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Chaney one stroke off the lead after first round at MVC Championship

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  Junior records opening-round 76 to put her in a tie for sixth after first day

Junior Madison Chaney carded a four-over 76 to put her one stroke off the lead in a tie for sixth, leading the University of Evansville women’s golf team after a frigid opening round of the 2018 Missouri Valley Conference Championship at Sand Creek Station Golf Course in Newton, Kan.

Starting her opening round at hole 13, Chaney opened the tournament five over after the first six holes, but bounced back to record three birdies to close out the round. As a team, the Purple Aces sit in 10th in the tournament after an opening-round 332. Missouri State leads the tournament following a 305 in the first round of the championship.

Following Chaney were a pair of Aces separated by just a stroke in freshman Minka Gill and senior Giulia Mallmann. Gill concluded the first round with an 84, earning the freshman a share of 40th, Mallmann recorded an 85 in the opening round, placing her in a tie for 42nd. Gill birdied the par five second much like Chaney as the Kokomo, Ind. native marked a 38 on the front nine, adding a 46 on the back nine in the first round.

Closing the opening round in a tie for 47th was freshman Sophia Rohleder. The Evansville native tallied a pair of birdies in the first round en route to an 87. In a tie for 49th after the first round is sophomore Lexie Sollman. Sollman carded a 92 in the opening round after shooting 44 on the front nine and 48 on the back nine.

The second round of the MVC Championship begins with tee times at holes No. 1 and 10 starting at 10:30 a.m.

USI splits with Bellarmine

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The University of Southern Indiana baseball team split the second half of a four-game series with Bellarmine University Sunday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky. The Knights took the opening game, 7-6, while the Screaming Eagles snagged the nightcap, 13-8.

USI watched its record go to 18-16 overall and 9-7 in the GLVC, while Bellarmine goes to 29-11, 12-4 GLVC.

Game 1: 
The Screaming Eagles could not hold onto a five-run lead and lost the opener, 7-6. USI had built a 6-1 lead through five-and-a-half innings on three in the second, one in the third, fourth, and sixth before Bellarmine scored six in the bottom of the sixth for the winning margin.

The Eagles got out in front in the second inning with a three-run frame. Junior designated hitter Brodie Brown (Carmi, Illinois) started off the scoring with a RBI-singles, followed by a RBI-double by senior third baseman Sam Griggs (Evansville, Indiana). Griggs, who made his first start since suffering a knee injury on March 26, led the Eagle bats with a pair of hits and two RBIs.

Sophomore centerfielder Bryce Krizan (Mt. Vernon, Indiana) finished the second-inning scoring with a run scoring single to make the score, 3-0.

Griggs extended the USI lead to 4-0 with single in the third, while senior first baseman Nick Gobert(Jasper, Indiana) pushed the Eagles’ lead back to four, 5-1, with a RBI-sac in the fourth after Bellarmine had narrowed the gap to 4-1 with a tally in the bottom of the third. Senior leftfielder Drake McNamara (Mt. Vernon, Indiana) finished up the offense for the Eagles with a RBI-single in the sixth for the Eagles’ largest margin of the game, 6-1.

On the mound, sophomore right-hander Jacob Bowles (Mt. Washington, Kentucky) took the loss in relief.  Bowles (1-1) allowed a walk and a run after coming for sophomore right-hander Tyler Hagedorn(Evansville, Indiana).

Hagedorn had entered the game in the sixth in relief of senior right-handed starter Devin Williams(Evansville, Indiana). Hagedorn did not retire a batter and allowed three runs on a hit and a walk.

Williams picked up the no-decision after giving three runs on five hits and four walks, while striking out four in 5.1 innings of work.

Game 2: 
USI senior third baseman/pitcher Nick Gobert drove in six runs and picked up a save in leading the Eagles to a 13-8 victory in the nightcap. Gobert was three-for-four with a triple and six RBIs at the plate and got the save by limiting the Knights to three runs, one earned, over four innings of work.

The Eagles jumped out in front for the fourth-straight game with a two-run fourth before the Knights bounce back with four tallies in the bottom half of the frame. USI rebounded with a five-run fifth to take the lead for good.

After the Knights closed the gap to 7-5 with run in the bottom of the fifth, USI sealed the victory with one in the sixth and another five-run eighth to seal the 13-8 victory. Gobert highlighted the five-run eighth with a three-run triple.

On the mound, freshman right-hander Blake Graham (Morgantown, Kentucky) posted his first win as an Eagle in relief of junior left-hander Chase Partain (Evansville, Indiana). Graham allowed one run on one hit in 1.1 innings of work. Partain went the first 3.2 innings, giving up four runs on eight hits.

