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HOT JOBS IN EVANSVILLE
Roeder, field athletes shine at Tiger Small College Invitational
University of Southern Indiana’s women’s track & field team’s throwers shone the brightest at the Tiger Small College Indoor Invitational Friday evening.
The Screaming Eagles posted five top-15 performances; including two top-10s and one athlete who tallied points for USI finishing in the top eight.
Sophomore Georgianna Roeder was the lone scorer for the Eagles in the meet as she finished sixth in the shot put with a toss of 33 feet, 8 inches. Roeder’s mark was a personal best by nearly an entire foot. Just sneaking into the top 10 was freshman Cassie Janas with her own toss of 32’ 7†rewarding her with ninth place. Junior Mariah Paris also placed 14th with a mark of 31’ 4â€.
Junior Ralen Campbell added another top-15 finish with a mark of 14’ 10†good enough for 13th place in the long jump.
Janas showed off her strength in the weight throw with a toss of 40’ 6.75†which gave her 12th place in the weight throw.
Other Notables: USI as a team remains ranked in the latest USTFCCCA poll released last week. The Eagles fell three spots now at No. 25; one of three GLVC teams. Eagles remain behind Southwest Baptist coming in at seventh and Indianapolis at sixth.
Up Next: USI will make trip up north for the GVSU Big Meet on Feb. 14-15 held in Allendale Michigan.
USI drops the spring opener to EMU 7-0
University of Southern Indiana’s women tennis squad fell to Eastern Michigan seven to zero Friday Evening at the Evansville Tennis Center.
This was not an ideal start to the Screaming Eagles’ season, but there were a couple signs of promise that were on display.
First, while most of the Screaming Eagles struggled in their singles matches, junior Lauryn Thompson mustered to win three games in each of her sets, the most by any USI player for the night. Thompson did eventually fall 6-3, 6-3 in her match.
In the doubles, the team composed of sophomores Shelby Braselton and Kylie Skepnek fought their way to a well-earned, 7-5 victory.
The Eagles look to bounce back on Feb. 22 when they play host to the Knights of Marian University back at the Evansville Tennis Center with matches starting at 4 P.M.
Softball defeats Miami Ohio to earn opening day split
UE takes on WIU and IUPUI on Saturday
Taking on one of the best teams the Mid-American Conference has to offer, the University of Evansville softball team opened its season with a 2-1 win over Miami Ohio before falling in a 3-2 contest to Butler at the Total Control Sports Invitational at The Dome.
“I am extremely proud of how the team played today,†Purple Aces head softball coach Mat Mundell said. “Our pitching staff set the tone for us in both games. We had great starting and relief pitching.â€
“We had some great baserunning and defense to complement the pitching. Offensively, we are getting there,†Mundell added. “We took some great swings and will get the bats rolling.â€
Game one saw Evansville face the RedHawks, who were the MAC regular season champs last season. Pitching dominated the contest with both staffs limiting the opposition to just two hits. Emily Lockhart made the start, going 5 2/3 innings while allowing one run on two hits. She fanned five batters on her way to the win. Izzy Vetter was credited with the save, tossing the final four innings. Vetter struck out three. Brianna Pratt made the start for Miami and threw four frames. She gave up two runs on two hits.
UE broke through in the fourth with Eryn Gould crossing the plate on a passed ball. Halie Fain plated the second run on a bases loaded walk. From there, Lockhart and Vetter got the job done, allowing one MU run in the sixth before hanging on for the 2-1 win. Haley Woolf and Jenna Lis had the hits for the Aces while Gould, Jessica Fehr and Lindsay Renneisen each drew a pair of walks.
Another pitchers duel took place in the second game of the day with Butler finishing with a 3-2 win. The Bulldogs scored twice in the top of the third inning before Evansville got on the board in the bottom half of the fourth. Junior Eryn Gould connected on her first home run of the season to cut the deficit in half.
Butler added an insurance run in the top of the seventh and it proved to be a big one. Down to their final three outs, the Aces were primed for a comeback with Haley Woolf starting the inning with a triple before scoring on a sacrifice fly by Renneisen. With two outs, Katie McLean reached on a double, but the Bulldogs got out of the jam to finish off the game.
