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University of Evansville Baseball Team Swept By Kennesaw State

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ATLANTA, Ga. – Despite big offensive displays in both ends of a doubleheader, the University of Evansville baseball team (1-5) was swept by Kennesaw State (3-4), 10-9 and 8-6, in Atlanta Saturday afternoon.

In the opening contest, the Purple Aces raced out to a quick 4-0 lead highlighted by a three-run first, led by senior designated hitter Travis Tokarek’s 2-run home run to right, his first of the season. Sophomore center fielder Kenton Crews added to the pad in the second frame with an RBI infield single.

The Owls would winnow the lead down to 5-3 as junior starting pitcher Alex Weigand got tagged for a solo home run by Forrest Bramlett in the bottom of the 2nd inning, followed by a 2-run single off the bat of Jake Franklin.

However, the Aces kept swinging. In the 4th inning sophomore shortstop, Craig Shepherd drove in Crews on an RBI single. Then, Andrew Tanous delivered a base hit to center, scoring Shepherd, pushing the lead back up to four runs.

In the 5th, sophomore first baseman Troy Beilsmith lifted a run-scoring lace to left, bringing home freshman third baseman Tanner Craig. Another first-year player, second baseman Pete Vaccaro, followed that up sending a single back up the middle, tallying Beilsmith to push UE’s lead to 9-6.

Weigand would leave the game after five solid innings, striking out six, while allowing three runs on six hits and three walks. However, the bullpen couldn’t hold the lead. Jimmy Ward got the first two outs of the sixth, but the third was not so easy. Kennesaw State’s Grant Williams drove in one run on an RBI double down the left field line. Then Ward uncorked a wild pitch that allowed another run totally, cutting the Evansville lead to 9-5.

The Owls would continue slugging in the 7th, forcing a pitching change, with Nathan Croner relieving Ward. Croner got a strikeout, then was quickly pulled for Matt Brady. However, Brady’s luck was not as good, as the Aces lone fielding error of the game allowed one run to score. Then, Garrett Hodges kept the rally going with a run-scoring single up the middle, dropping the UE lead down to two.

Brady came back out for the 8th, and after giving up a walk and a double was tagged for a game-tying 2-run single by Jake Franklin, knotting it up at nine.

Sophomore closer Adam Lukas took over for Brady in the ninth, and after getting the first out of the frame, gave up the game-winning walk-off solo home run to Hodges, as the Owls took a 10-9 decision.

“The energy was good and we put ourselves in a position to win the first game, but we couldn’t find a way to close the door,” said University of Evansville head coach Wes Carroll. “We had a disastrous 6th inning on the mound that we could not recover from.”

Game two of the twin bill saw the Aces bounce back from an early deficit, behind 2-run home runs off the bats of Dalton Horstmeier and Andrew Tanous to build a 5-1 lead on Kennesaw State after five innings.

However, sophomore starting pitcher David Ellis couldn’t get out of the sixth frame, charged with three runs. Reliever Nathan Croner couldn’t stop the bleeding, giving up two more tallies without registering an out. Freshman reliever Austin Ruesch would finally put out the fire, but UE was down 7-5 after six innings.

The Aces would attempt a rally in the 7th, as freshman third baseman Tanner Craig would driving Craig Shepherd on an RBI single to center, cutting the deficit to one.

But Evansville would draw no closer, and Kennesaw State would add an insurance run in the bottom of the frame, and go onto win 8-6.

The Aces will look to avoid the sweep tomorrow in the series finale in Atlanta. First pitch from Stillwell Stadium is at 12 p.m. central time.

Traffic Stop Nets Over 140 Grams of Meth

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At approximately 12:57 this morning, Trooper CJ Boeckman stopped the driver of a 2010 Dodge Charger for driving 44 mph in a 30 mph zone on SR 257 in Otwell.  The driver was identified as John Allen, 33, of Petersburg and the passenger was identified as Edward Simison, 40, of Washington.

Due to suspicious activity, Trooper Boeckman searched the vehicle and discovered 144 grams of methamphetamine, a small amount of heroin, drug paraphernalia and a syringe loaded with suspected heroin. Allen and Simison were arrested and taken to the Pike County Jail where they are currently being held without bond.