The Next Game:
The Eagles return to the friendly surroundings of the USI Baseball Field Tuesday when they host Kentucky Wesleyan College for a 6 p.m. match-up. USI leads the all-time series with KWC Panthers, 97-64, sweeping a home-and-home series last spring, 2-0 at USI and 7-0 in Owensboro, Kentucky. Outfielder Jaylen Quarles led the way for the Eagles with an .833 average (five-of-six), while junior second baseman Jacob Fleming  (Evansville, Indiana) batted .429 (three-of-seven).

 

 

EPD ACTIVITY REPORT

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EPD REPORT

Alcohol a Factor in Early Morning Crash on St. Joe Ave

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On Sunday, April 15, 2018 at approximately 3:09AM the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office responded to North Saint Joseph Avenue near Glenview Drive in reference to a motor vehicle crash.

Evidence at the scene indicated the driver of a grey 2014 Dodge Ram 1500 pick-up truck had been north bound on N. St. Joseph Ave prior to striking a median support pole for overhead signage. After knocking down the pole, the vehicle continued north before entering a ditch on the east side of the roadway.

Another motorist traveling south on N. St. Joseph Ave in a maroon Jeep Wrangler struck part of the support framework for the overhead sign that was lying in the south bound lanes of the roadway. The driver of the Jeep was not injured.

The driver of the Dodge was transported by AMR ambulance to Deaconess Mid Town Hospital for treatment of minor injury. Alcohol appears to have been a factor in the initial crash, which will remain under investigation pending toxicology results.

Northbound and southbound lanes of St. Joseph Ave were blocked for over an hour while crash debris was removed.

DRIVER:

Travis Allen Brummitt, 22, of Evansville.

 

Pictured above: Crash scene on N. St. Joseph Ave.

 

VANDERBURGH COUNTY RECENT BOOKING RECORDS

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IS IT TRUE APRIL 16, 2018

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We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUE” will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?
IS IT TRUE during last City Council meeting the Finance Chairmen and At-large City Council menember Jonaphan Weaver asked the City Controller how much money he had in the General Fund? …City Controller, Russ Lloyd Jr. said; the fund is currently over $11 million dollar in the red? …we wonder if all the unpaid city employees medical bills were included in this figure? …that Controller Lloyd, Jr also said; that the City will be receiving the property installment in May?
IS IT TRUE that 8th District Congressional Republican primary candidate Dr. Richard Moss has publically stated that he wants to end birthright citizenship, block amnesty programs, defund sanctuary cities, deport all illegal immigrants, terminate the diversity VISA lottery, encourage merit-based immigration, build a wall and secure our border?  …we would like to know what Congressman Larry Bucshon’s positions are on these important national issues before the upcoming Republican primary?
IS IT TRUE if you are upset with the callous disregard that 8th District Congressmen Larry Bucshon has shown towards the voters of the his District by not debating his opponent you can send him a strong message on election day?  …we respectfully suggest you can send the Congressman a strong message on election day by not voting for him; voting for his opponent or don’t cast a vote in the Republican primary in the 8th Congressional District race?
IS IT TRUE we remember in years past if a candidate running for political office turned down an Evansville Courier and Press invitation to publicaly debate their opponent they would had been taken to task?  …in the good ole days when a political candidate declined to participate in the Courier and Press sponsored debate the editiorial staff would write an in your face article that chastises the canididate for his callous disregard towards the voters for not debating his opponent?
IS IT TRUE last week loyal supporters of the Thunderbolt Hockey team received taxpayers subsidized “Free Tickets” to see the playoff game with the Macon Mayhem? …that free ticket night draw a crowd of 365 above the average of 2309?  …if the Evansville Thunderbolts would had charged $10 a ticket they would have made $26,740 instead of collecting zero dollars from admissions? …we wonder what the Ford Center management charged the Thunderbolts owners to rent the Ford Center for this event?
IS IT TRUE the Democratic primary race for the Pigeon Township Trustee has turned into an extremely competitive political contest? …that the current Pigeon Township Trustee Mary Hart is well know and respected and by all accounts has done a credible job in that position for well over 22 years? …Ms. Hart challengers resume shows that she has done some notable thing during her professional career? …we are told that Ms. Mariama Wilson is personable and hardworking?  … this is the only contested Democratic primary race on the ballot? …we wish both candidates the best in this race?
IS IT TRUE this evening that U.S. Senate Republican primary candidate Mike Braum and Vanderburgh County Commission Republican primary candidate Steve Hammer will be holding a joint “MEET AND GREET” reception at the Roca Bar-North between 4-7 pm?  …that the invititation sent out the public by Mr. Hammer’s campaign staff stated “that both candidates are like minded; they are both conservatives Southern Indiana businessmen and both want government to make it easier for businesses to start up, expand and relocate to our local commiunities”?  …this mailer also stated that “both canidates are political outsiders?”  …if any other political primary candidates has a similar “MEET AND GREET” event please send information to the City-County Observer we shall also post it at no charge?

