The Forester softball team swept a doubleheader at Carthage College on Saturday, taking the opener 7-5 and game two 19-10 in five innings.

Lake Forest had 18 stolen bases on the day, including nine by junior shortstop Kaia Mismash. Mismash was 3-for-4 in the opener and stole both second and third after each of her three singles. She was also 2-fo-4 in game two and scored three runs in each contest.

Mishmash's six stolen bases are a new single-game school record, surpassing the mark of five she set last year. Mismash also swiped four in another contest last season and game two on Saturday was the seventh time she stole exactly three. She became Lake Forest's career leader in that category during her sophomore season and now has 98.

The Foresters' 11 stolen bases in Saturday's opener matched the program's second-highest total. Seniors Kyla Chevalier and Brooke Swiecki each accounted for two of them and Chevalier did that again in game two to climb into fifth place in team history with 42 in her career. Mismash is the program leader with 98.

Lake Forest never trailed on the day, which began with six runs from the visitors in the first three-and-a-half innings. Carthage plated two in the fourth and answered a Forester tally in the top of the fifth with three in the bottom of the frame.

Forester senior pitcher Riley Stiles retired seven of the last eight Firebird batters to earn the complete game victory. She struck out five in the contest.

Game two began with a six-run outburst by Lake Forest with no outs in the top of the first. Senior right fielder Emmie Nyen drew a bases-loaded walk, junior first baseman Nicole Marceau followed with a two-run double, and senior third baseman Cadence Dempsey belted a three-run homer. Dempsey now has two round-trippers this season and is tied-for-sixth in program history with 20 in her career.

After Carthage responded with three in the bottom of the first, junior Paige Ratliff drove in two with a double and scored when the throw got away in the top of the second. The home team, however, scored four times in the bottom of the second to make it a 9-7 game.

The first home run of the season for junior second baseman Jolie Devalk came with a runner on and doubled the Forester lead in the top of the third. The Firebirds scored just once in the bottom of the inning. 

Already ahead by three, Lake Forest broke the game open with an eight-run fourth. Swiecki, Devalk, and Ratliff had run-scoring singles in the inning and Marceau drove in three on her first home run of the season.

Carthage scored the final two runs of the day in the bottom of the fifth and the game was called at the end of that inning due to the Foresters' nine-run lead.

Marceau drove in five runs, Devalk four, and Dempsey and Ratliff three apiece as the Foresters set a season-high for scoring. They also had 15 hits, including a career-high-tying three for Ratliff.

Freshman pitcher Allie Aducci allowed three earned runs in four innings of relief to earn the victory and improve to 2-0 in her career.

The doubleheader sweep improved Lake Forest's record this season to 8-4 while Carthage fell to 6-8.

The Foresters will travel to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point for their next doubleheader on Sunday, March 29.