Sydney Cowles scored during a key 3-0 run in the first half in Bates' 10-7 win at Endicott on March 17, 2015. (File photo by Kim Lloyd/Bates College)

BEVERLY, Mass. -- The Bates women's lacrosse team took a 5-1 lead and held off Endicott College the rest of the way for a 10-7 non-conference win on Tuesday afternoon at Endicott Stadium.

Junior Moriah Greenstein (Glenmont, N.Y.) scored four goals and assisted on the game-opening tally by junior Emma Brinkman (Rye, N.Y.), leading the Bobcats (5-3) or sharing the team lead in points for the eighth time in as many games this season. Greenstein ranks first in the NESCAC in points with 38, first in assists (18) and second in goals (20).

Ellie Clayman scored four goals with one assist for the host Gulls (2-2), who were outshot by a slim 22-20 margin by the Bobcats. Maura Grady had seven saves for Endicott.

Junior Kelan McCann (Shrewsbury, Mass.) had a goal and two assists for Bates and Brinkman added a pair of scores. Junior goalie Hannah Jeffrey (Greenwich, Conn.) had 11 saves in net for the Bobcats.

Bates scored three straight goals midway through the first half to seize the 5-1 advantage -- one each by Brinkman, sophomore Sydney Cowles (Wayne, Pa.) and Greenstein. McCann assisted on two of the markers, while sophomore Suzannah Smith (Simsbury, Conn.) set up Cowles'.

Clayman narrowed the lead to 5-2 before halftime with her first tally of the game.

McCann scored unassisted just 15 seconds into the second half to return the four-goal advantage to the Bobcats. But Clayman scored back-to-back goals 33 seconds apart, starting a 4-1 Endicott run that drew Endicott within a goal, at 7-6, with 18:04 to go in regulation. Katie Tierney scored from Kirsten Thor's assist to make it a one-goal game for the first time since 2-1.

Senior Emma Getsinger (Darien, Conn.) controlled the ensuing draw for Bates and drew a foul and a free-position shot, which Grady stopped but couldn't control. First-year Teal Otley (Cumberland, Maine) collected the ball and scored her seventh goal of the season to give Bates more breathing room at 8-6. After Jeffrey saved an 8-meter shot by Endicott's Katie Tierney, the Bobcats cleared the ball and Greenstein tallied for the 19th time this season, unassisted, to make it 9-6.

Bates held Endicott to one goal on three shots over the final 12 minutes, with Clayman scoring on a Siri Mason assist on a free-position attempt for the Gulls. But Greenstein added a final score with nine seconds left in the game, the contest's only power-play goal and its only free-position goal with 11:26 left. 

Bates returns home and to NESCAC play on Saturday at noon against Williams College.