The Forester softball team was swept in a doubleheader at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Sunday, falling 8-7 in eight innings in the opener and 8-4 in game two.

Junior shortstop Kaia Mismash and senior designated player/catcher Kyla Chevalier each reached base safely seven times in nine trips to the plate on the day. Mismash was 4-for-5 with a triple and three RBI in the opener and 3-for-4 in game two. Chevalier was 2-for-4 int he two games combined but drew a pair of walks and was hit by pitched three times.

A sacrifice bunt by senior third baseman Cadence Dempsey tied game one at one in the top of the fourth inning. Another run scored on a base hit by junior second baseman Lia Taglia and Mismash tripled in two before scoring herself on a wild pitch to complete the five-run rally.

Stevens Point plated two in the bottom of the frame and belted solo home runs in the sixth and seventh to send the game to extra innings.

Dempsey hit the first pitch of the eighth over the left field fence to put the Foresters back on top and move into a tie for fifth place in program history with her 21st career home run. Mismash singled in a run later in the inning to make the score 7-5.

The Pointers, however, tied the game on a two-run homer and eventually scored again in the bottom of the eighth for the walkoff victory.

The home team took the early lead in game two with two runs in the bottom of the first inning and three in the second.

Senior right fielder Emmie Nyen singled in a run with two outs in the top of the third and, after Stevens Point answered with a run in the bottom of the inning, junior first bseman Nicole Marceau belted her second homer of the year in the fourth. Marceau, who also had a double in the second, singled for her third hit of the game to lead off the sixth and later came home on a pinch-hit double by freshman Laylah Gore.

A two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth made it an 8-3 game and the Foresters' final comeback attempt included a run-scoring double by freshman pitcher Vanessa Buske but no more.

Despite rcking up 22 bse hits in the two games combined, Lake Forest fell to 8-6 on the season while Stevens Point improved to 14-4.

The Foresters will begin Midwest Conference play next weekend with a doubleheader at Monmouth College on Friday and another at Cornell College on Saturday.