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Eagles net four distance wins

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University of Southern Indiana Women’s Indoor Track & Field finished third of eight teams Saturday afternoon at the DePauw Indoor Classic in Greencastle, Indiana. USI had a total of 86 points.

The Screaming Eagles won four distance events in the meet, along with five other top five finishes.

Junior Kate Henrickson (Boonville, Indiana) paced the Eagles in the 800 meters, claiming the top spot in the event in a time of two minutes, 24.51 seconds. Freshman Amanda Moore (Farmersburg, Indiana) was the second Eagle to cross the line in fourth in 2:31.12.

In the mile, junior Allison Rollins (Newburgh, Indiana) took first in in 5:18.80, besting teammate freshman Jennifer Comastri (Indianapolis, Indiana), who finished third in 5:24.26. Junior Micalah Booher (Pendleton, Indiana) finished fourth to give USI three of the top four finishers.

Junior Emily Roberts (Fredericktown, Ohio) picked up her first win of the season in the 3000 meters, while senior Kate Duty (Owensboro, Kentucky) won the 5000 meters with senior Allyson Watson coming in third.

USI next heads to Indianapolis, Indiana, February 24-25, for the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships.

Diamond Aces get clipped by Dayton

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The weather mirrored the University of Evansville baseball team’s fortunes on the diamond this soggy Saturday afternoon in Spartanburg, South Carolina, as the Purple Aces (1-1)suffered their first loss of the season, falling to Dayton (1-1), 6-3.

The UE bats were silenced for much of the game, as Flyers starting pitcher Jordan Cox and the Dayton bullpen combined to strike out a dozen Aces on the day. Fordham racked up 19 Evansville punchouts in Friday’s opener.

“Our offense was anemic, especially with two strikes, non-Competitive,” said University of Evansville Baseball Head Coach Wes Carroll. “Having a 12 strikeout game, following a 19 strikeout yesterday. We didn’t put the ball in play enough on a real wet field to make a real difference today.”

Still, there were a some bright spots at the plate. Sophomore shortstop Craig Shepherd delivered a clutch 2-run double in the third inning, driving in both freshman third baseman Sam Troyer and junior outfielder Dalton Horstmeier, which gave the Aces the lead, 2-1.

“Certain times in the game, we thought we were building moment, then we’d have a bad at-bat,” said Carroll. “Either a 3-1 pop-up or a double play. You mix in a bad at-bat, and it can kill your day.”

Meanwhile on the hill, junior left-hander Alex Weigand overcame Dayton’s Pat Meehan solo home run to lead off the game, tossing a pair of scoreless frames. However, in the 4th inning, things got tough for the southpaw. It began with a passed ball, allowing Tirotta to come in from third base with the tying score. Later in the inning, Bailey Montoya lifted an RBI lace to the left side, bringing in Takahiro Yamada with the go-ahead tally. That would end Weigand’s day, as he finished with four runs, all earned, on six hits, while striking out a pair. Ward would give up a run before finally putting down the fourth inning uprising, leaving Evansville down 4-2.

The Flyers would put two more on the board in the sixth inning. Down 6-1 in the eighth, the Aces got a shot in the arm offensively, as senior slugger Travis Tokarek belted an RBI single to center, scoring sophomore center fielder Kenton Crews. However, the rally ended there, as Evansville dropped to 1-1 on the young season.

“We got beat in all three aspects of the game,” said Carroll. “You look on the mound. A wild pitch and a run in, walking a run in, and then having an error on the mound.”

The Aces face a tall task in Sunday’s weekend finale in Spartanburg, as they look to bounce back against the eighth ranked team in the nation, Kentucky, on the campus of University of South Carolina-Upstate. First pitch is at 10 a.m. central time.

USI Women’s Hoops hold off Rockhurst, 81-72

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Spurred by a 19-4 second-half run, University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball fought off a pair of comeback bids to earn an 81-72 Great Lakes Valley Conference road victory over host Rockhurst University Saturday afternoon.

The No. 10/15 Screaming Eagles (23-2, 15-1 GLVC), who picked up their 12th straight win, saw an 11-point second-quarter lead slip away as they faced a 43-41 deficit with less than six minutes to play in the third period.

USI got a three-point play from junior guard Alex Davidson (Salem, Indiana) to take a brief one-point advantage with 5:14 to play in the third. Davidson gave USI a 46-45 lead moments later; while a three-pointer by senior guard/forward Kaydie Grooms (Marshall, Illinois) put USI up 49-45.

Senior forward Morgan Dahlstrom (Grayslake, Illinois) put USI in front by six with less than four minutes to play in the third quarter, while a Grooms layup had USI up 53-45 with three minutes to play in the period.

