Co-captain Chelsea Thompson and the Bates women's soccer team played competitively in a 3-1 loss to No. 19 Amherst on Sept. 29, 2013. File photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

LEWISTON, Maine -- No. 19 nationally ranked Amherst College scored a 3-0 victory over the Bates College women's soccer team on Sunday afternoon, rebounding from Saturday's loss at Tufts and handing the host Bobcats their second NESCAC loss of the weekend.

The Lord Jeffs (3-1-2, 2-1-2 NESCAC) got goals by Sarah Duffy and Hannah Cooper in the first half, and tacked on an unassisted tally by Megan Kim in the second half for the win. 

The action on the field may have been closer than the final score would indicate: Amherst outshot Bates (2-5-1, 1-4-1) by a 22-15 margin, including a 6-2 edge in shots on goal. The Lord Jeffs did achieve an 8-1 advantage in corner kicks.

Senior Anabel Schmelz (Monmouth Beach, N.J.) made three saves in goal for Bates; Holly Burwick made two stops for Amherst.

Amherst's Mel Stier set up the first score of the game in the 24th minute, threading a pass down the middle of the field to a cutting Duffy, who beat a defenseless Schmelz with a shot into the upper left corner of Bates' goal, her first score of the season. The goal came less than a minute after Bates first-year Hannah Graves (Weston, Mass.) fired a shot just wide of Amherst's goal from 25 yards out. 

Bates senior Jaimie Cappucci (Saugus, Mass.) put the first shot on goal of the game in the 11th minute. Burwick made the save and Cappucci left the game with an injury suffered on the play.

Hannah Cooper made it 2-0 12 minutes later with her second goal this season, receiving the ball with her back to the goal after a pinball exchange and blasting a shot past Schmelz from the left corner of Bates' penalty area.

Amherst made it 3-0 in the 81st minute, as Megan Kim busted through a seam from 40 yards away, exploding through Bates' defense to set up another one-on-one opportunity against Schmelz, which she converted for her team-high third goal of the year.

The Bobcats play at Connecticut College next Saturday, Oct. 5 at 11am.