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Aces Baseball comes out slugging, comes up short on Senior Day doubleheader

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On a day that saw eight members of the University of Evansville baseball team play their final games at Braun Stadium, the Purple Aces came out slugging, but couldn’t avoid a doubleheader sweep at the hands of Illinois State, falling 14-11 in the first game and 11-7 in game two of the twin bill, Saturday afternoon.

“The seniors left it all out there one the field today”, said Purple Aces Head Coach Wes Carroll. “I really liked the effort, the execution just wasn’t there. We just didn’t do enough to win a game on Senior Day. But just a great overall effort by some of our seniors. It was great to see them make some lasting memories here at Braun Stadium.”

Game one saw the Aces jump out to a quick lead, as freshman designated hitter Evan Aders continue his May assault on opposing pitching, launching a 3-run home run over the fence in left in the second inning. His fourth roundtripper of the season gave UE a 4-0 advantage.

However, junior starting pitcher Alex Weigand got in trouble in the top of the third frame, giving up four runs, including a 3-run homer by Collin Braithwaite, knotting the game up at four apiece. The Redbirds would strike for three more in the fourth to take the lead, 7-4.

The Aces would respond in the bottom of the inning, beginning with Evan Aders hitting his second home run of the game and fifth roundtripper of the season, a 2-run laser to left. Sophomore center fielder Kenton Crews followed that up with an RBI single, then sophomore left fielder Troy Beilsmith reached on an error allowing another run to tally, and finally senior right fielder Dalton Horstmeier grooved a 2-run double to right-center. The resulting six-run frame put Evansville back out in front 10-7.

However, Illinois State responded with a six-run frame in the fifth, and went onto to take a 14-11 slugfest.

In game two, Evansville fell behind early, as Collin Braithwaite tagged Aces freshman starting Jace Burke for a 3-run home run in the top of the first. Then in the third, Jordan Libman would send a Burke pitch to center, singling one run. Joe Aelits followed that up with an RBI double down the left field line, making it 4-0 Redbirds, and chasing Burke from the game. He would be replaced by senior right hand reliever Jimmy Ward.

However, Ward’s luck was no better, as John Rave lifted a 2-run double to left off him in the fifth inning, making it 6-0 Illinois State. He would give was to senior right hander Nick Eggemeyer, who came in and tossed a shutout sixth frame.

Evansville would rally in the bottom of the sixth, highlighted by a 3-run home run off the bat of Dalton Horstmeier. Horstmeier’s fourth roundtripper of the season put the Purple Aces right back in the game, trailing 6-4.

However, Illinois State would strike for two runs in the seventh and three more in the eighth, taking an 11-5 lead into the ninth.

Evansville battled to their final out, with Stewart Nelson, in his final at-bat at Braun Stadium, drilling a 2-run home run, his first of the year, getting the Aces back within four. But that’s as close as they would get, as Illinois State hung on for an 11-7 victory.

The Purple Aces finish up the regular season at 12-37 and 3-18 in the Missouri Valley Conference, while Illinois State winds up at 22-28 and 9-12 in the MVC.

Now it’s onto the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, hosted by Dallas Baptist. Evansville will open the tournament as the eighth seed and will face regular season champion league champion Missouri State on Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. Central Time.

“It was just good offensively to create some momentum going into the conference tournament”, said Carroll. “I feel like our line up has some balance right now, and some guys are starting to produce and playing with a lot of confidence. Hopefully that and our defense can help out our pitching.”

EAGLES ADVANCE TO REGIONAL FINALS

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The University of Southern Indiana baseball team advanced to the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional finals for the third time in five seasons after defeating top-seeded and sixth-ranked University of Illinois Springfield in a slugfest, 13-11, Saturday at Robin Roberts Stadium in Springfield, Illinois. USI, the seventh seed, watched its record go to 35-21 overall, while Illinois Springfield falls to 47-8.

With the victory, the unbeaten Screaming Eagles earn the day off on Sunday as Illinois Springfield, fifth-seeded Quincy University, and fourth-seeded Ohio Dominican University battle for the right to play USI for the regional crown on Monday. The first regional final game Monday is slated for noon. Should the Eagles lose the noon contest, an “if necessary game” would follow immediately.

The slugfest started in lopsided fashion in USI’s favor as it built a 6-0 lead after one-and-a-half-frames. USI scored a pair in the first inning before exploding for four runs in the second, highlighted by a three-run blast to left center by senior designated hitter Drake McNamara (Mt. Vernon, Indiana), who will finish the game with three hits, three runs scored, and six RBIs. The home run was McNamara’s school record 17thof the year.

The Prairie Stars, however, were not about to go quietly and responded with a seven-run second inning and captured the lead, 7-6. USI evened the score, 7-7, when senior rightfielder Buddy Johnson(Shelbyville, Kentucky) scored on a RBI-ground out by senior third baseman Sam Griggs (Evansville, Indiana) in the top of the third.
Illinois Springfield regained the lead with a tally in the bottom of the fourth and posted its largest lead of the game, 10-7, with a pair of runs in the fifth.