IS IT TRUE last week it was reported that the Bosse High School principal has been appointed the “Director of Strategic Engagement” for the EVSC? …it was also reported that the principal of Harrison High School has been appointed the “Director of Research for School Improvement” for EVSC? …its been alleged that both individuals will be making over well over $100,000 in these positions? …we are told that several EVSC classroom teachers are leaving the system because they are underpaid? …too bad that some of the high salaries being paid to top administrators housed in the EVSC Admin building couldn’t be passed down to our hardworking and underpaid classroom teachers?

Todays “Readers Poll” question is: Do you feel that Congressman Larry Buschon should debate his opponent, Dr. Richard Moss?

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Tri-State Musicians Gather for Evansville Philharmonic Youth Concert

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 Some of the Tri-States brightest musicians took the state this afternoon at the victory theater. The Evansville Philharmonic Youth Spring Concert Showcase was tonight for adolescents in 6th to 12th grade. 21 area schools took part in the program and there was quite a turnout at todays event. During the intermission there was also an award ceremony. Philharmonic Youth Conductor Lee Veazey said “Not only in numbers but also in talent and we have been really trying to nurture that talent and I think this is a testament to the level that the Evansville Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation is beginning to cultivate.” This concert was the second of the season for the Evansville Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.

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Commentary: Teachers, Students And What Aretha Said

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April 17, 2018 

By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.com 

INDIANAPOLIS – Like spring flowers, teacher strikes seem to be blooming all over.

West Virginia.

Kentucky.

Arizona.

Oklahoma.

There even are mutterings from teachers here in Indiana.

Trying to determine why so many teachers have left the classroom in protest has become a growth industry.

Some argue that it’s because state courts have refused to enforce state constitutions, all of which have provisions requiring quality educations for the state’s children. Others contend that the issue is generational – because there now are greater costs associated with caring for the elderly in an aging population, we’re taking funds from the young to pay for the old. Still others assert that the problem is class-driven – we’re starving schools and school children so we can offer tax cuts to the wealthy.

There’s truth to all these analyses, but the real point of contention is much simpler than that.

It comes down to what Aretha Franklin sang about.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

I talk with a lot of teachers. I know they’re frustrated, even angry these days.

Their frustration doesn’t spring from a desire to make more money.

Yes, if they could be paid more for doing a hard job, most teachers would love that. But most teachers didn’t go into education because they thought the classroom was the path to riches.

No, most teachers became teachers because they care about children, about children’s educations, about children’s welfare, about children’s lives.

That’s why teachers are willing to spend 50, 60 or 70 hours a week working with children, even when some of those children are poorly behaved or just difficult to deal with.

All that time with children ought to earn teachers some credibility in our discussions about how we ought to educate our young people.

Too often, though, that hasn’t been the case.

Too often, when we gather to talk about how students might perform better, or schools might function more effectively, there just isn’t enough space at the table for teachers.

There is room, of course, for politicians who preach accountability, but who never seem to take responsibility when a problem arises – say, a teacher shortage or a failure to hit promised test-score targets.

There also is room for self-proclaimed education “reformers,” many of whom are focused less on making school a productive and satisfying experience for students than on some other agenda – such as, rerouting tax dollars to religious institutions or finding ways to break teachers’ unions.

And there is room, of course, for the education reform experts – also often self-proclaimed – whose expertise doesn’t seem to extend much beyond directing public funds to for-profit education corporations or not-for-profits with administrative staffs so lavishly funded that a concubine would blush at the largesse.

But not, all too often, teachers.

There is the stuff of tragedy here.

The concerns – a need for better student performance in an increasingly competitive world and a desire to grant parents larger voices in their children’s schooling – that gave birth to the education reform movement were valid ones.

The way to meet those concerns was old-fashioned. It would have involved bringing everyone involved – students, parents, administrators, elected officials, business leaders and, yes, teachers – together to share concerns, work through differences and find common ground.

Instead, in too many places – including Indiana – far too many political leaders and the self-proclaimed education reform crowd made the arrogant and ignorant assumption that teachers couldn’t possibly be concerned about children and their schooling.

Instead of making the education reform movement a collaborative effort designed to solve shared problems, they transformed it into a struggle. Instead of making teachers their partners, they made them their adversaries.

Instead of seeking solutions, they went looking for fights.

And they got them.

Now, everyone – students, parents, teachers, communities and states – suffers.

So much of this could have been avoided.

Should have been avoided.

If the people who thought they knew it all just had listened to Aretha, this spring would be a happier for students and in schools in a lot of places.

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.

This article posted by the City-County Observer without opinion, bias or editing.

