The Lake Forest College men's lacrosse team hosted and defeated Lawrence University 13-6 Saturday afternoon.

The Foresters were dominant at the dot with senior faceoff specialist Gabe Boston winning all seven of his attempts, classmate John O'Reilly going 9-3, and freshman Jack Keeling adding two victories in four tries. Boston and O'Reilly shared the team lead in ground balls with four apiece.

Sophomore Jackson Derosia scored to give Lake Forest the early lead less than two-and-a-half minutes into the contest and senior Brant Schuckman struck just 42 seconds later to make it a 2-0 game. The Vikings closed back to within one with 9:09 on the clock and neither team scored again in the period.

The Foresters took control early in the second quarter with four unanswered goals in a two-and-a-half-minute span. Senior Brendan Herbert was responsible for two of them and is now just one shy of matching the program record for career goals, which John Casey set last year at 115.

After Lawrence's only goal of the second quarter, freshman Milo Closson netted his second of the period and sophomore Aidan Wigton closed out the first half scoring with 2:22 on the clock.

The Foresters' 8-2 halftime lead grew when Boston won the opening faceoff of the third quarter and scored just six seconds into the period. The visitors scored 90 seconds later but three in a row for Lake Forest made it a 12-3 game. Wigton and fellow sophomore Wells Roney each struck for the second time on the day and classmate Jophn Shannon matcheed Wigton for the team lead with his 11th of the season.

Lake Forest's lead was 12-5 going into the final period and the score did not change until a Viking goal with 3:11 to play. The final score was the first career goal for Forester freshman Alex Berrie with just nine seconds on the clock.

In addition to their advantage on faceoffs, the Foresters picked up 44 ground balls to Lawrence's 28.

Lake Forest senior goalie Jacob Lipson stopped 6 of 11 shots on goal in the first three quarters and freshman Henry Morgan made three saves in the fourth.

The victory evened the Foresters' overall record this season at 3-3 and they are now 2-0 in Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference play. Lawrence, meanwhile, fell to 3-4 overall and o-2 in the league.

Lake Forest will continue conference play against Beloit College next Saturday at 1:00 p.m.