| Lake Forest College Sports Information
November 7, 2009 Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID Lake Forest Drops Season Finale at Carroll University
WAUKESHA, Wis. - The Forester football team concluded the 2009 season with a 9-3 loss at Carroll University on Saturday (November 7). Lake Forest finished 2-8 overall and 2-7 in Midwest Conference play. The Pioneers posted an overall record of 5-5 and a league mark of 5-4. Forester junior kicker Tim Gruzwalski (Oakland, Mich./Stoney Creek) scored the visitors only points of the game on a 25-yard field goal, his first of the season, midway through the second quarter. Carroll tied the game on a 22-yard field goal late in the third period and scored the game-winning touchdown on a 42-yard pass play with 2 minutes and 10 seconds remaining in the contest. Forester senior wide receiver Dan Carter (Arlington Heights, Ill./St. Viator) was a bright spot for the Lake Forest offense, catching nine passes for 156 yards. His sixth reception of the game gave him the single-season school record in that category and he finished the year with 77 catches. His 999 receiving yards rank second in program history, just three yards shy of the record, and his 11 touchdown grabs match his total from 2006 and 2007 and rank third in team annals. Junior quarterback Geoff Sobey (Mt. Prospect, Ill./Prospect) completed 20 passes for 270 yards in the contest. His season totals for touchdown passes (16), completions (180), and passing yards (1,966) rank second, third, and fourth in team history, respectively. Senior defensive end Jaron Eanes (Cleveland, Ohio/Lake Forest Academy) led the visitors with 10 tackles while senior linebacker Chad Zimborski (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha North) and sophomore safety Luke Butts (Warrensburg, Ill./Warrensburg) were next on the squad with seven stops apiece. Zimborski finished with a team-high 97 stops on the season. Butts was next with 85 tackles and led the squad with four interceptions. Eanes registered 7.5 sacks and 17.0 tackles for loss, the fourth-highest mark in program history. Zimborski and Eanes finished their careers ranked third in school history with 314 tackles and 39.0 tackles for loss, respectively. The Lake Forest defense forced three turnovers in the game. The first was on a fumbled punt return late in the first quarter. The next was the first career interception by freshman defensive back David Adams (Mundelein, Ill./Mundelein) and occurred at the Forester 2-yardline. He returned it to the 28. On the next Carroll possession Eanes sacked the quarterback, who fumbled away the ball to junior linebacker Anthony Garetto (Orland Park, Ill./Marist). Garetto also posted his most successful and consistent punting statistics of the year. He booted the ball 10 times and averaged 39.0 yards per punt with a long of 46. In addition to Carter, Zimborski, and Eanes, the Foresters will lose 11 other seniors - wide receiver Ryan Glowacz (Chicago, Ill./Taft), kicker Noah Dion (Cleveland, Ohio/Shaker Heights), nose guard Rick Storkan (Pebble Beach, Calif./RL Stevenson), linebackers Donovan Baldridge (St. Louis, Mo./Chaminade) and Juan Evereteze (Waltham, Mass./Belmont Hill), and Jeff Waldman (St. Louis, Mo./Clayton), and defensive backs Mike Bratta (Carpentersville, Ill./Barrington), Will Christensen (Park City, Utah/Park City), Hamid Khan (Chicago, Ill./Loyola), Lorenzo Ramirez (Denver, Colo./Kent Denver), and Brian Rategan (Chicago, Ill./St. Patrick) - to graduation in May. "This group of seniors played their hearts out," notes head coach Jim Catanzaro. The 12 defensive seniors played the two best back-to-back games of their careers. When you only give up 12 points defensively in two weeks, you expect to win. Unfortunately, we didn't. In addition, Ryan Glowacz and Dan Carter, beyond their stats, leave the offense a legacy of effort, enthusiasm, and passion for Forester Football. We are losing a group of seniors that served as the heart of our program for four years. As one chapter of Forester Football ends, another begins. It is up to our juniors to build off of this foundation and learn from the trials of those before them. I am hopeful that the learning curve will be sharp."
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