EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Softball is getting set for its 2023 fall season, scheduling seven games across four dates.
The Screaming Eagles’ fall schedule is as follows (all times listed are Central):
- Tuesday, September 19, a home doubleheader against Wabash Valley at 3 and 5 p.m.
- Friday, September 22, a doubleheader against Southeastern Illinois College and Oakland City University at 5 and 7 p.m., respectively, at Deaconess Sports Park
- Saturday, September 30, a home doubleheader against John A. Logan at 1 and 3 p.m.
- Wednesday, October 18, home against Oakland City at 4 p.m.
All contests are at USI Softball Field except for September 22 at Deaconess Sports Park across town in Evansville.
On September 22, USI competes in the 2023-24 PGF ‘Courtney Schoolcraft’ Sarcoma Awareness Gameday tournament. Proceeds from the tournament help benefit sarcoma awareness. The tournament is named after former USI Softball catcher Courtney Schoolcraft, who overcame radiation treatments to eliminate cancerous clear cell sarcoma during her USI career. Schoolcraft won the battle and finished her career in a Screaming Eagles uniform in 2022. Southern Indiana will be sporting yellow uniforms and ribbons in support of their former teammate and sarcoma awareness.
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USI Softball is preparing for the 2024 season, the Screaming Eagles’ second season at the NCAA Division I level and in the Ohio Valley Conference. USI won 21 games last spring and finished third in the OVC to earn a conference tournament berth, going on to win the program’s first-ever OVC Tournament win that came against Tennessee State University. Additionally, USI landed two players on the All-OVC First Team in junior pitcher Josie Newman (Indianapolis, Indiana) and 2023 graduate Allie Goodin (Evansville, Indiana), with Goodin also being named OVC co-Player of the Year.
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The 2024 spring championship schedule will be released later.
