The Lake Forest College men's basketball team won 78-66 at Carroll University Friday night (February 5). The Foresters have won eight of their last nine games and are now 10-9 overall this season and 8-4 in league play. The Pioneers fell to 11-8 overall and 6-6 in the league.

Four Lake Forest players reached double figures in scoring, led by senior forward Patrick Hanley (Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield) and sophomore post player Travis Clark (Evanston, Ill./Evanston) with 14 apiece. Clark also pulled down 10 rebounds for his league-high 11th double-double of the season. Hanley dished out four assists, leaving him just one shy of the single-season school record of 114 assists set by Danny Nikitas in 1978-79.

Sophomore forward Nate Bateman (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest Academy) and freshman guard Jeff Beck (Algonquin, Ill./Dundee-Crown) were next on the team with 11 points apiece and sophomore guard Chris Roets (Hartland, Wis./Arrowhead) added nine. Senior guard Victor Campbell (Milwaukee, Wis./Wisconsin Lutheran) led the squad with five assists.

The Foresters shot 52.7 percent from the field and connected on 11 of 23 (47.8%) three-pointers. Carroll shot 46.3 percent from the floor and 6-for-13 from beyond the arc. Lake Forest committed 13 turnovers while forcing just five but out-rebounded the home team 40-21.

Carroll led by as many as 11 points in the opening half. The Foresters, however, knocked down seven three-pointers and out-scored the Pioneers 29-12 over the last 10 minutes of the period and led 38-32 at halftime.

Lake Forest opened the second half on a 17-6 run and kept a double-digit lead for the rest of the game. The margin reached a game-high 18 points (67-49) after a Clark layup with 7:09 to play in the contest.

The Foresters will pursue their ninth victory in the last 10 games at St. Norbert College, the nation's ninth-ranked team, at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon. A live video webcasts of the game will be available at pennatlantic.com and live stats will be available on the St. Norbert web site.