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Women’s tennis opens spring at Purdue

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Aces face Boilermakers Sunday morning

 

EVANSVILLE, Ind. –The spring season officially begins on Sunday as the University of Evansville women’s tennis team travels to West Lafayette, Ind. where they will face Purdue at 9 a.m. ET.

 

Evansville’s young team had a nice fall season.  The team, which is comprised of four freshmen, a sophomore along with two juniors and a senior, gained valuable experience in four fall tournaments.

 

Diana Tkachenko had a nice start to her Purple Aces career.  Highlighting the fall for her was a trip to the Missouri Valley Conference Championship at #2 singles in the MVC Individual Championships, which were held in Evansville.  She defeated Wichita State in the semifinals in October to advance to the championship.

 

Tkachenko, along with Chieko Yamada, wrapped up the fall with victories at the ITA Ohio Valley Regional in Murfreesboro, Tenn.  Takchenko topped Belmont’s Lindsey Whitehead on the final day while Yamada earned the win over Audrey Berger of Ball State.

 

Purdue started their season on January 14 and earned a pair of home victories.  The Boilermakers defeated Butler by a 7-0 score before wrapping up the day with a 6-1 win over Toledo.

 

Following Sunday’s match, the Aces continue their season with home matches against Murray State and Austin Peay on Friday February 3.

Big run propels Eagles to 20-point win over No. 24 Flyers

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The Eagles, however, scored 19 straight points to end the period; then got a three-pointer from senior forward Tasia Brewer (Terre Haute, Indiana) early in the fourth to go up 61-39 with nine minutes to play in the game.

 

USI forced seven Lewis turnovers during the 22-0 run, which saw four different players score for the Eagles during the decisive stretch. Sophomore center Kacy Eschweiler (St. Charles, Missouri) hit a three-pointer to begin the run and had a basket with just under two minutes to play in the third quarter to give USI a 52-39 lead.

 

Junior guard/forward Kaydie Grooms (Marshall, Illinois) followed Eschweiler’s three-pointer with a basket; then scored an old-fashioned three-point play with 2:47 to play in the third period as USI went up 47-39.

 

Senior guard Tanner Marcum (New Albany, Indiana), who had four assists during the 22-0 run, hit a pair of three-pointers during the stretch; as did Brewer, who had six of her USI career-high 14 points during the run.

 

Lewis (14-5, 6-3 GLVC) rallied in the fourth quarter, using an 8-0 run to cut the Eagles’ lead to 12 (67-55) with 3:42 to play.

 

USI, however, responded with runs of 9-2 and 5-0 to retake a 22-point lead in the final 30 seconds. The Eagles converted 14-of-16 free throw attempts in the final three minutes of the contest as they held on for their second straight win.

 

Marcum and Grooms each had 20 points to lead the Eagles, who were 25-of-29 from the charity stripe. Marcum also had seven assists, six rebounds, four steals and just one turnover; while Grooms added two steals for the Eagles, who forced Lewis into 23 turnovers for the game.

 

Senior forward Hannah Wascher (Rantoul, Illinois) added eight points, three steals, two blocks and a game-high 11 rebounds; while junior guardRanda Harshbarger (Philo, Illinois) chipped in nine points and two steals.

 

Sophomore forward Jessica Kelliher and senior guard Jamie Johnson had 22 and 18 points, respectively, to lead the Flyers.

 

USI returns to action Thursday at 5:30 p.m. when it travels to Rensselaer, Indiana, to take on Saint Joseph’s College. The Eagles wrap up a two-game road swing next Saturday with a trip to the University of Indianapolis.

 

Newspaper Box Score

Lewis vs Southern Indiana

01/21/17 1 p.m. at Evansville, IN (PAC)

 

SOUTHERN INDIANA 85, LEWIS 65

 

LEWIS (14-5, 6-3 GLVC)

Kelliher, Jessica 10-16 2-4 22; Johnson, Jamie 4-12 7-9 18; Siwek, Alyssa 3-7 5-6 12; Correa, Erica 2-4 0-0 4; Brewer, Kayla 2-2 0-0 4; Lockett, Tierney 1-1 1-4 3; Hinders, Rachel 1-5 0-0 2; Green, Gabby 0-3 0-0 0; Karopulos, Tiana 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 23-51 15-23 65.

 

SOUTHERN INDIANA (16-3, 8-1 GLVC)

Grooms, Kaydie 6-13 7-7 20; Marcum, Tanner 4-9 10-12 20; Brewer, Tasia 4-7 4-4 14; Harshbarger, Randa 3-7 2-2 9; Wascher, Hannah 4-12 0-2 8; Dahlstrom, Morgan 2-5 2-2 6; Eschweiler, Kacy 2-4 0-0 5; Dearing, Kendyl 1-3 0-0 3; Rowan, Mikayla 0-0 0-0 0; Savickaite, Ruta 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 26-60 25-29 85.

