The Forester volleyball team defeated visiting Milwaukee School of Engineering 25-21, 25-22, 25-17 Tuesday night in the first home match of 2023.
The first of sophomore libero
Julia Turskey's career-high six aces on the night tied the opening set at six and the home team took the lead for good moments later. A six-point run with Turskey serving later in the set made the score 21-13 and, after the Raiders trimmed the margin to three, the teams traded points the rest of the way.
The Foresters won the first two points of set two before dropping the next seven. The deficit grew to seven points on three separate occasions, the last at 14-7, before the comeback began. An 11-4 run tied the score at 18 and, with Lake Forest trailing 21-20, the home team won five of the next six points and the set.
A 5-0 Forester run to begin the third set featured four consecutive aces by Turskey. The margin reached eight points several times and finished there when a kill from junior
Riley Stapley finished off the match.
Lake Forest senior
Mary Gegen finished with 10 kills and 10 digs for her third double double in five matches this season. She committed just one attack error in 25 attempts for a .360 hitting percentage on the night.
Fellow senior
Grace Franz was next on the team in kills with seven while Turskey and the team's two setters, junior
Juli Barrientos and sophomore
Lilly Robinson, each tallied nine digs. Robinson's 12 assists gave her one more than Barrientos.
The victory was the fourth in five matches this fall for the Foresters while MSOE fell to 3-5.
Lake Forest will travel to Elmhurst University on Saturday to take on Benedictine University at 12:30 in the afternoon and the home team at 3:00 p.m.
