DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The fourth-ranked Embry-Riddle women's soccer team advanced to The Sun Conference Tournament title match for the fifth consecutive season with a 3-0 win over visiting SCAD Savannah on Saturday evening. The Eagles (14-3-1) controlled the game from the start, and despite a fairly even stat line for both teams, never faced real danger from the Bees (10-8) in winning their fifth straight against SCAD.

The Blue and Gold will host the tournament's No. 2 seed and 12th-ranked St. Thomas next Friday, Nov. 15 at 5 p.m. at the ERAU Soccer Stadium. SCAD ends their 2013 season at 10-8 overall.

The game began quietly as neither team could find much rhythm with the ball, but the Eagles were able to get some solid shots off beginning at the 10-minute mark. Martine Olsen was able to get a header on frame that Ande Eich saved, and a few moments later Valerie Obita's header was similarly saved by Eich to keep the match knotted at 0-0.

SCAD's Nikki Wittak got a shot off at the 23:25 mark that was blocked by Olivia Lynch, and that would mark the last shot in the game for more than 10 minutes as the majority of play ran through the middle of the pitch.

Another header shot from Olsen opened a solid three-minute span for the Blue and Gold, and although her shot was saved by Eich, the Eagles capitalized a few minutes later.

Eich came out of her box to clear a ball that no SCAD defender could get to, but her clerance was gathered up by Kristin Sverrisdottir just past midfield and the sophomore took a few dribbles into space and drilled a 35-yard shot into the upper-right corner of the Bees' goal as Eich was racing back to protect her net.

The goal was the final play of importance in the half and the Eagles took their 1-0 lead into the lockerroom.

Embry-Riddle wasted no time coming out of the break to go up 2-0 when Sverrisdottir tried a cross about five yards from the SCAD touch line that no Eagle or Bee could get to until it crossed the length of the goal where Isabelle Haaranen was waiting to put the ball away for her eighth score of the year.

SCAD's best chance of the contest came in the 67th minute when Meadhbh Deeney hit the crossbar from 25 yards out that led to a corner, but the Eagles were able to clear the ball from danger.

The Eagles put the game away in the 89th minute when Sverrisdottir and Haaranen teamed up for the second time in the match as Sverrisdottir's cross traveled 40 yards across the field to a sprinting Haaranen who beat Eich for the 3-0 Embry-Riddle advantage.

"Today was a huge win for us," Eagle Head Coach Samantha Bohon said. "It's always hard to turn around from such an emotional effort in the regular season championship game and play a few days later. We knew SCAD would be a handful, Andy and Rebecca always have their team well-prepared anytime we match up with them. The first half showed that both teams wanted it badly and came out flying. We didn't do a great job of settling the ball and knocked it around. But a quality finish from Kristin gave us a much-needed goal going into halftime."

"We continue to grow each game and that's what we need. We will need strong, collective effort in the finale against St. Thomas next week. St. Thomas has been outstanding this season and I'm just happy to have the opportunity to play in the title match again." Bohon summarized.

The Eagles outshot the Bees 13-12 and 7-6 SOG, while SCAD committed 13 fouls to the Eagles' 11.