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Indiana State Invitational set for Sunday and Monday

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Aces head to Terre Haute for tournament

 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Next up for the University of Evansville women’s golf team is a trip north on Route 41 for the Indiana State Invitational.

Country Club of Terre Haute will be the host course with 18 holes being played on Sunday with a final round slated for Monday.  Play gets under way with a shotgun start on Sunday at 11 a.m. ET with the final 18 beginning with a shotgun start at 10 a.m. ET.

Par is set for 72 and the yardage will be 6,041.  Evansville is one of four current Missouri Valley Conference programs in the event, joining Indiana State, Northern Iowa and Valparaiso.  The rest of the field includes Chicago State, Eastern Illinois, Green Bay, Rose-Hulman and future MVC member UIC.

UE completed the Golfweek/Any Given Tuesday Intercollegiate on Wednesday in Pawley’s Island, S.C.  Leading the Purple Aces in the final standings was Magdalena Borisova.  The freshman carded a 6-over 78 in round three to finish in a tie for 41st.  Her three scores came in at 77-77-78 as she finished with a 232.  Alyssa McMinn and Allison Enchelmayer each wrapped up the tournament with rounds of 78.  McMinn registered four birdies in her round while Enchelmayer had a pair.  Both finished the event with total scores of 240, tying for 68th.

Softball to play at Loyola on Sunday and Monday

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Schedule changed due to weather

 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – With two Missouri Valley Conference series under their belts, the University of Evansville softball team opens the month of April with a road series at Loyola.  Sunday’s doubleheader kicks the weekend off at noon with Monday’s finale set for a 12 p.m. start; all three games will be on ESPN3.

 Last Time Out

– Following a pair of losses to Northern Iowa in the Saturday doubleheader, the Purple Aces rebounded to win Sunday’s finale by a 6-3 final in nine innings

– Alyssa Barela was the hero for UE, hitting the game-winning 3-run walk-off home run to seal the win

– Izzy Vetter threw the complete nine innings while Alexa Davis contributed two doubles, two runs and a walk in the winning effort

– The opening two weeks of conference play have provided multiple positives for UE

– After dropping the conference opener to Drake, its 10th loss in a row to the Bulldogs, UE rebounded to sweep a Sunday doubleheader to clinch the series

– Facing Northern Iowa in week two of league action, Evansville fell in both ends of the Saturday doubleheader before taking a 6-3 9-inning win on Sunday

– The victory in the series finale ended a 7-game skid versus UNI

– Evansville went 0-6 against the Iowa schools in 2021 but earned a respectable 3-3 split in 2022

Walk-Off

– With one out and two runners on in the bottom of the 9th on Sunday, Alyssa Barela belted a 3-run walk-off home run to give the Aces a 6-3 win over UNI

– It was the second homer of the season for Barela and the 8th of her career

– In her last three games, Barela has gone 3-for-8 while her three RBI against the Panthers marked her season high

– She entered the March 4 home opener with four hits in her first 30 at-bats of the season before rebounding to hit .444 in the opening four home contests

Heating Up

– Jessica Fehr continues to swing a hot bat, adding three hits in six at-bats to help the Aces sweep the doubleheader versus Drake

– She recorded a hit in two of the three games versus UNI

– Picking up a hit in 13 of her last 16 games, Fehr leads UE and ranks 10th in the MVC with a .345 average

– She is second in the MVC with 18 walks while ranking fourth with 20 runs scored – over the last 18 games, she has scored 15 runs

Clutch Performances

– In Sunday’s series finale against UNI, Alexa Davis was 2-3 with two doubles, two runs scored along with a walk and steal to help the Aces take a 6-3 win

– Her season average is back at .300 with her picking up a hit in four of her last 11 at-bats

– Mired in a 1-for-19 slump at the plate at the time, Davis broke through recording two hits in five at-bats in the doubleheader sweep over Drake

– In game one, she hit her second home run of the season in a pivotal 5-3 win before going 1-2 with two runs, two walks and a RBI in the second contest

 

