Lake Forest College Sports Information
February 20, 2009
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Foresters within a Point of Fourth Place after Victory at Concordia Wisconsin
Same two teams will close out regular season tomorrow afternoon


Sam Herron
Alyssa Wintermute
MEQUON, Wis. - The Lake Forest College women's hockey team won 5-1 at Concordia University Wisconsin Friday night (February 20). The Foresters are now 11-12-1 overall and 7-9-1 in Northern Collegiate Hockey Association play. The Falcons fell to 5-16-3 overall and 3-11-3 in league play.

Lake Forest scored three times in the first period. Freshman Mira Trebilcock (South Porcupine, Ontario/Trinity College School) started things off at 9:21 with her eighth goal of the season. Sophomore Sam Herron (Clinton Township, Mich./Victory Honda) assisted Trebilcock before scoring her sixth goal of the year off a pass from classmate Lynn Switaj (Avon Lake, Ohio/Ohio Flames) just 21 seconds later. Freshman Kim Herring (Dover, N.H./Groton School) then converted a power play opporunity at 18:03. Her team-high 12th goal of the season was assisted by sophomore Melissa Kravich (Wilmette, Ill./Gustavus College) and junior Courtney Bean (Peoria, Ill./Team Illinois).

Kravich earend another assist for her team-high 26th point of the year on freshman Jessica Dare's (Whitmore Lake, Mich./Belle Tire) third goal of the season at the 17:18 mark of the second stanza. It was the only score of the period.

Concordia finally got on the scoreboard 62 seconds into the third period. Switaj closed out the scoring at 5:37 with her seventh goal of 2008-09. Bean was credited with another assist.

Lake Forest sophomore goaltender Alyssa Wintermute (Belmont, Ontario/St. Thomas Panthers) stopped 34 of 35 shots on goal in the contest, raising her save percentage on the year to .910.

The same two teams will face each other again at Concordia at 2:00 tomorrow afternoon. A Forester victory and a UW-Eau Claire loss or tie against NCHA regular season champion UW-River Falls would give Lake Forest the #4 seed in next weekend's six-team O'Brien Cup Tournament.

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