Lake Forest Women Sweep Carroll and Lawrence, Men Split
Victory in final event gives Forester women a pair of wins

Emily Watts

Jenna Sasanfar

David Esturain

Freshman Emily Watts (Danville, Ind./Danville Community) led the Lake Forest women with victories in the 50-meter freestyle (29.40 seconds) and 100-freestyle (1:04.69).

Other first-place finishes for the Forester women were turned in by freshman Jade Perkins (Denver, Colo./JK Mullen) in 1-meter diving (192.30), freshman Claire Perrott (Northfield, Minn./Colegio San Isidro de Heredia) in the 100-meter butterfly, and senior Jenna Sasanfar (Tonka Bay, Minn./Minnetonka) in the 100-meter backstroke (1:15.62).

The team's most inportant victory, however, came in the 200-meter freestyle relay, the final event of the meet. Lake Forest trailed Carroll by five points and Lawrence by three prior to the relay, which was worth seven points to the winner. Watts led off and gave the home team an early lead that was extended by Perrott, Sasanfar, and sophomore Whitney Hales (New Iberia, La./Episcopal School of Acadinda), who touched the wall at 1:59.25, more than seven seconds before second-place Lawrence.

On the men's side sophomore Michael Mackin (Berwyn, Ill./Fenwick) won the 200-meter freestyle in 2:06.23 and was the runner-up by four-tenths of a second in the 100-meter backstroke (1:01.76). Junior Taylor Wright (Williams, Calif./Williams) posted similar results, winning the 50-meter freestyle in 25.57 second and finishing second by less than a second in the 100-meter freestyle (58.57).

It was the final career home meet for Sasanfar and fellow senior David Esturain (Chicago, Ill./St. Patrick) and they were honored before the contest. In addition to her victory in the 100-backstroke and 200-freestyle relay, Sasanfar placed fifth in the 200-meter freestyle (2:28.28). Esturain finished second in the 800-meter freestyle (11:07.72) and third in the 100-meter butterfly. He was also a member of the 200-meter freestyle relay team.

The Foresters will compete in their final dual meet of the season next Saturday (January 31) at Illinois Institute of Technology. The contest will begin at 11:00 a.m. Lake Forest will then take on Carroll and Lawrence again as well as the rest of the Midwest Conference at the MWC Championship Meet February 13-15 at Grinnell College.