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THUNDERBOLTS ROUT BOBCATS 7-0Â
THUNDERBOLTS ROUT BOBCATS 7-0Â
Evansville, In.:  The Thunderbolts dominated the Vermilion County Bobcats from start to finish on Saturday night at Ford Center, cruising their way to a 7-0 victory. The Thunderbolts next home game will be on Wednesday, February 9th 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.
Cameron Cook got the scoring started only 4:20 into the first period, set up by Josh Adkins to give Evansville the lead. Cook scored once again on the power play at 12:17, assisted by Tanner Butler and Coy Prevost to double Evansville’s lead to 2-0. Prevost scored his first goal of the night later at 15:40, set up by Austin Plevy and Charles Barber to secure a 3-0 lead for Evansville through the first period.
In the second period, Prevost scored once again, this time on the power play from Plevy and Tanner Butler at 4:32. Just over a minute later at 5:54, Mike Ferraro deflected a Cook shot into the net to make it 5-0, also assisted by Hayden Hulton. Tate Leeson scored his first goal as a Thunderbolt at 9:49, assisted by Adkins and Hulton to further extend the lead to 6-0. Lastly, Brett Radford wrapped up the scoring with his goal at 11:33 from Tyson Kirkby to make it 7-0 Evansville. Despite outshooting the Bobcats once again in the third period 13-9, the Thunderbolts were unable to further extend the lead.
Prevost and Cook each finished with two goals and one assist, while Ferraro, Leeson and Radford each scored one goal. Hulton, Adkins, Plevy and Butler each finished with two assists, while Brian Billett finished with 25 saves on 25 shots for his 3rd shutout and 14th win of the season. The win was the 42nd for Thunderbolts’ head coach Jeff Bes, who is now the all-time leader, surpassing Jeff Pyle (41 wins between 2016-18). The Thunderbolts and Bobcats next meet on Sunday, February 6th at David S. Palmer Arena in Danville.
The Thunderbolts are currently competing in their fifth season in the SPHL (Southern Professional Hockey League). Season tickets are less than $9 per game. To order your tickets for this season, call 812-422-BOLT(2658).
About Evansville Thunderbolts: The Evansville Thunderbolts is the area’s only professional hockey team. The Thunderbolts are a proud member of the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL). The team is owned and operated by VW Sports, L.L.C, a subsidiary of VenuWorks, Inc. www.evansvillethunderbolts.com
Eagles Cruise Past Cardinals For Fifth Straight Win
Eagles Cruise Past Cardinals For Fifth Straight Win
EVANSVILLE, Ind.—University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball cruised to an 86-51 Great Lakes Valley Conference win over visiting William Jewell College Saturday afternoon at Screaming Eagles Arena.
The No. 22 Screaming Eagles (17-3, 11-1 GLVC), winners of their last five games, used a 17-3 run to close the first period with a 28-10 lead and never looked back. USI, which led 47-27 at the break, got scoring contributions from 11 different players, including a game-high tying 15 points from sophomore forward Meredith Raley (Haubstadt, Indiana) and junior forward Tara Robbe (Wildwood, Missouri).
Robbe, who grabbed seven rebounds, went 6-of-8 from the field as USI’s bench outscored William Jewell’s reserves, 55-12.
Junior forward Hannah Haithcock (Washington Courthouse, Ohio) added 12 points off the bench, while senior guard Ashley Hunter (Flossmoor, Illinois) added nine points and a pair of steals.
The Eagles dominated the the paint, outscoring the Cardinals 36-24, and holding a 49-35 rebounding advantage.
Junior guard Tori Handley (Jeffersonville, Indiana), who finished with five points, led USI with 10 rebounds and four assists, while freshman guard Vanessa Shafford (Linton, Indiana) added six points and seven rebounds. Junior guard Soffia Rieckers (Evansville, Indiana) added six points, six rebounds, three assists and a team-best three steals.
William Jewell (1-18, 0-13 GLVC) was led by freshman forward Skyler Boylan and sophomore guard Katie Knock, who each had a team-high 11 points. Sophomore guard Libby Arnold added 10 points and a team-best nine rebounds, while freshman forward Katelynn Ostronic rounded out the double-figure performers with 10 points.
