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BREAKING NEWS: IU Qualifies 14 for Saturday Night Finals at Big Ten Championships

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IU Qualifies 14 for Saturday Night Finals at Big Ten Championships

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Indiana University women’s swimming and diving team qualified 14 swimmers and diver for evening finals at the 2017 Big Ten Championships on Saturday afternoon at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center in West Lafayette, Ind.

The Hoosiers will five swimmers and one diver in Championship Finals on Saturday night, along with four swimmers in B Finals and four swimmers in C Finals. IU will also have three swimmers in the 1,650 freestyle this afternoon.

200 Backstroke
The Hoosiers will bring back four swimmers for Saturday night’s finals of the 200 backstroke, led by Kennedy Goss who was the top qualifier for the Championship Final with a NCAA B cut time of 1:52.02.

Rachel Matsumura will swim in the B Final after touching the wall with a personal-best and NCAA B cut time of 1:55.28. Her mark ranks her as the 12th-best performer in the event in school history.

Ali Rockett (1:56.93) and Shelly Drozda (1:57.77) will both swim in the C Final of the 200 backstroke after posting a pair of NCAA B cut. Katherine Keller finished 46th overall with a time of 2:01.56.

100 Freestyle
Holly Spears will lead a pair of IU swimmers in the B Final of the 100 freestyle after posting a NCAA B cut time of 49.62. Joining her will be freshman Maria Paula Heitmann, who qualified 16th overall after touching the wall in a personal-best and NCAA B cut time of 49.76. Heitmann entered the race seeded 66th.

Shelby Koontz earned a spot in the C Final with a personal-best and NCAA B cut mark of 49.78. With their times, Heitmann is ranked 14th all-time at IU, while Koontz comes in at No. 15 on the list.

Delaney Barnard just missed qualifying for the C Final by 0.01 seconds, finishing 25th with a time of 50.06.

200 Breaststroke
Defending NCAA and Big Ten champion Lilly King will be the No. 2 seed for tonight’s Championship Final of the 200 breaststroke, touching the wall with a NCAA B cut time of 2:07.67. King, who was also the No. 2 seed at last year’s conference championships, posted the ninth-best time in IU history in prelims.

Joining King in the A Final will be Laura Morley, who qualified eighth overall with a personal-best and NCAA B cut time of 2:11.50. With her mark, Morley ranks as the ninth-best performer in the event in program history.

Mackenzie Atencio placed 28th overall, tying her personal-best time with a mark of 2:16.28, maintaining her spot as 18th-best all-time at Indiana. Hope Hayward placed 33rd with a time of 2:18.01, while Taylor Truex took 50th with a mark of 2:26.77.

200 Butterfly
Three-time defending Big Ten champion Gia Dalesandro will be the No. 1 seed for the A Final of the 200 butterfly after touching the wall with a NCAA B cut time of 1:56.26. Joining Dalesandro in the Championship Final will be Bailey Pressey, who qualified seventh with a NCAA B cut time of 1:56.93.

After tying for 16th in the prelims with a NCAA B cut time of 1:59.10, Reagan Cook won a swim-off to take the final spot in the B Final with a personal-best time of 1:57.32. Olivia Barker will swim in the C Final for the Hoosiers after posting a 1:59.68.

Platform Dive
Jessica Parratto had a tremendous prelim session, earning the No. 1 seed for Saturday night’s Championship Final of the platform dive with a NCAA qualifying score of 322.50.

Parratto hit for two dive over 70 points – 75.00 and 72.00 – in the second and third round to get to the head of the pack. Parratto then hit for 62.70 and 67.00 in the final two rounds to earn the top spot.

In 2015, Parratto won both the Big Ten and NCAA Championships in the platform dive.

The Hoosiers will wrap up the 2017 Big Ten Championships on Saturday evening with the finals of the 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke, 200 butterfly, platform dive and 1,650 freestyle. The action gets underway at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center in West Lafayette at 6:30 p.m. ET.

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.

