The 16^th-ranked University of Southern Indiana men’s soccer team wrapped up the 2018 GLVC regular season title with a 2-0 shutout of William Jewell College on Senior Day Sunday afternoon at Strassweg Field. The Screaming Eagles, who honored senior defender Kent Katzman (Spring Hill,Tennessee) prior to the match, see their record go to 12-2-1 overall and 10-1-1 GLVC, while the Cardinals fall to 5-11-0, 2-10-0 GLVC.

The GLVC regular season title and conference tournament number one seeding is the first for USI since 1990. The Eagles, who will be looking for their first GLVC Tournament crown since 1991, will host a first round game October 28, team and time are to be determined by regular season finales on Wednesday.

After a scoreless 79 minutes of action, USI junior forward Eric Ramirez (Vincennes, Indiana) exploded for a pair of goals in 62 seconds to give the Eagles the 2-0 margin of victory. Ramirez posted his first goal of the match after his shot deflected off a Cardinal defender. The score sequence started for Ramirez after taking a long pass from freshman defender Luke Lindsay (Plymouth, Minnesota) in the USI end at 79:51.

Ramirez iced the match and the conference’s regular season title 62 seconds later when he scored on a cross from junior defender Justin Brooks (Fishers, Indiana) at 80:53 for the 2-0 advantage. The goals were Ramirez’s sixth and seventh of the season.

USI sophomore goalkeeper Justin Faas (Carmel, Indiana) posted his 12^th win of the year and his seventh shutout of the season in the win. Faas needed only two saves on the afternoon as the USI defense limited William Jewell to just seven overall shots.

The Eagles concluded the 2018 regular season when they visit Lewis University Wednesday for a noon match-up. The Flyers are 4-9-3 overall and 3-8-1 GLVC after falling to Maryville University, 2-0, at home this afternoon.

Lewis leads the all-time series with USI, 23-22-2, since the 1980 season. USI has the advantage in the last five matches, posting a 3-1-1 mark after going 1-0-1 last season. The Eagles also won the 2017 tie by advancing in the GLVC Tournament on penalty kicks.

Junior Rachel Tam registered a game-high 18 kills, but Loyola hit an efficient .291 on its way to a 3-0 win over the University of Evansville volleyball team on Saturday night.

Tam was the only player in the match to reach double figures in kills.  Behind her was Alondra Vazquez with 8 and Kerra Cornist with 7. Allana McInnis totaled 31 assists on the night while Olivia Goldstein and Vazquez led UE (8-16, 2-9 MVC) with 8 digs apiece.  Loyola (13-9, 5-5 MVC) was led by Morgan Gresham and Gabi Maciagowski, who posted 9 kills each.

Loyola set the early tone for the evening, scoring the first three points of the match before going up by a score of 11-5.  A Tam kill and a Mildrelis Rodriguez ace cut the deficit to a pair at 13-11, but the Ramblers never gave up the lead, taking a 25-19 win.

After four early ties, it was Evansville who took the first multi-point lead, going up 6-4 on a Cornist kill.  Loyola made its way back, taking a 12-10 edge on a kill from Gresham.  UE got within one on another kill by Cornist, but the Ramblers came back with a 9-3 run before finishing the set with a 25-18 decision.

Game three saw the Ramblers reel off the first three tallies before jumping out to a 14-6 advantage.  From there, they clinched the match on the strength of a 25-17 win.

UE returns home next weekend for matches against Bradley and Illinois State.

The University of Southern Indiana women’s soccer team reached double-digit wins for the first time since 2012 with a 2-0 shutout of William Jewell College on Senior Day Sunday afternoon at Strassweg Field. USI goes to 10-5-2 overall and 8-3-1 GLVC, while William Jewell watched its record go to 7-9-1, 4-8-0 GLVC.

The win keeps the Screaming Eagles’ hopes to host a conference post-season game alive with one matches to play. USI, at press time, is a half-game out of first and in a three-way tie for second, pending the outcome of three GLVC matches that started at 2:30 p.m. Visit GLVCsports.com for updated standings.

USI sophomore defender Madelyne Juenger (Columbia, Illinois) put the Eagles up 1-0 in the first 10 minutes of the game. Juenger recorded her first goal of the season off a corner kick by freshman midfielder Madison Cady (West Chicago, Illinois). The Eagles would hold the 1-0 lead through the intermission.

In the second half, USI sealed William Jewell’s fate when senior forward Kennedy Moore (Evansville, Indiana) recorded her second goal of the season to make the score, 2-0 at 58:06. USI sophomore forward Maggie Winter (St. Louis, Missouri) fed ball through the middle of the Cardinal defense to Moore in front of the goal for the assist.

The Eagle defense took over after the Moore to get its seventh team shutout of the season and help senior goalkeeper Emily Hopkins (Greenfield, Indiana) to her third-straight shutout between the posts. Hopkins, who earned her ninth win of the season, made seven saves and faced 15 total shots in the match.

Prior to the match, the Eagles honored its eight seniors – Moore, Hopkins, defender/midfielder Olivia Wilde(Racine, Wisconsin), defender Hannah Huebner (Newburgh, Indiana), forward Carissa Dyer (Crescent Spring, Kentucky), midfielder Ryley Hancock (Evansville, Indiana), forward Kennedy Moore (Evansville, Indiana), midfielder Kirsten Rettig (Oregon, Ohio), and defender Emma Luczkowski (Westfield, Indiana).

USI concludes the 2018 regular season Wednesday when it travels to Lewis University for a 2:30 p.m. match-up. The Flyers entered today’s action with a 9-4-2 overall and 8-3-0 GLVC at home this afternoon versus Maryville University.

USI leads the all-time series, 14-5-3, since the Eagles’ program began in 1996. USI has a small advantage in the last five meetings, 2-1-2, after the Eagles and the Flyers battled to a 0-0 double overtime tie last fall in Romeoville, Illinois.