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$30,000 A Day Special Session Could Have Impact On Incumbents In Primary Election

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By Quinn Fitzgerald
TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS –Twenty-one lawmakers are being challenged in the Indiana primary elections, but the bigger issue is how the expected special session, costing about $30,000 a day, could affect re-election chances.

The primary elections will take place May 8. Shortly after the primary elections, the General Assembly will meet for a special session to address issues like school safety and tax policies that were not resolved during the regular session.

Ed Feigenbaum, the longtime publisher of Indiana Legislative Insight, said the incumbents could be tagged with the failure of the legislature to get its work done.

“The challengers are looking for any particular way to point fingers or lay blame at the feet of the incumbents,” he said.

And if incumbents lose, they may feel chastised by voters, but they end, they still have work to do, Feigenbaum said.

“Any incumbents who might be defeated in the primary, they’re still elected. They’re still responsible for making decisions through Nov. 8 of this year. They would still be involved in the interim study committees and things like that.”

A number of longtime legislators are facing challenges in the primaries. In the Democratic primary, Senate Minority Leader Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, is being challenged by Anderson City Councilwoman Tamie Dixon-Tatum. She replaced her father, Ollie H. Dixon, on the ballot.

“Tim Lanane is a good person. This is nothing personable,” Dixon-Tatum said. “I’m representing the voiceless, and by the voiceless I mean the youth, women, and various minority groups. I want to make sure everybody has a voice, and that everybody has an opportunity to share their voice.”

Rep. Terri Austin, D-Anderson, is being challenged by Anderson City Councilwoman Rebecca Crumes. Until now, neither Austin nor Lanane have faced primary opposition.

With a number of lawmakers retiring from the General Assembly, there will also be a close watch on the open seats this year. Laura Wilson, assistant professor of political science at the University of Indianapolis, said the open seats are generally more competitive than held by an incumbent.

“People see this as an opportunity to get in, and especially with the incumbents advantaged in the United States, this is where you see a lot more attention in terms of the elections themselves,” Wilson said.

 

However, for some districts, Feigenbaum said there is usually a clear winner because of the makeup of that district.

“In a district like say Charlie Brown’s district in Lake County where it’s obviously going to go to one party. The Republicans are not going to have a chance there. We’ll see a number of Democrats run in the seat,” Feigenbuam said. Brown, a Democrat from Gary, announced this year that is not running for re-election but will instead seek a local political office.

Overall, Feigenbaum said there are no real patterns or trends in this year’s legislative race.

“Every once in a while, you’ll see some strange trends but you’re not seeing it this year,” he said. “If you look at the individual districts, you see that they’re really district-by-district contests.”

One potentially competitive primary, Feigenbaum said, is between Sen. Jim Merritt, R-Indianapolis, and his challenger Crystal LaMotte, who ran against Merritt in the last primary. However, in the 2016 primary election, Merritt won three-quarters of the vote.

Last year, Gov. Eric Holcomb signed House Enrolled Act 1438, which Merritt co-sponsored. It allows a county or city to enact its own syringe exchange program rather than seeking approval from the state.

TheStatehouseFile.com reached out to LaMotte for an interview, but never received a response.

LaMotte stated on her website that the Needle Exchange program is misleading because needles are being simply handing out instead of exchanged.

In response to LaMotte, Merritt said the programs are locally motivated and the state is an advisory role. He said they have helped eliminate diseases from dirty needles.

“No government funds are spent on needle exchanges, and they are needle exchanges,” Merritt said. “It’s been proven that they do knock down HIV and they do knock down Hep C.”

Merritt has been in the senate for 28 years, which is too long, LaMotte said. Merritt said because communication with his district is still strong, it doesn’t matter how long he is in the General Assembly.

“First of all, I continually enjoy being a state senator for one. But two, I spend a great deal of time with constituents in my district and we still understand each other,” Merritt said. “I still understand what people in northeast Indianapolis and south Hamilton County feel, and so I feel like I still have a hand on the pulse of my constituents.”

FOOTNOTE: Quinn Fitzgerald is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

Gov. Holcomb Names Michael McMains Chairman of Indiana Gaming Commission

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Gov. Eric J. Holcomb today announced that he has appointed Michael McMains to serve as chairman for the Indiana Gaming Commission. The appointment was effective April 5. McMains will replace Cris Johnston, who resigned from his chairmanship on the commission to join the governor’s administration as a deputy chief of staff.

“I got to know Mike when he served as state director for then-Sen. Dan Coats. He is thoughtful, hard-working and has great integrity. I have total confidence in him to lead this commission well,” Gov. Holcomb said.

McMains has a law practice that focuses on health and business issues for his clients. He also served on staff for then-U.S. Sen. Dan Coats from 2010 to 2017, first as his state director and then as senior counsel.

McMains has a pharmacy degree from Purdue University and earned his J.D. from Indiana University McKinney School of Law.

 

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