LEWISTON — File this one under ‘O,’ for ‘ouch.’

A less-than-stellar night in goal, a lackadaisical attitude to close out the second period and an opponent trying to scratch its way out of the league’s basement were enough to send the all-of-a-sudden reeling Lewiston Maineiacs a not-so-subtle message.

Simon Darveau scored twice and added an assist and Jason Missiaen stopped 28 of the 32 shots he faced to lead cellar-dwelling Baie-Comeau to a 5-4 win over the Maineiacs at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

“It was weird tonight,” Maineiacs’ coach J.F. Houle said. “Their goalie made some big saves, and our goalie didn’t. They scored a goal with point-nine seconds left in a period, we battled back, we were skating and had some good quality chances to score, but we couldn’t get one in … When you score four goals, you should be able to win a game.”

The win for Baie-Comeau was its fourth of the season, and the Drakkar have earned points in three consecutive games for the first time this season (2-0-1).

“For us, it’s a great victory,” Baie-Comeau coach Mario Pouliot said. “It’s tough to play against the Maineiacs. They have a lot of speed, they have a lot of skill and they stretch the play all the time. It’s tough to play against their kind of system. I’m very proud of my players.”

The last time Baie-Comeau was in town, Lewiston won in overtime after tying the game in the final minute of regulation. There was no such magic Tuesday, despite a flurry of opportunities in front of Missiaen.

“We were back on our heels a little bit,” Pouliot said. “I kept telling the guys, they have to stay on their toes, and make sure we keep collapsing into the box.”

Lewiston had taken a 3-2 lead on a pair of quick goals from Jess Tanguy and Pierre-Olivier Morin early in the second, and it appeared that the team would take that advantage into the third.

But, with less than a minute to play in the second frame, the Maineiacs’ defense fell apart. Maxim Lamarche knotted the game up when he beat Lewiston keeper Andrey Makarov five-hole at 19:02, and Lukas Cingel put the Drakkar back on top with less than a second remaining in the frame on a goal that had to be reviewed to make sure the puck crossed the line before time had expired.

“It was a bad turnover that ended up in our net,” Houle said. “We have to be aware of the clock. Maybe that would be a play where you keep the puck in the corner, you don’t try to do anything else. I think it’s more our awareness of the puck.”

The Maineiacs did even things up in the third, and carried the momentum forward after Matthew Bissonnette’s third of the season, but against the flow of the game, Jean-Philippe Caron put the Drakkar back in front with a long slapper from the top of the right circle that sailed past Makarov with 7:10 remaining in regulation.

“We took advantage that their goalie gave a lot for us,” Pouliot said. “I think it’s fair, though. We worked hard, didn’t give too many shots and we are happy about the results.”

The see-saw battle began early.

Baie-Comeau registered the first two goals of the game early in the opening period, as Simon Darveau scored short side on Makarov off the post just 3:10 into the contest, and then added his second of the game 5:38 later when he slipped the puck between defenseman Sam Finn’s legs and went in alone on Makarov, depositing the puck five-hole on the Russian netminder.

The Maineiacs battled back. At the 14:45 mark of the first, Stefan Fournier tapped the puck into the cage behind Missiaen after a Matthew Bissonnette shot hit him in the stomach and fell to the ice in the crease. The power-play goal cut the Baie-Comeau lead in half and gave the home team some momentum.

In the second, after killing off a pair of penalties, Lewiston erased the deficit all together. Jess Tanguy wristed a rebound from Missiaen’s left past the towering goaltender after Stefan Fournier’s shot left Missiaen prone on the ice.

Just 1:08 later, Lewiston grabbed its first lead of the game when Pierre-Olivier Morin finished a 2-on-1 with Etienne Brodeur for his 10th of the campaign.

The loss is Lewiston’s fourth in a row, the longest such streak of the season and just the second time this year the Maineiacs have lost more than two at a time. They return to action Friday when they host league-leading Saint John at 7 p.m.