The Forester softball team was defeated 6-2 and 5-4 at North Central College in a non-conference doubleheader on Thursday.
Senior
Kyla Chevalier was retired just once on the day, going 2-for-2 with a double and a walk in the opener and 2-for-3 in game two. She also drove in a run in each contest.
Also hitting her way on base for Lake Forest was the team's leadoff hitter, junior shortstop
Kaia Mismash. After a 2-for-4 performance in the first game, she went 4-for-4 in the second and has at least one base hit in all 20 of her appearances this spring. That matches the program's longest single-season hitting streak and, with hits in her final eight games of 2025, she has tied the 15th-lonest run in NCAA Division III history entering the year.
Forester freshman
Laylah Gore matched Chevalier's 2-for-2 with a double and walk in the opener and doubled again as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning of game two. Mismash, Chevalier, and Gore accounted for 13 of Lake Forest's 16 hits in the doubleheader.
The Foresters scored a run in each of the first two innings in game one but was shut out the rest of the way. The Cardinals plated a run in the bottom of the third, broke through with a four-run fifth, and tacked on one more in the sixth.
A run-scoring single by Chevalier in the second inning gave the visitors the early lead in game two as well. North Central, however, tied the game in the bottom of the frame and pulled ahead with a pair of runs in the third. A sacrifice bunt by senior third baseman
Cadence Dempsey brought home Mismash in the top of the sixth but the Cardinals scored twice in the same inning to take a 5-2 lead. The Foresters were able to score two runs in the seventh, the second on Mismash's fourth hit of the game and sixth of the day, but could not tie the score.
The losses dropped Lake Forest's record this season to 15-11 while North Central evened its mark at 14-14.
The Foresters will resume Midwest Conference play with a doubleheader at Beloit College on Saturday before hosting another MWC twinbill against Lawrence University on Sunday.