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Crawford named Horizon League Men’s Tennis Coach Of The Year

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EVANSVILLE, Ind.– University of Southern Indiana Men’s Tennis Head Coach Chris Crawford has been named the 2025 Horizon League Men’s Tennis Coach of the Year.

 
Crawford earned his third career Coach of the Year award – the previous two in the Great Lakes Valley Conference – in his 17th season at the helm of the Screaming Eagles. USI saw a historic third season in Division I, making the Horizon League Conference Championship for the first time since transitioning.
 
As the all-time winningest men’s tennis coach in USI history, Crawford oversaw a two-and-a-half game conference improvement. USI went to 2-2 in 2025 following a 0-5 2024 Horizon campaign. In April, the Eagles’ duo of junior Axel Sabourin and freshman Jy Hibbert earned the school’s first Horizon League Doubles Team of the Week.
 
STAY TUNED
The Eagles make their Horizon League Conference Championship debut in the quarterfinals Friday at 2 p.m. CT in Ann Arbor, Michigan, against Youngstown State University.

Schedule updated for weekend series at Bradley

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Schedule updated for weekend series at Bradley

Aces open play with Saturday doubleheader

 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – An updated weekend schedule is on tap this weekend when the University of Evansville softball team travels to Bradley.  With inclement weather in the forecast on Friday, the teams will open the series with a 12 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday.  Sunday’s third game will begin at its originally scheduled time of 12 p.m.  All three games are set to be carried on ESPN+.

Last Time Out

– A tough road series at Murray State saw the Purple Aces drop its three contests by a total of six runs as the Racers scored six of their 15 runs over the weekend in either the 6th or 7th innings

– In Saturday’s finale, UE held an early 3-0 lead before MSU scored four runs in the final three innings to take the 4-3 decision

– Taylor Howe went 1-2 with a triple in the contest

Power Play

– Morgan Adams continues to rack up the home runs as she hit #14 of the season in the home win win over Indiana State

– Adams’ 14 homers is the second-most in a single season in program history and ranks in a tie for the MVC lead while sitting in a tie for 47th in the nation

– Her 36 RBI is tied for the Valley lead and is on the cusp of one of the five highest single-season tallies in UE program history

On a Streak

– Over the last six games, Taylor Howe has recorded a hit in each contest while batting .428 (9-for-21)

– Her 30 runs in 2025 is tied for 7th in the league while her tally of 12 doubles is tied for second

– In total this year, Howe is batting .296 with seven home runs and 28 RBI

– Howe recorded two hits in each of the final two games at Murray State

Still Going Strong

– Scoring 34 runs on the season, Jess Willsey is tied for third in the MVC

– Her season total of 11 doubles is tied for 4th in the Valley, her 8 homes runs are tied for 8th while her 28 RBI ranks in a tie for 10th

– Willsey is batting .262 on the season over the course of 147 at-bats (T-3rd in the conference)

– Her double in the 8th inning of game two at Valparaiso proved to be the game winner

UE baseball makes final MVC trip to Missouri State

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The Purple Aces will look to pick up their fifth series win this weekend
 
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Purple Aces baseball team returns to the road for Missouri Valley Conference play against the current conference leaders
The Purple Aces are looking to continue their good week of Valley play in their final trip to Springfield and Hammons Field. The Missouri State Bears will join Conference USA in the 2025-26 academic year, making it their final year to pick up a potential seventh MVC Regular Season Title and a sixth MVC Tournament Championship. The Bears are in a good position to take the regular season title as they currently lead the Valley by a game over Murray State and Southern Illinois.

Missouri State is looking to get back ahead by multiple games in conference play. The Bears dropped their first MVC series of the season at UIC, only winning the middle match-up against the Flames 10-8. Missouri State is led on the field by outfielder Jake McCutcheon with a .369 batting average, 58 hits, 11 doubles, one triple, 12 home runs, 37 RBIs, and 43 runs scored. The Bears have three players with 12 home runs on the season as they lead the conference in long balls while being 10th in the nation in the stat. Missouri State also has four other batters hitting above .300, along with McCutcheon, with less than a month of the regular season left.

