LEWISTON — Shayne Curtis felt the puck tickle his catching glove. He looked around, and raised his arm up just a bit higher, to make sure the officials saw that he’d trapped the puck.

St. Dom’s fans cheered the confident gesture. Lewiston’s grimaced in disbelief. It was a microcasm of the afternoon.

Curtis, who played in nine of the Saints’ 18 regular-season games and was only a bystander in their playoff win over Edward Little, stuffed 30 Lewiston shots and Alex Parker scored the only goal St. Dom’s needed on the team’s first shot on goal early in the first period to lead the Saints to a 2-0 victory over Lewiston in their Eastern Class A semifinal game at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee on Saturday afternoon.

“It was nerve-wracking at first,” Curtis said. “Lewiston’s a good team, and we knew we had to skate hard. We just had to match it.”

“We have two goalies who, they’re very similar stats-wise,” St. Dom’s coach Steve Ouellette said. “It was a little bit of a hunch (to play Curtis) because I felt last time we played Lewiston, Josh (Charest, the Saints’ other keeper) played a great game, maybe the game of his life, but I felt they might key in on shooting high, and I felt Shayne, in that capacity, might have an upper hand.”

Curtis rarely had to make a tough save on a shot coming in high. The Devils outshot the Saints 30-11 on the game, but less than a handful of those shots were dangerous.

“St. Dom’s played mistake-free hockey,” Lewiston coach Jamie Belleau said. “That’s probably the best I’ve seen that team play defensively all season, and hats off to them for doing that. They realy limited our chances to shots from the outside. Honestly, I thought we’d see a few more rebounds, and I felt we were there to capitalize on those rebounds, but they just weren’t there.”

Faced with a 2-0 deficit in the third period, the Devils threw everything at St. Dom’s. Lewiston didn’t allow a single shot on net in the final frame, while sending 10 toward Curtis. One, a Ryan Lemelin offering from the rigt side with less than a minute to play, danced along the goal line before a defender swatted it out of harm’s way.

“I’ll have to thank the defenseman who did that,” Curtis said. “I don’t know how that didn’t go in.”

Lewiston also missed on five power-play chances, including a 6-on-4 with the goalie pulled in the waning minutes of the game.

Parker converted a Lewiston defensive turnover into a goal on his team’s first shot on net in the opening frame. He swiped the puck at the left half wall, slipped to the left hash marks and roofed the puck over goalie Cam Poussard’s glove just underneath the crossbar to put the Saints on top, 1-0.

“It felt like Christmas,” Parker said. “I was just heading into the zone and it came right to me. There was no traffic out front so I was just trying to get a shot on net.”

“Good teams make you pay for turnovers,” Belleau said, who then cracked a smile and shook his head. “It just happened to be my nephew. He’s a good player, and it’s good for him, but not great fr our boys.”

Both teams had solid chances a bit later in the frame, and Poussard and Curtis each made quality pad saves. Lewiston outshot St. Dom’s 12-3 in the period.

The Blue Devils did draw the game’s first power play late in the frame, and the chance spilled over into the second, but they did nothing with it or two subsequent power plays.

It was St. Dom’s that did the damage again in the middle frame on the scoreboard. Spencer Martin collected a rebound in a scrum in front of the net after Cam Brown shook free of Lewiston forward Ben Wigant and fired the puck from the high slot. Martin wheeled to the right side of the cage and beat Poussard to put the Saints on top by two.

“You look at that goal, that was just from hard work,” Ouellette said. “Spencer followed the shot to the net and got a rebound. Against a goalie like Cam Poussard, you have to generate offense and chances like that.”

Lewiston started to press hard in the latter stages of the second, and outshot the Saints 10-0 in the third, but couldn’t solve Curtis.

“You try to think about what we could have done differently,” Belleau said, “but I think the only thing we could have done would be to put the puck in the net. Normally, if a team scores two goals against us, we have a chance to win, and we certainly had a chance today.”

St. Dom’s moves on to the Eastern Class A final, where it will face No. 2 Waterville (13-6-1) in a rematch of last year’s state final. The fourth-ranked Saints (12-8-0) moved this season to Eastern A from the West. That game is Tuesday night, at a time to be determined.