bottle off the back of the net behind Delmas at 17:58 of the final frame.

Lewiston’s next four games are all at home, the next coming Friday night against the Val d’Or Foreurs at 7 p.m.