 

Lewis…………………….   15   17    7   26  -   65

Southern Indiana…………..   15   20   23   27  -   85

 

3-point goals—Lewis 4-13 (Johnson, Jamie 3-7; Siwek, Alyssa 1-4; Green, Gabby 0-1; Karopulos, Tiana 0-1), Southern Indiana 8-20 (Marcum, Tanner 2-4; Brewer, Tasia 2-4; Harshbarger, Randa 1-3; Dearing, Kendyl 1-3; Grooms, Kaydie 1-4; Eschweiler, Kacy 1-2).

 

Fouled out—Lewis-None, Southern Indiana-None.

 

Rebounds—Lewis 34 (Siwek, Alyssa 8), Southern Indiana 35 (Wascher, Hannah 11).

 

Assists—Lewis 13 (Green, Gabby 4), Southern Indiana 17 (Marcum, Tanner 7).

 

Total fouls—Lewis 19, Southern Indiana 19.

 

Technical fouls—Lewis-None, Southern Indiana-None.

 

Attendance—947

 

Notes—Lewis is ranked 24th WBCA Top 25.

 

 

Eagles ground Flyers in second half, win 80-57

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The ninth-ranked University of Southern Indiana men’s basketball team used a defensive stand in the second half and flew by Lewis University, 80-57, Saturday afternoon at the Physical Activities Center. USI sees its record go to 18-1 overall and 8-1 in the GLVC, while Lewis goes to 11-8, 6-3 GLVC.

The victory moves USI back into a tie for the GLVC East Division lead with 15th-ranked Bellarmine University, which defeated 22nd-ranked University of Wisconsin-Parkside Saturday. Both teams are 8-1 in the league.

The Screaming Eagles started cold from the field, hitting only two of the first 11 shots, but warmed up by the intermission and hit seven of the next 14 shots to lead, 31-27, at the intermission. USI took the lead in a half that saw four ties and five lead changes on an 11-0 run at the 3:54 mark and led by as many as eight, 31-23, with 1:37 to halftime.

In second half, the USI defense made a stand and held Lewis without a field goal for the first 8:30 after halftime. The Eagles’ offense, during those opening minutes of the second half, was able to build an 18-point advantage, 49-31.

After USI pushed the lead to 20 points four times, the Flyers made a run at the Eagles and cut the margin to 11 points, 62-51, with 5:05 to play. The Eagles regained the momentum and used an 18-2 run to close out the 23-point win, 80-57.

USI sophomore guard Alex Stein (Evansville, Indiana) led four Eagles in double-digits with 18 points. He was a blistering seven-of-10 from the field and four-of-five from the line for his 18 points.

Stein was followed by the 17-point performance by senior guard Jeril Taylor (Louisville, Kentucky), who had 13 second half points. Junior guard Marcellous Washington (Lexington, Kentucky) and junior forward Julius Rajala (Finland) rounded out the double-digit scorers with 14 points and 12 points, respectively.

The Eagles hit the road next week in the GLVC, visiting Saint Joseph’s College Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and the University of Indianapolis Saturday at 2:15 p.m. (CST). Live coverage of the road trip can be found on GoUSIEagles.com.

USI returns to the friendly surroundings of the PAC February 2 when it begins Homecoming Week by hosting Missouri University of Science & Technology for a 7:30 p.m. The Eagles finish the weekend with their Homecoming game February 4 at 3:15 p.m. when they host Drury University.

 

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USI Long Distance Runners Compete at Gladstein Invite

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—Representatives of both University of Southern Indiana’s Men and Women Track & Field teams competed in the Gladstein Invitational Friday, hosted by Indiana University.
Competing against NCAA Division I talent, the USI women placed three runners in the top-10 of the 3,000-meter run. Junior Jessica Lincoln (Palatine) turned in a top-five performance with a time of 10 minutes, 19.49 seconds and fifth-place finish. In seventh, sophomore Hope Jones (Cumberland, Indiana) finished in 10:23.70, eight seconds better than her top time from last year. Senior Carly Whitesell (Zionsville, Indiana) rounded out the top-10 with a time of 10:29.19.

On the men’s side, junior James Cecil (Owensboro, Kentucky) was five seconds off the pace with a time of 8:34.41 and a third-place finish in the 3,000-meter. Rounding out the top-five was senior Noah Lutz (Evansville, Indiana) finishing in 8:36.54. Sophomore Darin Lawrence also turned in a top-10 performance with a time of 8:52.75 and eighth-place finish.

