The Misericordia University softball team opened the season with a sweep at Shenandoah, Sunday.
 
The Cougars never trailed in the opener in a 9-6 win and came from behind to win the nightcap, 8-6, in nine innings.
 
Bridget Doherty, Casey Funesti, Rylie Nasso, Emily Susanj, Kiersten Tinio and Edna Kiefer all had two hits in the opener.
 
MU built a 9-2 lead after five innings and held off a late Shenandoah rally.
 
Marisa Kelly worked 4.1 innings to earn the win.
 
Tinio had a two-run single in a four-run third inning and Funesti and Nasso both drove in runs in a three-run fifth inning.
 
Elizabeth Kelly had three hits in the nightcap and Sierra Miller and Tinio both drove in three runs.
 
Doherty added two hits.
 
Down 5-0 after three innings, the Cougars got on the board in the fourth on Kelly's RBI-double.  Miller had a two-run triple and scored on Tinio's sacrifice fly to get MU within a run in the fifth.
 
Miller drew a bases-loaded walk to plate the tying run in the sixth.
 
Tinio gave the Cougars their first lead with a two-run triple in the ninth and came home on a wild pitch.
 
Sienna Lawson tossed six scoreless innings of relief to earn the win.