Lake Forest College Sports Information
April 24, 2007
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Foresters Fall Twice to University of Chicago
Michal, Condon, and Watts homer for Lake Forest 
  

Mallory Norton
LAKE FOREST, Ill. - The Lake Forest College softball team dropped a pair of close games at home to the University of Chicago on Tuesday (April 24), falling 4-3 in the opener and 7-4 in game two. The Foresters fell to 14-14 on the season while the Maroons, who have been ranked as high as 19th in the nation this season, raised their record to 20-8.

Lake Forest fell behind by four runs in game one after surrendering a run in the top of the first inning, another in the third, and two more in the fifth.

Freshman Mallory Norton (Chicago, Ill./Resurrection) doubled with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning and later scored on a two-out single by senior Lisa Jeziorny (Orland Park, Ill./Carl Sandburg), who was one of two Foresters with a pair of base hits in the contest. Sophomore Hannah Michal (Lake Villa, Ill./Grayslake) led off the Lake Forest sixth inning with her fourth home run of the season and freshman Shelby Neill (Manitou Beach, Mich./Lenawee Christian), who was 2-for-3 in the game, singled in classmate Tracy Rainey (Roselle, Ill./Lake Park) later in the inning to pull the home team to within one. The Foresters had runners at second and third in the seventh but were unable to score.

Chicago took the early lead in game two with a pair of runs in the top of the first inning, added one in the fourth, and broke the game open with a grand slam in the sixth.

Lake Forest cut the deficit to 2-1 when freshman Jill Pfund (Morenci, Mich./Morenci) doubled in Norton in the second inning and pulled to within a run again in the fourth on junior Christy Condon’s (Brookfield, Wis./Brookfield East) eighth home run of the year. After falling behind 7-2 in the top of the sixth and final inning (due to darkness), two more Forester runs scored in the bottom of the frame on senior Erin Watts’ (Evergreen Park, Ill./Evergreen Park) first round-tripper of the season.

Norton finished game two with three base hits, including her team-high 13th double of the season. She is now just two shy of the school record of 15 set in 2004. The team is also just five two-baggers shy of the school record of 62 set in 2003 and tied in 2005.

The Foresters will complete the regular season this weekend (April 28-29) with doubleheaders at Grinnell College on Saturday and at Knox College on Sunday. Both days’ competition will begin at 1:00 p.m.

Box Scores: Game 1 | Game 2