Everyone in the Maine girls’ ice hockey community who hasn’t been living under a rock for the last couple of seasons knows who Lewiston sophomore Marisa Zamrock is.

And there’s a pretty good chance you’ve heard the name Emilie Cloutier mentioned once or twice.

Sophie Goulet and Ali and Anna Desjardin wear the same mantle on the side of the Androscoggin River at rival St. Dom’s. Their names dominate the box scores, the first few paragraphs of the write-ups and the few lines of spoken coverage the sport gets each night on the local newscast.

One week after one of the more intense and exciting editions of the boys’ hockey rivalry between the two schools, Wednesday will mark the second playoff meeting between the Blue Devils and Saints in as many years on the girls’ side.

And whichever team can find offense from outside of those players about whom everyone already knows will likely be the team to earn a berth in Saturday’s state final at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

And both teams’ coaches are confident that their squad has that necessary depth.

“You look at what you would call secondary scoring on our teams, they would probably be the top scorers on other teams,” Lewiston coach Ron Dumont said. “I’m certainly confident that they’re going to step up and  potentially put some pucks in the net in that secondary role.”

“Our top players are equal, and they can compete against one another,” St. Dom’s coach Don Boucher conceded. “I think when you go through the top players, when you start matching up head to head, when it gets down to fourth, fifth sixth and seventh players, I think we’re much stronger than they are.”

The opening salvos in this newer but no-less-intense rivalry between the schools ended in a 1-1 deadlock in the opening days of the new season. Lewiston handed St. Dom’s a 4-1 defeat in the second meeting, the day after Christmas. Since then, neither team has done anything short of deserving to play for a berth in the state title game.

“I expect a very tough game that’s typical of cross-town rivals,” Dumont said. “I don’t think it matters which team is where in the standings. You can fiddle with the numbers all you want, it only matters what comes out on the ice.”

For the record, the Saints finished third in the Eastern conference, just like last year, with an 8-7-3 record. Lewiston lost twice and tied twice, finishing 14-2-2.

“We like being the underdogs,” Boucher said. “We were the underdogs going in against Leavitt, and I know Lewiston was hoping we’d win, because they’d rather play us than Leavitt. We use that as a motivational tool for the girls. We are going in with nothing to lose.”

The Saints upended second-seeded Leavitt in the semifinal, earning a 1-0 win over the Hornets, who also finished the season 14-2-2. In that game, Nicole Keaney stuffed all comers to earn the shutout.

“She stopped some good chances in that game,” Boucher said. “She’s really come into her own.”

On the other end, the Devils began the season with uncertainty between the pipes. Sarah Turner and Brianna Lajoie held down the fort admirably. It’s been Turner, the junior, who’s seen the bulk of the time down the stretch.

“Fifteen shots, in hockey, sometimes that’s harder than taking 30 every game,” Dumont said. “It can be hard to get into a game that way and stay focused, and Sarah’s done a great job. You don’t know when they’re going to come, then you get five or six in a row. She’s done very well in that situation, and hopefully she continues to do that.”

The one difference between the previous two meetings this season and Wednesday’s tilt is the game’s venue. Like last year, Portland Ice Arena will host the Eastern and Western regional title games.

“We feel that going into a third game, we feel like we have the upper hand,” Boucher said. “We’re playing on neutral ice, in a different city, and the style of play, it’s different because of that.”

The Saints are happy enough to get away from home, too. The Saints played to a 2-4-3 record at the Colisee, while posting a 6-2-1 mark on foreign ice.

“We’ve been a road team, all of our big wins have been on the road,” Boucher said. “We feel very confident.”

The Devils? They’ve been there and done that, dispatching Greely in last year’s title game while allowing a scant four shots on goal all game. Dumont admitted that this year’s foray into the title game won’t likely be met with such a gaudy statistic.

But he’s OK with that.

“We’re not going to do anything different,” Dumont said. “As a team, we sat down and thought about what got us here, and it’s been basically doing the same things we’ve been doing all year. I don’t see any reason to change it. You’ve got to dance with the one who brung ya.”