Arrested and Charges:

  • John Allen, 33, Petersburg, IN
  • Edward Simison, 40, Washington, IN
  1. Dealing Methamphetamine, Class 2 Felony
  2. Possession of Methamphetamine, Class 5 Felony
  3. Possession of Heroin, Class 6 Felony
  4. Unlawful Possession of a Syringe, Class 6 Felony
  5. Maintaining a Common Nuisance, Class 6 Felony

EPD ACTIVITY REPORT

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Vanderburgh County Recent booking records

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“READERS FORUM” FEBRUARY 24, 2018

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WHATS ON YOUR MIND TODAY?

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EVSC Responds to National Student Walkout

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FEBRUARY 23RD, 2018  TYRONE MORRIS EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

School officials at Central High School in Evansville braced for a student walkout Friday but it didn’t happen. Rumors were flying about a walkout to protest gun violence.

They would have joined other student protests around the country in response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Central High School officials say they were ready in case the walkout happened. While this was only rumor officials are keeping a close eye on all events, real or threatened.

EVSC Chief Communications Officer Jason Woebkenberg says, “If students can figure out a way to do that in a respectful, organized, peaceful manner, then we would perhaps work with and consider talking to student leadership groups in our schools that would want to lead that type of thing next month so we’ve actually started that dialogue, it’s at the beginning stages of that.”

A national student walkout is reportedly scheduled for March 14th.

School officials wouldn’t say if any disciplinary action will be taken against students who stage or join walkouts.

They say disciplinary action is decided on a case by case basis.

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Commentary: Hoosier Students, Advisers Deserve Better

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By Ryan Gunterman
TheStatehouseFile.com

They deserve better than this.

Hoosier student journalists and their teachers deserve better than what the Indiana House of Representatives did to them the evening of Feb. 5. They deserve better than the fear mongering by the associations representing principals, superintendents and school boards while lobbying those legislators. They deserve better than to be told the most-important 45 words in U.S. history apply to everyone but them, that they are second-class citizens.

What they deserve is for “New Voices” HB 1016, protections for student journalists, to be law.

They deserve to see their state values them, and their ideas, as a part of their communities and democracy as a whole. However, that’s not the message delivered from those running their government and schools.

Ryan Gunterman, executive director, Indiana High School Press Association

No, instead they were told the opposite.

Students heard Rep. Tony Cook, R-Cicero, tell them mass chaos and violence would occur if they were given the rights granted to the rest of the public. He told them censorship isn’t really a problem, and their pleas for freedom from suppression were based off a couple rare instances of prior restraint.

It didn’t matter 13 other states have passed similar legislation and survived. It didn’t matter that more than 180 years of combined case law has yet to find a school liable for student expression in those same states. It also didn’t matter that the Indiana High School Press Association was working on five separate censorship cases when Cook told his colleagues it wasn’t happening.

That’s what he told them.

Students then heard Rep. Wendy McNamara, R-Evansville, tell them they lacked the brain development to properly use the First Amendment. She told them they needed to only model the behavior exhibited by the adults in their lives, doing otherwise could result in the deterioration of the school environment.

It didn’t matter that examples of the professional press depending upon the reporting of college and high school students can be found in nearly every state. It didn’t matter that scholastic journalists have improved their communities by addressing problems ranging from opioid abuse to underage drinking when school officials and legislators were unable, or unwilling, to do so.

That’s what she told them.

Finally, students heard Rep. Bob Morris, R-Fort Wayne, tell them their request to be treated equally is an effort “to make the school look the same way as these people that write about the fake news on a daily basis.” He told them administrators must have the final say in the editorial process, even though students and advisers have more experience in the field than anyone within their school.

It didn’t matter separate studies by the University of Kansas and Indiana University have shown those in scholastic journalism are better students and citizens than their peers. It didn’t matter that Indiana teachers are required to earn a journalism certification before teaching the course that instructs future reporters on how to avoid being “these people that write about the fake news.”

That’s what he told them.

Cook, McNamara, Morris and the other 43 representatives who voted against HB 1016 sent students this message, inaccuracies and all, because it’s what principals, superintendents and school boards told them to do. Why else would the very same politicians who approved similar legislation 88-4 in 2017 prevent its passage merely a year later?

It might have something to do with the fact that last year administrative associations didn’t begin lobbying against the First Amendment until New Voices, then HB 1130, had moved out of the House and into the Senate. Once those groups did begin their campaign of scare tactics and myth distribution, the bill was never called to a vote and died.

Student journalists and their teachers didn’t deserve it then, either.

