University of Southern Indiana Men’s Soccer will host its College Prospect Day Saturday, February 8, head coach Mat Santoro announced Thursday.

The prospect camp will be held at the Broadway Athletic Complex, and is open to any and all boys grades nine through 12.

The camp’s schedule opens with check-in at 9:30 a.m. and features two 90-minute sessions beginning at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Participants are required to register for the camp prior to the day of, at a cost of $89.

University of Southern Indiana sophomore Titus Winders and freshman Kaylee Lane have been named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track Athletes of the Week, respectively. Both awards were announced by the league office Thursday afternoon.

Winders placed second in the mile at the UAB Vulcan Invitational with an NCAA II provisional qualifying time of 4 minutes, 10.94 seconds. Winders set an 11-second personal best and his mile time currently sits as the fifth-fastest in the nation. Winders has now been dubbed the GLVC Track Athlete of the Week twice already for the indoor track and field season.

This is the fifth GLVC weekly honor Winders has received in his USI running career. He now boasts two GLVC Runner of the Week awards in cross country (October 2018 and October 2019) along with his two GLVC Track Athlete of the Week awards (December 2018, December 2019, January 2020).

Lane finished sixth at the UAB Vulcan Invitational in the 400 meters with a time of 58.44 seconds. Lane’s 400m time currently ranks second amongst her GLVC competition. This is the first GLVC weekly honor Lane has received in her USI running career. Lane is the first woman sprinter in school history to receive such honors and is the first woman to receive GLVC Track Athlete of the Week honors since Julia Kohnen in February 2015

Up Next: USI returns to action on Jan.18 for the John Craft Invitational held in Charleston, Illinois.

The University of Southern Indiana women’s soccer team announced its lineup of spring matches Thursday, headlined by a home date with Indiana State University.

The five-match slate is comprised entirely of NCAA I programs, opening March 22 at Belmont University and concluding April 19 at the University of Evansville. This is the fourth-straight spring that USI Women’s Soccer has opted for the all-NCAA I approach.

“Playing a DI spring schedule better prepares us for the difficult grind of GLVC play,” said USI Women’s Soccer Head Coach Eric Schoenstein. “We always come out of the spring more confident and excited for the fall.”

The Screaming Eagles players echo Schoenstein’s outlook on their spring slate. Junior goalkeeper Skylar Brant said that playing a NCAA I spring schedule offers great mental and physical challenges but adds another element for the group.

“Going out and showing that we’re able to compete with these opponents really builds our confidence individually and as a team.”

Junior defender Ashley Hayes added, “we want to keep our winning mindset that we had in the fall, continue working for each other and surpass what we accomplished last spring.”

The entire five-match schedule is as follows:

USI Women’s Soccer opens the 2020 Great Lakes Valley Conference campaign September 13 at McKendree University. The non-conference regular season slate is to be determined.

UE hopes to change fortunes with two home games

Sam Cunliffe was once again the leading scorer for the University of Evansville men’s basketball team, posting 12 points on Wednesday evening as the Purple Aces fell to Indiana State by a final of 65-42 inside the Hulman Center.

Cunliffe was 5-of-7 from the field and hit both 3-point tries in the game.  Artur Labinowicz finished with nine points, connected on four buckets.  Jawaun Newton was the top rebounder for Evansville (9-9, 0-5 MVC), setting his career mark with seven.  Five of the seven came on the offensive end.

Tyreke Key was the top performer for the Sycamores (10-6, 3-2 MVC), registering 13 points while hitting five out of six free throws.  Cooper Neese scored 12 points.

“It is not a ton of mistakes in the whole game that hurt us, it is pockets of mistakes,” UE interim head coach Bennie Seltzer said.  “We went from being down 9 to 15.  We are right there except for the runs we are giving up.  Everybody has to be dedicated to making this right.”

In the early moments of the game, it was the Purple Aces who had the upper hand, knocking down three of its first four attempts to take a 6-2 lead just over three minutes in.  Sam Cunliffe added his third basket of the game to push the lead to 8-5 a minute later.

Indiana State responded with a 12-0 stretch, taking their first lead at 9-8 at the 14:22 mark.  The Sycamores held the Aces scoreless for a period of 7:11 with the UE offense missing eight shots in a row and turning it over three times.  Cunliffe knocked down a pull up triple to end the stretch with the Aces scoring four in a row.

The Aces stayed within two possessions with the second triple of the night for Cunliffe cutting the gap to 24-19 with 4:11 remaining in the half.  That is when Indiana State had its second big rally of the period, reeling off ten points in a row to finish the half as they took a 34-19 lead at the break.

Their rally continued at the start of the second half with ISU starting on a 9-2 run in the opening three minutes as they pushed their lead to a game-high 22 points (43-21).  Facing the deficit, the Aces showed their grit, pushing back to score the next 13 points.  A triple by John Hall got it started before Jawaun Newton had an and-one to cut the deficit to 16.