The Lake Forest College softball team prevailed 9-3 and 11-8 in eight innings at Carthage College on Wednesday.

The Foresters finished the opener with 16 hits before matching the program record with 23 in game two. Freshman center fielder Kaia Mismash was 8-for-10 and is now the school record-holder with 63 hits on the season. Sophomore third baseman Cadence Dempsey went 6-for-8 while junior shortstop Kaylee Purgatorio and sophomore first baseman Kyla Chevalier were each 5-for-9 on the day.

Mismash accounted for half of Lake Forest's six stolen bases and scored four runs in game one. Chevalier and junior second baseman Kelly Collins each doubled and drove in three in the contest.

The visitors scored twice in each of the first two inning and plated four in the top of the sixth. The Firebirds finally got on the scoreboard with three in the bottom of the sixth and Lake Forest tacked on one more in the seventh.

Forester junior Brooke Challe started in the circle and blanked Carthage for five innings, striking out two and allowing just two base hits. She improved to 5-2 with a 3.50 earned run average on the season.

Collins bunted in one run and another scored on a double by freshman catcher Paige Ratliff in the first inning of game two. Carthage, however, responded with six runs in the bottom of the frame and added one more in the third to make the score 7-2.

The Foresters' comeback began with a two-run home run by junior designated player Cheyenne Pellettiere in the fourth inning. Sophomore right fielder Emmie Nyen hit a sacrifice fly and Collins drove in her fifth run of the day on a single in the sixth, pulling the visitors to within a run.

After the Firebirds added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth, Lake Forest forced extra innings with two in the top of the seventh. The first came in on a sacrifice fly by sophomore left fielder Brooke Swiecki and the second on one of Purgatorio's career-high four base hits in the contest.

Ratliff belted a long three-run homer to left field in the top of the eighth to give the Foresters their first lead of the game. They added two more hits in the inning, giving them 39 in the doubleheader and raising their season batting average to .381.

Junior pitcher Hannah Smith allowed just one run and two hits in five innings of relief to earn the victory and improve to 5-4 on the year.

The Foresters are now 26-11-1 and Carthage 20-18 this spring.

Lake Forest will close out the regular season with a doubleheader at Ripon College Sunday afternoon at 1:00.