Evansville Man Arrested after Brief Chase

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Vanderburgh County – Thursday night, March 31, at approximately 7:19 p.m., Trooper Hadley was patrolling US 41 near Hillsdale Road when he attempted to stop the driver of a 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix for improper registration. The driver failed to stop and continued west on Hillsdale Road from US 41. The driver disregarded the stop sign at Hillsdale Road and Old State Road and continued south on Old State Road reaching speeds over 55 mph in the 40 mph zone. The driver also drove left of center while passing another vehicle that had pulled over for Trooper Hadley’s patrol car. After approximately two miles, the driver of the Pontiac came to a stop on Old State Road near Mt. Pleasant Road. The driver was identified as Anthony Stanton, 38, of Evansville. Stanton was arrested without further incident and taken to the Vanderburgh County Jail where he is currently being held without bond.

Arrested and Charge:

  • Anthony L. Stanton, 38, Evansville, IN
  1. Resisting Law Enforcement, Level 6 Felony

LAST MINUTE BIRMINGHAM GOAL DEFEATS THUNDERBOLTS 2-1 

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Pelham, Ala.: Tied 1-1 late in regulation, a last-minute goal by the Bulls proved to be the difference maker, as the Bulls defeated Evansville 2-1 on Thursday night at Pelham Civic Complex. The Thunderbolts next home game will be on Thursday, April 7th at 7:00pm CST as they host the Vermilion County Bobcats.  For tickets, call (812)422-BOLT (2658), buy online at EvansvilleThunderbolts.com, or buy tickets in person at the Ford Center Box Office.

 

The Bulls struck first on an early opportunity in the first period, as Carson Rose scored at 1:50 to put the Bulls in front 1-0. Despite 16 shots on goal, Evansville was unable to tie the game in the first period.  The Thunderbolts dominated play in the second period, outshooting Birmingham 12-6, and were rewarded as Josh Adkins scored from Cameron Cook and Timothy Faulkner at 15:15 to tie the game.  Evansville nearly took a 2-1 lead, however a goal by Brennan Feasey was waived off due to the shot being high-sticked into the net.  On a late opportunity, Alex Cohen scored for Birmingham with only 50 seconds remaining in regulation, and the Bulls held on in the final seconds for the victory.

 

Adkins scored Evansville’s lone goal, while Chris Janzen stopped 24 of 26 shots faced in his professional debut.  Tonight was the last meeting of the regular season between the Thunderbolts and Birmingham Bulls.

 

Trailblazers add Kentucky/Ohio All-Star forward to 2022 recruiting class

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VINCENNES, Ind. – The Vincennes University men’s basketball team continues to add to their 2022 recruiting class with the signing of six-foot-seven, 225-pound forward Victor Lado Thursday afternoon.

Lado comes to Vincennes University after leading Pleasure Ridge Park High School in Louisville to the 2022 21st District Championship.

“We are very excited about Victor,” VU Hall of Fame Head Coach Todd Franklin said. “He brings size and length. He’s got very good pop off the floor going straight up, where we can dump the ball off to him for dunks or he could block shots. He also has a developing ability to be able to pick and pop and be able to hit some threes, which gives him a unique quality as a big.”

Lado averaged 14.1 points and 7.3 rebounds per game last season for the Panthers under head coach Larry Kihnley and shot an impressive 64-percent from the field, 38-percent from three-point range and 74-percent from the free throw line.

Lado was named to the All-District and All-Region teams and was named a Kentucky/Ohio All-Star, after guiding the Panthers to a 23-7 record this past season.

Lado most recently scored a team-high 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in the 6th, 7th Region All-Star Game Saturday.

For his career, Lado scored 659 points and grabbed 334 rebounds over his three-year career and has averaged 13.4 points and 6.8 rebounds per game in his final two seasons at PRP.

“Victor comes from a winning program at PRP and by all accounts is supposed to be an outstanding guy,” Franklin added. “That’s what we’ve seen when we’ve dealt with him. He’s a young man that is still improving. He was an All-District, All-Region player this year in a very tough Region, probably the best Region in the state of Kentucky.”

