Lake Forest College Sports Information
December 3, 2006
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Foresters Win at Beloit, Fall at Lawrence to Open MWC Play
Andrea Durante scores a team-high 30 points on the weekend

Andrea Durante
APPLETON, Wis. - The Lake Forest College women’s basketball team split a pair of Midwest Conference road games over the weekend (December 2-3). The Foresters won 83-70 at Beloit College Saturday afternoon and fell 54-50 at Lawrence University on Sunday. Lake Forest, which entered the weekend ranked 18th in the nation by D3hoops.com, is now 5-1 overall this season, Beloit fell to 2-2, and Lawrence raised its record to 4-2. It was the first weekend of league play.

Senior guard/forward Andrea Durante (Bloomingdale, Ill./Lake Park) led all scorers with 19 points at Beloit. She shot 7-for-14 from the field and made two of three attempts from three-point range. Junior center Nicole Baich (Westchester, Ill./Nazareth Academy) had 14 points and a team-high nine rebounds and freshman guard Tracy Rainey (Roselle, Ill./Lake Park) scored 11 points and added six boards. Sophomore forward Ashley Cretacci (Mundelein, Ill./Mundelein) also reached double figures with 10 points and she tied senior guard Lizzy Bauer (Madison, Wis./Madison West) with a team-high four steals. Bauer also scored eight points and matched a career-high with seven assists.

The Foresters shot just 40.3 percent from the floor while Beloit made 52.2 percent of its field goal attempts. The visitors out-rebounded the Buccaneers 41-32 and committed 12 turnovers while forcing 21.

Lake Forest led throughout the first half and by as many as 11 in the period, which ended with the visitors ahead 37-36. Beloit tied the score early in the second half but never led. The Foresters’ lead reached 13 points numerous times and hit 14 just before the end of the game.

Freshman forward Claire Schmidt (Kankakee, Ill./Bishop McNamara) led Lake Forest with 14 points on Sunday. Durante was the only other Forester in double figures with 11. They were joined by Baich with a team-high six rebounds.

Lawrence shot 38.9 percent from the field to the Foresters 31.8. Both teams knocked down just one three-pointer and the home team held a slight 44-42 edge in rebounds. The Vikings had 16 turnovers while Lake Forest committed 25.

The Foresters led by as many as seven points at various points of the first half and 28-27 at intermission. The visitors regained their seven-point edge five times in the final 20 minutes but were outscored 14-3 over the game’s final 4:54.

Lake Forest’s next games will be played at the Hoop-N-Surf Tournament in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Foresters will take on Virginia Wesleyan University on Sunday, December 17, and Christopher Newport University the following day. Both games will begin at noon local time.

Lake Forest - Beloit Box Score
Lake Forest - Lawrence Box Score