USI closed the gap to 10-9 in the sixth when McNamara singled in freshman shortstop Ethan Hunter (Terre Haute, Indiana) and junior second baseman Jacob Fleming (Evansville, Indiana). The Eagles regained the lead, 11-10, in the eighth on a RBI-sacrifice fly by Johnson and a RBI-single by junior catcher Logan Brown (Mt. Vernon, Indiana).

The Eagles sealed the victory in the ninth when Fleming doubled in freshman centerfielder Bryce Krizan (Mt. Vernon, Indiana) and scored on a RBI-double to left by senior first baseman Nick Gobert (Jasper, Indiana) to make the score, 13-10.

The Prairie Stars would get a run in the bottom of the ninth before USI senior right-hander Kyle Griffin(Morganfield, Kentucky) closed out his second victory of the regional, 13-11. Griffin (7-3) won his team-high seventh game of the season after three innings of relief work, allowing one unearned run on no hits and striking out eight batters.

In his two relief appearances in the regional, Griffin has allowed the one unearned run, two hits, walked four, and struck out 18 batters in eight innings of work.

USI junior left-hander Chase Partain (Evansville, Indiana) started but had to be lifted in the second inning. Senior right-hander Nick Coudret (Newburgh, Indiana), sophomore right-hander Tyler Hagedorn(Evansville, Indiana), and sophomore right-hander Jacob Bowles (Mt. Washington, Kentucky) followed Partain to the mound before Griffin took over in the seventh.

Homicide

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The Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office and the Evansville Police Department are investigating the death of Amanda Weir, age 38,of Evansville, Indiana.  She is one of the victims who was shot yesterday on West Delaware Street.  She died today at 11:30 am at Deaconess Hospital. An autopsy is pending. The Evansville Police Department can provide updates of the ongoing investigation when available.

VANDERBURGH COUNTY RECENT BOOKING RECORDS

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EPD ACTIVITY REPORT

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EPD REPORT

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Commentary: Smells The Same By Any Other Name

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Commentary: Smells The Same By Any Other Name

May 16, 2018  

By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS – An old farmer I knew had a marvelous saying.
“You can try spraying perfume on fertilizer,” he would drawl, “but, no matter how much you use, it never takes.”

The Republican members of the Indiana General Assembly would have been wise to listen to that old farmer.
The GOP lawmakers, along with their Democratic brethren, gathered Monday at the Statehouse for a special legislative session. The purpose of the gathering was to take care of some business the legislators left undone at the end of the regular session just a few weeks ago.
The fact that they had to gather has been a source of embarrassment for Republicans.
The reason several bills were left in the unfinished pile is that GOP lawmakers spent an inordinate amount of time on the last day congratulating themselves on a job well done.
Turns out, it wasn’t so well done.

That’s why Gov. Eric Holcomb called the legislature back into session – a move that provoked anger across the state.
Much of the ire focused on the cost of the session — $30,000 for the single day. Stung by criticism, most lawmakers have vowed to donate their pay to charity.
That’s a nice gesture, but a bit beside the point. While $30,000 is real money to most of the Hoosiers for whom these legislators are supposed to work, it is just a microscopic blip in a budget the size of the state.

The real cost – the true embarrassment – in this single-day session isn’t the cost in cash.
It’s the cost of confidence.
This year’s Hoosier legislative sessions offer conclusive proof of the close relationship between arrogance and incompetence.

The only reason the legislators had to come back into session in May is that they weren’t paying attention to what they were doing in January, February, and March. They either stopped reading or couldn’t read the calendar and the clock.
We know that, because of this, a handful of measures were left unattended in the to-do pile.
How many other things the lawmakers did pass failed to receive sufficient scrutiny because the state’s lawmakers were so busy – too busy – being pleased with themselves? How many other mistakes were made while the legislators indulged in an orgy of patting themselves on the back?

Perhaps even worse, the GOP lawmakers demonstrated how many rules they were willing to bend or even break to mitigate embarrassment.
They suspended constitutional rules so they could do the special session in a single day.
That means that the five measures that were adopted received less discussion and consideration than a group order for pizza.

Given that one of these measures involved making schools safer and another involved taking over some schools, that’s not reassuring.
Much of this is a consequence of gerrymandering.

Because most of the state’s lawmakers come from districts where they face no meaningful competition, they don’t feel obligated in any way to meet objections, answer questions or even pay attention.

Indiana’s rigged legislative maps give Republicans supermajorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, which means Democrats cannot even slow, much less stop, any measure before the General Assembly.

Lack of competition at the ballot box leads to arrogance, which leads to incompetence.
For those who might be tempted to think things would be better if Democrats had this kind of power, think again. Part of the reason we Americans and we Hoosiers put restraints on government’s power is that we understand – or at least we used to understand – that human beings, regardless of their party affiliation, are not to be trusted with too much-unchecked power.

