HILO, Hawai`i—It was good to be back on the Big Island for Notre Dame de Namur's Lindsay Bates.

The former Konawaena High School standout had 14 points, eight rebounds and six assists as her Argonauts won their fourth straight with a 59-46 women's basketball win over Hawai`i Hilo on Tuesday night at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium.

The Argonauts outscored the Vulcans 38-25 in the second half to improve to 8-16 overall and to 7-13 in the Pacific West Conference. The Vulcans dropped to 8-17 on the year and to 5-16 in conference play.

Bates, a 5-2 guard, was just two points shy of her season high in her return to the Big Island. She had nine of her points in the second half, when the Argonauts pulled away from the Vulcans.

It was a low-scoring first half, where the Vulcans stayed alive with long-range shooting from Sara Shimizu and Alyssa Movchan. Shimizu drilled three treys and had 11 points in the first half and Movchan had a pair. The Argonauts went into the locker room leading 23-21, with UHH getting 15 of their 21 points from behind the arch.

The plan didn't work for the Vulcans after the break. They were 0-for-10 in the second half from long range. They fell behind by eight points at the end of the third quarter, thanks in part to a 11-0 run from NDNU that proved to be the difference maker in the game.

The Vulcans could get no closer than eight points in the fourth quarter. The Argos kept the ball out of the hands of leading scorer Allie Navarette, who didn't get her first field goal until 2:35 left in the game. She still finished with another double-double with 12 points and 13 rebounds, hitting 6-of-6 from the free throw line.

Jordan Rodriguez joined Bates in double figures with 12 points for NDNU. Shimizu finished with 13 points for UH Hilo, but the Vulcans shot just 28 percent from the field against a Argo defense that ranks second in the PacWest.

The Vulcans will wrap up the 2018-19 season Saturday night versus island rival Chaminade. It will be Senior Night, with festivities to honor Patience Taylor, Amber Vaughn and Alyssa Movchan after the game, which begins at the 5 p.m.