Freshman Max Rowland earned 57 points on his own to help lead the Lake Forest College men's swimming and diving team to a victory at the six-team Gene Davis Invitational at Lawrence University on Saturday. The Forester women placed fourth.
Rowland finished first in the 400-IM in 4:29.44 and the 1650-freestyle with a time of 17:18.65. He was also the runner-up in the 500-freestyle in 5:04.27. Rowland lapped the field in the 1650 and won by 43 seconds.
Forester junior diver Heath Ogawa also won a pair of events, taking the 3-meter event with 467.40 points and tallying 456.98 points off the 1-meter board.
Senior David Bunting led Lake Forest's 1-2-3 finish in the 200-IM, touching the wall first with a time of 2:02.95. Freshmen Nathan Ulm and Evan Weller were second and third, respectively, in 2:07.28 and 2:07.97.
Other individual event victories for the Foresters were turned in by junior Frederick Weichmann in the 100-backstroke (57.35 seconds), Ulm in the 100-butterfly (54.44 seconds), and Weller in the 200-butterfly (2:04.09).
The Lake Forest men finished second to Ripon College in all three relays. Additional runner-up finishes were posted by senior Landon Longfield in the 200-freestyle (1:52.73), Weller in the 400-IM (4:33.34), and Weichmann in the 200-backstroke (2:05.78).
Freshman Susan Guo won a pair of events for the Foresters on the women's side. She finished first in the 200-freestyle with a time of 2:03.15 and the 200-butterfly in 2:09.53. Sophomore Rachel Trevillian also prevailed in an individual event, out-touching the runner-up in the 400-IM by .08 seconds and winning in 5:01.67.
Sophomore Ani Karagianis edge out senior Toni Corbani for second place in the 1650-freestyle in 19:27.97 and sophomore Lizzie Johns was the runner-up in both diving events with 386.03 points off the 1-meter board and 345.45 in the 3-meter competition.
Lake Forest was second in the women's 200-medley and 200-freestyle relays and fourth in the 400-freestyle relay.
The Forester men finished the meet with 547 points, 81 more than second-pace University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Carroll University finished first on the women's side with 582 points and were followed by Oshkosh with 543, Lawrence with 506, and Lake Forest with 498.
There will be little time for rest for the Foresters, who will travel to the University of Chicago on Sunday for the final day of the Phoenix Fall Classic. Competition will begin at 10:00 a.m.