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USI Volleyball rallies for four-set win over Quincy

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University of Southern Indiana Volleyball rallied from a one-set deficit to defeat visiting Quincy University 16-25, 25-17, 28-26, 25-16 in a Great Lakes Valley Conference match Friday night at the Physical Activities Center.

Freshman setter Casey Cepicky (St. Louis, Missouri) had 47 assists, seven kills, a .462 attacking percentage and 11 digs to lead the Screaming Eagles, who won for the ninth time in the last 11 outings.

Sophomore outside hitter Mikaila Humphrey (Floyd Knobs, Indiana) and sophomore middle hitter Elexis Coleman (Joliet, Illinois) finished with 12 and 11 kills, respectively, while senior middle hitter Te’Ayla Whitfield (Fort Wayne, Indiana) added nine kills, a .300 attacking percentage and a match-high five blocks.

USI (12-15, 5-9 GLVC) also received seven kills apiece from sophomore outside hitter Lindsey Stose (Elkhart, Indiana) and sophomore right side hitter Amanda Jung (Belleville, Illinois). Stose also had a .429 attacking percentage.

Defensively, senior libero Shannon Farrell (Munster, Indiana) led the Eagles with 20 digs, while junior defensive specialist Haley Limper (Springfield, Illinois) and freshman defensive specialist Callie Gubera(Thorntown, Indiana) respectively chipped in 12 and nine digs. Farrell needs just 35 digs to break the program’s career mark of 1,848, currently held by former USI standout Kayla Heldman.

USI returns to action Saturday at 3 p.m. when it hosts the University of Missouri-St. Louis for Senior Day at the PAC. The Eagles will honor their four seniors—Farrell, Whitfield, defensive specialist Jessica Lee(Mackinaw, Illinois) and outside hitter Shelbi Morris (Brazil, Indiana)—prior to Saturday’s match.

The Tritons (19-7, 9-6 GLVC) earned a four-set road win over the University of Indianapolis Friday night.

Set 1
Quincy used a 13-4 run and a .318 attacking percentage to grab the nine-point win in the opener. Coleman and Jung each had three kills to pace USI.

Set 2
The Eagles used a blistering .440 attacking percentage to pick up the eight-point win in the second frame. Coleman and Whitfield each had three kills to lead USI, which had runs of 5-0 and 9-3 to even the match at a set apiece.

Set 3
USI had five blocks in the third set, including two in the final six rallies, to pull out a two-point win and take a one-set lead over the Hawks. Whitfield had four blocks in the third set to lead the Eagles, who led 22-19 before being forced to fight off set-point at 24-23.

Set 4
The Eagles used a 9-0 run midway through the stanza to take control of the fourth set. Stose had four kills to lead USI, which held Quincy to just four kills and .000 attacking percentage.

Short Box Score (Match)
Quincy vs Southern Indiana (Nov 03, 2017 at Evansville, IN)

Southern Indiana def. Quincy 16-25,25-17,28-26,25-16

Quincy (7-19, 4-11 GLVC) (Kills-aces-blocks) – Raebel, Bekah 15-0-1; Bobby Eastman 10-0-4; Licurgo, Jessica 8-0-4; Nadler, Lauren 4-0-0; King, Taylor 4-0-3; Rothermich, Alaina 3-1-0; Rathbun, Sara 1-0-0; Grenda, Lucy 1-0-0; Mueller, Kaeley 1-0-1; Gonzalez, Marissa 0-1-0; Totals 47-2-7.0. (Assists) – Rodriguez, Miranda 29; Rathbun, Sara 12. (Dig leaders) – Gonzalez, Marissa 23; Rodriguez, Miranda 12; Rothermich, Alaina 8

Southern Indiana (12-15, 5-9 GLVC) (Kills-aces-blocks) – Humphrey, Mikaila 12-0-0; Coleman, Elexis 11-0-1; Whitfield, Te’Ayla 9-0-5; Jung, Amanda 7-0-3; Cepicky, Casey 7-0-2; Stose, Lindsey 7-0-0; Gubera, Callie 1-0-0; Gardner, Lizzy 1-0-0; Limper, Haley 0-1-0; Farrell, Shannon 0-5-0; Totals 55-6-6.0. (Assists) – Cepicky, Casey 47. (Dig leaders) – Farrell, Shannon 20; Limper, Haley 12; Cepicky, Casey 11; Gubera, Callie 9

