LEWISTON, Maine -- Senior Anna Cote scored a pair of goals, including the game-winner in overtime, to lead the No. 11 nationally ranked Bates field hockey team to a 2-1 win over the University of New England Wednesday night at Campus Ave. Field. 

Cote (New Gloucester, Maine) and the Bobcats (8-3) took advantage of a penalty corner in the 68th minute of action to secure the victory. 

Junior Brooke Moloney-Kolenberg (Winchester, Mass.) delivered the insert to senior captain Amanda Zerbib (Larchmont, N.Y.) on the right side of the shooting area. Zerbib tried to feed the ball to Cote in the middle but iit got deflected back to senior captain Anna Lindeis (New Canaan, Conn.). Lindeis was able to get the ball back to Cote, who battled a pair of Nor'easters for possession. She won that battle and fired a shot into the lower right side of the cage for her sixth goal, and fourth game-winner of the season. 

The Nor'easters (5-7) kept the game close despite Bates controlling the action, as the Bobcats outshot the visitors 19-5. 

The game stood scoreless at halftime before the Bobcats jumped on the board when a penalty corner led to the first goal of the game with 1:37 left in the third quarter.

Sophomore Amy LaBelle (Barrington, R.I.) delivered the insert to Zerbib at the top of the circle. Zerbib fed it to sophomore Haley Dwight (West Newbury, Mass.) and Dwight attempted to get a shot off, only to have it blocked to the right side. Dwight chased after it and a Nor'easter defender tried to poke it away, but luckily for the Bobcats it ended up on the stick of Cote, who beat the goalkeeper at point-blank range for a 1-0 Bates lead. 

It remained 1-0 in favor of the Bobcats until the 55th minute. That's when the Nor'easters took advantage of a penalty corner of their own to tally the equalizer. 

Gianna Korisianos delivered the insert for UNE and after a battle for the ball, she ended up with again, on the right side of the cage. Korisianos' hard cross was redirected by Madi Robito to the left post, where Isabel Culver was waiting. Culver tipped it home and the score stood tied at one with 5:45 remaining in regulation.

Cote was the only player on either side to tally a shot for the rest of the fourth quarter, and the Bobcats dominated the extra session, tallying four shots to none for UNE.

Bates is back in action this Saturday when they host No. 6 Tufts at noon. The winner of that game will be in the driver's seat for the third seed in the upcoming NESCAC tournament.