“Then you add on that he was the leading scorer and leading rebounder in the Louisville Region All-Star game. He’s gotten much bigger in the last year; he’s gone from 205 to 225 and he’s young. He just turned 18 at the end of January and a lot of these guys coming out of high school now are 19, sometimes getting close to 20. He’s a young guy that could keep developing and we are excited about what he could become.”

“He will be able to come up and be with us over the summer, which is an added bonus. So he will get a chance to be with the guys and get some summer classes and develop and give him a much better chance of hitting the ground running in the fall.”

The Vincennes University Athletic Department is excited to welcome Victor to the 2022 Trailblazer recruiting class.

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Vanderburgh County Arrest Warrants

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Vanderburgh County Arrest Warrants

VANDERBURGH COUNTY RECENT BOOKING RECORDS

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Booked Last 24 Hours-Public

“Celebration Of Leadership” Award Winners

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“Celebration Of Leadership” Award Winners 

Believing that servant leadership shines brightest in difficult times, Leadership Everyone celebrated the 26th Annual Celebration of Leadership Awards (COL) on WNIN for a second year. Leadership Everyone’s inspiring event, presented by title sponsor by Fifth Third Bank, recognized and thanked the innovative, collaborative, and courageous accomplishments of 125 nominees.

Celebration of Leadership has highlighted servant leaders of every age, race, ethnicity, religion, and background from within our region for the past 26 years, and this year was no exception.

“Throughout this challenging year, we have seen servant leadership at its finest—innovation, collaboration, and perseverance across agencies and organizations have created amazing ways to serve our people through the pandemic,” said Lynn Miller Pease, Leadership Everyone’s Chief Executive Officer. “These results have led to new community partnerships and helped bring diversity and inclusion to the forefront of our efforts. And broadcasting our event on WNIN has allowed us to better reach our region and make the celebration available to thousands of people to watch, celebrate and embrace the LE mission – Diverse Servant Leaders Transforming Community.”

At this year’s televised 26th Annual Celebration of Leadership, 125 nominees demonstrating outstanding selfless community service were recognized, and 43 awards were presented to recipients. The nominations span the following categories: Arts, Community & Neighborhood, Education, Government, Public Service & Environment, and Health & Social Service. In response to these challenging times, three special COVID-19 awards—COVID-19 Medical Awards, COVID-19 Community Awards, and COVID-19 Outstanding Innovation Awards—were presented, honoring the efforts of those who fought and are still fighting against the pandemic’s hardships.

The Celebration of the Leadership awards ceremony will air again on WNIN on Sunday, April 3, 2021, at 5:00 pm, and it can be streamed indefinitely from Leadership Everyone’s website or social media platforms.

2022 RECIPIENT LIST 

Division Awards

Individual – Sheila Hauck

Project/Program – The Homeless Experience Project: 48 Hours in the Life

Business/Organization – Lyles Station Historic Schoolhouse & Museum

Special Awards

Spirit Award – Area Pet Rescue after 2021 Tornado

Epic Award – Jeff Purdue

Leader In Technology Award – #TechMe

Inspiration Award – Bushra Saqib

Latinx Leadership Award (Individual) – Guillermo Guevara

Latinx Leadership Award (Project Or Program) – LatinX Community Health ChangeLab

Civic Engagement Award – Trucks With Room to Spare Inc

Philanthropy Award – Bert Wheat, Tyna Wheat, & Monica Owens

Outstanding Innovation Award – UE / Harper Air Filter Changemaker Project

Transformational Inclusion Award – Jody Robinson

Raising The Bar Award – Deaconess Clinic Memorial

Regional Collaboration Award – Book N’ Cook

Regional Impact Award – READI Grant

Sportsmanship Award – Edward Nottle

Visionary Award – Timothy Weir

Darrell Ragland Award – Black Lives Matter Peaceful Protests – Emani Marks and Keshawn Young

Sam Featherstone Youth Award – Kylie Bedel, Lexi Smith, and TRACES

Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Gibson Award – Reconnecting Families by Military with PTSD Inc

Winternheimer/Lamar Public Service Award – Matt Karges

Sara B. Davies Award – Dr. Gina Huhnke

Willie Effie Thomas Diversity Award – Pastor Craig Duke

Shirley James “Greening The Community” Award – Toyota Trinity Stormwater Park ChangeLab

