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Otters hit and homer past ThunderBolts

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Evansville, Ind. – The Evansville Otters battered the Windy City ThunderBolts for 15 hits and three home runs in a 9-5 victory Friday night at Bosse Field.

Ethan Skender launched two home runs and the Otters scored six runs over the last three innings to pull away from Windy City. Evansville secured their first win of the week, snapping a three-game losing streak.

The Otters’ second baseman Skender became the third Otter with a multi-homer game this year. He doubled his season home run total to four with the two blasts.

Skender started the Otters’ scoring with a two-run homer to left in the third inning. Jeffrey Baez followed Skender with a solo blast over the left field wall on the very next pitch. The Otters have hit back-to-back home runs four times this year, all at Bosse Field with Baez involved in all four occurrences.

Windy City took the lead with four runs in the sixth inning on five straight base hits.

The Otters responded quickly, retaking the lead with three runs in the sixth inning. Evansville mounted four straight hits.

John Dyer started the inning with a single. Noah Myers followed with a base hit. Brody Tanksley then brought in the first run with a double down the left field line. Kona Quiggle added a two-RBI double to cap the inning.

The Otters would continue their late game surge with another run in the seventh as Jomar Reyes led off the inning with a double and came around to score. Skender then launched his second home run in the eighth, a massive solo shot to left field.

A Reyes’ RBI single followed in the eighth for a two-run inning to finish the game’s scoring.

Parker Brahms started on the mound for Evansville. The righty did not allow a hit until the fourth inning. Brahms did not factor into the decision with four runs allowed, all coming in the sixth inning.

Hunter Kloke earned the win with an inning and two-thirds of relief. Jake Polancic worked his sixth save of the season, pitching the final four outs without allowing a baserunner.

Evansville received hits from eight different players. The Otters’ 15 hits is tied for the second-most in a game all season.

Dyer had three hits in his Bosse Field debut after his first five appearances of the season on the road. Tanksley hit two doubles in his first 2023 game with the Otters.

Evansville and Windy City continue their three-game series Saturday evening with a 6:35 PM CT first pitch. The ballgame is part of Heritage and 14 News- A League of Their Own Night at Bosse Field.

All home and road Otters games this season are televised on FloSports with audio-only coverage available for free on the Evansville Otters YouTube page.

UE Men’s Soccer Releases 2023 Season Schedule

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Building off back-to-back MVC Conference finals, Head Coach Robbe Tarver and the University of Evansville’s men’s soccer program have announced their 2023 schedule Purple Aces will play a 19-game slate including 3 exhibition matches in 2023. Evansville continues to have tough non-conference matchups and a conference schedule that includes three new additions to the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). Five of the Aces 19 opponents appeared in postseason play in 2022 in the NCAA tournament.
 
Season tickets for the Aces’ nine-game home slate are available for just $45 and can be purchased here. Combo season tickets that include admission to all home UE Men’s and Women’s Soccer matches is just $75 and is available here.
 
In preparation for the regular season, the Purple Aces will head down to Birmingham to play the University of Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday, September 12th for a rematch after a 2-2 draw in the 2023 spring season. The following weekend sees the Aces traveling to Indianapolis to play IUPUI on Sunday at 4pm. This is another rematch of the 2022 season for UE as they won 3-1 against the Jaguars in the second match of the 2022 season. Two days later, Evansville rounds out its exhibition slate hosting Hanover in an annual preseason matchup with the Panthers.
 
Saturday, August 19th marks the return of the annual Alumni Game after a COVID-induced break. The festivities that weekend will include a 2:00pm Kick Off and a social gathering following the match. Register to attend here: https://www.uealumnionline.com/s/1096/bp20/interior.aspx?sid=1096&gid=1&pgid=3900&cid=6728&ecid=6728
 
The regular season again opens with a familiar opponent, the Bellarmine Knights, who travel to Evansville on Thursday, August 24th for a 7:00pm kick. A growing rivalry, the 2022 matchup ended in a 2-2 draw after some late match drama. Bellarmine is another opponent that had a deep postseason run going to the ASUN semi-finals. Before heading on their first road trip of the season, the Purple Aces host CSU-Fullerton on Sunday, August 27th at 1:00 pm. The Titans are coming off an 8-6-5 season.
 
