Lake Forest College Sports Information
February 25, 2005
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Foresters Fall at St. Norbert in MWC Championship Tournament
Liebl scores 15 points and Fink pulls down 11 boards in loss

 Kristen Fink pulled down a career-high 11 rebounds .
DE PERE, WI - The Lake Forest College women’s basketball team was defeated 69-49 at St. Norbert College Friday (February 25) night in the semifinals of the 2005 Midwest Conference Championship Tournament. The Foresters, who were the number four seed entering the tourney, finished the season with a 14-10 record. Top-seeded St. Norbert raised its record to 16-8.

Junior guard Devon Liebl (Milwaukee, WI/Milwaukee Pius XI) led the Foresters with 15 points and added five rebounds. Senior guard Kristy Freeman (Palatine, IL/Palatine), the team’s leading scorer on the year, scored nine. Freeman set a single-season school record with 65 three-pointers and entered the week ranked fifth in the nation in field goal percentage from beyond the arc. Senior forward Kristen Fink (Menasha, WI/St. Mary's Central) scored five points in the game, led the team with a career-high 11 rebounds, and chipped in an assist, a steal, and a blocked shot.

Lake Forest shot just 28.3% from the field, 21.1% (4-of-19) from three-point range, and 57.9% (11-of-19) from the free throw line. The Green Knights made 23 of their 45 field goal attempts (51.1%) and shot 41.7% (5-of-12) from beyond the arc and 69.2% (18-of-26) from the foul line. The Foresters out-rebounded the home team 42-35 but committed 22 of the game’s 40 turnovers.

St. Norbert recorded the game’s first 13 points and held the visitors scoreless for the opening six-and-a-half minutes. The home team extended its lead to as many as 24 points twice in the period and led 38-16 at halftime.

The margin reached 25 points early in the second half but Lake Forest chipped away and trailed 51-37 with 11 minutes to play. The visitors would get no closer, however, and fell behind by 20 by game’s end.

In addition to Freeman and Fink, senior forward Alissa Mildebrath (Carol Stream, IL/West Chicago) and senior guard Tiffany Delahanty (Staten Island, NY/Notre Dame Academy) also played their final game on Friday. Fellow seniors and 2004 First Team All-MWC selections Kandyce Green (Chicago, IL/Marian Catholic) and Shannon Clerkin (Barneveld, WI/Barneveld) suffered season-ending injuries in late-December and, along with Freeman, rank among the top 10 scorers in team history.

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