USI returns to action Thursday at 5:45 p.m. when it travels to Springfield, Missouri, to take on No. 4/8 Drury University in a GLVC contest. The Panthers (22-3, 12-2 GLVC) are coming off a 69-58 road win over Lindenwood University Saturday afternoon.
Fairlawn Court Death REPORT
The Vanderburgh County Coroners Office and the Evansville Police Department are investigating the death of an individual who was shot during a confrontation with Law Enforcement.
The subject who died on Fairlawn Ct. has been identified as Phillip Dill, age 34, of Evansville. He died from a gunshot wound to the head. The Evansville Police Department can provide investigative updates when they become available.
QUAD CITY COMES BACK TO DEFEAT THUNDERBOLTS 4-2
Evansville, In.:  After a strong first half of the game in which the Thunderbolts led twice, the Storm managed to bounce back and score three unanswered goals to defeat Evansville 4-2 on Friday night at Ford Center. The Thunderbolts next home game will be on Saturday, February 5th 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.Â
Coy Prevost scored the lone first period goal to give Evansville a 1-0 lead, off a set-up from Tanner Butler and Brett Radford at 8:10. In the second period, the Storm tied the game as Michael Moran scored on 4-on-4 action at 6:27. The tied score was short-lasting, as Mike Ferraro gave Evansville a 2-1 lead with his goal at 8:45, assisted by Timothy Faulkner. In the final 5 minutes Quad City took control as Tommy Stang and Nick Papandrea scored to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 Storm lead after two periods. Quad City then converted quickly on an early third period power play, scored by Taylor Pryce at 0:54 to extend the Storm lead to 4-2, and the Thunderbolts were unable to recover.Â
Prevost and Ferraro each scored one goal, while Brian Billett finished with 32 saves on 36 shots. The Thunderbolts and Storm next meet on Friday, February 18th at TaxSlayer Center in Moline, Ill.  Â
The Thunderbolts are currently competing in their fifth season in the SPHL (Southern Professional Hockey League). Season tickets are less than $9 per game. To order your tickets for this season, call 812-422-BOLT(2658).Â
Doing Something Isn’t Always The Best Action
                Doing Something Isn’t Always The Best Action
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By Jesse Kauffman, Lead Consultant, Everyday Business Resilience Group
FEBRUARY, 6 2022
One of the reasons I have a passion for resilience and crisis planning is because working through potential situations before they happen enables people and organizations to make better decisions during an actual crisis or emergency. In an emergency, there is often a bias for action, and if you haven’t worked through what those actions should be beforehand, and who should be performing those actions, chances are you’ll make things worse simply because you felt the need to do something, that doesn’t help the actual emergency you’re trying to work through.
Each of us has a natural tendency towards one end or the other of, let’s call it the “Take Action†spectrum. Some of us have a bias for quick action, some of us have a bias for analysis paralysis. Like everything in life is at the extreme of either approach is rarely optimal, which is why pre-planning actions to various scenarios for business continuity and crisis management purposes, or for business growth initiatives, is so critical. If your goal as a business is to minimize surprises and interruptions and maximize efficiency and growth opportunities, it is paramount that you incorporate a planning process into your operations, and most importantly, that you FOLLOW THAT PROCESS when the world throws you a curveball.
Why is it so important to rely on the prework you’ve done? Because choosing to move forward with an action to appear to be doing something has a much higher likelihood of causing negative impacts to your organization in the long run. For a perfect example that we can all relate to, let’s look at mask mandates and the pandemic.
Prior to 2020, it was widely accepted, and included in federal and state government and organizational crisis management plans, and in hospitals, that masks are not effective at slowing the spread of viruses. And at the beginning of the COVID-19 panic, the approach to using masks was in-line with the pre-pandemic planning and scientific understanding of mask effectiveness. But as the pandemic grew in size and severity, the pressure on the government, business, and political leaders to “do something†also grew.
Unfortunately, the metrics used to judge the performance of those leaders aren’t built on long term outcomes but are instead built on short-term changes. This made mask mandates an easy win for those leaders, as masks are easily visible and make people feel like they’re doing something. This despite the scientific evidence available then and now pointing out that masks are at best minimally effective only in highly controlled laboratory situations while providing no tangible protection in real-world use cases.
