LEWISTON, Maine—Senior Meara Hanyon (Brodheadsville, Pa.) scored a pair of goals on penalty strokes and seventh-ranked Babson College overcame a 1-0 deficit with three first-half goals in a five-minute span on the way to a 4-2 victory over 15th-ranked Bates College Wednesday evening in non-conference field hockey action at Campus Avenue Field.

With the win, the Beavers improve to 3-1 on the season while Bates suffers its first setback of the season and drops to 3-1.

Sophomore Jessica Evans (Southbury, Conn.) and senior Isabelle Fournier (West Kingston, R.I.) also scored for the Beavers, and first-year Alex Michelotti (Englewood, Colo.) and senior Brianne McGrath (Newmarket, Ontario) registered assists. Sophomore goalkeeper Bayla Furmanek (State College, Pa.) made six saves to record the win in the Beaver goal.

Sophomore Anna Cote (Auburn, Maine) and junior Kami Lambert (Augusta, Maine) scored goals for the Bobcats, and junior Paige Cote (Auburn, Maine) recorded an assist in the setback. Senior Grace Biddle (State College, Pa.) and Kaili Jacobsen (Fairfield, Conn.) combined to make three saves in the Bobcat goal.

The Bobcats broke a scoreless game in the 10th minute when Anna Cote had a partial breakaway and got a shot past Furmanek only to see Babson senior Claire Nichols (Saint Louis, Mo.) make a defensive save in front of the goal. But Cote collected her own rebound and fired into the goal for a 1-0 Bates lead.

Babson started its three-goal barrage on a penalty corner in the 13th minute as Evans redirected a diagonal pass from the left side through traffic to tie the score. Hanyon put home her first penalty stroke inside the right post a little over a minute into the second quarter to five the Beavers a 2-1 lead.

The Green and White made it 3-1 in the 18th minute on another penalty corner when McGrath fired a shot from the right side of the circle and Fournier tipped it in from near the left post.

The Beavers tacked on their fourth goal on Hanyon's second penalty stroke late in the third quarter and she got one through the keeper's pads. Bates got one goal back on a penalty corner with 11 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter when Lambert tipped a shot from the top of the circle by Paige Cote.

Babson had a slim 9-8 advantage in shots on goal while Bates took nine of the game's 14 penalty corners.

Both teams return to action on Saturday at noon as Babson returns home to host Mount Holyoke in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) opener at MacDowell Field and Bates visits No. 8 Williams.

GAME NOTES
• Babson has won three in a row over the Bobcats and is now 11-12 all-time against Bates in a series that dates back to 1987.
• The Beavers have posted 94 consecutive victories when scoring at least three goals going back to 2014.
• The Green and White are 27-4 away from home going back to the start of the 2018 campaign, with three of the losses against Middlebury when the Panthers were ranked either first or second (4-1 in 2021, 2-1 in 2019, 2-1 in 2018) and the other was a 1-0 setback at then-fifth-ranked Tufts in 2019.
• Three of the Green and White's first four games this season have been against nationally-ranked teams, with the Beavers going 2-1 in those three.
• Babson is now 2-1 this season against teams from the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) with three more to follow against No. 1 Middlebury, No. 4 Tufts and Wesleyan.