Junior Bastian Grau (Höchstadt, Germany) competed in the fast section of the mile run and finished sixth with a time of 4:08.38. In the slower section, senior Chase Broughton‘s (Marengo, Indiana) time of 4:21.90 was good enough for 20th.

The Screaming Eagles conclude the weekend Saturday when it competes at the University of Indianapolis Collegiate Invitational in Indianapolis.
 

Gladstein Invitational

hosted by Indiana University

January 20-21, 2017

Bloomington, Ind. (Gladstein Fieldhouse)

USI Results Only

Women’s Results

 

Women’s 3000 Meters

Pl NAME                    YEAR TEAM                        TIME       SCORE    HEAT(PL)

  1. Lincoln, Jessica   JR-3    Southern Indiana    10:19.49         –           1(5)
  2. Jones, Hope         SO-2   Southern Indiana    10:23.70         –           1(7)
  3. Whitesell, Carly SR-4   Southern Indiana    10:29.19         –           1(10)

 

Men’s Results

 

Men’s Mile

Pl    NAME                             YEAR TEAM                        TIME     SCORE      HEAT(PL)

  1. Broughton, Chase        SR-4   Southern Indiana    4:21.90           –           1(10)

 

Men’s Mile

Pl NAME                    YEAR TEAM                        TIME         SCORE HEAT(PL)

  1. Grau, Bastian       JR-3    Southern Indiana    4:08.38           – 1        (6)

 

Men’s 3000 Meters

Pl NAME                    YEAR TEAM                        TIME       SCORE    HEAT(PL)

  1. Cecil , James        JR-3    Southern Indiana    8:34.41           –           1(3)
  2. Lutz, Noah            SR-4   Southern Indiana    8:36.54           –           1(5)
  3. Lawrence, Darin FR-1   Southern Indiana    8:52.75           –           1(8)

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Obama’s Legacy: The Destruction of the Democrat Party By Richard Moss MD

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Obama’s Legacy:
The Destruction of the Democrat Party

By Richard Moss MD

As we observe the passing of President Barack Obama’s 8 years in office, an ending he and the media are determined to prolong and sentimentalize, even as the rest of us cannot wait to be rid of him, it is fitting to examine not so much the damage he has done to the country, which is substantial, but rather to his own party, the Democrat Party. For all the misery he has unleashed upon the nation and world, some of it can at least be reversed. But by undermining the Democrat Party, he has performed unwittingly a singular act of charity to his fellow countrymen that may be more permanent than his destructive policies as President. For Obama has transformed a dominant, national party that leaned left into a fringe, hard left, political operation with little appeal beyond urban centers and the college campus. In so doing he has created a Democrat Party completely out of touch with mainstream American values, interests – and voters.
Obama campaigned vigorously for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, realizing how fragile his “legacy” was without a Democrat victory. He understood that his policies and programs, generally imposed by executive order and without Congressional support, were vulnerable to a non-sympathetic successor. As he lived by the pen and phone, so could his agenda die by the very same pen and phone of President Donald J. Trump. He thusly engaged in heroic efforts to salvage his legacy by procuring a victory for a deeply flawed candidate, which ultimately failed. Despite his relative personal popularity, his policies were another matter. And so even historically reliable blue states, the great “blue wall,” Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, fell before the Trump juggernaut. The Democrats were left holding the West Coast and a narrow strip in the Northeast and little else, a major setback for Obama and the Democrats, for which Obama, as is typical of this most narcissistic of men, refuses to take responsibility.
Under Obama, the Democrat Party has been turned over to fanatics like him, obsessed with identity politics, “global warming,” and LGBT rights. It is a party that will fight for Syrian Muslim refugees, sanctuary cities, amnesty, transgendered bathrooms, and radical environmentalism, happily implementing policies that destroys tens of thousands of jobs, a party that believes that the gravest threat facing the nation is “climate change.” It is a party in conflict with virtually all aspects of the American enterprise, including its constitution, history, and critical institutions. Indeed, the party of Jefferson has become the party of college campus and urban radicals contemptuous of common sense and huge swaths of the electorate, in particular, the white working class, formerly the backbone of the Democrat Party. Obama and his Democrats have no use for the poor saps in the hinterlands clinging to their guns and bibles. Rather, they smeared and abandoned them as neo-Nazis and white supremacists and famously referred to them as “deplorables.”
Since Obama began his two terms, the Democrats have lost a net of 1,042 state and federal posts including congressional and state legislative seats, governorships, and the presidency. As bad as it has been at the national level where Republicans now enjoy a monopoly on federal power, it is at the state and local level where the devastation of the Democrat Party has been most pervasive. The Republicans now hold 33 governorships compared to 17 for the Democrats. In 2009, Dems held 28 governorships to 22 for Republicans. The GOP controls 68 State Legislatures compared with 31 for the Democrats. And Hillary won less than 15% of US counties.
The Democrat Party is no longer a national party. It is extinct in the south, and barely breathing in the Rust Belt, Corn Belt, and Great Plains States. It flourishes in the radicalized, racialized environment of cities and academia where its victimhood-grievance themes play well as do open-borders, transnationalism, and loathing for traditional values and religion. In yet another move indicative of their shift to the hard left despite their election losses, Democrats plan to nominate radical leftist, anti-Semite, and former nation of Islam member Keith X Ellison, to lead the party. The party of the workingman has become the party of campus radicals and Black Lives Matter. Obama has not transformed America as much as he has transformed his party.
Obama, who spent 20 years in the racist church of Jeremiah Wright and cut his teeth with domestic terrorists Bill Ayres and Bernadette Dorn and Hamas mouthpiece Rashid Khalidi, has taken their anti-American radicalism to heart and injected it into the Democrat party. In so doing, he has marginalized it and presided over its self-destruction. Good riddance.

