Hamilton College's Nicole Lyons '18 posted a career-high six points and the Continentals picked up their second NESCAC victory with a 14-10 win against the Bates College Bobcats at Bates' Garcelon Field on Saturday afternoon.

Hamilton (4-5, 2-3 NESCAC) was playing its seventh game against a nationally ranked team. The Bobcats (6-4, 1-4) are ranked 24th in this week's Division III Top 25 coaches poll while the Continentals received votes.

Lyons scored three goals and assisted on three others. Darby Philbrick '18 notched three goals and won nine draw controls, and Skyler Simson '20 chipped in three goals and three draws. Philbrick pushed her team leading goal total to 14, with Lyons following close behind with 13. Lyons tops the team with 20 points and seven assists.

Hamilton's Hannah Burrall '19 made 12 saves and TT Fletcher '20 and Jackie Cuddy '18 collected four and three ground balls, respectively. Cuddy added a goal and an assist.

Katie Allard paced Bates with four goals while Caroline Kerrigan contributed two goals and a helper. Camille Belletete won seven draws and was credited with a pair of assists. Eliza Statile stopped nine shots.

The Bobcats never led but they rallied to tie the score at 6-6 late in the first half. The Continentals responded by scoring the last two goals before the break and the first two tallies of the second half to take the lead for good.

Kerrigan's goal with 11:56 left in the first started a streak in which Bates scored three unanswered goals and tied the score at 6-6 with 2:27 left. After a timeout, Cuddy and Honor Gabriel '21 scored 36 seconds apart and gave Hamilton an 8-6 edge with 1:09 remaining. The half ended as Burrall stopped a free-position shot at the buzzer.

Philbrick opened the scoring in the second half with 28:41 left, and Simson deked the goalie for her first of three goals with 26:26 to go on a feed from a streaking Cuddy that made it 10-6. The Bobcats didn't get closer than two goals the rest of the way.

Kara Pooley '19 gave the Continentals their first lead just 48 seconds into the first half, cutting in front of the net and putting a shot back across the body of the moving Bates goalie. Less than a minute later, Philbrick put home her first of the day after controlling a high pass from Lyons and slipping a shot into the top corner.

Bates answered a little more than two minutes later on a play that transpired from a turnover in Hamilton's offensive zone that resulted in a tally by Allard. The Continentals countered with a goal by Lyons at 22:38, and Pooley followed with her second of the day after dodging three defenders and deking the goalie for a 4-1 lead.

Hamilton and the Bobcats traded the next four goals as Lyons and Tessa Ryan '21 scored for the Continentals and pushed their advantage to 6-3 midway through the half.

In the second half Bates' Teal Otley pulled the Bobcats within three at 10-7 on a free-position goal with 25:49 left. Lyons completed her hat trick with 20:50 remaining, and Simson followed with her second of the day 1:25 later. The Bobcats made one last push with three unanswered goals and cut their deficit to 12-10 with 14:13 to go.

In the last nine minutes the Continentals received four tough saves from Burrall. Philbrick notched her third of the day off a feed from Pooley with 10:50 left, and Simson finished the scoring after a pass from Lyons with 3:05 remaining despite Hamilton being down a player due to a yellow card.

The Continentals face Trinity College on Saturday, April 7 at noon on Steuben Field.

-- Release by Julia Booth '19