LEWISTON — Given the small sample size in its five years as a varsity sport in Maine, girls’ hockey doesn’t have an endless list of candidates for Greatest Game Ever.

Consider the standard set for all future comparisons.

Taylor Landry scored with nine-tenths of a second remaining in double-overtime Monday night, hoisting No. 3 Leavitt/Edward Little to a 3-2 ouster of No. 2 Lewiston at Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

Leavitt/EL (15-4) will face No. 1 Greely, a 5-1 winner over Brunswick in Monday’s other semifinal, in the regional title game Wednesday at Portland Ice Arena.

Game time will be announced Tuesday. It is the first final for the Red Hornets in their third year as a program.

The goal completed a hat trick for Landry. Danica Nadeau’s feed from behind the net put Landry in position to flip the puck past sprawled-out goalie Brianna Lajoie.

“Dani and me were on the bench with about a minute left,” Landry said. “We just said, ‘We’ve got to go all out and throw it all at them. Everything to the net.’ I was skating down and dropped it in the corner, and she went and got it and brought it back.”

Both Lajoie (28 saves) and Leavitt/EL’s Tori Sanford (31) were sensational in overtime.

Sanford made a blind stab to rob Erica Lemieux of an almost certain game-winner midway through the second eight-minute OT.

“I saw it. I had my focusing time before the game and I was just ready for it,” Sanford said.

Corinne Laberge tied it for Lewiston (14-5) with 3:05 remaining in regulation, Erica Lemieux assisting.

It was only the Blue Devils’ second shot on goal of the period against Sanford. The Red Hornets’ defense, notably seniors Shelbea Russell, Sydney Nadeau and Shaylin Collins, worked tirelessly to intercept and ice the puck until Laberge’s breakthrough.

“We only skated three defensemen tonight, and I appreciate that those girls gave every last drop that they had,” Leavitt/EL coach Shon Collins said.

The Red Hornets then basked in a stellar opportunity when Lewiston was whistled for a tripping minor late in the period. But the Devils’ short-handed unit, led by Lemieux, Laberge, Natalie Rousseau, Mikaela Brown and Makaela Field, successfully bottled up Landry and friends for those perilous two minutes.

Lewiston was limited to three shots in the third period. Lajoie made eight saves in that span to keep the Devils alive.

Both teams had agonizing near-misses in the first eight-minute OT.

Lemieux had two good looks at the potential game-winner from immediately in front. One sailed wide. Sanford stuffed the other, and Laberge narrowly misfired on the carom.

“I thought the two overtime periods, we controlled it,” Lewiston coach Ron Dumont said. “It’s just frustrating, because you work so hard.”

Landry’s end-to-end rush appeared to have a date to the finals written all over it, but Lajoie kicked it far out of harm’s way with 52 seconds to go.

Lewiston opened the second extra session with fresh ice after a Zamboni once-over, and more than a minute of power play time. That expired after two Sanford saves.

“You could see at the start of that second overtime when it was down in our end that we didn’t have the energy to defend really,” Collins said. “It was just hold on and hope nothing happens.”

Leavitt/Edward Little never recovered from a sputtering start in a 6-1 loss here in the second half of the rivals’ home-and-home series Jan. 2.

The electrifying Landry cast aside those haunting memories in a hurry, furnishing the Red Hornets a 2-0 lead in the first 7:28 of the game.

Her first goal came in the closing seconds of an early power play, when Landry skated in alone on Lajoie at 4:09.

Landry was left unchallenged again on her second strike, Collins and Abby Roy assisting.

“We got ourselves in deep early,” Dumont said. “I thought we did a great job coming back and persevering.”

Lajoie made a tough save to rob Landry of a natural hat trick late in the period. She also pounced on Danica Nadeau’s attempt to stuff home the rebound.

The Red Hornets kept the damage from an extended stretch of 5-on-3 play in the second period to a relative minimum.

Lewiston got a goal back at the 3:16 mark. Erin Hubbard and Lemieux played keep-away just inside the blue line before Hubbard’s blast found a seam past Sanford.

Leavitt/EL took another penalty for tripping at the end of that exchange, giving the Devils additional time with a two-player advantage. The Red Hornets fought off the remaining 50 seconds of that threat and the second penalty, as well, to protect the lead.

Sanford was sensational in the middle stanza with eight saves, a couple in belly-first fashion with Lewiston players at her doorstep awaiting the rebound.

“She really stepped up big tonight and made a statement to her teammates and hopefully to her opponents,” Collins said of Sanford.

The Devils’ best chance to tie the game before intermission was an offering from Lemieux, who zigzagged through three Red Hornets defenders and launched a wrist shot that nicked the crossbar with 1:45 left.

Two goals were enough to win the first two games in the Twin Cities series this season. Leavitt/EL topped Lewiston 3-1 at home in December.

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