For Labor Day weekend, the Purple Aces will go on the road to North Carolina, starting with a Friday night tilt against High Point. High Point won the 2022 Big South tournament and made the second round of the 2022 NCAA tournament, beating perennial power, UNC along the way. On Labor Day, the Aces face off against another Big South opponent, UNC-Asheville, who they last saw in 2019 for a 1-0 win.
 
The road trip ends with the Mayor’s Cup as the Purple Aces travel down the Lloyd to face off against the Screaming Eagles in the second Division I edition of the Mayor’s Cup on Saturday, September 9th. The inaugural D1 edition ended in a 0-0 draw in 2022 with the Aces outpacing USI in shots 15-6.
 
Evansville then returns home to face another OVC opponent in Lindenwood, on Wednesday, September 13th. The Purple Aces won their 2022 match 2-1 with goals from Kai Phillip and Carlos Barcia.
 
To start the MVC portion of the season, UE heads to Des Moines, Iowa to play Drake on Saturday, September 16th. The Aces won their lone matchup of 2022 to the Bulldogs 3-0 on a brace from Nacho Diaz and a goal from Kai Phillip.
 
Evansville then has a 2-game home stand starting with a midweek match against the University of Louisville. The Cardinals are coming off back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances and their first regular-season ACC title. The Cards won last season’s match 2-0 in Kentucky. UE then welcomes new MVC foe Northern Illinois to town for the second match of MVC play. The game against NIU on Saturday, September 23rd will be during Family Weekend.
 
The Purple Aces return to the road to visit another new MVC opponent, Bowling Green State. The Falcons went 6-5-5 on the heels of a 2021 NCAA tournament appearance in the Mid-American Conference (MAC). Continuing MVC play, UE hosts Western Michigan at 5 pm on Saturday, October 7th. WMU won the MAC last year and made the 2022 Sweet 16, defeating familiar foes Louisville and Lipscomb in the NCAA tournament.
 
An in-state rivalry is renewed midway through the season as Evansville heads to Indiana in a non-conference match on Wednesday, October 11th. Evansville and IU tied 1-1 last year at Arad McCutchan Stadium, marking the first draw against the 2022 NCAA runners-up for UE since 1994.
 
The Purple Aces close out the season with four conference games including heading back to Chicago to face UIC on Saturday, October 14th. UIC won 2-0 with two second-half goals in 2022. In a midweek conference match on October 18th at 6pm, UE welcomes Missouri State back to Evansville for a rematch of the 2021 and 2022 MVC Conference finals. MSU won the back-and-forth affair 4-3 in the regular season and snuck by the Aces with a lone goal in the MVC final.
 
The Aces host their final home game of the regular season with Senior Day on Friday, October 27th at 7 pm. UE welcomes the Bradley Braves to Evansville after a 0-0 draw in the 2022 season. In their last match of the regular season, the Purple Aces head down to Nashville to face the Belmont Bruins. UE and Belmont faced off three times last season with the Aces besting the Bruins 1-0 in the MVC semi-finals on a Ola Arntsen’s rocket after two ties in the regular season.
 
The MVC Championship will be hosted at campus sites starting on November 5th, with the No. 1 overall seed hosting the semifinals and finals.

Evansville returns its top 5-point getters for the 2023 season in Nacho Diaz (9g, 1a), Kai Phillip (5g, 1a), Jose Vivas (4g, 3a), Carlos Barcia (3g, 4a), and Nkosi Graham (1g, 4a). The Aces also welcome back net minder Jacob Madden from injury and return Tobias Bak, Francesco Brunetti, Nalu Wagner, and Marc Vila. In all, the Aces return 12 players from their 2022 roster.

