LEWISTON — An ugly goal never looked so good as when viewed through championship-tinted glasses.

Forty-three seconds into overtime, York speedster Anthony Figlioli raced into the Brewer zone, beat everyone to the puck behind the cage and battled through a check, forcing a pass toward the low slot.

It never made it.

Instead, the puck caught Brewer keeper Adam Cossette’s right skate as the junior watched the play behind the cage and banked into the cage between his pads, securing for York an improbable 4-3 overtime victory over Brewer in the Class B state championship game at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee on Saturday.

“As long as it goes in, it doesn’t have to be pretty,” Figlioli said.

And while Figlioli played the hero in the extra session, the only reason the game got there to begin with wore much bigger pads and patrolled the blue paint in front of the York cage. Alex Ahrikenchikh, the Wildcats’ senior goalkeeper, turned back 16 of the 17 shots he faced in the third period, and 32 of 35 overall.

And none was bigger than a blocker save on an Evan Nadeau breakaway with less than eight minutes remaining in regulation and the Witches on top by a goal. Less than a minute earlier, Nadeau had scored on a similar breakaway.

“He came in (on the first chance) and beat me pretty quick,” Ahrikenchikh said. “I didn’t have a chance on that one. The next time he came down, I just kind of guessed where he was going to go, and I got my blocker on it.”

Brewer, unbeaten at 19-0-1 entering the contest and considered by many to be a favorite, was looking for a second consecutive Class B title. The Witches upended York in the championship game by a 3-1 count a year ago.

“I think if the two teams played again, it could be the same again,” Brewer coach David Shedd said. “We went with the two-line concept today, I felt confident with it, and for those 11 kids to skate the way they did all game and into overtime, it was a great game … The coach should be very proud, and the kids should be very proud, and revenge is beautiful, and they got back at us. Maybe next year, we can have the same thing.”

“Last year, we played them, and they came out on top,” Ahrikenchikh said. “This year, there was so much hype coming into this game about how good Brewer is. I mean, they’d won 10-0 in the Eastern Maine championship. We just wanted to keep it respectable.”

The goalies stole the show early. Cossette and Ahrikenchikh both came up big for their respective squads, with Cossette four times denying Figlioli, including one big left pad save 21 seconds into the contest, and another in tight on a backhand try with a short-side glove snag.

Ahrikenchikh answered at the other end, taking care of a couple of tipped pucks and one back-door chance by Brewer’s top line at the left post.

York struck first on the scoreboard after a Brewer penalty to Michael Shedd gave the Wildcats the only power play of the opening period. Figlioli finished after a big rebound in front to put his team on top by one.

Brewer replied almost immediately as Kyle Alexander raced up the right side on a feed from Lucas Lamond, made it to the right circle and slipped the puck through Ahrikenchikh’s pads.

“(Cossette) was playing great, and we knew we needed to keep getting pucks on the net,” Figlioli said. “Eventually, the bounces started going out way. We just kept up the effort the whole game.”

In another back-and-forth frame, the teams again traded goals in the second. York took the lead for the second time in the game just 1:36 into the second when Craig Decato crashed through Brewer’s defense and pounced on a rebound sitting fat in front of Cossette.

The Wildcats’ lead lasted a bit longer this time, and lasted through a Brewer power play. But the Witches fought through the tight York defense and evened things at two as Joe Fowler snuck by a pair of defenders with backhand dekes and lifted the puck past Ahrikenchikh short side at the left post.

Brewer took its first lead of the game on Nadeau’s successful breakaway attempt at 8:55 of the third, and Decato notched the equalizer with 3:32 remaining in regulation to force overtime on a good finish of a 2-on-1 with Figlioli.