Site: Evansville, IN (PAC)
Date: Nov 03, 2017   Attend: 112   Time: 1:52 pm
Referees: Bob Poyer, E.J. Swartz

Eagles outlasted by Vikings, 77-73

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University of Southern Indiana Men’s Basketball team opened the 2017-18 regular season campaign with a tough 77-73 loss to Augustana University during the first day of the Small College Basketball Tournament Friday evening at the Ford Center. USI starts the season 0-1, while Augustana begins 2017-18, 1-0.

In the first half, the Eagles struggled early as the Vikings built a 12-point lead, 28-16, with 11:30 left before halftime. USI caught fire in the final 10 minutes, using a 10-2 run to chop the deficit to four points twice, 30-26 and 33-29, before Augustana went into the locker room with a 39-32 advantage.

USI junior guard Alex Stein (Evansville, Indiana) had the hot hand in the first stanza with 13 points on five-of-seven from the field, two-of-four from beyond the arc, and one-of-two from the line. The Eagles, as a team shot 46.4 percent from the field in the opening 20 minutes.

The second half saw the Eagles fly out of the locker room and surge with a 9-2 run to tie the game, 41-41, with 17:52 to play. The teams would battle back-and-forth before USI took its largest lead of the game at 10:48, 55-50, on a three-point bomb by senior guard Marcellous Washington (Lexington, Kentucky).

The Vikings responded with an 8-0 run of their own to recapture the lead, 58-55. The two squad would trade leads until Augustana broke the tenth tie of the game with a 6-0 run to lead 72-66 with 1:17 remaining.

Stein and Washington hit buckets to cut the deficit to 74-71, but the Eagles could get no closer in the final 10 seconds as the Viking closed out a 77-73 final. Overall in the contest, there were 10 ties and 13 lead changes.

Individually, Stein finished the game with a game-high 26 points on 10-of-19 from the field, two-of-five from downtown, and four-of-five from charity stripe in 38 minutes of action. Washington followed with 21 points on six-of-17, three-of-nine long-range buckets, and a perfect six-of-six from the line, also in 38 minutes on the court.

USI, as a squad, out rebounded the Vikings, 37-36, and shot 45 percent from the field (27-60) during the 40 minutes.

The Eagles conclude the SCB Hall of Fame Classic tomorrow night when they play long-time rival Kentucky Wesleyan College at 6 p.m. The Panthers started their season in the classic’s final game of day one versus Montevallo College at the Ford Center.

USI trails the all-time series with KWC, 49-41, after winning four of the last six meetings since 2011-12.

USI ADVANCES TO GLVC TITLE GAME​ Eagles tie, but advance on PKs, 4-1

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The University of Southern Indiana men’s soccer team advanced to the Great Lakes Valley Conference championship game after winning a penalty kick shootout with Lewis University in the semifinals. The Screaming Eagles, the seventh seed, goes to 11-6-1 overall, while the Flyers, the third seed, see their record go to 12-4-2.

With the win, USI advances to the GLVC championship game for the first time since 2002 and will play the winner of fourth-seeded University of Indianapolis and eighth-seeded Missouri University of Science & Technology Sunday at Carroll Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Kickoff is slated for 2 p.m. (CDT). Follow the live coverage of USI Men’s Soccer in the post-season, including live stats and video, on GoUSIEagles.com.

USI has 10 GLVC men’s soccer titles since the conference was created in 1979, the most by any program in the league. The Eagles won the conference championships in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991.

After a scoreless first half, Lewis broke out on top with a tally at 72:07 to make the score, 1-0. The Eagles would respond with the tying goal a minute and a half later when sophomore midfielder Adam Becker(Columbia, Illinois) posted his first goal of the season at 73:37.

Becker was assisted on the goal by sophomore defender Jonathan Faas (Carmel, Indiana).

The 1-1 tie through the 90 minutes of regulation could not be resolved in the overtimes as USI was unsuccessful in the only two shots of the 20 extra minutes and set the stage for the Eagles in the shootout period.