Vanderburgh County Commissioners have special Meeting

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The Vanderburgh County Commissioners will hold a special meeting on Monday, July 10, 2023 at 8:30 a.m. in Room 307 of the Civic Center Complex, Evansville, Indiana, for the purpose of:

1) Reviewing County Departments’ 2024 Budget Requests

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Attorney General Todd Rokita Leads 7 States Concerned About Target’s Anti-child, Anti-Parent Campaign For ‘LGBTQIA+ Pride’

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Attorney General Todd Rokita is leading 7 states expressing legal concern that Target Corp.’s extremist “LGBTQIA+ Pride” campaign is damaging states’ efforts to safeguard citizens.

“We work daily to protect children and uphold parental rights,” Attorney General Rokita said. “In my role, I defend Indiana laws focused on these very priorities. Further, we look out for our individual states’ economic interests as Target shareholders.”

In a letter, Attorney General Rokita and the other states advise Target to stop promoting and selling potentially harmful products to minors.

Target has marketed girls’ swimsuits with “tuck-friendly construction” and “extra crotch coverage” for male genitalia.

It also has sold merchandise produced by the self-declared “Satanist-Inspired” brand Abprallen, which is known for designs that glorify violence.

Target has sold items featuring the phrase “We Bash Back” with a heart-shaped mace — a heavy club typically having a metal head and spikes — in the trans-flag colors. Another design includes the phrase “Transphobe Collector” alongside a skull. Yet another product features skulls beside a pastel guillotine labeled as a “Homophobe Headrest.”

Following publicity over its decision to market such items, Target suffered a drop in sales and stock price.

“Transanity doesn’t sell,” Attorney General Rokita said. “Let’s all unite around pride in America instead of falling into the trap of dividing along lines of identity politics.”

Attorney General Rokita’s full letter is attached.

Website helps Hoosiers track state government without a drive to the Statehouse

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By Arianna Hunt, TheStatehouseFile.com

The Indiana General Assembly recently updated its website “with improved design and functionality” intended to provide a more user-friendly experience.

Detailed information about the IGA, the annual legislative session, committees, legislation, laws and publications is available there.

“The last few years, we have been at the end of the life cycle of our old website, which was probably decade-old technology,” said Adam Brown, director of the Office of Technology Services at the Indiana Legislative Services Agency.

With over 20,000 unique users daily during peak times, the new website is designed to offer faster page loads and ease of access as well as speeding up the process of legislators releasing documents.

The “find my legislator function” is one of the most popular used by the public, Brown said.

The function, in the upper-right-hand corner of the home page, allows users to find their state senator, state representative and congressional delegates and their contact information by entering a home address.

The “find a bill” button, also in the upper right-hand corner, has a search bar that makes it convenient to search for bills.

“One of the pages I’m most proud of, that is being used more, is what we call the dynamic calendar,” Brown said. The interactive calendar shows users the bills on the schedule for the day, as well as amendments filed and the bill’s sponsors, authors, and co-authors.

“So as you’re watching the session or in attendance of the floor session, you can actually follow along with the calendar online and see all the documents being heard on the floor that day,” Brown said.

Although the look and feel of the website is updated to be more user friendly, many of the buttons are in the same place because the public and staff were already very used to the old layout, Brown said.

“Most of what you’ll see is session documents, the laws of the state of Indiana and publications from our fiscal division,” Brown said.

Revamping the website started 18-24 months ago, with four to six months of beta testing.

The website was moved to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Brown said it’s a more economical approach for a website like the IGA’s that has heavy use during legislative sessions and less use in the summer. AWS will be able to adjust the number of servers used for the website based on demand.

“It’s hard to have the infrastructure, the servers and the capacity to meet the highest demands as well as being economical when your demand is lower,” Brown said.