200 Backstroke
Kennedy Goss – 1:52.02 (NCAA B cut – A Final)
Rachel Matsumura – 1:55.28 (Personal Best, NCAA B cut – B Final)
Ali Rockett – 1:56.93 (NCAA B cut – C Final)
Shelly Drozda – 1:57.77 (NCAA B cut – C Final)
46. Katherine Keller – 2:01.56

100 Freestyle
Holly Spears – 49.62 (NCAA B cut – B Final)
Maria Paula Heitmann – 49.76 (Personal Best, NCAA B cut – B Final)
Shelby Koontz – 49.78 (Personal Best, NCAA B cut – C Final)
25. Delaney Barnard – 50.06

200 Breaststroke
Lilly King – 2:07.67 (NCAA B cut – A Final)
Laura Morley – 2:11.50 (Personal Best, NCAA B cut – A Final)
28. Mackenzie Atencio – 2:16 28 (Tied Personal Best)
33. Hope Hayward – 2:18.01
50. Taylor Truex – 2:26.77

200 Butterfly
Gia Dalesandro – 1:56.26 (NCAA B cut – A Final)
Bailey Pressey – 1:56.93 (NCAA B cut – A Final)
Reagan Cook – 1:59.10 (NCAA B cut – B Final; 1:57.32 in swim-off – Personal Best)
Olivia Barker – 1:59.68 (C Final)
25. Christine Jensen – 2:00.09 (Personal Best
33. Sam Lisy – 2:02.04 (Personal Best)

Platform Dive
Jessica Parratto – 322.50 (NCAA Qualifying score)

CHANNEL 44 NEWS: Four Men Arrested And Accused Of Child Sex Abuse In Warrick County

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Four Men Arrested And Accused Of Child Sex Abuse In Warrick County

The Warrick County Sheriff’s Office arrests four men in child sexual abuse cases. Lenis McClain is accused of molesting a child under 10 years old. The victim talked about the abuse during an interview at Holly’s House. He was released after posting…

Eagles soar through the Stars, 90-57

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The 14th-ranked University of Southern Indiana men’s basketball team posted a 33-point win over the University of Illinois Springfield, 90-57, Thursday evening at the Physical Activities Center. USI sees its record go to 24-2 overall and 14-2 in the GLVC, while Illinois Springfield goes to 8-17 overall, 3-13 GLVC.

The win gives USI a first round bye in the upcoming GLVC Tournament and keeps the Screaming Eagles one game back of fourth-ranked and GLVC East Division leading Bellarmine University. USI leads third-place University of Indianapolis by two games in the GLVC East, while the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and Lewis University fell into a tie for fourth with a pair of losses tonight.

USI also reached 14 wins in the GLVC for the first time since 2010-11 and the 19th-time in the history of the program.

A two-point game through much of the opening half with the Eagles posting a 22-20 lead with 5:50 left before the intermission. USI broke the game open in the final five minutes of the first stanza with a 21-2 run and led 43-24 at the break.

The 21-3 run was led by the nine-point effort of senior guard/forward Jeril Taylor (Louisville, Kentucky), who topped the 1,000 point plateau with his third three-point bomb of the run and had 13 points before halftime. Taylor is the 19th Eagle to reach the 1,000 point plateau.

USI sophomore guard Alex Stein (Evansville, Indiana) matched Taylor’s 13 first half points, hitting five-of-six from the field and two-of-three from beyond the arc. Stein scored seven of the 13 points in the first eight minutes and combined with senior guard Bobo Drummond (Peoria, Illinois) to score the team’s first 16 points.

In the second half, Illinois Springfield cut the USI’s advantage to 11 points, 49-38, before the Eagles hit the boosters and flew through the Stars on a 28-7 run to make the score, 77-43, with 6:28 to play. USI never looked back from that point as it would lead by as many as 40 points twice before settling for the 90-57 win.

As a team, USI also shined on the defensive end of the floor. The Eagles, as a squad, had eight steals, four blocks, and forced 15 turnovers.

Individually, Stein added 10 points in the second half to finish with a game-high 23 points. The sophomore guard was nine-of-12 from the field, three-of-four from long range, and two-of-two from the line.

Taylor followed Stein in the scoring column with 22 points and grabbed a career-high 16 rebounds for his seventh double-double of the year. The senior guard/forward, in addition to reaching 1,000 career points, moved into 25th place all-time at USI with 415 career rebounds.

USI junior guard Marcellous Washington (Lexington, Kentucky) and Drummond rounded out the double-figure scores for the Eagles with 14 points and 11 points, respectively.

The Eagles conclude the 2016-17 home slate Saturday at 3:15 p.m. when they host McKendree University for Senior Day. McKendree saw its record to go 9-15 overall and 3-13 in the GLVC after losing at Bellarmine this evening, 96-72.

USI, which defeated McKendree in the GLVC season-opener in December, 104-58, leads the all-time series with the Bearcats, 8-7, and holds an advantage at the PAC, 5-3. The Eagles have won eight of the last nine match-ups with the Bearcats.