In the shootout period, USI secured the right to advance to the GLVC championship game by converting each of its four penalty kicks. Senior defender Jacob Dickerson (Louisville, Kentucky), senior midfielder Cesar Alba (Hanover Park, Illinois), and senior midfielder Kyle Richardville (Vincennes, Indiana) gave USI a 3-1 advantage before senior midfielder Brian Fischer (Jeffersonville, Indiana) clinched the shootout win with the Eagles fourth-straight penalty kick conversion.

Between the posts, senior goalkeeper Adam Zehme (Orland Park, Illinois) added a tie to his overall record for the fall after saving two of the three penalty kicks in the shootout period. The shootout win for the second of Zehme’s career

UNI defeats UE volleyball, 3-0

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Aces head to Drake tomorrow

 Rocio Fortuny had a stellar night, notching 12 kills, but a combined 23 kills from Bri Weber and Piper Thomas helped UNI defeat the University of Evansville volleyball team by a 3-0 final on Friday evening at the McLeod Center.

Fortuny led the Purple Aces (10-15, 4-9 MVC) with her 12 kills.  Cathy Schreiber finished with six.  Mildrelis Rodriguez paced the team with 11 digs while Allana McInnis notched 19 assists.  For the Panthers (22-6, 12-2 MVC), Weber posted 12 while Thomas had 11 kills to lead the offense.

The Panthers got off to a great start in game one, scoring the first five points of the night.  Evansville kept up with UNI, getting within four at 11-7, but the opposition was able to pull away for a 25-11 win to start the night.

UE did better in game two.  UNI had another nice start, going up 10-5 before leading by as many as seven points at 18-11.  The Aces responded with a 6-2 run to get within three at 20-17.  Taylor Jones did the serving while Rachel Tam, Adeline Payne and Cathy Schreiber each had kills in the run.  Evansville continued to close as another Schreiber tally made it a 24-23 game before Piper Thomas got the clinching kill in a 25-23 victory and a 2-0 lead.

Evansville was unable to sustain the momentum from the end of the second tilt as the Panthers scooted away in the third set for a 25-14 win.  UNI jumped out to an 18-4 lead and held on from there to take the win.

Health Department leads push for diabetes awareness

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By Adrianna Pitrelli
TheStatehouseFile.com

 INDIANAPOLIS — Every 21 seconds someone is diagnosed with diabetes, which is why the Indiana State Department of Health is encouraging Hoosiers to take precautions against the deadly disease during November, National Diabetes Month.

“Diabetes is a serious and potentially life-threatening illness, but there are ways you can prevent or delay the onset of the most common types of diabetes,” said Dr. Kristina Box, state health commissioner in a statement. “Exercising, eating right, maintaining a healthy weight, avoiding tobacco use and getting your blood glucose checked regularly are all important steps toward a healthier life.”

Diabetes is a disease that develops when the body doesn’t produce enough insulin or is unable to use insulin effectively. Currently, 750,000 Hoosiers live with diabetes, a 37 percent increase since 2005.

The Indiana State Department of Health is organizing a prevention program to encourage people to increase physical activity, eat healthy and lose weight — all changes that could help save a person’s life.

The American Diabetes Association hopes to show Americans the importance of diabetes awareness.

“Diabetes is serious and it impacts all of us,” said Tracey Drzich, area executive director for American Diabetes Association. “Diabetes is so much more than the medications, devices and lifestyle tools used to manage it.”

In 2013, Indiana had four programs to help people with diabetes prevention, but program has expanded to 92 locations across the state. The program is targeted toward people with pre-diabetes — conditions one-third of Indiana adults have. People with pre-diabetes have blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.

Diabetes doesn’t just take a physical toll on people, it also can cause a financial strain. The average price for healthcare for a person without diabetes is $2,935 a year. But with the addition of the disease, healthcare can cost Hoosiers upward of $11,000, according to the Indiana State Department of Health.

Indiana State Department of Health also will partner with diabetes education programs to educate Hoosiers with diabetes about ways to lower blood sugar, like staying hydrated and controlling stress levels.