UE Celebrates Successful 2023 Summer Camp Season

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EVANSVILLE, IND. (07/06/2023) The University of Evansville (UE) is proud to announce a successful conclusion of the 2023 summer camps. The University hosted an exciting week of Pride, Art, STEM, Music, and Dance camps, which drew in a remarkable total of approximately 200 enthusiastic campers.

Throughout the week, campers had the opportunity to explore their passions and develop new skills in a variety of fields. The Pride and Dance camps, which offered a residential experience, had an attendance of nearly 50 campers. Meanwhile, the Art, STEM, and Music camps attracted an average of 125 to 135 campers daily, providing an engaging and enriching experience for all participants.

The highlight of this summer camp season was the highly anticipated Showcase, which took place in Neu Chapel on Friday, June 23, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. This event provided campers with a platform to display their creativity and showcase the knowledge and abilities they had acquired throughout the week.

The Showcase brought in 250 family members and friends who gathered to support and witness the incredible works of art, scientific projects, musical performances, and dance routines created by the campers.

“We are thrilled with the overwhelming response and the talent displayed by our campers during this summer season,” said Apryl Weatherford, Director of Youth Programs. “The Showcase was a testament to their creativity, passion, and growth they experienced throughout the week. We take immense pride in each and every one of them.”

Collaborative robots galore at Vincennes University showcase in Lebanon

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LEBANON, Ind., July 6, 2023 – The Vincennes University Gene Haas Training and Education Center was buzzing with Indiana educators taking in all the amazing things collaborative robots can do. To help career and technical education teachers and Early College faculty from across the state discover the benefits of the emerging technology, VU hosted a Collaborative Robotics Showcase on June 28 in Lebanon.

The showcase was a unique opportunity for high school teachers to learn more about training the skilled workers of tomorrow and the pivotal role cobots play in moving Indiana businesses and industries forward. The event brought together CTE instructors, VU faculty and staff, and employees of the Carmel, Indiana-based Telamon Robotics.

VU leads the largest cobot educational project in the United States. It has an arsenal of 42 cobots at the Center for Applied Robotics and Automation on the Vincennes Campus, VU Jasper Campus, Gene Haas Training and Education Center, and partner high schools, all supported by an $8 million Lilly Endowment Inc. grant. 

“True to its trailblazing traditions, Vincennes University has brought to the state of Indiana the largest collaborative robotics educational initiative of the nation with state-of-the-art equipment and courses designed to prepare students, professionals, and companies alike for the digital manufacturing era that is upon us,” Director of the Center for Applied Robotics and Automation Paulo Dutra e Mello said. “In its latest phase, VU’s program is now selecting high schools and CTEs to take part of this initiative that will cement Indiana’s position as a leader in advanced manufacturing for years to come with well-paid professionals, thriving businesses, and communities.”

According to a recent survey report by Conexus Indiana and the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, 51 percent of Indiana manufacturers expect to adopt cobots in the next five years.

The showcase featured many cobots performing various tasks, including welding, stacking boxes, and loading and unloading a machine.

The demonstrations impressed River Forest High School Industrial Maintenance and Industrial Arts Teach Karl Pineda. He envisions students learning to program cobots and preparing for jobs of the future.

“I saw a lot of opportunities for young students to get involved in the manufacturing industry,” Pineda said. “I saw huge advantages of cobots and automating processes. I can see VU’s investment with cobots will deliver good results to Indiana and the U.S. economy.”

Cobots are an extension of a human worker more so than a replacement. They perform repetitive and mundane work in a shared space while humans execute the more complicated tasks. The advanced technology is used in various industries, including manufacturing, medical, and aviation, and can create new jobs.

“You are looking at the future,” said Area 31 Career Center Precision Machining Instructor Greg Hill. 

He sees cobots and demand for new skills as opportunities for students to gain an edge in today’s competitive career landscape.

“This is another way of increasing a worker’s worth,” Hill said. “Your employability goes up.”

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