UE took a 2-1 series win against Indiana State at German American Bank Field in dramatic fashion over the weekend with two walk-off wins. Evansville did struggle in its midweek game at Western Kentucky, dropping its second game with the Hilltoppers 14-4. The Aces did have a bright spot on Tuesday evening as freshman infielder Drew McConnell hit his second home run of the season and first in two months for UE’s first grand slam of the year. After Evansville loaded the bases early in the seventh inning, McConnell fought through a seven-pitch at-bat to put the ball past the right field bullpen at Nick Denes Field to score four runs.

The Aces’ defense had a big weekend against the Sycamores at home. UE turned four double plays on Friday, April 18, in its 6-5 win over Indiana State. Evansville hadn’t made four double plays on defense in a game since the 2022 season. The Aces had five double plays in total against the Sycamores and currently have 25 on the season. Indiana State is the MVC leader in double plays with 34, but was below their average of 2.5 in three games, as they only had one against UE.

Evansville’s regular Friday night starter, LHP Kenton Deverman, has returned to form after some injury struggles early in the season. Over the month of April, the left-hander has averaged 5.2 innings pitched, seven hits, 2.6 earned runs, 0.6 walks, and five strikeouts a game. Against Indiana State last Thursday, Deverman had his second game of the year, not allowing a single walk to 28 batters. He now leads the MVC in strikeout-to-walk ratio (5.14) and walks per nine innings (1.32). Deverman is also nationally in the Top 30 in both categories, as he’s 30th in strikeout-to-walk ratio and 11th in walks per nine innings.

Block-by-Block Postponed Due to Rain

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I wanted to drop a quick line that today’s  Block by Block event has been postponed due to the inclement weather forecast. We will announce the rescheduled date as soon as possible.

We will share this via social media, but any help you can offer in getting the word out to the public would be appreciated.

IT’S OURS! THUNDERBOLTS DEFEAT KNOXVILLE IN OVERTIME TO WIN FIRST PRESIDENT’S CUP TITLE  

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Evansville, In.: The Thunderbolts’ incredible run through the President’s Cup Playoffs came to a victorious end on Thursday night at Ford Center, with Aidan Litke’s overtime goal completing the sweep of the Knoxville Ice Bears in the final series, as the Thunderbolts captured their first-ever President’s Cup Championship.
                Late in the first period, the Thunderbolts grabbed the game’s first lead as Logan vande Meerakker scored on the rush on a power play at 19:14 from Nolan McElhaney.  Following a relatively low-event second period, the Ice Bears tied the game 1-1 as Brendan Dowler scored 2:25 into the third period of play.  In overtime, unlike Wednesday night’s Game One in Knoxville which required double overtime, it took only 1:30 for Litke to score the golden goal, as Ethan Price fed Litke with a pass from the near corner to the net-front, where Litke sniped the puck over Knoxville goaltender Stephen Mundinger to finish the climb to the top of the mountain, with captain Matthew Hobbs fittingly earning a secondary assist on the goal as well.  After losing Game One of the first round of the playoffs at Huntsville in overtime, the Thunderbolts did not lose again, finishing the postseason with an astounding 6-0-1 record, the 6-game win streak also being their first since 2019-20, coming in the best possible time of the year.  In goal for every game of the playoffs and finishing with an astronomical .962% save percentage, Cole Ceci was awarded Playoff MVP Honors.
Vande Meerakker and Litke finished with one goal each, while Ceci finished with 29 saves on 30 shots.  There will be a special rally on the Ford Center Plaza on Tuesday, April 29th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm to celebrate the Thunderbolts’ President’s Cup Championship.

Vanderburgh County Arrest Warrants

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Vanderburgh County Arrest Warrants

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Hoosier Healthcare Monopoly: Terre Haute hospital merger would likely drive up costs, reduce access 

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Attorney General Todd Rokita announces opposition to consolidated healthcare monopoly, which would stifle healthcare industry innovation

APRIL 25, 2025

Attorney General Todd Rokita’s Office opposes a proposed merger of two Vigo County hospitals, he has informed Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) officials.

IDOH must soon decide to either deny the merger or permit the consolidation and monopolization of Terre Haute’s only two hospitals.

“We all understand that hospitals face distinct challenges, but consolidation at the expense of free-market competition is not the way to address those challenges in this case,” Attorney General Rokita said. “In fact, the creation of a regional monopoly would impose a negative impact on Hoosiers in the area seeking quality health care and affordable costs.”