When it was all said and done, USI held a 60-47 lead with nine minutes to play in the game after trailing in the second half for the first time in nearly a month.

Rockhurst (10-14, 6-10 GLVC) made another charge as it went on a 9-2 run to trim the Eagles’ lead to six (62-56) with six minutes to play in the contest.

Dahlstrom, however, hit back-to-back baskets with less than four minutes to play to put USI back up by double-digits. The Eagles’ lead shrunk to six in the final minute, but USI was able to ice the game at the free throw line.

Grooms led the Eagles with 26 points and a career-high tying 12 rebounds, while Dahlstrom earned her league-leading 12th double-double of the year with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Grooms had 15 points and six rebounds in the final 10 minutes of the first half, including a buzzer-beating rebound and basket to end the first period.

Davidson finished with 13 points and three blocks, while senior guard Randa Harshbarger (Philo, Illinois) chipped in nine points. Senior guard Jillian Myers led Rockhurst with 21 points.

USI returns to action Thursday at 5:30 p.m. when it travels to Somers, Wisconsin, to take on the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Notes: USI’s deficit in the second half was the first time the Eagles have trailed in the last 20 minutes since being down 39-37 in the third quarter against Truman State January 20…USI moved to within one win of clinching its second straight GLVC East Division title…the Eagles can clinch the Division with a win Thursday or a victory over Lewis University Saturday…despite the win, USI slipped into a tie with Drury for first in the latest GLVC Tournament Points Rating System as both teams

EPD ACTIVITY REPORT

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EPD REPORT

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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“READERS FORUM” FEBRUARY 18, 2018

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Commentary: Mediocrity Plus ‘Pure Evil’ Is A Deadly combination In Parkland

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By Michael Leppert
www.contrariana.com

It has been one of those weeks, like so many other weeks in America.

It started off with a big dose of optimism when former First Lady Michelle Obama visited Indianapolis. Her speeches are always positive and always uplifting. I found myself anxiously straining to hear a thought from her that was uniquely provocative. And she delivered.

On a night when Obama was here to raise money for the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana, she spent most of her time opening her playbook on how to be successful. First as a person, then as a woman, and then as a woman of color. Oddly, most of the lessons work for any American.

Then she surprised me when she described the difference between many people in the boardrooms and political caucuses across the nation. The tables in these rooms are surrounded by people, mostly white men, for a very simple reason. She said: “There are very mediocre people out there who run stuff, but nobody out there told them they can’t.” Then she told the crowd of mostly women: “You’re just as capable.”

That is so true. Only mediocre people in the position of power, would choose inaction and the status quo after what happened in Parkland, Florida on Wednesday. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is the latest location of the real American carnage, another senseless killing spree in one of our schools. Again, by use of an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.

These places have a certain sacredness to us when we debate curricula or funding mechanisms. We invest in our children and their futures out of collective duty. When spending tax dollars in Indiana, nothing ranks higher than what we spend on schools. It’s the military of the state budget. Both parties agree on its priority. Rural and urban voters both want the same level of quality. The school system’s success has more controllable impact on a community’s success than just about anything else.

But now we have to face the fact that our schools aren’t as sacred as we like to pretend. Young people are being killed there now. We have laws that make child sexual offenses and drug dealing more criminal than anyplace else. The Indiana Senate passed Senate Bill 33 last week to allow Hoosiers to bring a gun to a house of worship that is also on school property, under certain circumstances.

That idea reaches a whole new level of mediocrity.

Remember “bump stocks?” These are the contraptions added to an AR-15 that transform the semi-automatic aspect of the rifle into performing like it is automatic. It was used in the Las Vegas massacre last fall, and the nation learned about the devices as a result. Politicians from coast to coast were fired up about banning them or applying some extreme regulation to them, because the existence of these devices is just craziness. In Vegas, the use of a bump stock was “pure evil.”

And then mediocrity got the best of us again, and almost nothing happened.

Massachusetts, New Jersey and some localities are the exception. The Congress, which is fantastic at sending exactly 535 thoughts and prayers tweets each time a mass shooting occurs, just can’t fight off its mediocrity to take some sort of step toward sane and measured gun legislation.

I guess some group who is not mediocre is going to have to lead us through this challenge. Like Obama mentioned here on Tuesday night in Bankers Life Fieldhouse in front of a crowd of 13,000 people, “you’re just as capable.” Personally, I believe any random 535 people from that room is actually far more capable.

Any member of Congress who thinks doing nothing is better than trying something that fails needs run out of Congress in the fall. There are plenty of small incremental steps that can be taken that might help, that might cause a shift, that might show the soldiers of the Second Amendment that we can protect our kids and their gun rights at the same time.

