Senior guard Sam Husting knocked down four three-pointers and scored a season-high 12 points but Lake Forest was defeated 84-67 Sunday night at Pomona-Pitzer Colleges.
Husting now has 138 three-pointers in his career, the sixth-highest total in team history.
Three other Foresters scored in double figures, led by senior wing Aram Arslanian with 14. Junior guard Sean Espinosa finished with 13 points and sophomore guard Tashon Brown added 11. Freshman wing Reece Taylor led the visitors in rebounds with six.
Lake Forest shot just 40.9 percent from the field while the Sagehens finished at 51.7 percent. The home team also connected on 10 of 22 attempts from three-point range and out-rebounded the Foresters 42-32.
The opening period featured seven lead changes and the score was tied eight times, the last at 39-39 going into the locker room at halftime.
The lead changed hands five more times in the first six minutes of the second half. Lake Forest was ahead 51-49 before Pomona-Pitzer rattled off 15 consecutive points and, after a layup by Espinosa, added nine more in a row to take a 20-point lead. The Foresters eventually closed to within 15 points with a minute-and-a-half to play but got no closer.
Lake Forest is now 4-4 and Pomona-Pitzer 7-2 on the season.
The Foresters will continue their trip to California with a game at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges Monday night at 7:00 (PT).