SEARSPORT – With 21 goals by Nori Francis-Mezger already this season and at least two games left, Searsport girls soccer coach Mike Garcelon figured she had a good shot at breaking the single-season scoring record of 24, which was held by four former Vikings.

All the junior striker would need was about 44 minutes of Thursday’s regular-season finale against Piscataquis of Guilford.

Francis-Mezger racked up four goals, giving her 25 for the season, in a 7-0 victory over the Pirates.

For the Vikings, now 12-1-1 and likely the top seed for the Eastern Maine Class C playoffs, returning to the state final has been the goal. Breaking the record has also been on Francis-Mezger’s mind this year.

Garcelon, who has been the Searsport coach since the program started in 1988, wasn’t sure Francis-Mezger knew how close she was.

“I’m pleased,” he said. “It takes a lot of pressure off the team trying to get her the ball and it takes the pressure off of her.”

Francis-Mezger also assisted on a Brittani Frisbie goal.

Gracie Messinger scored Searsport’s first goal about 161/2 minutes into the first half when she chipped in a crossing pass from Kelsy Walsh. Emma Clark finished the scoring with 9:40 left in the game. Aimee Nelson had two assists.

Francis-Mezger tallied her first three goals in the final 141/2 minutes of the first half – three days after being held scoreless by Bucksport.

“I’ve been having a tough time lately but I picked it up today,” she said. “Lately I’ve been avoiding the middle, going around and shooting from the side. Today my coach wanted me to just bull through the middle, so I kind of did that and it worked.”

Her second goal actually went in off a Piscataquis defender. The actual record-breaker was scored 31/2 minutes in the second half.

The Vikings dominated play, outshooting the Pirates 27-8 and controlling the midfield.

“When we play up by midfield it’s easy to just keep kicking [the ball] up there,” said Searsport defender Sheila Wilbur, who along with fellow defenders Abby Tripp and Walsh played most of the game. “It’s so tiring for their defense and makes it easy for our offense to score.”

Piscataquis had a few good scoring chances, but none better than Stephanie Taylor’s breakaway through the middle of the field in the second half.

Taylor outran the Searsport defense but goalie April Pickering was there to make the save, one of seven she had in the game.

Piscataquis goalie Jill Martell recorded 14 saves.

With fewer than five subs on the bench, the Pirates were worn down by the Vikings, who frequently subbed in five or more players at a time.

“They were tired with so few subs. But [Searsport is] a tough team. That’s all there is to it,” said Larry Holmquist, the Piscataquis athletic director, who is helping vice principal Sandy Emerson coach the team in the absence of head coach Gary Sinclair.

Holmquist declined to comment on why Sinclair was not at the game.

PCHS, which was 0-13-1 a year ago in the program’s first season, is now 8-5-1. The Pirates will likely have the fifth or sixth spot for the playoffs.