After the one-day session ended, Republican leaders crowed about how efficient they had been in getting the bills passed in just a few hours.
They sprayed perfume all over this putrid legislative session.
The old farmer was right.
It won’t take.

FOOTNOTE: John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism, host of “No Limits” WFYI 90.1 Indianapolis and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

Suspect Arrested in Domestic Violence Shooting

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Suspect Arrested in Domestic Violence Shooting

MAY 18TH, 2018 TYRONE MORRIS EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

Evansville Police have arrested 56-year-old Robert Ballard Jr on attempted murder charges in connection with the shooting of two women.

This happened earlier Friday evening in the 1000 block of West Delaware Street. Ballard shot at the victims, who are a mother and her adult daughter, while they were in their car.

The daughter’s two children were in the car at the time of the shooting. The children were uninjured. According to police, Ballard was in a relationship with the older victim but the relationship ended.

An armed neighbor confronted Ballard and the two exchanged gunfire. Nearby officers heard the gunfire and responded to the area. The neighbor was uninjured and is considered a witness.

Ballard was taken into custody and will be booked into jail. The victims were rushed to the hospital and were treated for life-threatening injuries.

The investigation remains open.

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Crash Under Investigation After Princeton Man Dies

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Crash Under Investigation After Princeton Man Dies

MAY 19TH, 2018 TOWNSEND OUTLAW EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

A Princeton family is mourning the death of a loved one after an early morning car accident. The Vanderburgh County coroner says Sean Whitehead died from his injuries after being hit by a car on 69 near green river road.
Whitehead was taken to St. Vincent Hospital around 6 a.m. where he died from his injuries.

His family says “he was an amazing brother and son and would try to help out others and was loved by so many.”

The accident is under investigation by the Vanderburgh County sheriff’s office.

IU McKinney’s Jegen Remembered For Love Of Teaching

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Marilyn Odendahl for www.theindianalawyer.com

Lawrence Jegen III spent much of his professional life in the classroom, gaining a reputation as a demanding presence who had an encyclopedic knowledge of tax law and someone who cared about his students and would willingly offer advice and counsel long after they had graduated.

Jegen, 83, died at his Indianapolis home May 17 after an illness. Arrangements are pending.

He taught for 56 years at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where much of his teaching and scholarly work focused on federal and state taxation, business and estate planning, and philanthropy. He also helped launch and taught for 40 years a preparation course that helped generations of Indiana lawyers study for and pass the bar exam.

“There are tens of thousands of people who are Indiana lawyers because of Larry Jegen,” said Barnes & Thornburg LLP partner John Maley. “We are better lawyers and critical thinkers because of him.”

Law students walked into Jegen’s tax classes terrified, having already heard stories of him and of tax law. The students used the tax code as their textbook and were expected to have not just read the material but to have studied it since, as Maley explained, whether something was deductible or taxable might depend on one word.

When the income tax course was a requirement, the 100-plus students would be seated in alphabetical order and Jegen would be the focus. Walking back and forth, lecturing without notes, he would call upon the students, quizzing them with a series of questions that would underscore the point he was making.

The students would avert their eyes, not wanting to look directly at him for fear of getting tossed a question. And when someone appeared to be losing interest, Jegen would query, “Friend, as you with me?”

“He loved tax,” said former student and Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Margret Robb. “He wanted his students to understand tax because he believed if they understood it, they would love tax too.”

His teaching extended outside the classroom as he became known nationally as one of the foremost experts on tax law. Jegen would speak and lecture around the country and often offered his insights to judges, attorneys and legislators.

In the 1970s, he was a driving force behind the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which has become the underpinning of pensions and 401(k) plans. He helped draft the bill and then testified before Congress, where he explained the very technical piece of legislation.

After the bill’s passage in 1974, he attended the signing ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House at the invitation of President Gerald Ford.

“Without him, I doubt we would have ERISA as we know it today,” said Curtis Shirley, solo practitioner in Indianapolis.

As a professor, Jegen received numerous awards and honors. He received the Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion, which is the highest award granted by Indiana University, in 1993 and in 2005. He was also honored with the IU President’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989, IU’s Teaching Excellence Recognition Award in 1997, and IU McKinney’s Black Cane Award for Most Outstanding Law Professor six times.

Indianapolis criminal defense attorney James Voyles, partner at Voyles Vaiana Lukemeyer Baldwin & Webb, remembered seeking Jegen’s expertise for some of his cases. In those conversations, Voyles reverted to his student days and kept calling his teacher “professor Jegen” even though Jegen kept insisting he be called “Larry.”

Even so, Voyles counted his former tax professor as a trusted mentor.

“I never felt I could be his peer,” Voyles said, “but I always felt I could be his friend.”

 

 

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