ORONO — Sam Dexter raced over to fellow Messalonskee High senior Nate DelGiudice and leaped into his arms, the final horn already reverberating inside Alfond Arena.

Chase Cunningham followed. Then James Varney and the rest of the Eagles.

Coach Mike Latendresse ran onto the ice to join the celebration, raising his right index finger to a throng of supporters.

The Eagles were regional champs.

Dexter scored two goals and DelGiudice stopped 35 shots to lead Messalonskee past top-seeded Brewer 5-2 in the Eastern Class B championship game Tuesday night at the University of Maine.

“All season long we have worked for this moment,” Latendresse said. “We accomplished it. We made it.”

Added Dexter: “It’s unbelievable. It’s all I can say. It’s an incredible feeling and I’ll never forget it.”

Second-seeded Messalonskee (18-3) will play York (12-5-2) or Greely (13-4-2) in the Class B state final at noon Saturday at the Colisee in Lewiston.

“It just feels so unbelievable,” DelGiudice said. “It was just a great game all around.”

Messalonskee led 1-0 after the first period and 4-1 after two before settling into a defensive style in the third to win its first regional championship. The Eagles played in Eastern Class A last season.

Corey Foye, Travis St. Pierre and Cunningham also scored for Messalonskee, which lost three games to Brewer earlier this season. “We left with a bad taste in our mouths after every time we played them this year,” Dexter said.

Spencer Valley and Joe Fowler scored for Brewer (18-2), the two-time defending champion.

“It was a very good game,” Brewer Coach David Shedd said. “They deserved to win. They played well. It was a really good game.”

Messalonskee led 1-0 before Dexter and the Eagles pulled away for good with a flurry of goals in the second.

Dexter scored both his goals in the second, the first coming 2:30 into the period on a shot from the right side.

“I just let it fly,” he said. “We just tried to shoot it on net as much as possible.”

He made it 3-0 with 4:06 left in the period.

ST. DOMINIC 1, LEWISTON 0: Kyle Holtet scored in the second period as the third-ranked Saints (15-6) took down the top-seeded Blue Devils (14-5-1) in the Eastern Class A final at Lewiston.