The Lake Forest College men's hockey team prevailed 8-5 at Lawrence University Friday night to open the teams' home-and-home weekend series.

The Foresters' scoring output was their highest since opening the 2023-24 season with an 8-0 victory over Saint Mary's University and their highest goal total in a road game since an 8-1 triumph at Lawrence in November of 2018.

Senior forward Philip Quetell turned in the first two-goal game as a Forester and matched his career high with four points. He set up the first two scores of the night, which were both netted by sophomore forward Trevor Faucher. He gave the visitors their first lead of the contest with almost six minutes to play in the opening period and than doubled their lead 10 seconds into the second.

Quetell's first of the night made it a 3-0 game less than four minutes into the second but that advantage was erased by an even-strength score, and short-handed goal, and a power play conversion by the home team in the next eight minutes.

Sophomore forward Jax Schauer's first goal of 2025-26 put Lake Forest back on top with 4:02 to play in the second and the score remained 4-3 for the rest of the period.

The first of four third period goals for the Foresters was also the first in the career of freshman defenseman Will Shephard. It came at the 5:12 mark of the third period and was answered by the Vikings just 20 seconds later. They also tied the score with another power play goal at 11:48.

Slightly more than five minutes passed before Quetell gained control of the puck just shy of the center line, skated along the left boards, and turned the corner on the Lawrence defense. He crossed in front of the goalie and pushed it past him for what proved to be the game-winning goal. 

The Vikings pulled their goaltender twice in the final two minutes and the Foresters made them pay both times. Senior forward Logan Kittleson found the empty net at the 18:09 mark and sophomore forward Max Jaldung scored his first goal as a Forester with 7.7 seconds on the clock.

The scoring barrage made a winner out of freshman goalie Luke Szyszka, who stopped the first 11 shots on goal he faced and made 22 saves in his collegiate debut.

Lake Forest improved to 1-3-1 overall and 1-2-0 in Northern Collegiate Hockey Association play while Lawrence fell to 1-4-0 overall and 0-3-0 in the league.

The same two teams will face off again in Lake Forest's Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse Saturday night at 7:00.