Box Score Emma Sweitzer scored a pair of goals to lead the sixth-ranked Misericordia University women's soccer team to a 5-0 win in their regular season finale, Saturday at King's.
 
Kaylee Sturans and Madison Brdaric added a goal and an assist and Carly Stoner scored a goal as the Cougars improved to 16-1 overall and 8-0 in the MAC Freedom.
 
The Cougars dominated from the outset and held King's without a shot in first half.
 
Sweitzer gave the Cougars an early lead as she scored unassisted on MU's third shot of the game at 9:26.
 
Misericordia put the game out of reach with four goals in a 10-minute span midway through the first half.
 
Sweitzer extended her team-scoring lead with an assist from Ally Waite to make it 2-0 at 21:37. She leads the Cougars with 16 goals, 10 assists and 42 points and ranks in the top-10 in single-season totals in all three categories.
 
Waite found Sturans to give MU a 3-0 lead just three minutes later and Brdaric made it 4-0 at 28:03.
 
Carly Stoner capped the scoring at 31:50 with an assist from Brdaric.
 
The MU defense didn't allow a corner and Emma Stroud made two stops in net in the second half.
 
Misericordia is the top seed in the MAC Freedom Championships and will host the winner of #4 FDU-Florham/#5 Wilkes in the semifinals, Thursday at 7:00.
 
FDU-Florham will host Wilkes in the play-in game, Tuesday.  Second-seeded DeSales will host third-seeded Stevens in the other semifinal.
 
Misericordia outscored its MAC Freedom opponents, 39-5.
 
Coach Stauffer's Comments:  "I thought our first group did a really solid job in the first half, moving the ball and in finding the right pockets on the field to create some quality chances. They did a really good job at finding some goals early to set the tempo in the match. I thought our back line played solid and made good choices to keep them in front. The second group did a really good job in the second half of making good choices and keeping the flow of play where we needed it. It was a quality 90 minutes for us before starting playoffs this week."