Susan Kelley Jordan Courage Award – Deaconess Intensive Care Units Staff

Bryce Jordan Servant Leader Award – Fr. Jay Davidson, Fr. Christopher Droste, and Fr. Gary Kaiser

Lifetime Achievement Award – Janie Chappell, Sondra Matthews, and Ken Wempe

 Recognition For Individual Achievement

Arts – Nathan Jochum

Community & Neighborhood – Marietta Rodriguez

Education – Mendy Poole

Government, Public Service, & Environment – Laura Nordine

Health & Social Services – Kelly Paul

Recognition For Project Or Program Achievement

Arts – Tepe Park Neighborhood – Basketball Court Mural

Community & Neighborhood – Coalition of Inner-City Neighborhoods (Fred Cook)

Education – EVSC/EVPL Free Tutoring Program

Government, Public Service, & Environment – Deaconess Aquatic Center

Health & Social Services – Deaconess Monoclonal Antibody Program

Recognition For Business Or Organization Achievement

Arts – NoCo Park and Twymon Art Gallery

Community & Neighborhood – River City Pride

Education – AstraZeneca Inspire Program

Government, Public Service, & Environment – International Refugee Relief Center

Health & Social Services – Little Lambs of Evansville

Todd Rokita’s Chestnut Horse

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Todd Rokita’s Chestnut Horse

  • By John Krull, TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS—The explanation Indiana Attorney Todd Rokita offered for settling his silly, silly lawsuit with conservative commentator and radio talk show host Abdul-Hakim Shabazz reveals what Rokita thinks about his voters.

He believes they are gullible.

Really. Really. Really. Gullible.
To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, the attorney general is betting that his backers can’t tell the difference between a chestnut horse and a horse chestnut.
Rokita writes in an opinion piece he sent around to news organizations that he settled the suit Shabazz and the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed against him to save the taxpayers money and him time to fight more important battles. (Disclosure: Nearly 20 years ago, I was the executive director of the Indiana ACLU.)
In his piece, the attorney general suggests that Shabazz and the ACLU came after him for no reason.
In fact, Rokita started the fight. He barred Shabazz from a press conference last year on the grounds that Shabazz wasn’t a journalist. Rokita then asserted that he had the right to determine who was a journalist and who wasn’t.
That’s an odd position for a guy who proclaims himself to be a small-government conservative to take, but, then again, intellectual consistency and honesty never have been among Rokita’s strong suits.
It was a stupid, stupid, stupid fight for Rokita to pick.
In the first place, Shabazz had credentials issued by the state of Indiana certifying that he was a member of the Statehouse press corps. To make his case, Rokita would have had to argue that he isn’t bound by the state’s processes and procedures for issuing credentials.

Second, Abdul works for several established and respected news organizations. Rokita was arguing that he, not the owners and publishers of those outlets, was entitled to decide who was a journalist and who wasn’t. Perhaps that’s why the Society of Professional Journalists and other such organizations also came out against the attorney general’s ham-handed action.

Third, Rokita went to war with someone in his own army. Until now, Shabazz has rarely if ever had a less-than-complimentary word to say about any Republican ever. That Shabazz now is willing to make an exception of Rokita says something about the attorney general, not much of it good.

Fourth and perhaps most important, there’s the epic level of hypocrisy involved here.

If Rokita were serious about banning people who weren’t “serious” journalists from his presence, he would refuse to sit down with, say, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson from Fox News. To save the network from crushing lawsuits, Fox has argued in court that nothing Hannity or Carlson says should be taken as either fact or truth because they are polemicists and entertainers, not journalists.

But if either Carlson or Hannity wanted to talk with Rokita, he not would only open his doors to them but likely inquire as to what surgery was necessary for him to be able to bear their children—the attorney general’s fulminations about transgender athletes notwithstanding.

The reality is that Rokita ran up the white flag here because he was going to lose and lose big.

Worse, some observers—including me—had begun to point out that the taxpayers were likely to have to pay quite a bit for his personal meltdown.

