LEWISTON, Maine -- Keeley Duran scored on a penalty corner in the third quarter to break a scoreless tie, and Hamilton College defeated the No. 20 nationally ranked Bates College field hockey team on Saturday in the NESCAC opener for both teams.

Hamilton (2-0, 1-0 NESCAC) scored the game's only goal on its first penalty corner of the game, less than two minutes into the third quarter. Lexi Takashima inserted the ball from the right side to Hannah Dillon in the middle. Dillon sent a skip pass to Duran on the left wing, who took the ball and immediately curled around a Bates defender before sending a backhanded shot that bounced past players from both teams before settling inside the right post of the Bates cage.

The host Bobcats (1-1, 0-1 NESCAC) had the advantage in shots (12-8), shots on goal (5-4) and penalty corners (7-3) but couldn't find the back of the net behind Hamilton goalkeeper Maggie Reville, who notched five saves in the shutout.

Bates junior goalie Grace Biddle (State College, Pa.) made a heroic, diving save during the second quarter to rob Emma Liebegott of a goal on an open shot at the net at the tail end of a Continentals' 2-on-1 breakaway. Takashima also hit the left post on Hamilton's only shot attempt of the first quarter. Biddle finished the game with three saves.

Reville made a pair of saves in the first quarter on shots by senior Emily Gianunzio (Darien, Conn.) and sophomore Paige Cote (Auburn, Maine), then made one save in each succeeding quarter for the shutout. Gianunzio was stopped two times from close range and Reville made saves against Cote, junior Kami Lambert (Augusta, Maine), and first-year Anna Lindeis (New Canaan, Conn.) as well.

This is the third straight year the road team has won between Bates and Hamilton, and their ninth straight meeting decided by one goal. 

The Bobcats will next play at rival and seventh-ranked Bowdoin Tuesday at 7pm.