The Forester men's basketball team routed visiting Monmouth
College 80-53 Tuesday night (February 2). It was Lake Forest's
third straight victory and it evened the team's overall record to
9-9 and lifted its Midwest Conference mark to 7-4. The Fighting
Scots fell to 5-13 overall and 4-7 in league play.
Senior guard Victor Campbell (Milwaukee, Wis./Wisconsin Lutheran)
led the Foresters with 16 points. He shot 4-for-7 from three-point
range and added four assists. Sophomore guard Chris Roets
(Hartland, Wis./Arrowhead) and freshman guard Jeff Beck (Algonquin,
Ill./Dundee-Crown) also reached double figures with 12 and 10
points, respectively. All of Roets' points came on 4-for-5 shooting
from three-point range and both players added three assists.
Sophomore post player Travis Clark (Evanston, Ill./Evanston) shot
4-for-6 from the field but, with eight points, failed to reach
double figures for the first time this season. He pulled down a
game-high eight rebounds, despite playing just 18 minutes due to
the lopsided score. Senior forward Patrick Hanley (Plainfield,
Ill./Plainfield) dished out a game-high five assists and is now
just five assists shy of matching the single-season school record
in that category (114).
The Foresters shot 50.8 percent from the field and made a
season-high 12 three-pointers in 23 attempts (52.2%). The home team
held Monmouth to 35.2 percent shooting from the floor and
out-rebounded the visitors 45-24.
Lake Forest broke an early 5-5 tie with a 12-2 run and led for the
rest of the game. A 13-0 run by the home team late in the half
extended the margin to 18 points and, after a basket by both teams,
the Foresters led 45-27 at halftime.
A 15-4 Lake Forest run to open the second half put the game out of
reach. The lead reached as many as 34 points late in the
contest.
The Foresters have outscored their last two opponents by a combined
60 points, the program's highest scoring margin in a two-game span
since Lake Forest won by 62 and nine in back-to-back games in
February of 1977.
Lake Forest will travel to Carroll University Friday night
(February 5) at 7:30 and play at St. Norbert College, the nation's
ninth-ranked team, at 4:00 the following afternoon. Live video
webcasts of both games will be available at
pennatlantic.com and live stats will be
available on the
Carroll
and St.
Norbert web sites during the
games.