Even though he’s done a fair amount of losing, Rokita apparently doesn’t much enjoy the experience.

When he does lose, he looks for someone else to blame for his misfortune.

When there’s a factual error in reporting about him, he’s quick to demand a correction.

But when he does something foolish and there’s no factual error in the reporting, he fulminates about “fake news” and tries to direct people’s attention elsewhere.

He argues that the problem isn’t that he did something dumb or ill-advised. No, the problem is that others noticed that he did something dumb or ill-advised.

But that’s standard Todd Rokita.

He’s betting that enough Hoosiers won’t be able to tell the difference between a chestnut horse and a horse chestnut to elect him governor.

Or maybe, just maybe, he doesn’t know the difference himself.

FOOTNOTE: John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

The Primaries Are On May 3—Here’s What You Need To Know Before

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The Primaries Are On May 3—Here’s What You Need To Know Before

By Taylor Wooten

  • INDIANAPOLIS—Last year was an off-year for Indiana voters, but it’s about time to start preparing for a new election cycle with the 2022 primaries in just over a month.

What you need to know

The deadline to register to vote is April 4. You can register, check your registration status or find your precinct on the Indiana voters website.
Hoosiers who can’t vote in person on Election Day should request a mail-in absentee ballot by April 22.
In order to register to vote in Indiana, you must have a valid Indiana driver’s license or state identification card, be a U.S. citizen, be at least 18 years old by the time of the election, have lived in a precinct for at least 30 days, and not be currently imprisoned or convicted of a crime.
Young adults who are 17 are allowed to register and vote in the primary as long as they turn 18 by the general election on Nov. 8.

What we’re deciding this year

There are 100 House seats and 25 Senate seats up for election this year, with 53 incumbents seeking reelection unchallenged, according to The Indiana Citizen.

Forty-two of the House incumbents aren’t being challenged. In the Senate, 11 candidates have a clear path to victory at this point, although party officials can fill ballot vacancies after the primary, reducing the number of unchallenged candidates.

In the U.S. Senate, Republican Todd Young and the Democratic mayor of Hammond, Thomas McDermott, are unchallenged in the primaries. In the U.S. House, the Ninth District will be highly contested with incumbent Trey Hollingsworth stepping down. The other eight districts have incumbents running for their seats once again.

This will be the first election utilizing 2020 census data and new maps after redistricting. With some incumbents being drawn into the districts of their colleagues, this created some unique circumstances in which incumbents will be running against other incumbents.

Unique competitions

One example of this is District 47, representing areas of southern Indiana, where Sen. Kevin Boehnlein, R-Jeffersonville, will be facing off against Sen. Gary Byrne, R-Salem. Both candidates are technically incumbents but have been in office for a short time. Boehnlein was chosen to replace Sen. Ron Grooms, R-Jeffersonville, upon his retirement in November 2021. Grooms was the only Republican who voted against the new redistricting maps, which shifted his district.

Byrne was chosen to replace Sen. Erin Houchin, R-Salem after she stepped down in January to pursue U.S. Rep. Trey Hollingsworth’s Ninth District congressional seat.

Houchin will be running against Republicans Stu Barnes-Israel; Rep. J. Michael Davisson, R-Salem; Dan Heiwig; D. Eric Schansberg; Mike Sodrel; Bill J. Thomas and Brian Tibbs in the primary. Democrats Matthew Fyfe, D. Liam Dorris and Isak Asare are also vying for the seat.

In the House, Rep. Curt Nisly, R-Milford, will be competing with fellow Republican legislator Rep. Craig Snow, R-Warsaw. Rep. Bruce Borders, R-Jasonville, and Rep. Jeff Ellington, R-Bloomington, will be competing for District 45.

The election commission received a challenge on Ellington’s candidacy since he had not been residing in the district. The commission turned down the challenge, with Ellington saying he had moved to challenge Borders in the primary, according to The Indiana Citizen.

Despite calls for an independent redistricting commission to be used for the new maps, the maps were Republican-drawn. Critics said the maps favored incumbents and minimized competition.

The ballot will also include school board elections and some other local races.

FOOTNOTES: Taylor Wooten is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.
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