The Forester handball team hosted and competed in the 2011 Illinois Handball Association Contenders Tournament over the weekend. Lake Forest senior Riley Kloss was the event's runner-up.
Kloss entered the weekend as the tournament's #3 seed and recorded victories over Forester sophomore Sandy Ng (15-6, 15-6) and junior Derrick Contreras (7-15, 15-8, 11-3) to reach the semifinals, where he prevailed 21-20, 21-14. He then fell 21-16, 21-13 to Anthony Selestow in the championship match.
Contreras won 15-0, 15-2 in the opening round and 15-6, 15-0 in the round of 16 before falling to Kloss in the quarterfinals. Freshman Colton Laffey also advanced to the quarterfinals after a 15-1, 15-4 round of 16 triumph.
Ng, freshman Pete Jansen, and senior Dan Sterrett posted first-round victories before falling in the round of 16 and moving to the consolation bracket.
Sterrett posted four victories on his way to the consolation title, including a 15-6, 15-11 win over senior Maria Dugas in the semifinals and a 15-5, 15-4 triumph over junior Geoff Douglas in the final. Douglas used a 15-8, 15-8 semifinal victory over Jansen to reach the final. Jansen got to Douglas by defeating Ng 15-6, 12-15, 11-3 in the quarterfinals and Dugas reached the semifinals after defeating sophomore Samantha Zender 15-3, 15-1 in the first round. Ng also defeated a teammate - junior Amalia DeSardi - 15-2, 15-10 before falling to Jansen.
The next tournament on Lake Forest's schedule is the Milwaukee Classic, which will be played December 2-4 at the Wisconsin Athletic Club in West Allis, Wisconsin.
