The Forester men's lacrosse team traveled to Benedictine University Wednesday night and came away with a 17-7 victory.

Sophomore Brendan Herbert accounted for five of the visitors' goals, including the first just 50 seconds into the contest. He scored at least once in each period and also had an assist, giving him a team-high 21 goals and 28 points on the season.

Just below Herbert on the scoring list is freshman Macklin Thomas, who scored the first of his three goals at the midpoint of the first quarter and now has 19 tallies and 26 points on the year.

Juniors Chas Dean and Trip Gaston also scored in the opening period, which ended with Lake Forest ahead 4-1. After Benedictine made it a 4-2 game less than 30 seconds into the second, scores from Forester sophomore Brant Schuckman and Herbert gave the visitors a 6-2 advantage at halftime.

Herbert scored twice in the third but so did the Eagles. Freshman Carson Pagel's goal with 29 seconds left in the quarter put Lake Forest on top 9-4 going into the fourth.

After the home team closed back to within four just 19 seconds into the final stanza, the Foresters erupted for seven in a row, including two by Thomas to begin the run and back-to-back goals by Pagel to make the score 16-5. Herbert also contributed to the streak, as did sophomore Ryan Dousevicz and freshman Tyler Dearmin.

Two more goals for the Eagles were followed by one from Forester junior Connor Tartaglione in the closing seconds.

Lake Forest junior goalie Andrew Widlar made four saves and earned the victory.

Led by junior Conor Murphy's eight and six from graduate student Gordon Kiesgen IV, the Foresters had a commanding 42-23 edge in ground balls. Murphy also caused a pair of turnovers while junior Jack Gillard led the team in that category with three.

The visitors won 17 of 26 face-offs, including six in seven tries by sophomore John O'Reilly.

Lake Forest improved to 7-1 while Benedictine fell to 1-5 on the season.

The Foresters will host Colorado College Saturday afternoon at 1:00.