Sara Robert of Lewiston brings the puck up the ice during Saturday’s game against Saint Dominic in Auburn on Saturday. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)

AUBURN — Lewiston’s shooters kept firing away at St. Dominic Academy goalie Madyson Boulet, and eventually those shots started going in at an increasingly faster rate.

The Blue Devils turned a close game one-sided result with a three-goal outburst in the final five-plus minutes of the second period, and pulled away for a 7-1 victory over the rival Saints in a girls’ hockey clash at Norway Savings Bank Arena on Saturday night.

Undefeated Lewiston (8-0) looked like it might pull away early after first-period goals by Gemma Landry and Sara Robert, but Saints (3-3) captain Avery Lutrzykowski answered Robert’s goal with one of her own 50 seconds later with only 49.9 ticks left in the opening frame.

“I mean, you never want to make a game — 2-0, you know, is good, but 2-1 I think gives them, the other team, some kind of hope,” Lewiston coach Ron Dumont said. “Well, what I told the girls exactly is by letting that goal up you put a crack in the door now, and they see a little bit of light.

“I said, ‘You got to kick the door in now and open it up, or close it up.’ That way you get a little bit of separation. And I think you did see that.”

Lutrzykowski got a couple more good shots off against Lewiston goalie Camree St. Hilaire early in the second with the score still 2-1 in favor of the Blue Devils, but St. Hilaire stood strong.

Boulet faced a barrage in the second, and eventually the pelting took its toll. Landry re-directed a Brie Dube shot into the goal with 5:02 left, then Leah Landry and Katie Lemieux scored 59 seconds apart to make it 5-1.

“I’ll give them credit, we kept working, we finally got a few in and that gave us a little breathing room,” said Dumont, who didn’t think his team played its best game.

“I think we kind of ran out of steam,” St. Dom’s coach Paul Gosselin said. “I think for the first period, period-and-a-half, I thought we stayed pretty close.”

Dube put the game on ice with two goals in the third period. The first came less than two minutes in, on a tough-angle backhand shot that got behind Boulet. She later sent a shot off the stick of a St. Dom’s defender and over Boulet, who finished with 20 saves.

“I thought she had some nice stops,” Gosselin said. “I think some of the goals were, you know, they weren’t her fault. I think, just kind of bad bounces, and some deflections.”

St. Hilaire stopped eight of nine shots for the Blue Devils.

Avery Lutrzykowski, left, of Saint Dominic Academy brings the puck up the ice while being defended by Emma Begin of Lewiston during the second period in Auburn on Saturday. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)

Brie Dube, front, and Leah Landry react after Landry’s second period goal put Lewiston High School up 4-1 over St. Dominic Academy in Auburn on Saturday. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)

Brie Dube of Lewiston charges in on Saint Dominic goalie Madyson Boulet while being pursued by Gisele Ouellette of St. Dom’s during the first period in Auburn on Saturday. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)

Saint Dominic Academy goalie Madyson Boulet keeps her eyes on a puck that went wide during the second period against Lewiston on Saturday. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)