 

Lady Eagles Rout Stars, Clinch 1st-Round Bye in GLVC Tourney

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Lady Eagles Rout Stars, Clinch 1st-Round Bye in GLVC Tourney

Seven University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball players scored at least eight points Thursday evening as the No. 24 Screaming Eagles defeated Great Lakes Valley Conference East Division foe University of Illinois Springfield, 85-57, in their Play4Kay game at the Physical Activities Center.

USI (22-4, 14-2 GLVC), which clinched a bye in the first round of the GLVC Tournament with the win, shot 47.9 percent (34-71) from the field and committed just five turnovers as it earned its second straight win.

The Eagles used a pair of 7-0 runs in the opening period to jump out to a 21-11 lead at the end of one quarter and a 33-23 advantage at the intermission. They used a 22-2 third-quarter spurt to build a commanding 55-27 lead and eliminate any chance of an Illinois Springfield comeback.

USI, which saw its bench outscore the Prairie Stars’ reserves 44-19, led by as much as 34 before settling on the 28-point victory.

Senior forward Tasia Brewer (Terre Haute, Indiana) led the Eagles with 13 points on a 5-of-5 shooting effort that included three trifectas. Sophomore center Kacy Eschweiler (St. Charles, Missouri) and senior guard Tanner Marcum (New Albany, Indiana) each had 12 points, while junior guard Randa Harshbarger (Philo, Illinois) chipped in 10 points and four assists.

Junior guard/forward Kaydie Grooms (Marshall, Illinois) and senior guard Kendyl Dearing (Huntingburg, Indiana) each had nine points, while senior forward Hannah Wascher (Rantoul, Illinois) added eight points and nine rebounds. Grooms had a team-best four steals.

Despite being out-rebounded, 42-37, the Eagles held a decisive 30-12 advantage in points in the paint as well as a 10-9 lead in second-chance points. USI also drained 11-of-18 three-point field goal attempts.

Illinois Springfield (8-16, 2-14 GLVC) was led by freshman guard Tehya Fortune and senior forward Syerra Cunningham. Fortune finished with 10 points, while Cunningham had eight points and a game-high 13 rebounds.

USI concludes its 2016-17 home schedule Saturday at 1 p.m. when it hosts McKendree University for Senior Day at the PAC. The Eagles, who can win the GLVC East Division title with a win Saturday, will honor their five seniors—Brewer, Dearing, Marcum, Wascher and center Ruta Savickaite(Vilnius, Lithuania)—following the game.

The Bearcats (10-16, 1-15 GLVC) suffered an 80-69 setback to No. 23 Bellarmine University Thursday evening in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

EPD Activity Report

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EPD Report

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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IS IT TRUE FEBRUARY 17, 2017

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IS IT TRUE that the License agreement for the FORD CENTER states that the Licensee Covenants and Agrees to pay Licensor a rental for each game Thunderbolt game during the regular hockey season, pre-season and the playoff in the amount of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,000.000)?  …we wonder if the owner of the former Evansville Iceman Hockey team paid the city this amount of money per home game?  …we have reached out to the owner of the former Evansville Iceman to find out what he paid the city per home game and shall inform you what he tells us?

IT IT TRUE we are hearing that the powers that be may be researching the possibility of the Evansville Thunderbolt  Hockey Team trying to obtain the same franchise that the Evansville Iceman had when they decided to leave Evansville?  …this is a developing story for the mainstream media?

IS IT TRUE about two years ago DMD purchased the Knotty Pine Restaurant site on North Main Street and demolished and now it’s an unfinished  lot?  …this site hasn’t been touched since the Knotty Pine building was demolished?  …we wonder what it cost the taxpayers to purchase the building an lot and them demolished it?

IS IT TRUE the Integra Bank building located on North Main now houses the new Evansville Land Bank Corp in that building?  …we have no idea if DMD sold or leased this building to Evansville Land Bank Corp and for how much?  …that a couple of years ago DMD sold the Intergra Bank building to the Pizza  Bar-Restaurant  located just across the street so they could demolished it for overflow parking?   …several months later DMD re-purchased the Intergra Bank building from the Pizza Bar-Bar-Restaurant  at a higher price (around $35,000 more)?…the DMD now allows the Pizza Bar-Restaurant  customers to continue to park at the old Integra Bank parking lot when their main lot become full?

