LEWISTON – St. Dom’s wasn’t going to let it happen again.

Twice this season, the Saints had fallen behind to Scarborough, needing late-game, multi-goal heroics to sneak past the Red Storm. On Tuesday, Scarborough got the first one again.

But the Saints responded quickly. And often. And never trailed again.

Casey Parker notched a hat trick, Richard Paradis had a goal and three assists and C.J. Bergeron added two goals and three helpers to lift the high-flying Saints to a 7-4 Western Class A quarterfinal win over Scarborough at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

“Once we got the lead, we pretty much had it the rest of the night,” St. Dom’s coach Steve Ouellette said. “Once we got the lead, we never got rid of it, and that was big. We had a couple of seniors out there on every line tonight, and in a game like this, that matters.”

Two of Parker’s three goals came on breakaways, and he beat Scarborough keeper Matt Mayo’s high glove both times.

“I was working hard out there and took my opportunities when I had them,” Parker said.

Bergeron’s second goal, the team’s final goal on the night, capped the victory, giving the Saints a three-goal edge they would never relinquish. It came on a 100-foot pass from Paradis from his own zone to the Scarborough blue line.

“It was wide open,” Paradis said. “I saw him out there at the blue line, and the lane was wide open through the middle.”

The loss is the third loss for the Red Storm at the Colisee this season, having lost once each to Lewiston and St. Dom’s in the regular season. Tuesday’s game was a whole new ball of wax for many of the Storm’s skaters, though.

“We weren’t in synch,” Scarborough coach Jay Mazur said. “We have some young guys in the lineup, and the young guys, in a setting like this, on a stage like this, you could tell they were a bit nervous.”

The high-flying offensive game kicked in early for both teams. The Red Storm struck first just 23 seconds into the contest when Nick Tolman lofted an innocent wrister from the left point. The shot eluded Saints’ goalie Shayne Curtis and found the back of the net, putting the visitors on top, 1-0.

The Saints countered just 1:22 later when Parker went in alone on Mayo and buried a forehand deke under the keeper’s pads.

“I was worried a little bit at first, but we got it back so quickly, it was a nice response,” Ouellette said.

The Saints tacked on two more, both on the power play, after a pair of Storm skaters took penalties on the same play. Ben Randall redirected a feed from Bergeron at 10:13 to put his squad on top for the first time, and Parker hit for his second on a rebound to the left of Mayo on a heavy shot by Richard Paradis.

The Storm snuck back to within one at 12:29 of an active opening frame when Hunter Wood redirected a Jake Rutt shot high past Curtis’ glove.

The lead stayed the same through the second. The Storm briefly tied things up on a Jake Rutt end-to-end rush, capped with a slick wrister that beat Curtis blocker side.

But the Saints went back in front when Bergeron faked a pass to Paradis, slid in to the top of the left circle and fired a laser through traffic, beating Mayo’s short side.

In the third, the Saints added three more, while the Storm managed just one.

St. Dom’s will face xxxxxxx in the Western Class A semifinals Saturday at the Colisee.