LEWISTON, Maine -- The Bates women's soccer team scored three goals in the second half to pull away from a 1-1 tie and defeat Colby 4-1 Tuesday night on Garcelon Field, in the final game of the season for both teams.

Bates (4-9-2, 2-8 NESCAC) broke out with its most goals in a NESCAC game since 2015 and its largest margin of victory in a NESCAC game since 2005. The Bobcats finish the season in 10th place in the final NESCAC standings, while Colby (4-8-2, 0-8-2) finishes 11th.

Cece Pilgrim scored a pair of goals while Izzy Lussier and Elizabeth Patrick added one goal apiece. Corrigan Rayhill scored Colby's goal.

Bates took a 1-0 lead in the 18th minute of the game. After Colby stymied an initial attack by the Bobcats, junior defender Joanna Cloutier tracked down the ball and served it back into the penalty area from 40 yards away from the goal. Lussier tracked the ball in the air and got her head on it ahead of Colby keeper Emily McMaster and into the net. The goal was Lussier's second this season, and the assist was Cloutier's second.

Colby evened the game in the 35th minute with a great individual play by sophomore forward Rayhill. Rayhill anticipated a Bates defender's pass back to goalkeeper Kat Nuckols and picked it off, then slotted a low shot between Nuckols and the near right post for her first goal of the season.

Twelve minutes into the second half, Patrick scored the eventual game-winning goal, intercepting a pass by a Colby defender on outside the left corner of the penalty area before settling the ball and launching a shot that found the upper left corner of the net, inside the near post and over McMaster's reach. Patrick finished the season with a team-high four goals and 10 points.

Pilgrim added an insurance goal for Bates in the 72nd minute on a direct kick awarded to the Bobcats 20 yards in front of the Colby goal. Pilgrim's shot passed a Colby wall of players and found the right side of the net for a 3-1 Bates lead and Pilgrim's first collegiate goal.

Pilgrim added her second career goal just six minutes later, when a loose ball rolled to her 25 yards in front of the Colby goal, and she chipped the ball over the Colby defense and into the lower far corner of the goal, increasing the lead to 4-1.

Bates had a 22-11 advantage in shots, 10-4 in shots on goal, and 7-3 in corner kicks. McMaster made six saves for Colby, while Bates senior goalie Kat Nuckols made three saves to earn the win in her final college start.