For 20 minutes of the 60-minute “bout,” the Cardinals had the Foresters on the ropes.

And for 10 minutes, the Foresters had the Cardinals reeling.

Game Summary

Unfortunately for SMU, it was during those 10 minutes that the Foresters delivered the knockout blow, scoring three times in the second period and twice more in the third to erase a pair of Cardinal leads and lead Lake Forest to a 5-4 nonconference victory.

“It was one of those games where I thought we played well enough to win, we just didn't get the job done,” said SMU coach Terry Mannor. “For 30 minutes, it was a pretty even game, and for another 20, I thought we had the upper hand and pretty much dominated play.

“It was that other 10 minutes that hurt us – and it was that 10 minutes that decided the game.”

The Cardinals were unstoppable in the game's opening 20 minutes, scoring three times – the first off the stick of Jamie Henneman (Countryside, Ill.) and the next two off the stick of Nicole Olson (New Brighton, Minn.) – to take what appeared to be a commanding 3-0 advantage.

Lake Forest would respond with three unanswered goals of its own to open the second period, before Dy-anna Stewart (Eden Prairie, Minn.) netted her first collegiate hat trick late in the stanza to give SMU a 4-3 lead heading into the game's final 20 minutes.

Over those final 20 minutes, howeI said ver, the Cardinals' high-powered offense was silenced – and the Foresters were just getting warmed up, scoring twice to complete the come-from-behind win.

“It was one of those learning experience-type of games,” said Mannor, whose team will get another shot at the Foresters on Saturday, when the two teams square off in a 2 p.m. nonconference contest. “ I said it all last year, and I said it again after tonight's game – we have to be able to play at our best for 60 minutes if we are going to be successful. We were solid for 50 minutes tonight, and that no-so-solid other 10 came back to haunt us.”