EVANSVILLE, Ind. – 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 defender
Olivia 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 13
th in the GLVC this fall, Drury was forecast to finish sixth and Missouri S&T was voted 15
th 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.
