EVANSVILLE, Ind.—With a spot in next weekend's Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament looking like a virtual lock, the University of Southern Indiana volleyball team enters the final week of the regular season looking to improve its positioning in both the GLVC standings and the NCAA II Midwest Region Tournament picture.

The Screaming Eagles (15-10, 8-4 GLVC) host Quincy University Friday at 7 p.m. and the University of Illinois-Springfield Saturday at 3 p.m. The Eagles will honor their three seniors—defensive specialist Janae Curnutt, right side hitter Katie Knott, and outside hitter Brittani Oliver—prior to the match.

After stunning nationally-ranked University of Missouri-St. Louis in four sets a week ago, the Eagles could finish as high as third in the GLVC standings with two wins and some help. USI is currently tied for fourth in the conference standings with Bellarmine University, Rockhurst University, and Northern Kentucky University.

A pair of wins this weekend also would give the Eagles their first 10-win season in GLVC play since 2005 and would secure no worse than the sixth seed in the conference tournament.

Oliver and junior middle blocker Danielle LaGrange continue to lead the Eagles offensively. Oliver, the reigning GLVC Player of the Week, is 10th in the conference with 3.00 kills per set and is fourth on the team in both attacking percentage (.277) and digs per frame (2.46). LaGrange is second in the conference in kills per set (3.45), fifth in attacking percentage (.323), and 10th in blocks per frame (.074).

Freshman setter Jorae Bradbury averaged nearly 12 assists and one block per set last weekend while directing the Eagles' offense to a .301 attacking percentage. She is currently sixth in the GLVC with 9.77 assists per frame.

Defensively, freshman libero Kayla Heldman has been outstanding in the back row for the Eagles. Heldman, who is averaging 4.71 digs per set as the Eagles' starting libero, averaged nearly six digs per frame last weekend as the Eagles went 2-0 on the road.

Quincy (6-19, 1-11 GLVC) is 1-5 in its last six matches after going 3-0 at the GLVC/GLIAC Crossover last month. The Hawks have lost three straight to the Eagles and trail, 21-12, in the all-time series since 1989.

Illinois-Springfield (9-19, 1-11 GLVC), which visits Kentucky Wesleyan College Friday night, is 2-4 in its last six outings after falling to Northern Kentucky and Bellarmine last weekend. USI is 3-0 all-time against the Prairie Stars, including a four-set win last season.