The Lake Forest College volleyball team posted a 25-20, 23-25, 25-19, 25-23 victory at Lawrence University Friday night. Freshman Brittany Avonts and senior Victoria Drasler each contributed to six of the Foresters' 13 blocks in the match.
Avonts pounded out a match-high 14 kills and had a hitting percentage of .400 on the night. She also served up two of the Foresters' three aces. Drasler added six kills, 16 assists, and seven digs.
Junior Sarah House was next on the team with nine kills and sophomore K.C. Wenson had eight to go with five blocks. Junior Torie Pasiewicz led the team with 21 assists and her 15 digs were second on the squad behind sophomore Brianne Honda's 19. Junior Taylor Bradbury also reached double figures with 11 digs.
Lake Forest won the first three points of the match and led throughout set one. The visitors were ahead 12-5 before an 11-5 Lawrence run trimmed the margin to a single point. Leading 21-19, the Foresters scored three points in a row to pull away and Wenson's fifth kill of the set (in five attempts) closed it out.
The Foresters jumped out to a 3-0 lead again in set two, which closely resembled the first set until the Vikings completed the comeback and tied the score at 22. After Lake Forest regained the lead on a service error, the home team rattled off three straight points to tie the match at one set apiece. House led the visitors with four kills and Honda had seven digs in the second set.
Three straight kills by Avonts completed a 5-0 Forester run to begin set three and the visitors quickly extended their lead to eight points at 10-2. Lawrence pulled back to within four points at 10-6 and again later at 21-17 but would get no closer. Avonts had five kills in attempts during the set, which ended on a kill by Wenson.
Lake Forest scored the first point of the fourth set as well but the Vikings won six of the next seven to take a four-point lead. The Foresters came back this time and the score was tied at 9, 10, 13, 17, and 18 before the Foresters went ahead for good on the fifth, sixth, and seventh kills of the set by Avonts. Wenson's third set point kill of the night finished off the match.
The Foresters are now 10-12 overall this season and 4-2 in Midwest Conference play. Lawrence fell to 8-14 overall and 3-3 in the league.
Lake Forest will continue conference play Saturday afternoon at St. Norbert College. The match will begin at 1:00.
