LEWISTON, Maine -- Junior captain Paige Cote contributed to all three goals and the No. 14 nationally ranked Bates field hockey team cruised to a 3-0 win over the University of New England Tuesday afternoon at Campus Ave. Field.

Cote (Auburn, Maine) assisted on a pair of goals and scored one of her own in the win. She leads the team in points with 16 on the season. 

The Bobcats (6-4) got on the board in the 24th minute when they took advantage of a penalty corner. Junior Kami Lambert (Augusta, Maine) delivered the insert directly to Cote on the right side of the shooting circle. She ripped a shot that her younger sister sophomore Anna Cote (Auburn, Maine) deflected in to the top right corner of the cage for her team-leading sixth goal of the season. 

The younger Cote helped set up the next goal for Bates. In the 25th minute, she intercepted a pass by the Nor'easters and got the ball to sophomore Maria Femia (Canton, Mass.), who turned and fired a shot across the cage to the right corner where Paige Cote redirected it in for her fourth goal of the season.

Bates led 2-0 at halftime and added an insurance tally in the third quarter. 

Junior captain Sarah Bussell (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.) got the ball into the circle where Paige Cote directed it to junior Ella Blum (South Salem, N.Y.) and Blum was able to score amidst a crowd around the cage for her fourth goal of the season.

The Bobcats tallied 22 shots, with 14 on goal. They held UNE (5-6) to one shot, with none on goal. Bates earned 10 penalty corners to UNE's one. 

Lindsay Pych made nine saves for the visitors in 45 minutes and Dawn DeWeese-Moss made a pair in the final 15 minutes of action.

The Bobcats visit No. 18 nationally ranked Hamilton this Saturday for a NESCAC contest that gets underway at 11am.