The Lake Forest College women's lacrosse team came out on top of a 14-10 decision at the University of Northwestern in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Friday. It was the Foresters' first Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference game.
The visitors scored the first four goals of the game and led throughout the contest. Freshman Cass Barbera accounted for two of the early tallies with the others coming from freshman Krissy Kuwahara and sophomore Ryleigh Nelson. Barbera raised her goal total on the season to 14 and Nelson to 11. Kuwahara was far from done scoring on the day.
A goal by Northwestern in the final seconds of the period made the score 4-1 after 15 minutes of play.
Freshman Jenna Doctor and sophomore Ali Graham increased the Forester lead and junior Emma Tryder answered the Eagles second score of the day with her 13th of the year in the second quarter. The home team closed out the period's scoring and trailed the Foresters 7-3 at halftime.
Lake Forest freshman Savannah Frauhiger's 14th goal of 2022 extended her season-opening goal streak to nine games early in the third and two scores from Kuwahara and one by Doctor later in the period helped the Foresters pull away.
With Lake Forest leading 11-5 going into the fourth, Doctor added her team-high 21st goal of the year, Graham her 15th, and Kuwahara her 17th to make the score 14-5. Doctor now has four hat tricks and Kuwahara a pair of four-goal performances in the team's last three games.
Northwestern rallied with five scores in the final six minutes but were unable to erase the entire deficit.
Lake Forest freshman goal Calliope Saban made a dozen saves on the day.
The Foresters improved to 6-3 on the season while Northwestern fell to 3-6 overall and 1-2 in the league.
Lake Forest's game originally scheduled for Sunday at Hamline University has already been postponed so the Foresters will be in action next on Saturday, April 16, when the team travels to Cornell College.