IS IT TRUE DMD purchased the vacant and dilapidated CVS 800 North Main street building for a whooping $561,750.00? …only an idiot would pay that kind of money for a building located in a seedy part of town without any concrete plans to develop it? …that DMD may be forced to tear it down for a parking lot.? …we hear that DMD parking strategy backup plan for this property is to install around 24 parking spaces on this property?  …. that the demolition costs of tearing down the building and finishing the site for a paved public parking lot could probably cost the city around $100,000?

IS IT TRUE DMD original plan was to spend $907,200 for 114 parking spots in the North Main Street area?  …we wonder if they have stayed on plan or budget?  …our guess is no they haven’t?

IS IT TRUE the State of Indiana is pondering another tax hike on cigarettes?…they will be making a boat load of money in Evansville as it is still has one of the highest smoking per capita rates in the United States?. ..if taxes have to be raised it had just as well be on things that people do not need to live like cigarettes, lottery tickets, and alcoholic drinks?…that is much better than taxing beans and cornbread that is about all that people can afford to eat these days with wage stagnation and every increasing taxes on everything else?

IS IT TRUE we are proud of our Evansville Purple Aces basketball team for putting together a respectable couple of weeks to get our ot the cellar of the Missouri Valley Conference?…the goal now is to finish the year with a winning record even if it is just by one game and not to finish in last place in the conference?…this recent winning gives us hope for next year?

FOOTNOTE:  Todays “READERS POLL” question is:  Have you driven down to North Main Street area to see what an $18 million DMD inspired project looks like?

Two Titles Push Hoosiers to Lead at Big Ten Championships

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Two Titles Push Hoosiers to Lead at Big Ten Championships

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Indiana University women’s swimming and diving team had an amazing night at the 2017 Big Ten Championships at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center in West Lafayette, Ind. on Thursday.

After the team’s great showing on Thursday night, the Hoosiers have stormed to the top of the standings with a total of 393.0 points. Wisconsin is second with 378.5, while Michigan is third with 363.0.

The performance of the night for IU came in the 400 medley relay, where the team of Ali Rockett, Lilly King, Gia Dalesandro and Holly Spears won the Big Ten title with a school, Big Ten, Big Ten meet and Boilermaker Aquatic Center record time of 3:28.89. The mark is also a NCAA A cut and is the second-fastest time in the nation this year.

With the victory, IU has now won the 400 medley relay three times in program history, with all three coming in the last four years. The Hoosiers also touched first in the event in 2014 and 2016.

Rockett’s leadoff 100 backstroke leg of 52.58 was a personal-best and NCAA B cut time. With the mark, Rockett now ranks as the seventh-best performer in the event at IU.

In the 200 IM, King won the Big Ten title with a NCAA B cut time of 1:55.90 to claim her third career individual conference crown. Last year, King won both the 100 and 200 breaststroke for IU.

King becomes just the second Hoosier to win the 200 IM league title, joining Allysa Varva who won in both 2011 and 2012. The Evansville, Ind. native’s time of 1:55.90 is the fourth-fastest time in school history.

Also in the Championship Final for the Hoosiers, Christine Jensen took seventh place with a NCAA B cut time of 1:59.12.

Leading a quartet of Hoosier swimmers in the B Final of the 200 IM was Sam Lisy, who touched the wall first to place ninth overall with a personal-best and NCAA B cut time of 1:58.51. Lisy’s time ranks her as the ninth-best performer in the event in school history.

Bailey Pressey took 13th overall with a NCAA B cut time of 1:59.19, while Reagan Cook placed 15th with a NCAA B cut mark of 2:00.03. Rachel Matsumura was 16th overall with a NCAA B cut time of 2:00.88.

IU had a nice showing in the Championship Final of the 1-meter, with both IU divers earning a spot in the top-8. Jessica Parratto finished fifth overall with a NCAA qualifying score of 318.70, while Michal Bower took seventh with a NCAA qualifying total of 310.65.

Parratto had a great final two dives for IU, scoring a 62.40 and a 60.00 to move up three spots. Bower was consistent the whole event, posting four scores over 50.00 points, including final dive of 57.20.

Stephanie Marchuk led four Hoosiers in the 500 freestyle, taking third in a tightly-contested B Final with a NCAA B cut time of 4:41.92. Freshman Cassie Jernberg placed 15th overall with her NCAA B cut mark of 4:45.57.