The primary studies used to justify widespread masking look at very limited time scales all conducted only between March and June of 2020, with small data sets, no control groups, and a study structure heavily biased to show a favorable benefit to masking. Yet even with their built-in statistical biases, they show little or no real-world impact when using masks, especially among the low-risk demographics like children and young adults who are most likely to be required to wear masks due to school or work requirements.
Studies conducted with far more scientific rigor to eliminate common causes of statistical biases show no benefit to masks for reducing viral spread in situations outside of tightly controlled laboratories. But in mid-2020 with the pandemic, leaders were rewarded for showing that they were willing to try anything, to “take actionâ€, not for taking a measured approach consistent with their existing planning and long settled medical knowledge of how viruses spread.
Now we’re two years of masking with no measurable benefit to the issue they were supposed to help, but with tremendous amounts of the measurable negative long term impacts to the educational and emotional development of kids and young adults, expanded negative social impacts, and alienation among grown adults, negative employment hiring and retention efforts, and overall an increased and growing levels of apathy and animosity towards other pandemic related mitigation efforts that have been shown to truly be helpful to at-risk demographics.
The learning I’m hoping to share is that if you’ve taken the effort to do thorough planning, when it’s time to execute those plans, it’s better to be patient and follow the process because as soon as you abandon the process that you established, the likelihood of causing more harm than good just to do something increases exponentially. Be patient, trust yourself and the work you’ve done to prepare, and stay the course. You, your organization, and the stakeholders that depend on you will come out ahead in the long run.
FOOTNOTE: Jesse has 17+ years of engineering, project management, capital management, maintenance management, crisis management, and business continuity experience in global industries including, appliances, plastics, nutrition, and pharmaceuticals, across all aspects of business operations. He is currently helping companies ranging from large global corporations to small local businesses. He and his wife, Josi, are proud parents of 3 amazing kids and are trying to live the American dream on the West Side of Evansville.
Any comments or questions please contact Jesse at 812-568-0515 and jesse.kauffman@everydaybusinessresilience.com
University Of Evansville Nursing Students Make Donation To Dream Center
University Of Evansville Nursing Students Make Donation To Dream Cente
Evansville, IN (FEBRUAR, 2022) — Senior-level students in the University of Evansville (UE) Dunigan Family School of Nursing recently made a donation to Dream Center Evansville. Funds were raised during the fall semester, and the $1,400 check was presented on January 12.
The donation was made possible through a scrub jacket sale offered to Nurse students, as well as the generous support of locally-based Kim’s Scrub Connection. Owner Kim Tenhumberg and her husband, Keith, donated several jackets to the sale in honor of her mother-in-law, Delores Tenhumberg.
“We chose to donate to Dream Center because it is a local, faith-based organization that strives to teach children how to be self-sufficient, serve those around them, and live a healthy life,” said Rachel Jones, a senior Nursing student and representative for her class. “The goal for our senior project was to promote healthy living and decrease the rate of childhood obesity in the local community. We partnered with Dream Center to make this possible because they support these initiatives through education and empowerment.”
In addition to the monetary donation, the students provided healthy snacks and educational materials for Dream Center’s after-school program. Jones and other students in her group also volunteered for a few days with the organization by leading activities, teaching children the importance of a healthy diet and exercise.
“I didn’t know much about Dream Center’s mission and operations before volunteering, but I’m so glad I had the opportunity to visit,” said Jones. “I quickly learned just how much they do to shape the youth of our community.”
Dream Center Evansville is a collective impact backbone organization dedicated to helping every child in Jacobsville win by curating the neighborhood’s cradle-to-career continuum.
Jeremy Evans, executive director of Dream Center Evansville, was pleased with the partnership. “By exposing our next generation of healthcare providers to the challenges facing families in poverty,” he said, “We help to ensure equitable treatment and cast a light on the real difficulties people in poverty face every day.”
Students at the University of Evansville shape powerful and enduring change. UE is the first in Indiana to be designated as an Ashoka U Changemaker Campus, and its change-making culture empowers students to improve the world around them as UE Changemakers. UE has an array of majors in business; engineering; the arts and sciences; and health science programs. UE has a diverse student body that represents 44 states and 52 countries.Â