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LEWISTON — If it wasn’t his knack for the net doing Falmouth damage, it was Biddeford forward Brady Fleurent’s ability to dish the puck to someone with the ability to do the same.

The sophomore speedster scored one goal and assisted on the other, and classmate Jon Fields stopped all 19 shots he faced to register his second consecutive playoff shutout in just his second start as the Tigers returned to the Western A final with a 3-0 win over Falmouth at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

“We talked about it after the game, we had to stay patient,” Biddeford coach Rich Reissfelder said. “It was nothing-nothing after one, big deal, we had to just keep building on that. We had to keep taking care of things in our zone. I think this was a great example of this coming to fruition.”

Fields, meanwhile, continues to impress since taking over full time starting duties in the Tigers’ 2-0 win over Lewiston earlier this season.

“He’s making the saves we need him to make, and we’re not putting him in the situation where he has to save the game for us,” Reissfelder said. “He’s such a great, solid goaltender on his angles, and just making the first stop is helping us.”

Falmouth, which put one of the three blemishes onto Biddeford’s record with an early-season 2-2 tie, had fallen in its previous meeting with the Tigers, 6-1. Saturday felt more like the first meeting than the most recent.

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“I couldn’t have asked for a better effort out of these guys tonight, they played very well,” Falmouth coach Adam Nicholas said. “We played physical, and we stayed with them. I think they got a couple of rush goals. I don’t think there was anything else we could have done to win. We came out ready, and we were prepared.”

Neither team scored a goal in a tight-checking but very quick first period. Falmouth had two opportunities on the power play, which yielded four shots, but no goals. Fields turned back all seven shots he saw, most of which came from the outside.

Freshman Dane Pauls was solid at the other end for the Yachtsmen, though his defenders did well to keep the Tigers’ threat to the outside.

Fleurent threaded a perfect pass to Tyler Audie 26 seconds into the second period, and Audie finished with the game-winner at the right post. Fleurent netted his own mucking around in front of the cage at 6:22 of the third, and Tyson Nadeau added a short-handed empty-netter in the game’s waning minutes to seal the victory for the Tigers.

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