EVANSVILLE, Ind.- University of Southern Indiana Volleyball travels to Cookeville, Tennessee taking on Tennessee Tech University on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. and Friday at 6 p.m. USI desperately needs to produce a result with only four matches left, currently sitting at tenth in the Ohio Valley Conference.
Coverage
Both volleyball matches on ESPN+ can be found at the links above or on the USI Volleyball schedule where you can also find the live stats. In game updates will be provided on Twitter, while pregame and post-game updates can be found on all three @USIAthletics platforms. Also, just a reminder that Cookeville is still on the central time zone.
USI HEADLINES
Senior Weekend Spoiled by Tigers. USI failed to break their losing streak, falling on Friday night (25-27, 25-10, 17-25, 21-25). USI had three chances to clinch set one but made crucial errors dropping their 20th first set of the season. The Eagles dominated set two with a season best .577 hitting percentage. However, USI came out slow in both the third and fourth sit digging a hole too deep to recover. The Tigers took Friday’s momentum into Saturday as the Eagles were swept (28-30, 23-25, 20-25). Another devastating first set loss took the wind out of the Eagles sails as they continued to come up short in tightly contested battles. USI was out blocked 13-4 on Saturday.
Looking into the Books. Three different Eagles dipped into the top five/ten in the USI record books recently. Senior Paris Downing recently passed 300 career blocks climbing into tenth all-time at 303. The senior also cemented herself into tenth in block assists with 248. Senior Carly Sobieralski racked up 80 assists last weekend jumping into fifth all-time in assists at 2,771. Former Castle product, junior Keira Moore has averaged 20,07 digs per set jumping from 11th to 7th in the all-time book with 1,225. Senior outside hitter Abby Weber jumped into the eight all-time in digs on Friday, currently sitting at 1,198.
Road to 1K. Senior setter, Sobieralski is only eight assists shy of 1,000 for the season. This would mark the second time the Indianapolis native has accomplished this feat with 1,153 assists in 2023. Sobieralkski looked to eclipse this mark in the regular season currently averaging 10.13 assists per match, while she averaged 2,92 in 2021, 6.32 in…
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