Right now, guns are more important than kids, and schools. Our politicians’ fear of the NRA and other gun groups is keeping them from seeing what really matters. And their mediocrity has eroded their intelligence and objectivity into oblivion.

Is America the planet’s center of “pure evil” or “mental illness” and that’s why these things occur here with almost statistical exclusivity? I doubt that. But when the mediocrity of our leaders gets added, catastrophe becomes all but certain.

I again will focus my thoughts and prayers at a Congress that desperately needs them. It is their souls that need prayers more than the souls of the innocent victims who died in Parkland this week. And it is their mediocrity that is complicit in this uniquely American shame.

Michael Leppert is a public and governmental affairs consultant in Indianapolis and writes his thoughts about politics, government and anything else that strikes him at Contrariana.com.

Hoosiers Win Two Titles on Final Night of Big Ten Championships

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Hoosiers Win Two Titles on Final Night of Big Ten Championships

 COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 9-ranked Indiana University women’s swimming and diving team ended the 2018 Women’s Big Ten Championships on a high note Saturday night at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio.

The Hoosiers won two Big Ten titles on Saturday night, bringing the team’s total to five for the week. In total, the Hoosiers won 10 medals – five gold, one silver and four bronze.

Indiana finished in second place at the Big Ten Championships with a total score of 1,152.5 points. Michigan won the team title with a score of 1,465, while Ohio State placed third with a total of 1,094.5. IU scored 27.5 more points than the team did last season at the Big Ten.

IU has placed first or second at the Big Ten Championships in each of the last 10 years, winning the title three-straight times from 2009 to 2011. The Hoosiers have finished second the last seven seasons.

Earning First-Team All-Big Ten honors for the Hoosiers were Grace Haskett, Christine Jensen

Lilly King, Jessica Parratto, and Ali Rockett.

Lilly King continued her unprecedented run in the breaststroke on Saturday night, winning the 200 breaststroke for the third-straight season with an NCAA A cut and McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion pool record time of 2:04.68. King’s time is the fourth-best mark in school history and ranks as the top-time in the nation this season.

With her win on Saturday night, King becomes the first woman in Big Ten history to sweep both the 100 and 200 breast three-straight years. In three seasons, King has won 12 Big Ten titles – seven individual and five on relays.

Also, in the Championship Final, Laura Morley finished eighth overall with an NCAA B cut time of 2:11.55. In the B Final, freshman Abby Kirkpatrick was sixth to place 14thoverall with a personal-best and B cut mark of 2:12.80. In the C Final, Mackenzie Atencio was third to take 19th overall with a PR and B cut of 2:13.40.

In the Championship Final of the platform dive, IU’s Jessica Parratto repeated as Big Ten champion to win the third title of her career with an NCAA Zones qualifying score of 378.15. Parratto’s mark is the fourth-best in school history and included dives that earned scores of 86.40 and 81.60.

Parratto had a tremendous week at the Big Ten Championships, as the redshirt junior was one of just three divers to make the Championship Final of all three events.

Senior Kennedy Goss led five Hoosiers in the 200 backstroke finals, winning the bronze medal in the Championship Final with an NCAA B cut time of 1:51.66.

In the B Final of the 200 back, Rachel Matsumura led a trio of Hoosiers with NCAA B cuts. The senior took third to place 11th overall with a time of 1:55.13, while Marie Chamberlain was 15th in 1:56.51. Freshman Camryn Forbes was 15th in a time of  1:57.47.

In the C Final, freshman Bailey Kovac took second to finish 18th overall with a personal-best and NCAA B cut time of 1:56.73.

In the 1,650 freestyle, Cassy Jernberg had a great performance, finishing fifth overall with an NCAA B cut and personal-best time of 15:54.41. Jernberg’s time is the fifth-fastest in school history and was less than a second off an NCAA A cut.

In the 400 freestyle relay, the Hoosier team of Delaney Barnard, Holly Spears, Kennedy Goss and Shelby Koontz just missed the school record time by 0.01 seconds, placing fifth overall with an NCAA B cut time of 3:15.76.

Shelby Koontz led three Hoosiers in the 200 butterfly, placing seventh overall in the Championship Final with an NCAA B cut time of 1:56.95.

In the B Final, Reagan Cook was seventh to place 15th overall with a B cut of 1:58.66. In the C Final, junior Christine Jensen capped her great week, touching the wall first with a personal-best and NCAA B cut time of 1:57.98.

Delaney Barnard led three IU swimmers in the B Final of the 100 freestyle, all of whom touched the wall with NCAA B cuts. Barnard took third to finish 11th overall with a  personal-best time of 49.23. Holly Spears was 12th overall with a time of 49.36, while Maria Paula Heitmann was 14th in 49.73.

