EVANSVILLE, Ind.—University of Southern Indiana Volleyball wraps up its regular-season schedule this week with eyes on the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament. The Screaming Eagles host the University of Illinois Springfield Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Screaming Eagles Arena and nationally-ranked Lewis University Saturday at 3 p.m. for Senior Day.
USI (16-11, 10-6 GLVC) is currently sitting at the No. 5 seed in the GLVC Tournament and can clinch a spot in next week’s tournament with a win over Illinois Springfield Tuesday. USI can secure the No. 4 seed in the tournament with a pair of wins and some help along with way, while a pair of losses could push USI out of the post-season all together.
The Eagles, who are coming off a thrilling five-set win over Lindenwood University this past Saturday, will honor setter Casey Cepicky(St. Louis, Missouri), libero Callie Gubera (Thorntown, Indiana) and middle blocker Sidney Hegg (Menasha, Wisconsin) as part of their Senior Day festivities prior to Saturday’s match with the Flyers.
Cepicky enters the week ranked No. 4 all-time at USI with 3,918 career assists and No. 8 with 1,156 career digs. She is just 82 assists shy of becoming the third player in program history to reach the 4,000-assist plateau and is 32 assists shy of surpassing Jorae Bradbury for third on USI’s all-time assist list. Cepicky also needs just two digs to move into seventh all-time at USI.
Gubera enters the final week of the regular-season with 763 career digs, including 418 digs this season. She is the eighth player in program history to record at least 400 digs in a single season and is 82 digs shy of becoming just the third player in program history to reach the 500-dig plateau in a single season.
Hegg ranks sixth all-time at USI with 264 career block assists and is ninth with 307 total blocks. She is just 17 block assists shy of reaching USI’s top five and is just the ninth player in school history to record 300 career blocks.
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