Vetter made the start for the Aces, throwing five innings of 4-hit, 2-run ball. She recorded nine strikeouts. Freshman Erin Kleffman made her debut in the circle, pitching the final two frames, allowing one run on one hit. As a team, the Aces notched four hits with Gould, Woolf, McLean and Toni Galas registering one apiece.
Two more games are on the docket for tomorrow with UE facing Western Illinois at 10 a.m. before taking on IUPUI at 3 p.m.
Commentary: Such Is Life In Today’s America
Commentary: Such Is Life In Today’s America
TheStatehouseFile.com
INDIANAPOLIS – If any one day could encapsulate what a strange and bewildering place America has become, Feb. 4 may have been that day.
When results – finally, belatedly – began to trickle out from the disastrous Iowa caucuses and it became clear former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg had won an unexpected triumph, the first openly gay major presidential candidate in American history stepped before the cameras.
Buttigieg is a disciplined guy, one not given to showing his emotions.
But, on this occasion, he spoke with real feeling. He said Iowa was not just a victory for his campaign, but for every kid in America whoever grew up feeling excluded from the community or even from his family.
It was a grand moment, a glimpse at the glorious future the American experience always has promised, that here the human spirit would throw off every shackle and step fully and unfettered into the light of liberty.
The day’s other moments were less uplifting.
President Donald Trump delivered his fourth State of the Union address in the evening.
He came to the speech with the shadow of impeachment looming over him. His defenders in the U.S. Senate – fellow Republicans who voted not to hear witnesses and vowed to acquit him even while acknowledging that he had done something wrong, even awful – reassured everyone who would listen that the president had learned his lesson. He would behave better going forward.
There was little evidence to support their assurances.
Trump’s address was not the speech of a contrite man.
It was a snarl of triumphalism, a battle cry to summon his seething, resentful base to greater acts of defiance in the service of largely imaginary victories.
There was something surreal about the speech itself. Most of the claims that were not flatly false were either wildly exaggerated or contorted out of context.
The facts are that the American economy has been growing slower, not faster, under Donald Trump than under previous presidents. Wage growth has stagnated. And at least part of the reason the job numbers are so good is that many – too many – Americans now must take on two or three jobs just to get by.
It mattered not.
The speech’s claims and the fact-checking and record-correcting that soon followed were obscured into invisibility by the evening’s petty dramas.
The father of a child slain in the mass Parkland shooting was thrown out when he yelled out at the president’s defense of the nation’s lax gun laws. A handful of members of Congress walked out voluntarily as a show of solidarity.
Most nights that would have been the headline.
Not this one, though.
President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, exchanged a series of petty snubs and insults.
Trump began by ignoring Pelosi’s offered and customary handshake.
Pelosi responded by introducing Trump as “the president of the United States†rather than using the traditional welcome:
“Members of Congress, it is my high honor and distinct privilege to introduce the president of the United States.â€
Then, at the end of the speech, Pelosi tore the text of Trump’s speech in half and set it aside.
It was not an exchange that reflected well on either the president or the speaker.
Pelosi, though, got the worst of it.
She and her supporters may have thought she achieved a kind of tactical victory in the short term. The bitter byplay between the nation’s chief executive and the leader of the people’s house drowned out much of the president’s self-congratulatory messaging in the speech, but it came at a cost.
People expect boorishness from Donald Trump because that’s who he is and always has been.
Until now, they hadn’t expected it from Nancy Pelosi.
In the long run, that will cost her and her party.
To be an alternative to Donald Trump, Democrats must demonstrate that they’re better than Donald Trump. They won’t give voters an alternative by being as petty and rude as he is.
Even more foolishly, they’ll be taking the fight to where Trump thrives. He’s at his best and most dangerous in the gutter. Democrats won’t beat him there.
But that’s where things are now in this nation.
Moments of grace. Moments of ugliness.
Just another day in America.
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.