No, what they deserve are advocates such as Rep. Ed Clere, R-New Albany, and Rep. Ed DeLaney, D-Indianapolis, who co-authored the legislation in 2017 and 2018. What they deserve are the tireless efforts of the Hoosier State Press Association, Indiana High School Press Association and Indiana Collegiate Press Association.

What they deserve are principals such as David Clark of Columbus North High School, who told the House Education Committee a free student press is what’s best for everyone within the school community. What they deserve is someone like Plainfield High School student Anu Nattam, who stood up to legislators because she is unwilling to accept her school administrators’ suppression.

What Hoosier students and teachers deserve are leaders who will stand up for them, not against them.

Instead, they got the Indiana House of Representatives.

They deserve better.

FOOTNOTE: Ryan Gunterman is the executive director of the Indiana High School Press Association, which is affiliated with Franklin College.

IT’S STILL NOT GUNS

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Making Sense by Michael Reagan

During the intense media coverage of Wednesday’s tragic events in Parkland, Fla., I was shocked to hear it was the 18th school shooting so far this year.

18. In 45 days.

That sounds terrible.

That sounds like a huge American crisis that needs to be addressed immediately by our great leaders in Washington.

But that 18 number, which the anti-gun lobby in the media has emphasized without going into the details of the individual incidents, is highly misleading.

None of those previous shootings was anything like the horrible one on Wednesday that left 17 students and teachers dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The year’s worst previous shooting, which happened in Kentucky at a high school less than a month ago, left two students dead and 14 wounded by gunfire.

The only other death was a single murder that occurred on a college campus.

Two of the shootings that occurred at one of the country’s 120,000 public and private schools this year were suicides.

Some involved guns firing accidentally. And most of the other incidents were random shootings on public school property that resulted in no one being hurt.

But these details of the earlier shootings didn’t matter to religious anti-gun nuts in the media like Don Lemon of CNN and liberal politicians like Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut.

Before we knew hardly anything about the Parkland shooting they were offering their usual simplistic solution for stopping what Murphy exaggeratedly called “this epidemic of mass slaughter” in our schools.

To no one’s surprise, they called for new laws to control or outlaw guns, especially semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15.

Lemon and Murphy will never give up their gun-control pipe dreams.

But those of us who live in the real world know that no law will ever be devised or enforced that can stop a determined mass killer from getting his hands on a gun if he wanted one badly enough.

Anyway, guns aren’t the problem. There are 300 million of all kinds floating around the country. An infinitesimal fraction are used by people to hurt other people.

But there has to be something going on in our society that has caused angry, evil or mentally disturbed young men to plan and carry out these rare mass shootings at Columbine, Sandy Hook and Parkland.

Is it because of social media? Violent video games? Bullying in schools? Broken families? Anti-depressant drugs? Boredom? All of the above? Something else?

Whatever the cause, we need to sit down as a country and figure out how we can identify, help or stop crazy or violent individuals before they carry out their deadly attacks.

Meanwhile, forget the gun-control politics. If we really want to protect our kids in schools we have to get serious.

We need to put guards in our schools – armed guards, not spectators.

We need make sure any potential mass killer, young or old, knows that our schools are no longer “gun free” zones.

Better yet, as Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News suggests, we need to copy the Israelis.

For years they’ve successfully protected their schoolchildren’s lives from attack with strong fences, locked gates, careful ID checks and cameras.

But they’ve also done the smartest thing – arming and training classroom teachers who can defend against intruders. And no one knows which teacher is packing a gun.

Increasing security at our nearly 100,000 public schools to prevent future Parklands will cost us a lot of money.

Local districts and the states should pay most of the tab. But how about this idea:

Instead of the federal government raising my gas tax 12 cents a gallon and pretending it’s going to be used to fix our highways, why not use the money to hire guards for our schools – and give them guns they know how to use.

FOOTNOTE: THIS ARTICLE WAS POSTED BY THE CITY COUNTY OBSERVER WITHOUT ANY OPINION, BIAS OR EDITING.

We hope that article 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?”

IURC Nominating Committee Sends Three Candidates to Holcomb

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The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) Nominating Committee has submitted three nominees for consideration by Governor Eric J. Holcomb for appointment to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.

Those three nominees are:

  • Stefanie Krevda, IURC Executive Director of External Affairs
  • State Rep. David Ober
  • Tristan Vance, Indiana Office of Energy Development Director

The committee has nominated these three candidates to fill the current vacancy on the IURC created by the retirement of Commissioner Jim Atterholt. Gov. Holcomb may select one of the three nominees to serve the remainder of Atterholt’s term, which expires Jan. 31, 2020.