“It’s time to come together and raise awareness of the diabetes epidemic facing our nation.” Drzich said.

For information about the Indiana State Department of Health programs, Hoosiers are encouraged to visit preventdiabetes.isdh.in.gov. People can also share their diabetes story to spread awareness but using #DearDiabetes on social media.

Adrianna Pitrelli is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students

Vanderburgh County Recent booking Records

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“READERS FORUM” NOVEMBER 4, 2017

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WHATS ON YOUR MIND TODAY?

We hope that todays “Readers Forum” 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?”
 Todays READERS POLL question is: Do you feel that the partnership agreement between the STATEHOUSEFILE and the City COUNTY OBSERVER is really a big deal?
Please take time and read our newest feature articles entitled “LAW ENFORCEMENT, READERS POLL, BIRTHDAYS, HOT JOBS” and “LOCAL SPORTS” posted in our sections.  You now are able to subscribe to get the CCO daily.
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EDITOR’S FOOTNOTE:  Any comments posted in this column do not represent the views or opinions of the City County Observer or our advertisers

Congress Should Act Now To Permanently Repeal The Medical Device Excise Tax

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There’s a cloud of uncertainty hanging over one of Indiana’s most important employment sectors—the medical device industry. A sales tax on medical devices that has been suspended since 2016 will resume in 2018 unless Congress takes action to repeal it by the end of this year.

At a time when technical advancement in the life sciences is at an all-time high, this medical device sales tax threatens to stifle medical advancements, stop new investment, and prevent future job growth. Furthermore, the Obamacare system the tax was designed to support is crumbling under its own weight. For all those reasons, it’s time for Congress to permanently repeal the medical device tax.

Medical device companies are crucial to the continuing advancement of medicine, and the technology they produce has been life changing for families. Consider NICO Corporation, an Indianapolis-based company that developed a revolutionary technology called NICO BrainPath. The new technology creates a path the size of a dime in a person’s brain for a surgeon to operate with minimal damage or invasion.

Beyond astounding medical breakthroughs, the medical device industry also supports high-wage Indiana jobs. Our state has among the highest concentration of medical device jobs in the U.S., with the life sciences industry alone employing approximately 56,000 Hoosiers. Indiana’s booming life sciences industry is home to several medical device giants, such as Zimmer Biomet, Roche, Boston Scientific, and Cook Medical—along with countless smaller companies and startups. And, these medical device manufacturing jobs pay 41.7 percent more than the average wage in Indiana.

The negative effects of the medical device tax between 2013 and 2016 were clear: The tax resulted in the industry losing about $82 billion in medical device sales.Moreover, the tax stopped investment in new technology that was essential for healthcare advancement and for growing our economy.

Orthopediatrics, a company located in Warsaw, Indiana, had to freeze hiring and stop research and development for new products intended to help disabled children walk again because it needed the money to pay the medical device tax. Similarly, Cook Medical in Bloomington, Indiana, was forced to hold off on plans for five new manufacturing facilities in the Midwest so it could use the money to pay its tax bill.

The medical device tax has failed to achieve its purpose. Proponents of the tax said it would raise revenue to help pay for Obamacare and increase medical device sales. Instead, it has generated 27 percent less revenue than originally projected while reducing investment and billions in sales. We should be building a tax system that unleashes economic growth, not one that chokes it.

There are many complicated issues facing leaders in Washington in the months ahead, but repealing the medical device tax is a smart and straightforward move that will encourage innovation and economic growth in our state. Congress should act now to permanently repeal the medical device excise tax.

 

Condemned Killer Challenges State’s Execution Process

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By Adrianna Pitrelli for TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS — A death row inmate is challenging the state’s current method of execution on the grounds that the public should have had a chance to comment on the process put in place three years ago.

The Indiana Supreme Court considered the fate of the state’s death penalty protocol Thursday after hearing oral arguments in the case of Roy Ward. The case comes after Ward broke into a Dale, Spencer County, home in 2001 and raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl. He was sentenced to death in 2007.

Ward’s attorney, David Frank of Fort Wayne, argued the state didn’t properly follow administrative procedures when it chose the new lethal injection drug cocktail in 2014.

“The General Assembly dictates by law this combination of drugs use,” Justice Mark Massa said.

