The Lake Forest College men's lacrosse team prevailed 19-11 at Illinois Institute of Technology Wednesday night.

Ten different Foresters scored at least one goal in the contest, including four with three tallies apiece. It was the second hat trick in as many games this season for sophomore Brendan Herbert and freshman Macklin Thomas while junior Trip Gaston turned in the fifth of his career and second against Illinois Tech. Freshman Carson Pagel scored three goals after assisting on three in his collegiate debut.

Junior Chas Dean netted a pair of goals and single tallies came from graduate student Gordon Kiesgen IV, junior Connor Tartaglione, sophomores Ryan Dousevicz and Dylan Alexander,  and freshmen Ryan Keene and Tyler Dearmin.

Herbert also assisted on three goals while Pagel and sophomore Brant Schuckman set up two and four other Foresters chipped in with one apiece.

Lake Forest was dominant on face-offs, winning 28 of 33 overall and all 22 taken by Kiesgen, the most victories in team history. The visitors also had a commanding 44-14 edge in ground balls with Kiesgen recording a program record 13.

Junior goalie Andrew Widlar made seven saves during the game's first three quarters and classmate John Niccoli added two more in the final 15 minutes.

The Foresters took control early, jumping out to a 4-0 lead in the game's first five minutes. They were ahead 7-1 at the end of the first quarter and 10-6 at the half. After surrendering a goal to make the score 10-7 early in the third quarter, Lake Forest rattled off seven straight to take a 10-goal lead by the end of the period.

Lake Forest improved to 2-0 while Illinois Tech fell to 2-2.

The Foresters will play their home opener against Hope College Saturday afternoon at 1:00.