A victory by Lake Forest College senior Kristofer Korth in Saturday's 200-breaststroke highlighted the Foresters' performance at the A3 Carthage Classic over the weekend. The Lake Forest men placed third and the women fifth in the eight-team field.
Korth finished more than three-and-a-half seconds ahead of the runner-up from Carthage. He also turned in runner-up performances in the 400-IM (4:11.44) and 500-freestyle (4:47.89) on Friday and placed fourth in the 200-IM (1:59.51) earlier on Saturday.
Juniors Orion Huey and Sam Freedberg also posted second-place finishes for the Forester men over the weekend. Huey was the runner-up in the 200-backstroke on Saturday in 1:56.82 and Freedberg's 100-breaststroke time of 59.56 on Friday was actually tied for second. On the women's side, sophomore Lily McCarthy was second in the 500-freestyle on Friday with a time of 5:17.51 and junior Emily Bowens was second to the wall in Saturday's 200-backstroke in 2:07.49.
Bowens added a third-place finish in Friday's 100-backstroke in 59.71 seconds and fellow junior James Haney was third in the 200-butterfly (1:58.95) later in the session. Sophomore Simona Kurta was third in a pair of events on Saturday, completing the 200-IM in 2:16.70 and the 100-butterfly in 1:00.79.
In all, Forester men had 36 top-10 finishes while the women's team had members swim in the A-final 15 times. The Carthage men and women were victorious while both Albion College teams finished second. Lake Forest was easily third on the men's side while the Forester women were behind Illinois Wesleyan University and Alma College.
It was the final meet of the fall semester for the Foresters, whose first competition of the spring semester will be the Illinois-Michigan Quadrangular at Hope College on Saturday, January 16.
