PARIS — The Lewiston High School girls’ lacrosse team needed to rebound after a tough loss, and Oxford Hills just happened to be the team standing in its way.

Kelsey Dumond netted eight goals and the rest of the Blue Devils’ offense exploded for 11 more in a 19-7 win over the Vikings at the Gouin Athletic Complex on Thursday.

“We needed to send a statement to some teams out there that we can be a better team than what we’ve been showing in these past few games,” Lewiston coach Butch Dow said.

“I felt good today. I think everyone did,” Dumond said. “We’re all together, playing well as a team.”

Jess Cote added four more goals to the Lewiston attack, while Laurianne Murphy chipped in with three goals and six assists, helping lead a pass-happy Lewiston attack that befuddled the Vikings’ defenders from the first faceoff.

“We’ve been working on quick passing in practice a lot,” Dumond said. “It confuses the defense, and if we hold the ball too much it lets the defense set up, so we try to work it around and have every girl touch the ball at least once.”

“Their transitions were very consistent, and very successful,” Oxford Hills coach Jaimee Brett said. “Even offensively, they’re sending cutters through, one right after the other, and that put our defense on edge. They had to wake up; they had to move. So I pulled them out of what we were playing and put them on man (defense).”

The damage was already done. The Blue Devils (3-1) popped in seven consecutive goals in a nine-minute stretch of the opening half to take an 8-1 lead.

“Things we worked on in practice, and we worked really hard, we never saw, and they threw different things at us,” Brett said. “We weren’t ready for those kinds of things.”

The teams traded goals the rest of the way in the first half, but that still left the Lewiston advantage at seven at the break.

“Against Brunswick, we weren’t that team,” Dow said. “After we lost, we talked with some of the girls, and we needed to get back to doing what we are good at, whatever that is for each player.”

For Dumond, Thursday was about establishing herself as a consistent scoring threat.

“She was worried about being a ball-hog, and I told her, ‘Don’t worry about it,'” Dow said. “‘If Natalie (Rousseau) isn’t getting the goals for us in any one game, I need you to be that next go-to person.’ She lit it up (Thursday).”

Rousseau, Emily Paione, Mariah Carrier and Bri Wilson also had goals for the Blue Devils on Thursday.

In the second half, faced with a seven-goal deficit, the Vikings started on the right foot with a goal from Joanna Murch — one of her three on the afternoon — to pull within six.

But Oxford Hills’ momentum stopped there.

“We were close at times, and it looked really good, we would get good spurts of momentum, and then little things would happen that would crush that momentum,” Brett said.

Murphy, Wilson, Dumond and Carrier scored in quick succession to push the Lewiston lead to an insurmountable 10 goals.

“Another strong point for us was our defense,” Dow said. “A lot of teams have been able to go in on our goalie and take shots, and Sam (Cote) has had a hard time stopping those. (Thursday), a lot of those were taken from further out, and that’s where her strength is.”

Cote finished with 12 saves Thursday.

“We really needed this to get our spirits up for the rest of the season,” Dumond said. “I think we’re going to be pushing hard the rest of the way.”