Lake Forest College Sports Information
February 13th, 2002
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Lake Forest Upset by Trinity International, 80-75 
Final comeback falls short against the Trojans
  

Jenni Klusman led the Foresters with 15 points on Wednesday.
LAKE FOREST, IL - The Forester women's basketball team had stretches when it played well and some when it did not on Wednesday (February 13th) night, and the result was an 80-75 loss at home to Trinity International University. The non-Midwest Conference loss drops Lake Forest's overall record to 16-6 for the season.

Senior Jenni Klusman (New Berlin, WI/New Berlin West) led the Foresters in scoring with 15 points. The 5'3" point guard made a trio of three-point field goals and added four rebounds, three assists and a steal. Klusman has scored at least ten points in ten games this season, including each of the last three.

Freshman guard Kandyce Green (Chicago Heights, IL/Marian Catholic) scored 14 points and matched her own Forester season-high with five steals. The third starting guard, sophomore Sherry Wagner (Chicago, IL/Mother McAuley), also reached double figures in scoring with 11 points and fell just short of Green with four steals.

Both Lake Forest and Trinity pulled down 44 rebounds. The Foresters recorded 20 steals and forced 28 Trojan turnovers while committing just 19 themselves. Where the visitors held a significant advantage, however, was in field goal percentage where they shot 51.8% and the Foresters connected on exactly one-third of their attempts from the floor.

Both teams made a basket in the first two minutes of the game before 12 straight points by Trinity broke the game open early. The lead reached 14 twice before a 16-2 run by Lake Forest tied the game at 28 with 5:48 to play in the first half. The Trojans retook the lead with 13 straight points and led 47-32 at halftime.

An 11-0 Forester run during a three-minute span early in the second half cut the lead to four (54-50) with 12:28 to go. Trinity extended the margin to 11 and still led by ten (75-65) with 2:47 to play before three Forester free throws and a three-pointer by Wagner in the next 35 seconds cut the lead to just four points. A pair of Klusman free throws made it a three-point game (77-74) with 1:19 left but Lake Forest would get no closer.

The Foresters (16-6, 11-4 MWC) will host Grinnell College (0-18, 0-14) on Saturday (February 16th) afternoon in their final regular season game. The following weekend (February 22-23rd), the two-time defending MWC Champions will travel to Carroll College for this year's Conference Championship Tournament.

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