LEWISTON – St. Dom’s got what it was looking for.

Gorham, meanwhile, got a bit more than they could handle.

Andrew Gwarjanski had two goals and two assists, Casey Parker had two goals and an assist, C.J. Bergeron added a pair of goals and an assist and Simon Hebert added four helpers as the Saints overwhelmed the Rams 8-2 in front of a small crowd on a snowy night at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

“When you can play four lines, having four games in four nights, it really helps,” St. Dom’s coach John Pleau said. “It was a great overall effort from everyone.”

The win is St. Dom’s first in three games this season and comes one day after a tough 4-0 loss to Kennebunk during which the Saints allowed four power-play goals.

Thursday’s affair was much more docile. Officials need ed to call only four penalties on the night, two to each team.

Goal scoring, on the other hand, was much more lopsided, and in the Saints’ favor.

“Some of those were soft goals, no question,” Gorham coach Eric Wales said. “We weren’t ready to play from the beginning.”

Gorham was also playing without seven regulars, all sidelined by injuries.

“All of the second line and part of the first are out with injuries right now,” Wales said. “We can’t use that as an excuse for poor play, but it hurt to have our fourth line playing as our second.”

Gwarjanski started things off quickly for St. Dom’s (1-3), which scored on its first three shots of the game. He fired a breakaway goal past Gorham netminder Donny Gearon at 1:38 of the first period. Parker struck for his first at 1:51, and Bergeron followed with his first at 3:23.

One second after a penalty to the Rams (0-2) expired, Bergeron slid his second past Gearon, and Parker made it 5-0 at 11:10, giving the Saints five goals on only 13 first-period shots.

Things slowed a bit in the second. St. Dom’s killed off a pair of penalties while Gwarjanski and Ben Randall added two more in the goals column to boost the Saints’ lead to 7-0.

“I saw some good things in the second and third periods,” Wales said. “We just have to build from there and move on.”

Gorham got a pair back in the third on two David Gushee goals, but Spencer Teixeira finished things off for St. Dom’s moments later on a feed from Alex Parker.