January 2017

Brief Bio: Richard Moss MD is a practicing Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon, author, and columnist who resides in Jasper IN. Find more of his essays and blog posts at exodusmd.com. Also find him on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.

HOW TO CARVE AN ELEPHANT By Jim Redwine

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Gavel Gamut

By Jim Redwine

www.jamesmredwine.com

(Week of 23 January 2017)

HOW TO CARVE AN ELEPHANT:

Take a block of marble and chip away everything that isn’t an elephant. The same principle applies with chili made by Yankees.

When the United States Air Force stationed me at Indiana University to study Hungarian I arrived with a solid foundation in chili. My previous life had been pretty much confined to Oklahoma and Texas where chili was to cuisine as basketball was to Hoosiers. There was none of this nonsense that chili is to be eaten only in wintertime.

In the southwest we ate chili year round and all day long. Chili on eggs at breakfast. Chili poured in a bag of Fritos for snacks. Chili at wedding receptions. Chili at church potluck dinners. Bricks of frozen chili at scout camp.

Chili was a health food. It was served to colicky children and constipated seniors. If the ancient gods of the Greeks and Romans had discovered chili they would have looked askance at ambrosia. The true Land of Milk and Honey can be found in the chili parlors along the banks of the canal through downtown San Antonio.

So, Gentle Reader, you might grasp my befuddlement when I ate my first meal at Indiana University and saw a sign on the chow line announcing that chili and grilled cheese sandwiches were being served, but when the nice lady behind the counter handed me my bowl of “chili” it had large red and white things floating among the greasy gunk.

“Ma’am, I don’t know if you noticed but there’s some strange stuff in my bowl.”

“That’s chili.”

“Uh, it has red and white globs swimming in it.”

“Those are red kidney beans and macaroni.”

Then I met Peg who not only was from east of the Mississippi she was also a Yankee from above the Mason-Dixon Line. Fortunately for me, we got married before she ever cooked for me the first bowl of what she called “chili”. She added celery to the kidney beans and macaroni. At our home, a pot of chili calls for two pots now: one for the chili I make and one for whatever you call what Peg makes.

Over the years I have spent in this Hoosier heaven for everything but chili I have had friends serve me chili with tofu, eggs, potatoes, kidney beans, white beans, chicken, sugar, macaroni, spaghetti, and a lack of cayenne pepper. Enough! Chili is shredded beef or hamburger, browned then drained. Sautéed onions, water, salt, black pepper, chili powder, garlic, cumin, cayenne pepper, tomato sauce and, for some, chili beans are slowly added to the sizzling meat and then masa flour added at the very end to thicken the mixture. It is simmered for a minimum of two hours then served with Fritos or corn tortillas with hot sauce, preferably Tabasco, chopped raw onions and shredded cheese on the side. THAT IS ALL! That is chili!

(Folks, this is Peg. I’m the lucky person who gets to type and edit these Gavel Gamut articles. I just can’t let you get the wrong idea this time. I had never heard of chili with macaroni or spaghetti either until I moved to Hoosierdom! In Yankeeland we made our chili with browned and drained hamburger, kidney beans not chili beans, tomato sauce or tomato soup, a little bit of ketchup, chopped celery and onions, salt and pepper and maybe a dash of chili pepper if we felt daring. Chili is served with Saltine crackers, not Fritos. That’s the difference between Yankee chili and my Dear JJ’s southwestern chili!)

For more Gavel Gamut articles go to:

www.jamesmredwine.com

Link To Area Death List Report

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Death List WK 1-20-17

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