Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Monmouth will have to wait until Monday to learn if they'll make their first NCAA Tournament appearance after Lake Forest earned the Midwest Conference's automatic NCAA berth with a 5-0, 6-2 win over the Scots in Saturday's championship round.
 
Selections for the NCAA Tournament, including at-large bids, will be announced Monday at noon Central Time as the Scots will learn the postseason fate.
 
A day after Liz Hippen no-hit Lake Forest, the Foresters touched Hippen for a solo run in the third inning for all the runs they would need in the Game 1 win Saturday afternoon. The Scots threatened in the fifth, loading the bases with two outs before the Foresters escaped the jam. Lake Forest then added insurance runs with a two-run homer in the bottom of the frame and tacked on two more in the sixth.
 
The Scots struck first in the late game to give starter Kaylee Kurtz an early 1-0 lead. Charlotte Park opened the second with a base hit, and following a sac bunt by Johnna Schultz to move pinch runner Carolyn Scherpe to second who scored the game's first run on Emily Siefken's double.  The Foresters scratched out a run in the third to knot the game and plated an unearned run in the next inning to take the lead for good.
 
Trailing 3-1 in the sixth, Kristyn Ozga gave Monmouth life with a one-out single and raced home on a double by Emily Watkins, but that would be the last of the scoring as the Foresters held on for the win.  
 
Monmouth (28-12) set the program record for wins while appearing in the league championship game for the first time since 2003.