“If a state agency or unelected state agency adopts new protocols, they should do it in front of the public,” Frank said, noting current statute says public comment must be allowed. He argued because there was no public hearing, the death penalty protocol adopted in May 2014 is considered void.

The third drug added to the state’s cocktail — methohexital — has never been used in another state, which makes some wary about how it would affect death row inmates.

Often, death penalty appeals revolve around whether the drug mixture amounts to a violation of the 8th Amendment’s provisions against cruel and unusual punishment. Ward isn’t arguing that point, focusing instead on the drug not being chosen in front of the public.

But some justices wanted to know why this is being brought up now.

“This issue has never been raised before,” Justice Steven David said. “It’s not like the Department of Correction changed this in the last 25 years. There has never been a rule making application with what the ingredients of the injection are.”

This issue, however, has been raised in other states. In 2010, a Kentucky judge halted executions over concerns about the three-cocktail injection. In 2012, the state said it would switch to a two-cocktail injection, which uses a sedative and painkiller.

Indiana State Attorney Stephen Creason argued the statute gives the Department of Correction authority to choose lethal injection drugs like it did three years ago.

“Choice of drug only matters as to whether it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the federal Constitution if constitutionally valid the opinions of the public, the state agency and the state courts don’t matter in choosing a new drug,” Creason said.

There have been no execution dates set for the 12 death row inmates at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. If Ward’s appeal prevails, then the state would be left without legal means of carrying it out.

However, if the change enacted by the Department of Corrections was considered a rule, then it would have to go through the administrative process — if not, it stands as is.

The state’s high court is expected to decide the case in the next several months.

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

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TALK IS CHEAP And BETTER By Jim Redwine

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Gavel Gamut By Jim Redwine

TALK IS CHEAP (& BETTER)

Gentle Reader, you may recall last week’s column that set out the general philosophy of the Posey Circuit Court: “Talking is better than fighting”. Or, more generally, resolving conflicts instead of exacerbating them is what courts should do and the earlier the better.

Over twenty years ago my staff and I were searching for ways to ease the pain of Posey County families involved in divorce cases. At that time, my court reporter Synda Waters had the main responsibility for domestic relations matters in the Posey Circuit Court. With Synda’s help and the input of the rest of the court staff we initiated the procedure we still use today to attempt to assuage the fear, anger and frustration of couples who managed to once fall in love but for myriad reasons must now apply to the Court to untangle themselves.

The most salient feature we noted in many of these cases was people refused to talk to one another. Pride, disgust, jealousy, etc., etc., etc., prevented once loving couples from communicating with each other and, therefore, from any real chance of solving their problems.

Other sticking points were often lack of money and almost every case took too long. We decided we needed a faster, cheaper, less traumatic system of getting divorcing couples to where they could get on with their new lives even though they might still be tethered to their old ones, say for example, because of children or ongoing businesses.

We knew that statistically practically every court case resulted in some form of settlement. So we sought a procedure that would help couples settle their cases by themselves inexpensively and as close as possible to when the case was filed. Talking to one another at the beginning of the case as opposed to avoiding contact until later during an expensive and lengthy trial appeared to us to offer a better opportunity to set aside pride and discuss problems. The court-ordered Pre-pre-trial method was born.

Couples who had ceased communicating during their marriage were encouraged and facilitated by the Court to meet and attempt to resolve their conflicts. What we found was that once couples discussed their problems, often with the help of a court-appointed mediator, they could usually settle their case on their own. This simple, inexpensive procedure usually results in cases being resolved, children being better cared for, money being saved and families being able to maintain civil relationships even after the divorce.

A similar procedure is employed in most cases in the Posey Circuit Court although, of course, not every case is settled early and sometimes problems never get solved. However, I suggest Posey County is a more pleasant place for all of us to live when people with what they may have once thought were intractable problems sit down and work them out on their own.

As I have occasionally explained to warring couples who find it difficult to talk to one another and instead decide to come into Court spoiling for a fight, they can either have some stranger, me for example, decide their futures or they can do it themselves quicker, cheaper and better.

For more Gavel Gamut articles go to:

www.jamesmredwine.com

 

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