Collegiate Baseball Newspaper/Division II Top 30; Ping! Baseball Power Rankings

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The University of Southern Indiana baseball team remained 16th in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper/Division II Top 30 poll, but fell one slot to 28th in the Ping! Baseball Top 30 power rankings.

The Screaming Eagles (35-12, 21-5 GLVC) also were 17th in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Top 25 poll last week. The new NCBWA poll will be released on Tuesday.

USI is coming off a 1-2 start to an 11-game road swing last week, falling at the University of Evansville and splitting a doubleheader at Saint Joseph's College. The second half of the four-game series with Saint Joseph's was canceled on Sunday due to rain.

The Eagles finish the 2010 regular season on the road with a non-conference doubleheader at Kentucky Wesleyan College Wednesday at noon and a four-game league series at Quincy University Saturday and Sunday at noon each day. The four-game series at Quincy also concludes the 2010 GLVC schedule for USI.

In the GLVC, USI is battling Northern Kentucky University for the top record in the conference and has a 4.5 game lead over Drury University in the West Division. The Eagles need a pair of victories at Quincy to clinch at least a share of the division championship for the third straight year.

KWC (18-25) entered Monday's doubleheader with NKU having lost three in a row and four of the last five games. USI leads the all-time series with KWC, 84-61, after splitting a doubleheader in March.

Quincy (24-17, 11-12 GLVC), which finishes a four-game series today with a doubleheader against Missouri University of Science and Technology, starts today's action having won three of the last four games. The Hawks lead the all-time series with the Eagles, 30-27-1, and took three of four from USI last year.

USI bounced back at the end of last season to eliminate Quincy in the GLVC Tournament, aided by the three home run performance of Eagles' junior catcher Dylan Mooney (St. Charles, Missouri).