USI Looks To Find Right Track On The Road
The University of Southern Indiana women’s soccer team returns to the road this weekend looking to get back on track in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. USI (7-6-0, 4-6-0 GLVC), which starts the week ninth in the GLVC, travels to Drury University (4-7-1, 2-7-1 GLVC) Friday at 5 p.m. and to Missouri University of Science & Technology (2-8-0, 2-7-0 GLVC) Sunday at noon.
Live coverage of USI’s two-match road weekend, including live statistics for both matches and a video link for Friday’s match, can be found on GoUSIEagles.com.
Week 7 Eagle Notes:
Last weekend: The Eagles stumbled at home last weekend, losing a heartbreaker to William Jewell College in double-overtime, 1-0, and a rough match to Rockhurst University, 4-0. The losses dropped the Eagles out of the top eight in the GLVC.
Redemption weekend: With five matches left in the regular season, USI needs to have a good road trip to keep its chances for a berth in the GLVC Tournament alive. The Eagles start the week percentage points away behind eighth-place University of Illinois Springfield and a half-game behind seventh-place Lewis University.
Leading scorers: The Eagles have scored 23 goals through 11 matches this fall, flying by the 19 scored during entirety of the 2015 campaign. Senior forward Gabriella Korte (St. Louis, Missouri) tops the USI scoring leaders with 11 points on a team-high four goals and three assists, while sophomore defenderOlivia Wilde (Racine, Wisconsin) follows with 10 points on four goals and two assists.
Game winners: Sophomore forward Ryley Hancock (Evansville, Indiana) took over the team lead in game-winning goals with her third in the victory over Saint Joseph’s. Hancock’s three game-winning goals are followed by senior forward Gabriella Korte’s two.
This week’s opponents in the GLVC: While the Eagles were picked to finish 13th in the GLVC this fall, Drury was forecast to finish sixth and Missouri S&T was voted 15th by the league’s head coaches.
USI searching to get on track against Drury: The Eagles have lost the last three to the Panthers and trail in the all-time series, 8-3-0. The last USI win over Drury was in 2012 on the road in Springfield, Missouri.
USI looks to stay on track versus Missouri S&T: USI looks to stay on track against Missouri S&T, winning six of the last seven match ups and leading the all-time series, 9-4-0. The Eagles took last season’s match, 2-0, at Strassweg Field and have won two of the last three meetings in Rolla, Missouri.