In 2021, the Indiana General Assembly passed Indiana’s Certificate of Public Advantage (COPA) statute allowing certain health care entities to merge with antitrust immunity. The condition is that IODH must find that the merger will “benefit the population’s health outcomes, healthcare access, and quality of care” in excess of any detriment felt by reduced competition.

No such benefits would materialize from this proposed merger, Attorney General Rokita said.

Hospital officials first filed their application for a COPA in September 2023 but withdrew it after more than a year — just days before IDOH was set to make its decision. The hospitals reapplied in February 2025.

The consolidation of Union and Terre Haute Regional hospitals, Attorney General Rokita wrote in a letter to IDOH officials, would “lead to the monopolization of Terre Haute hospital systems that (would) be unchecked in raising healthcare costs, stifling innovation, suppressing wages, and reducing access to care for the citizens of Terre Haute and the surrounding community.”

The Department of Health will host a town hall on May 1, 2025, at the Ivy Tech campus in Terre Haute to discuss the implications of this merger on the Wabash Valley Community. Attorney General Rokita encourages all impacted and concerned citizens to attend the town hall and welcomes all comments regarding the anticompetitive effects of this merger.

“Rural healthcare presents unique problems and concerns for Indiana,” Attorney General Rokita wrote. “The quality of care and travel distances are obstacles to our rural residents receiving consistent, quality healthcare.  Additionally, most rural hospitals face considerable challenges recruiting skilled professionals to less populated areas.”

He added, however, that those challenges do not justify consolidation in this case because such a step would not help alleviate them.

“The solution is competition between strong competitors that fosters efficiency, ingenuity, and technological advancement,” Attorney General Rokita wrote.

The full letter is attached here.

University of Evansville to Host “Innovate Southwest Indiana”

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Annual Regional Event Returns with New Identity and Renewed Focus on Economic Growth

 

WHAT: The University of Evansville (UE) will host Innovate Southwest Indiana, the newly rebranded version of the longstanding Engage Indiana series. This annual event-now in its fourth year-brings together business leaders, educators, and economic development experts to explore innovation, entrepreneurship, and workforce development in Southwest Indiana.

WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.

WHERE: University Center, Eykamp Hall at 1800 Lincoln Avenue, Evansville, IN 47714.

WHO:

  • Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz, UE President
  • Stephanie Terry, Mayor of Evansville
  • Dr. Katie Jenner, Indiana Secretary of Education

Featured Panelists:

  • Jim Ryan, CEO, Old National Bank
  • Andy Perry, CEO & Co-Founder, Curvo Labs
  • Lloyd Winnecke, CEO, Evansville Regional Economic Partnership
  • Sara Worstell, Executive Director, Southwest Indiana Workforce Development
  • Daniella Vidal, Chancellor, Ivy Tech Evansville
  • Ivan Ball, Co-founder & CTO, anu (formerly gropod)

 

Ivy Tech Evansville to Offer Summer Industrial Finishing Camp for Middle School Students

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Evansville, Ind. – Ivy Tech Community College will offer a summer camp to 15 middle school students interested in industrial finishing. The camp is designed to increase students’ knowledge and interest in the profession of industrial finishing.

The camp will run June 2-6, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily. Lunch will be provided. Campers must provide their own transportation to and from camp. Deadline to register is May 9 at link.ivytech.edu/finishing.

Sixth-eighth grade students selected will participate in a variety of activities that will acquaint them with the finishing industry. The Finishing Camp Program provides an overview of all facets of finishing including pretreatment; powder coating, liquid coating, and Ecoat; curing; masking, and more. Videos and hands-on activities provide additional explanation of curriculum concepts for increased comprehension. Plant tours at Nix Industries and Koch Finishing Systems will help to enable campers to see real world finishing operations.

A color themed project exposes campers to another aspect of the finishing industry – color trends and theory. Throughout the week, campers work to create and name their “color of the year” along with supporting inspiration boards which are presented to fellow campers on the final afternoon.

Guest speakers with diverse finishing experience round out the program by sharing their career journeys and engaging campers in discussions about the industry and the opportunities it offers.

The Industrial Finishing Camp is generously funded through donations to the Chemical Coaters Association International Finishing Education Foundation (CCAI FEF), which helps fund and provide access to programs supporting the advancement of the industrial finishing and coatings industry.

 

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