The nominating committee interviewed seven candidates for the vacancy and voted to send these three recommendations to Gov. Holcomb.

Members of the nominating committee are Committee Chairman Allen Paul, Eric Scroggins, John Blevins, Bill Davis, Jeb Bardon, Greg Server and Johnathan Little.

 

Indiana Qualifies 26 for Friday Night Finals at Big Ten Championships

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The No. 3-ranked Indiana University men’s swimming and diving team qualified 26 swimmers and divers for Friday night finals at the 2018 Big Ten Championships at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center in Minneapolis, Minn.

Among the 26 swimmers and divers, 14 will be competing in Championship Finals, including four each in the A Finals of the 100 backstroke and 3-meter dive. Six will compete in B Finals, while six will be in C Finals.

From the same day last year, Indiana has four more A Finalist, one more B Finalist and the same amount of C Finalists.

100 Butterfly

Vini Lanza will be the top seed in the Championship Final of the 100 butterfly on Friday night as the junior touched the wall in a NCAA A cut time of 45.25. Lanza’s impressive mark is the second-fastest time in school history.

IU will have three swimmers in the B Final, led by Nikola Miljenic who qualified ninth overall with a personal-best time of 46.47. Freshmen Gabriel Fantoni (46.68) and Bruno Blaskovic (46.76) both had PR’s to qualify.

In the C Final, Josh Romany (47.18) qualified with a personal-best time, while freshman Corey Gambardella earned his spot with a personal-best time of 47.54.

400 IM

Freshman Spencer Lehman was outstanding for the Hoosiers, qualifying for the Championship Final of the 400 IM with a personal-best time of 3:47.14. Lehman is the first Hoosier to qualify for the A Final of the 400 IM since Steve Schmuhl in 2015.

Both Trey Hubbuch (3:50.39) and Matthew Jerden (3:50.50) will swim in the B Final of the 400 IM after posting personal-best marks.

200 Freestyle

The Hoosiers will have the No. 2 and No. 3 seed for Friday night’s Championship Final of the 200 freestyle, as Mohamed Samy (1:33.94) and Blake Pieroni (1:34.01) both had great showings in the prelims.

100 Breaststroke

Ian Finnerty had a record-breaking performance in the 100 breaststroke prelims, earning the No. 1 seed for the Championship Final with a school, Big Ten and pool record time of 50.82. Finnerty’s time is a NCAA A cut and the second-best mark in the country this year.

Levi Brock had a career-best performance to earn the No. 2 seed for the A-Final, touching the wall with NCAA B cut time of 51.81. Brock’s time is the fifth-best in IU history and just missed a NCAA A cut by 0.07 seconds.

Sam Apa (53.62) will swim in the B Final after posting a PR, while both Matthew Jerden (54.60) and Jack Kucharczyk (54.97) earned spots in the C Final with personal-best marks.

100 Backstroke

Indiana put on a show in the 100 backstroke prelims, earning four of the top-seven seeds for the Championship Final on Friday night.

Freshman Gabriel Fantoni earned the No. 1 seed with a time of 45.82, while Mohamed Samy will be the No. 2 seed after posting a personal-best time of 46.52. Wilson Beckman recorded a PR of 46.87 to earn the No. 6 seed, while Jacob Steele will be No. 7 on Friday night after touching in a personal-best time of 47.00.

Senior Ali Khalafalla will swim in the C Final after registering a personal-best time of 47.56.

3-Meter Dive

For a second-straight day, the Hoosier divers had a tremendous showing. IU qualified an amazing four divers for Friday night’s Championship Final and had another score in the C Final.

James Connor qualified third overall with a total of 483.50 that ranks as the sixth-best score in IU history. Michael Hixon was fourth with a score of 475.35 that ranks as the eighth-best total in school history.

Senior Cody Coldren smashed his previous best in the event by over 30 points, qualifying fifth overall with a total of 434.80. Freshman Andrew Capobianco will be the No. 6 seed for the A Final after posting a 431.25.

Clark Carter took 24th overall in the event for Indiana, scoring one point for the Hoosiers with a score of 334.00.

The No. 3-ranked Hoosiers will continue competition at the 2018 Big Ten Championships on Friday evening with the finals of the 100 butterfly, 400 IM, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke, 3-meter dive and 200 freestyle relay. The action gets started at 7:30 p.m. ET at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center in Minneapolis.

 

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