In the C Final, senior Ali Rockett tied for second to finish in a tie for 17th overall with a PR and NCAA B cut time of 49.48. Freshman Grace Haskett took 23rd overall with a time of 50.22.

Over the course of the Big Ten Championships, the Hoosiers posted some impressive accolades. Indiana broke two school records, two Big Ten records, two Big Ten meet records and six McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion pool records. IU also amassed seven NCAA A cut times and had 58 personal-best marks.

Be sure to keep up with all the latest news on the Indiana men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams on social media – Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

First-Team All-Big Ten

Grace Haskett

Christine Jensen

Lilly King

Jessica Parratto

Ali Rockett

Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Honoree

Rachel Matsumura

 1,650 Freestyle

  1. Cassy Jernberg – 15:54.41 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)
  2. Anne Rouleau – 16:49.33 (Personal Best)
  3. Josie Grote – 16:52.43 (Personal Best)

 200 Backstroke

  1. Kennedy Goss – 1:51.66 (NCAA B Cut)
  2. Rachel Matsumura – 1:55.13 (NCAA B Cut)
  3. Marie Chamberlain – 1:56.51 (NCAA B Cut)
  4. Camryn Forbes – 1:57.47 (NCAA B Cut)
  5. Bailey Kovac – 1:56.73 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)

100 Freestyle

  1. Delaney Barnard – 49.23 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)
  2. Holly Spears – 49.36 (NCAA B Cut)
  3. Maria Paula Heitmann – 49.73 (NCAA B Cut)

T-17. Ali Rockett – 49.48 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)

  1. Grace Haskett – 50.22

200 Breaststroke

  1. Lilly King – 2:04.68 (NCAA A Cut, Pool Record)
  2. Laura Morley – 2:11.55 (NCAA B Cut)
  3. Abby Kirkpatrick – 2:12.80 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)
  4. Mackenzie Atencio – 2:13.40 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)

200 Butterfly

  1. Shelby Koontz – 1:56.95 (NCAA B Cut)
  2. Reagan Cook – 1:58.66 (NCAA B Cut)
  3. Christine Jensen – 1:57.98 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)

Platform Dive

  1. Jessica Parratto – 378.15 (NCAA Zones Qualifying Score)

400 Freestyle Relay

  1. Delaney Barnard, Holly Spears, Kennedy Goss, Shelby Koontz – 3:15.76 (NCAA B Cut)

Aces Defense Shines In Second Day At Georgia

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UE Drops A  Pair Of Contests On Saturday

Todays Game Will Be Carried On CNN

 ATHENS, Ga. – The defense was the story for the University of Evansville softball team as the Purple Aces finished up the second day of the Red & Black Showcase, hosted by the University of Georgia.

Game one saw the Aces (2-4) drop an 8-0 contest to #17 Georgia before playing another defensive struggle against Winthrop, falling 1-0.  Evansville’s defense was a bright spot on the day as the team did not make an error in either contest.

“Our defense was outstanding today, I cannot emphasize that enough,” UE head coach Mat Mundell said.  “We hung tough with Georgia but just a few plays got away from us.  This team has all of the pieces to be great, we are just still putting it all together.”

UE faced the Bulldogs to open play on Saturday afternoon.  Emily Lockhart tossed two scoreless innings before Georgia got on the board with three runs in the third.  Four more in the fifth and a single run in the sixth game them an 8-0 win in six frames.

First baseman Alysen Febrey went a perfect 3-3 with four RBIs for the Bulldogs while Brittany Gray gave up one hit in the game.  Kristin Koepke notched the hit for the Purple Aces.  Lockhart went four innings, allowing seven runs before freshman Jaime Nurrenbern went 1 1/3 innings of relief.  She allowed one run on a hit.

Evansville was right back on the diamond just minutes after facing the Bulldogs as they took on Winthrop for the second day in a row.  Friday’s game was a defensive battle and Saturday’s matchup took the same path.

The Eagles plated a run in the bottom of the second inning and held on for the 1-0 victory.  Ashleigh Downing had a strong day in the circle, tossing four innings of 1-run ball.  She gave up just five hits.  Morgan Florey pitched the final two frames and did not allow a baserunner.  She struck out four.  Mea Adams had the hit for the Aces.

Winthrop’s run came on a solo shot by Ansley Gilreath.  That was one of Winthrop’s five hits.  Sabrina Shroades earned the win, pitching seven innings while giving up one hit and two walks.

FOOTNOTE: Todays UE game begins at 9:30 a.m. CT game against Samford before completing the tournament with a noon CT contest against Georgia.  That game will be carried live on ESPN3.

Food Inspection Report For Vanderburgh County

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