LAST OF THE BUFFALO HUNTERS
LAST OF THE BUFFALO HUNTERS
Gavel Gamut By Jim Redwine
www.jamesmredwine.com
Before he served our country in Viet Nam my friend Jimmie Reed worked on his dad’s ranch in Foraker, Oklahoma. Jimmie and Bill Moon and I played football for the Pawhuska, Oklahoma Huskies and graduated together in 1961. The summer between our junior and senior years Jimmie’s father, Phil Reed, needed some fence built and Jimmie volunteered Bill and me to help. Mr. Reed paid us $7.00 per day plus a hamburger at lunchtime at the old Foraker store.
One typical Osage County July day Mr. Reed and Jimmie came into Pawhuska at 6:00 a.m. and picked up Bill and me to work. If you have never had the experience of building a barbed wire fence across a pasture of unyielding Osage County sandstone where shade is illegal, may I advise you to maintain your current status? We were equipped with bales of barbed wire, wire cutters, wire stretchers and, surprisingly to me as a town boy, sledgehammers and long iron pikes. Oh, we had manual post hole diggers but they shrank in fear when encountering two inches of topsoil over two feet of rock.
About the only way to drive a metal fence post deep enough to hold stretched out wire was to first stand on the tailgate of a pickup and make a hole by driving down an iron pike with a sledgehammer. Then we had to drive a post into the hole.
That particular bucolic summer day on the prairie as I dodged the zooming grasshoppers and wondered how I was going to pay Jimmie back later by beating him at snooker at the local pool hall if we made it to dark, a cowboy from the nearby Boots Adams ranch drove up and spoke to Mr. Reed. Mr. Reed who was usually calm and laconic got agitated. I overheard him tell the cowboy something had to be done right away. Mr. Reed used a couple of emphatic words I had never heard him utter before.
Gentle Reader, you are probably wondering why Mr. Reed and Boots did not simply discuss the matter via their cell phones. Well, in 1960 a pickup was the cell phone. Anyway, the cowboy took Mr. Reed’s comments back to Boots. Here’s what it was all about.
Boots Adams, who was once the president of Phillips Petroleum Company headquartered in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, used to regale eastern dude money men with the great golden west by introducing them to cowboys, horses, cattle and the small herd of buffalo he kept at his ranch. We called them buffalo before the Nature Conservancy opened shop and made us say bison.Â
It turns out bison and cattle are kind of like Democrats and Republicans. They generally do not play well together. So, Mr. Reed told Boots’ cowhand something had to be done when the cowhand said seven of Boots’ buffalo had broken out and were causing havoc among Mr. Reed’s cattle.
Well, Boots’ cowboy hurried back to Boots with Mr. Reed’s concerns then returned. I heard the cowhand say, “Boots said to just shoot ‘emâ€. Actually, Boots used somewhat more colorful vernacular. As for the cowhand he produced several rifles and ammunition and told Mr. Reed that Boots was sending a flatbed truck with a wench to meet up with us where the buffalo were roaming.
Mr. Reed, Jimmie, Bill, the cowhand and I jumped into the two pickups and flew off to hunt buffalo! It was not long before we found the burly beasts ambling around Mr. Reed’s pasture as though they belonged there. And just as the politically incorrect buffalo hunters who used to kill herds of buffalo from a train’s flatcar, we removed the seven marauding behemoths.
Please do not castigate us, the last of the buffalo hunters, for protecting the cattle. It was a job that had to be done. And it sure beat building fence. I wish Jimmie and Bill, and Mr. Reed too, were still here to fill any gaps in my recollection. On the other hand, I know wherever they are they are cooler than in The Osage in July and are perhaps still chasing after some mystical buffalo instead of pounding down fence posts.
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Notice of Ivy Tech Board Meeting and Executive Session
Notice is hereby given that the Campus Board of Trustees of Ivy Tech Community College Evansville
will conduct the following meetings: on Tuesday, February 11, 2020, At 3:30 p.m. Executive Session—(private meeting).
The Campus Board of Trustees will meet in Executive Session, at Ivy Tech Community College, Hilliard Lyons Boardroom, Room 201, 3501 N. First Avenue, Evansville, IN, as permitted under IC 5-14-1.5-6.1 (b) to discuss:
(9) To discuss job performance evaluations of individuals employees.
