LEWISTON – Marisa Zamrock poked her head out of the Lewiston High School locker room at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee on Saturday night.

She looked lost, a touch out of place, like she didn’t know where she had to go next.

Like a freshman.

Well, she is a freshman. And roaming the Colisee’s hallways as a varsity hockey player is also new, for Zamrock and for all of her teammates in this first year of MPA-sanctioned varsity competition.

The winning part? Well, OK, Lewiston hockey players ought to be used to that part.

Zamrock scored three times, Emilie Cloutier added two more and Sara Marden had a goal and two assists to lead the Blue Devils to a 6-4 win over Biddeford, claiming for Lewiston the first ever girls’ ice hockey state title.

“That was our goal all along,” Lewiston coach Ron Dumont said.

“We gave it everything we had,” Biddeford coach Marie Potvin said. “They were the better team.”

Saturday’s win helped Lewiston avenge a 4-2 loss to Biddeford at the Colisee earlier this season, a game in which the Devils were admittedly playing at less than full strength.

“(Zamrock) was playing with a hamstring injury for almost a month and a half,” Dumont said. “She was playing with that the last time we played Biddeford, and Emilie was out all together.”

Zamrock and Cloutier more than made up for that game Saturday, and they did so thanks to some good advice from their coaching staff, which scouted Biddeford netminder Brandee LeClair perfectly.

“We were mostly not going to her glove side,” Zamrock said. “We tried to shoot on net as much as we could, but mostly low and to her blocker side.”

Zamrock scored high to the blocker side to put her team on top 1-0 early, and Cloutier added another on a dribbler low, underneath LeClair’s pads.

The Tigers never went away, though. Haley Reny poked the puck past Lewiston keeper Stephanie Belanger (20 saves) at 2:06 of the middle frame to pull Biddeford to within one. Zamrock and Biddeford uber-forward Sara Grover traded goals late in the period, keeping the Tigers within striking distance at 3-2 to close out the first 24 minutes.

Zamrock’s third – a Marden shot that hit Zamrock in the ankle on the way through a crowd and into the net – preceded Marden’s score and the pair helped Lewiston out to a seemingly insurmountable 5-2 edge with 7:44 to play.

“If we didn’t use our speed, they were going to beat us on the way back,” Zamrock said.

And the lead was never safe with Grover in the lineup.

“We called the girls over, they were slouching a bit,” Potvin said. “We told them that this thing wasn’t over, we can get right back in this, and we got two quick ones.”

The shifty Biddeford sophomore scored a pair of goals on set plays 22 seconds apart, and with 5:32 to play, the Tigers were again within one at 5-4.

“The two goals she got, were two identical plays, and those are set plays that I should have recognized from the bench,” Dumont said. “Those were on me as a coach.”

“The girls know,” Potvin said. “That’s a play we’re used to running, and it’s all based around getting pucks to the net and driving after the rebounds.”

Cloutier banked a shot off LeClair’s waffle at 10:18 to regain the two-goal edge for her squad.

“She’s such a good goalie, and she was being screened,” Cloutier said. “I don’t think she could read it because everyone was around her. A two-goal game is a lot different than a one-goal game.”

Belanger and the Devils held off a furious, penalty-aided rally at the end to earn the state title.

“I trust my girls, and I know we can kill penalties, even in big spots like that,” Belanger said. “We’ve been doing this together since the beginning of the season.”