The Lake Forest College softball team began its season Saturday night with an indoor doubleheader split with Roosevelt University. The Foresters fell 7-1 in the opener before rollingĀ 9-1 in six innings in game two.
All seven of the Lakers' runs in game one were scored in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Lake Forest answered with a tally in the top of the fifth on a sacrifice fly by sophomore third baseman
Cadence Dempsey. She drove in junior shortstop
Kaylee Purgatorio, who had led off the frame with a walk and advanced on a sacrifice bunt and passed ball.
While the winning team scored in just one inning in the opener, the Foresters plated runs in five of their six turns on offense in game two.
Freshman center fielder
Kaia Mismash scored four runs in the contest, including the game's first on a base hit by junior first baseman
Kelly Collins in the bottom of the first inning.
Collins drove in Mismash with another base hit in the third and eventually scored herself on a single by freshman second baseman
Lia Taglia.
After Roosevelt got on the scoreboard with a run in the top of the fourth, the Foresters answered with two on a home run by Dempsey in their half of the inning, making the score 5-1.
Freshman right fielder
Jolie Devalk was 3-for-3 in her collegiate debut and drove in Taglia in the bottom of the fifth.
A three-run sixth put Lake Forest on top by eight and ended the game an inning early. Dempsey singled in Mismash with the first run of the rally and scored the second on a base hit by freshman first basemanĀ
Makayla Tarasiewicz. The final run came home on an infield single by sophomore pitcher
Kayla Collins.
Collins allowed just an unearned run on five base hits in the contest. She struck out one, walked won, and threw just 80 pitches in the victory.
Saturday night's doubleheader was the third of the season for Roosevelt, which is now 1-5.
The Foresters' next 10 games will be played in Florida during Spring Break March 11-16.
