Sophomore handball players Kyra Vidas and Bethany Fyffe won the Women's B and B Consolation brackets at the Milwaukee Classic over the weekend. Several other Foresters were also successful at the event.
Vidas rattled off three consecutive victories, including a 21-12, 8-21, 11-4 decision in the championship match. After falling in the B Singles round of 16. Fyffe also won three straight matches to take the consolation bracket.
Senior Christi Valicenti was the only other Forester to post a victory. She won in the semifinals of the Open Consolation bracket before falling in the final.
On the men's side, sophomore Leo Canales and junior Anthony Collado prevailed in the Open Consolation round of 16 before meeting up in the quarterfinals, where Canales came from behind to edge out Collado 15-21, 21-12, 10-10. He then fell to the eventual bracket champion in the semifinals.
Sophomore Ricardo Palma was one of two Foresters competing in the Men's A division. He dropped the first game in the round of 16 but took the second and the tiebreaker to advance to the quarterfinals, where he repeated that feat to reach the semifinal round. He was then knocked off by the eventual champion. A tiebreaker was also need in both of senior John Snider's matches in the bracket. He won 13-21, 21-13, 11-5 in the round of 16 before falling 21-13, 18-21, 11-7 in the quarterfinals.
Sophomore Jon Vargas posted a 21-3, 21-9 victory in the round of 16 and a 19-21, 21-17, 11-4 triumph in the quarterfinals of the Men's C Division. He then fell to the bracket's eventual champion in the semifinals.
Lake Forest's only doubles team competing at the event was Canales and Collado, who prevailed 21-10, 21-9 in the Open round of 16 before being eliminated by a pair of Forester alumni in the quarterfinals.
The Milwaukee Classic was the final event of 2015 for Lake Forest players, whose next competitions will be the Men's and Women's Invitational Doubles on January 9 and 16, respectively.