Lake Forest College Sports Information
January 27, 2009
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Slow Start Dooms Foresters against Visiting Illinois College
Lisa Nassin finishes with 27 points, nine rebounds, and five assists

Lisa Nassin
Susan Hedrick
LAKE FOREST, Ill. - The Lake Forest College women's basketball team was defeated 84-74 at home by Illinois College on Tuesday (January 27). The Foresters fell to 8-8 overall this season and 5-4 in Midwest Conference play. The Lady Blues raised their overall record to 9-7 and league mark to 4-5.

Junior center Lisa Nassin (Evergreen Park, Ill./Evergreen Park) led all players in the game with 27 points and nine rebounds. She also paced her team with a career-high five assists. Nassin knocked down nine of 10 free throws and shot 9-for-14 from the field in the game, raising her field goal percentage on the year to .588. Senior guard Susan Hedrick (Geneva, Ill./Geneva) and junior forward Claire Schmidt (Kankakee, Ill./Bishop McNamara) scored 15 points apiece and sophomore guard Emily Weber (Cincinnati, Ohio/Seven Hills School) finished with seven. Hedrick connected on three of six attempts from three-point range, Schmidt was 6-for-11 from the field, and Weber added a career-high six rebounds.

The Foresters shot 32.1 percent from the field in the first half, 58.8 percent in the second, and 46.8 for the game. The home team was also 4-for-14 from beyond the arc and 12-for-14 from the foul line. The Lady Blues connected on 46.6 percent of the field goal attempts, nine of 18 three-pointers, and 21 of 31 free throws. Lake Forest out-rebounded the visitors 39-34 but committed 21 turnovers to Illinois College's 13.

The Lady Blues scored the contest's first six points and led by at least four the rest of the game. Ten straight Lady Blue points late in the first half gave the visitors a 31-17 lead before the Foresters closed out the period with seven opoints in a row.

Lake Forest trimmed the margin to five points early in the second half but would get no closer. A 13-2 Illinois College run over the next two minutes extended the lead to 16 points and it reached as many as 19 a few minutes later. The Foresters chipped away at the deficit and trailed by just seven with 1:06 remaining but the Lady Blues made six of eight free throws in the final 64 seconds to clinch the victory.

The Foresters will travel to Grinnell College on Saturday (January 31) for a 1:00 p.m. tip-off. Live video webcasts of all league contests are available at www.midwestconference.tv.

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