(11) To train board members with an outside consultant about the performance of the roles of members as public officials.
At  4:00 p.m.Campus Board of Trustees meeting (open to the public).
The Campus Board of Trustees will conduct a regular meeting in the Hilliard Lyons Boardroom, 3501 N. First Avenue, Evansville, IN, to consider and take action on such items as may be brought before them.
Men’s Basketball Ready For Sunday Game At Bradley
Contest Set For 1 p.m. On CBS Sports Network
In a nationally-televised game, the University of Evansville men’s basketball team travels to Peoria, Ill. for a 1 p.m. game on Sunday at Carver Arena. CBS Sports Network and the Purple Aces Radio Network will have the coverage.
CBS Sports Network Information
– CBS Sports Network, the 24-hour home of CBS Sports, is available through all major cable, satellite and telco distributors as well as via OTT streaming service providers YouTube TV, fuboTV, PlayStation Vue, DirecTV and Hulu
– Additionally, a live CBS Sports Network stream is available through CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports App with select providers. For more information, including a full programming schedule, go to www.cbssportsnetwork.com.
 Setting the Scene
– Evansville completes its season series against the Braves with the annual trip to Carver Arena where BU has won the last three games over the Aces
– Overall, Bradley has defeated Evansville in four consecutive meetings and six of the last seven games overall
– UE continues to close in on its first conference win, forcing overtime on Wednesday against Southern Illinois
– The Aces hope for a repeat of their last appearance on CBS Sports Network – on January 8, 2019, UE ran away for a 67-48 win over Loyola at the Ford Center
– In November of 2017, UE was on the network at the Cancun Challenge, defeating Fresno State before falling in the final moments to Louisiana Tech
Last Time Out
– Trailing by four points with 28 seconds left in regulation, Evansville rallied to force overtime before Southern Illinois took control late in the extra period, winning by a 64-60 final at the Ford Center on Wednesday
– K.J. Riley had the second-best MVC performance of his career, draining 10 out of 11 free throws along with seven field goals
– Sam Cunliffe and Jawaun Newton added 15 and 10 points, respectively
– Evan Kuhlman had one of the best all-around efforts you will see, finishing with 7 blocks, 6 rebounds, 5 points, 4 steals and 3 assists in 35 minutes of work
– UE led by as many as six points in the opening minutes with SIU going up by nine points
– The Salukis scored 42 of their 64 points in the paint
Doubling Up
– Through the first 48 games of his career, Jawaun Newton did not score in double figures, but the sophomore has done so in two of his last four games
– He set his career-high with 12 points at Valpo, connecting on four of his five attempts while hitting both 3-point tries
– Newton added a 10-point game against the Salukis, going 4-7 from the field and 2-3 from outside
Putting up the Numbers
– In a stat line that would impress anyone, Evan Kuhlman tallied 7 blocks, 6 rebounds, 5 points, 4 steals, and 3 assists in 35 minutes of work against Southern Illinois
– That came on the heels of a 14-point effort against UNI, tying his career-high
– At Illinois State, Kuhlman chipped in seven points, four assists and two blocks
– His seven blocks against SIU was one shy of the school record
– Kuhlman has started four games this year and is averaging 6.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 28.5 minutes while being credited with 10 assists, nine blocks and six steals
– In the 15 games, he has come off the bench, the junior has averaged 3.0 points, 1.9 rebounds and 13.1 minutes while registering 8 assists, 6 steals, and one block
Scouting the Opponent
– Bradley enters Sunday’s game losers of three of their last four games including a 73-60 contest at Drake on Wednesday
– Over that span, their win came over Valparaiso, 80-69
– Darrell Brown continues to lead the Braves with 14.5 points per game and 100 assists; his 100 helpers ranks second in the MVC
– Elijah Childs checks in with 14.2 points and a team-high 9.1 rebounds while connecting on over 50% of his attempts
– Nate Kennell sits with 12.5 points while Ja’Shon Henry has posted 10.1 per contest
– The first meeting of the season saw Kennell lead the way with 17 points and 10 boards, both team highs