In the C Final of the 500 freestyle, Kennedy Goss had a great swim, touching the wall first to take 17th place overall with a NCAA B cut time of 4:41.64. Stephanie Marchuk was fifth in the C Final to take 21st place with a NCAA B cut of 4:46.37.

Rockett had a great swim in the B Final of the 50 freestyle, placing 14th overall with a personal-best and NCAA B cut time of 22.79. Rockett’s time improves her standing as the sixth-fastest swimmer in the event in IU history.

In the C Final of the 50 free, Shelby Koontz placed fourth to take 20th overall with a personal-best and NCAA B cut time of 22.88 that ranks her as the ninth-best performer in the event at IU. Holly Spears took 23rd overall with a time of 23.15.

The Hoosiers will continue at the 2017 Big Ten Championships on Friday morning with the prelims of the 100 butterfly, 400 IM, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke and 3-meter dive. The action gets underway at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center in West Lafayette at 11:00 a.m. ET.

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.

500 Freestyle
11. Stephanie Marchuk – 4:41.92 (NCAA B cut)
15. Cassie Jernberg – 4:45.57 (NCAA B cut)
17. Kennedy Goss – 4:41.64 (NCAA B cut)
21. Delaney Barnard – 4:46.37 (NCAA B cut)

200 IM
1. Lilly King – 1:55.90 (NCAA B cut)
7. Christine Jensen – 1:59.12 (NCAA B cut)
9. Sam Lisy – 1:58.51 (Personal Best, NCAA B cut)
13. Bailey Pressey – 1:59.19 (NCAA B cut)
15. Reagan Cook – 2:00.03 (NCAA B cut)
16. Rachel Matsumura – 2:00.88 (NCAA B cut)

50 Freestyle
14. Ali Rockett – 22.80 (Personal Best, NCAA B cut)
20. Shelby Koontz – 22.88 (Personal Best, NCAA B cut)
23. Holly Spears – 23.15 (Personal Best)

1-Meter Dive
5. Jessica Parratto – 318.70 (NCAA Qualifying score)
7. Michal Bower – 310.65 (NCAA Qualifying score)

400 Medley Relay
1. Ali Rockett, Lilly King, Gia Dalesandro, Holly Spears – 3:28.89 (School, Big Ten, Big Ten Meet and Boilermaker Aquatic Center record, NCAA A cut)

MEET A MEMBER OF THE CHANNEL 44 NEWS TEAM

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Amanda Decker is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana and joins WEVV from Little Rock, Arkansas where she worked at Independent News Network. Amanda was responsible for producing and anchoring five evening newscasts for stations in multiple markets. Amanda has nine years of professional experience producing and anchoring newscasts, reporting, and editing video.

Amanda says “Evansville is the market I want to call home. I’ve spent a lot of time in Evansville while my sister was a student at USI. I got to know the community, and I really liked it. Coming back to Indiana was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”

Amanda graduated from Ball State with degrees in Telecommunications, Journalism, and Political Science.

FOOTNOTE: Amanda Decker is quickly making her self known one of the top TV  News Journalist in the region.  We highly recommend that sit your dial to TV Channel 44 and see a real news professional at work.

Attorney General Curtis Hill: W-2 Phishing Scams Not Exclusive To Businesses

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INDIANAPOLIS – In the wake of a W-2 phishing scam that successfully targeted two Indianapolis businesses, Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is warning Hoosiers that school districts, hospitals and nonprofits – and even small business owners – are also at risk of falling victim to the fraudulent scheme.

In just the last two weeks, scammers successfully compromised two Indianapolis businesses with a Form W-2 phishing scam – often referred to as the business email spoofing (BES) or business email compromise (BEC) scam. These cybercriminals, or scammers, will make their personal emails appear as if they are sent from a high-ranking employee at the targeted business. The email, which requests names of each employee and their Form W-2, is sent to someone in the company or business’ human resources or accounting department, and if successful, collects sensitive personal information of each employee.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen called the W-2 scam one of the most dangerous email phishing scams the IRS has seen in a long time. Attorney General Hill is cautioning everyone that this scam is not exclusive to the corporate world.

If you work for a company that has been compromised by such a scam, the Office of the Indiana Attorney General encourages you to sign up for a credit freeze to protect yourself from becoming a victim of identity theft. Hoosiers can visit the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division for more information. You can also fill out an Identity Theft Complaint Form. Contact us at 1-800-382-5516 to speak to a consumer protection staff member who can help you in obtaining an Identity Theft Affidavit Form 14039 which can be submitted to the IRS if you are a victim of tax fraud.

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