LEWISTON — It took Ally Hebert nine seconds to accomplish what had taken nearly an hour for her and the rest of her St. Dom’s teammates to figure out Wednesday: Shoot and follow the rebound.

Nine seconds after Sarah Durgin netted her second of the game to put Leavitt on top by a goal, Hebert rushed up the right side of the ice and followed her original shot on goal with a second attempt at the rebound. She slipped it past Leavitt keeper Brianna Stanley on the short side to draw St. Dom’s even, helping the Saints earn a 3-3 draw with the Hornets at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

“We have to learn how to finish,” St. Dom’s coach Don Boucher said. “A lot of the time, we were the better team out on the ice, but we’re just not finishing. We’re so close, but so far.”

On the other end, the Hornets, who have only two losses on the season against six wins and now a tie, also felt they’d played plenty well to earn the victory Wednesday.

“That was our game,” Leavitt coach Christine Vincent said. “I felt like the girls did a great job shooting on net. We outshot them, and I think we left some rebounds out there on a wide open net that we could have capitalized on and we didn’t. It was a different game if we’d done that one thing differently.”

The Saints (7-3-3) took a 2-1 lead into the third period on a pair of late-second-period goals by McLellan.

“We just started shooting from the blue line in,” McLellan said. “We tried to get them in and follow for the rebounds.”

Leavitt rallied in the third. Durgin netted her first at 6:31 of the final frame after a goalmouth scramble in front of Saints’ keeper Nicole Keaney, and added another at 12:40 on a third rebound attempt at the right post on the heels of a St. Dom’s timeout.

“We were going to call timeout there, to rest our top players, but they beat us to it,” Vincent said. “Worked for us.”

On the bench, the Saints never doubted.

“We knew we had to come right back strong,” McLellan said.

Hebert, her linemate, delivered, following her shot from the right circle and stuffing the puck near side against the post.

“She’s coming into her own right now, she’s driving the net and she’s learning positioning with the puck,” Boucher said. “If she continues to work like she does and (Lydia) Martin and (McLellan) keep progressing, that could be the best line in the state.”