The Lake Forest College softball team won twice in convincing fashion on Thursday, defeating Skidmore College 14-6 in six innings and Hamline University 8-0 in five.

Forester sophomore center fielder Emmie Nyen, freshman right fielder Jolie Devalk, and freshman catcher Paige Ratliff combined to collect 10 base hits, score eight runs, drive in eight, and account for half of the team's six stolen bases in the game. Nyen was 4-for-5 with two runs scored and two driven in while the other two were each 3-for-4 with three runs and three RBI.

The Foresters scored in every inning, beginning with a four-run first followed by a five-run second. Skidmore plated a run in the second, two in the third and fourth, and one more in the fifth. A pair of tallies in the top of the sixth gave Lake Forest an eight-run lead and a scoreless bottom of the frame ended the contest.

Junior Kelly Collins made her first appearance in the circle for Lake Forest and allowed just one earned run while striking out three in as many innings. Freshman Makayla Tarasiewicz tossed the final three innings and earned her first collegiate victory. Neither pitcher allowed an extra base hit in the contest.

Junior Brooke Challe threw all five innings for the Foresters against Hamline and registered her third career shutout. She allowed just a pair of singles and lowered her earned run average on the season and in her career to 2.44.

Lake Forest took the early lead with two runs in the bottom of the first inning and then finished off the game with six in the fifth.

Freshman center fielder Kaia Mismash led off the first with a bunt single, stole second, and then raced home on another bunt single by sophomore third baseman Cadence Dempsey. The lead doubled two batters later on sophomore catcher Kyla Chevalier's second home run of the young season.

Mismash secured her sixth multi-hit game in seven appearances this year with a two-run single in the fifth. Chevalier also singled in a run later in the frame and, after a double by sophomore left fielder Brooke Swiecke, scored the game-ending run on a wild pitch.

The victories were the third and fourth in a row for the Foresters and raised their record on the season to 6-2. Skidmore fell to 2-5 and Hamilne to 6-4.

Lake Forest will continue its Spring Break to the Orlando area with games against Roger Williams University and Rowan University on Friday.