LEWISTON, Maine -- Bates junior Ariana Dalia led the way with 15 points, 13 rebounds and a career-high six assists as the Bates women's basketball team avenged Saturday's defeat against Colby with a 65-57 win over the Mules Sunday afternoon in Alumni Gym.

Neither Bates (1-1) nor Colby (3-3) currently has any more games officially scheduled.

A day after she led Bates with 21 points in Saturday's 77-70 loss in Waterville, first-year guard Morgan Kennedy (Oklahoma City, Okla.) scored 14 points; twin sister Alyson Kennedy (Oklahoma City) scored two points with four rebounds off the bench. Two more first-year players also made an impression from off the bench in their first home games at Bates: Davina Kabantu (Portland, Maine) scored nine points and added four rebounds, while Delaney Nwachukwu (Avon, Conn.) added three assists and two blocks.

Junior Amaari Williams (Bronx, N.Y.) scored 11 points for the second straight game, adding seven rebounds and two steals. 

Colby was led by a pair of first-year players in the scoring column. Adaobi Nebuwa scored 13 points with five rebounds, and Mycala Carney scored 13 points off the bench, a day after leading the Mules with 21 points. Point guard Carly Christofori paced the Mules with five points, eight rebounds, five assists and three steals, and Alisha Aube added eight points and eight boards.

Bates had the lead for the majority of the game, although there were six lead changes and eight ties. The Bobcats went on a 10-0 run late in the first quarter to build their largest lead of the game at 23-12, on a 3-pointer by Kabantu.

A three-point play by Christofori early in the second quarter helped Colby cut the lead and stay within single digits throughout the second quarter, until a 3-pointer by Bates sophomore Jenna Berens (Durham, Conn.) bumped Bates' edge into double digits briefly, before Aube's jumper before the buzzer made it 36-28 at the half.

Colby held Bates to 10 points in the third quarter, while Nebuwa, Caroline Smith and Carter McGloon combined to score 14 of Colby's 16 points in the period, which ended with the Bobcats holding onto a 46-44 lead.

Carney drained a three with 7:35 to go in the fourth to give Colby its first lead since the first quarter. Sophomore Kayla Bridgeman (Brooklyn, N.Y.) answered with a layup, but a free throw and a layup by Carney gave Colby a 52-50 lead with 5:57 left in the game. 

Out of a Bates timeout, Dalia (Brick, N.J.) personally powered a 6-0 Bobcat run that gave them the lead for good. Dalia drove for a layup and a 52-52 tie, then fed Berens underneath from the high post for two and the lead. After Keagan Dunbar missed two free throws, Dalia rebounded and assisted Morgan Kennedy for a 56-52 Bates lead.

The Bobcats made 7-of-10 free throws over the last four minutes to help ice the victory.