LEWISTON — Brandon Tiner is getting used to playing hockey again, and Lewiston is quite happy to have him back in the lineup.

With overtime looming after the Blue Devils blew a two-goal, third period lead, Tiner pinched in from the right point, gathered the puck and fired it toward the cage. Lewiston captain Desmond Gagne and three Biddeford players converged on the top of the crease, the puck hit something — or someone — and bounded into the cage behind a stunned Jon Fields with four ticks remaining in regulation, lifting Lewiston to a 3-2 victory over Biddeford at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee on Monday.

“Stefan Vallee got it in deep, it whipped around the boards and I saw it coming,” said Tiner, who also scored in his first game back against Brunswick over the weekend. “I saw I had some time, I skated up a little bit and threw it at net.”

Gagne, who had a hand in the first two Lewiston goals of the night, was in the neighborhood again on the final sequence, causing problems in front of Fields — again.

“I saw the puck go around the boards and I saw Tiner pick it up, so I just went to the front of the net,” Gagne said. “I fell, saw the puck and when I looked up, it was in the back of the net.”

The win is the fourth in a row for Lewiston after a 1-3 start to the season, while the loss is Biddeford’s fourth in as many games, a string that included a setback to St. Dom’s.

“One game at a time,” Lewiston coach Jamie Belleau continued to emphasize. “That’s all we can do right now.”

“They do a good job blocking shots, taking away shooting lanes,” Biddeford coach Rich Reissfelder said. “They did a good job blocking shots, but we have to do a better job getting to the net.”

That Lewiston needed Tiner’s heroics in the final seconds was a testament to Fields, and to Biddeford’s tenacity. The Tigers began the final frame in a 2-0 hole, and started to claw out of it just shy of the midway point when Stephen Comar banked the puck in off Lewiston keeper Brian Wigant’s skate from a tough angle.

An opportunity on the power play in the final two minutes afforded Biddeford its second goal. This time, Tyson Nadeau did the banking, bouncing the puck into the net off Wigant’s right shoulder from the left faceoff dot to knot the game at 2-2.

“Coming back, on the road in Lewiston after being down by two, I thought that was great,” Reissfelder said. “It’s really a choice, how we react to this. We can feel sorry for ourselves, or we can look at the fact that we got a power play goal, which we hadn’t done in a while, and we were able to battle back after falling behind.”

Despite one of its best periods of the season, Lewiston came out of the first period knotted at zero.

“To come out and play the first period like that, that was big,” Belleau said. “We took care of the puck, we got the puck in deep and we forechecked really well. Our neutral-zone coverage, we did a good job, and our forwards were backchecking well. If I have to take a period to use as an example of what we should do, that’s a good one.”

Eleven seconds was all it took for Lewiston to finally cash in on a pair of chances in the middle frame.

After dominating play for most of the first two periods — in puck possession, in physicality and in scoring chances — the Blue Devils struck quickly for a pair in the final five minutes of the second period.

On its second power play of the night, Lewiston cashed in on a set play. The puck slid up the dasher to Kyle Lemelin, who wheeled toward the slot and fired a slap shot through traffic. Gagne’s first whack at the rebound hit Fields’ pad, but the second rebound popped out to the left side of the cage, where Devon Beland slammed it home for a 1-0 advantage.

Gagne got his own moments later. Off the ensuing center ice draw, the Devils won the puck back to the blue line. There, the defenders played pass and then Brett Vallee caught Gagne in stride up the right side. Gagne flew into the right circle and roofed a wrister over Fields’ left shoulder, just under the crossbar, for a second goal.

“Their defender stepped up on Jake Bergeron and the puck jumped by,” Gagne said. “It was a 2-on-1, and the ‘D’ gave me all the room I wanted so I just shot the puck.”