LEWISTON — The last time Lewiston and St. Dom’s met in a meaningful girls’ hockey game, Marisa Zamrock celebrated. The Blue Devils, with Zamrock as a focal point, got by St. Dom’s on their way to a second consecutive appearance in the girls’ ice hockey state final.
Thursday, Zamrock celebrated again. This time, she wore black and white.
The speedy forward notched the only two goals of the first period, added a goal and an assist in the second, leading the Saints to an 8-0 win over Lewiston in the third game of a rare quintuple-header featuring both schools’ middle school, JV, girls, alumni and varsity teams.
“It was great to go out there and get that extra ‘W,'” Zanmrock said. “It helps boost our record.”
Zamrock, who helped lead the Devils to the 2009 girls’ state title over Biddeford and into last year’s finals loss to Cheverus, transferred from Lewiston to St. Dom’s this season. Playing alongside fellow transfer Lauren Ratsep (Hebron) and St. Dom’s holdovers Sophie Goulet and Kayla McClellan, Zamrock was again a focal point of a deep and talented offense.
“It was a little weird, but I like my new team, and it felt really good out there and we played well,” Zamrock said.
But Zamrock wasn’t the only Saints skater piling on the points Thursday. McClellan added a pair of goals and helped on another, and Goulet added a pair and an assist to the cause.
In the moral victory category, the Blue Devils avoided being shut out when Sara Marden escaped behind the St. Dom’s defense on a feed from Shelby Roux and roofed a forehand deke over Saints’ keeper Nicole Keaney (13 saves) with six seconds remaining in the game.
“We have to take the positives as they come in everything,” Dumont said. “The whole game plan was, we needed to compete hard, and keep competing the whole game and see how it works out.”
The Saints got things rolling early. Zamrock snuck the puck through Lewiston starter Sarah Turner just 4:10 into the contest. She added her second at 9:49, collecting her own rebound on a solid pad save by Turner and backhanding into the yawning cage.
“Right off the start, they came out hard and so did we,” Zamrock said. “It was great to get that first one, to get the momentum.”
“Early on, there was a couple of chances,” Dumont said. “I told the girls, something small like that can change a game, if we can get one. But it’s not like we were playing in our own end the whole time and never got a shot.”
The Saints opened it up in the second. Sophie Goulet made it 3-0 early, and then Zamrock and McClellan scored 27 seconds apart later in the frame to tale command of the contest.
“It’s all about teamwork,” Zamrock said. “We practice that every day in practice, and it really pays off.”
Goulet netted her second of the period with 1:10 to play in the middle frame.
McClellan and Ratsep each scored early in the third to put the game away for the unbeaten Saints.
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