LEWISTON — Lauren Cote scored the game-winning goal off an assist from Lucia Tremblay with 2:45 left in overtime to lift Lewiston to a 1-0 field hockey win over rival Edward Little at Don Roux Field on Monday.

“I honestly don’t remember, I think it was one of my teammates intercepted one of their passes, and then it got to me,” Cote said of the game-winning goal. “I got a call down there, and I just took it really quick. In situations like that, you just have to move fast, and when I saw a chance, and I took it.”

Overtimes have been common for the Blue Devils, with three of their five contest this season needing extra time. They went two overtimes in their opener, which ended in a 0-0 draw with Brunswick. On Sept. 10 against Hampden Academy, Lewiston pulled out a 1-0 win in the second overtime period.

“I think that we actually do really good under pressure,” Cote said. “It’s our third overtime game, second win, and one just finished as a tie, so I think that we’re actually pretty strong in overtime.”

The Blue Devils graduated 17 players from last year’s team, and coach Jenessa Talarico said they are still working to improve their transition from midfielders to forwards.

“All of our forward lines, you get a lot of younger kids up there,” Talarico said. “They’re working really hard to improve, but this is an area right now where we’re not quite putting it from midfield to forward yet, putting it together. It’s a work in progress for sure.”

Cote’s shot into the goal was only the Blue Devils’ (3-1-1) second shot on goal in the game. Edward Little finished with seven, but neither team managed a shot on goal until 8:40 remained in the third quarter. The only action either goalkeeper saw before that was a called-off goal in the first quarter against Edward Little (3-3) goalkeeper Sophia Gerry on a corner shot.

Talarico said the referees called the goal off because the ball “never came outside of the circle.”

In the fourth quarter, Lewiston goalkeeper Sarah Mack kept the game scoreless when she made back-to-back saves, a dive to the ground and a one-arm reach to stop an Edward Little rebound shot. Mack finished the game with a shutout and seven saves.

“She has been just a huge leader,” Talarico said. “She really didn’t want to be a goalie, and we begged her two years ago. She’s really risen to the challenge, and she’s come up huge for us in multiple games this year.”

Mack said she decided to work on her dive saves before the game, because she had an inkling she would need them against the Red Eddies.

“I decided, OK, let me just start practicing it right before the game, during warmups,” Mack said. “I felt it, it felt good; I was like, ‘I’m probably going to need this today.’ I used it, and somehow, miraculously, it worked.”

Mack said she saved the first shot, then told herself she needed to get up quickly because the ball was being passed across the circle. Once she popped up from the ground, she made the second save.

“All I could hear after that was just everyone in the crowd cheering, my boyfriend from the back (cheering), it felt crazy,” Mack said. “The electricity in the stadium was awesome, it felt so good.”

Edward Little coach Kim Joler said she was proud of the Red Eddies for their endurance in a game where the ball was hardly settled, which meant the players didn’t have many opportunities to catch their breath.

“There are some instances where you do that and some instances where you don’t, and so it’s hard for the girls to understand, ‘OK, do I have a minute to breathe, or do I not?’ And they really didn’t have a minute to breathe,” Joler said.

Joler said the ball was not settled on Lewiston’s overtime goal, which led to some on field confusion for the Eddies.

“On defense, to be perfectly honest, it was constantly throughout the whole game, ‘Settle the ball, settle the ball,’ and the ball wasn’t necessarily settled,” Joler said. “Then they just took it and the refs allowed it. I think that my team was waiting for settle the ball, yeah, then an insert in.”

Mack added that the victory was sweet, especially after last season’s 2-1 loss on Edward Little’s home turf.

“Going into the game, I knew I wanted a big crowd,” Mack said. “I felt like it was going to be a hard game, their streak and their record were pretty even to ours, and last year was a pretty sad loss for us at their home turf. We’re here on our turf, and I really wanted to just show that we’re here, we’re ready to battle and fight and get through this season, so it felt electric.”