The Forester swimming and diving teams competed at Illinois Institute of Technology on Saturday in a double dual meet that also included Loras College. The Lake Forest men defeated both opponents while the women fell in a pair of close contests. Freshman diver Heath Ogawa earned a school record 444.45 points in the 1-meter competition.
Ogawa broke the program record of 431.25 points set by current sophomore Matt Demirs at last season's Midwest Conference Championships. Demirs finished with 391.45 points in Saturday's 1-meter event. Ogawa's score also qualified him for the NCAA Division III Regional Diving Competition in late February.
Several other Foresters won events on Saturday, including a sweep of the meet-opening 400-medley relay. Sophomores Brigit Dunne, Jessica Cline, and Simona Kurta had the women's team in first place by one-third of a second and junior Emily Bowens pulled away over the final 100 yards. Their time of 4:17.74 was more than three seconds ahead of runner-up Illinois Tech. Juniors Sam Freedberg and Orion Huey and sophomores Jakobi McClellan and David Bunting won the men's race in 3:40.30, two-and-a-half seconds ahead of Illinois Tech.
Lake Forest also swept the next event, the 1000-freestyle. Sophomore Toni Corbani won in 11:14.69 on the women's side and juinor Armel Cazedepats took the men's race in 10:23.58.
The next Forester victory was posted by senior Kristofer Korth in the 200-freestyle where his time of 1:48.67 was more than five seconds faster than runner-up Virgil Thomas, a Lake Forest junior.
The next Forester swimmer to win an event was junior James Haney in the 200-butterfly, where he finished in 2:03.13.
Bowens placed first in the 200-backstroke in 2:14.97 and Bunting made it a Lake Forest sweep in the event with his winning time of 2:01.45.
Corbani and Korth each won for the second time on the day in the 500-freestyle. Corbani finished the race in 5:29.49 and Korth in 4:56.01.
The Foresters ended the meet the same way they began it, by sweeping a relay. Bowens, sophomore Lily McCarthy, Corbani, and Kurta won the women's 400-freestyle relay in 3:50.80 and Huey, Bunting, Cazedepats, and Korth took the men's race in 3:17.89.
The Lake Forest men impvoved to 2-3 on the season while the Forester women fell to 0-5.
The next meet on the 2015-16 schedule is a dual against visiting Ripon College next Saturday at 1:00 p.m.
