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Griggs, Partain shine as Eagles win
 University of Southern Indiana sophomore second baseman Sam Griggs (Evansville, Indiana) and freshman left-hander Chase Partain(Evansville, Indiana) led the Screaming Eagles to a dominating 10-1 victory over the University of Missouri-St. Louis Thursday afternoon at the USI Baseball Field. USI saw its record go to 26-16 overall, while UMSL falls to 24-17 overall.
Griggs led a USI offensive explosion by driving in six of 10 runs on a pair of home runs and a single. The sophomore gave USI a 2-0 lead in the third with a two-run single before hitting a three-run home run in the five-run sixth and giving USI a 10-0 lead in the eighth with a solo shot.
The Eagles scored their 10 runs on 11 hits with two in the third, two in the fourth, five in the sixth, and one in the eighth. UMSL picked up its only run in the ninth on a home run before USI closed out the 10-1 win.
USI senior rightfielder Kyle Kempf (Evansville, Indiana) smacked a two-run double in the five-run sixth for his record-tying 270th career hit. Kempf ties Mike Peerman, who set the 270 hit record between 1997 and 2000.
Partain (1-0) pitched seven scoreless inning in his first collegiate start to earn his first collegiate win. The freshman allowed three hits and four walks, while striking out four.
Junior right-hander Mike Ringer (Springfield, Illinois) pitched a scoreless eighth, while freshman right-hander Ryan Gulledge (Evansville, Indiana) allowed the run in the ninth before the Eagles closed out the victory.
The Eagles concludes their 10-game homestand with a four-game Great Lakes Valley Conference series against Saint Joseph’s College at the USI Baseball Field. Live coverage of four-game series can be found on GoUSIEagles.com.
USI trails the all-time series with Saint Joseph’s, 41-38, after losing three of four to the Pumas in Rensselaer, Indiana, during 2015. The Eagles, who are 13-7 in the 2016 GLVC season, have won nine of the last 11 games with the Pumas at the USI Baseball Field.
The Pumas of Saint Joseph’s are 24-18 overall and 12-8 in the GLVC during the 2016 campaign. Saint Joseph’s, currently, is in third in the GLVC East Division after sweeping four games from McKendree University over the weekend.
Aces to continue Valley play against Illinois State
 After picking up three consecutive Missouri Valley Conference series victories to begin league play, the University of Evansville baseball team will be back in action this weekend as the Purple Aces will take on visiting Illinois State at Charles H. Braun Stadium, beginning with a doubleheader on Friday at 3:30 p.m.
The Aces, who were picked seventh in the preseason coaches’ poll, enter the weekend with a 23-15 overall record, including a 6-3 mark in league play, which puts them 1.5 games off the pace of conference-leading Dallas Baptist. ISU, on the other hand, will be looking to get back on track after dropping six of their first eight MVC games, and the Redbirds enter the weekend with a 12-27 mark overall.
Thanks in large part to yet another impressive offensive weekend, the Aces are entering the series with a lot of momentum after taking two out of three from then-No. 16 Missouri State in Springfield. Through the nine conference games this year, no offense has put up better league numbers than the Aces as UE enters the weekend with a .285 batting average and 31 extra-base hits, including 10 home runs.
The hefty numbers are just a continuation of what the Aces have put together all season, highlighted by 39 homers, which is the most for any UE squad since 2010. Eleven different players have left the park this season, led by the duo of Jonathan Ramon and Korbin Williams, who have each logged nine round-trippers on the year. The duo ranks among five Aces players with .300-or-better averages.
Meanwhile on the mound, UE will once again turn to a pair of freshman arms in Brandon Gomer and Alex Weigand as well as the steadying presence of junior Patrick Schnieders. Both Schnieders and Gomer will get the nod on Friday, and Weigand, who has helped UE pick up wins in three consecutive rubber games, is slated to start on Saturday.
First pitch from Braun Stadium on Friday is slated for 3:30 p.m., and the day’s second game will begin approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the first. Saturday’s series finale will begin at 2 p.m.
NOTES: UE will be aiming to win a fourth consecutive league series for the first time since the 2014 campaign … Since 1978, the Aces are 51-57 all-time against Illinois State … The first meeting between the two schools was a 1-1 tie in 1948 … Last season, the Aces took home two out of three in a series that was staged in Normal … UE won all three meetings by a combined 27-6 score in 2014, which was the previous trip to Evansville for the Redbirds.
Stand Against Racism
When:Â Friday, April 29, 2016 at 11:45 a.m.
Where:Â Ivy Tech Community College, 3501 N. First Avenue (in front of the main building)
Background: Ivy Tech faculty, staff, and students will join together to link arms in a demonstration against racism. Stand Against Racism is a signature campaign of the YWCA to build community among those who work for racial justice and to raise awareness about the negative impact of institutional and structural racism in our communities. Ivy Tech’s pledge is one part of the YWCA’s larger national strategy to fulfill the mission of eliminating racism.
Event Contact:Â Denise Johnson-Kincaid, director of the express enrollment center, director of admissions, & diversity officer (812) 429-1430
Supreme Court Defines Marriage Relatives
Supreme Court Defines Marriage Relatives
Scott Roberts for www.theindianalawyer.com
The Indiana Supreme Court determined the sister of a man who was once married to the defendant’s aunt is not a family or household member and changed a man’s Level 6 felony charge to Class A misdemeanor battery.
Leonard L. Suggs and his girlfriend Evelyn Garrett got into an argument at a bowling alley in 2014 that turned violent. Suggs threw a beer can at Garrett that missed, then threw a bowling ball at Garrett which grazed her and hit Vera Warren on the left side of her head. Warren’s brother had previously been married to Suggs’ aunt.
Suggs was charged with Level 6 felony domestic battery for his assault on Garrett and battery as a Level 6 felony for his assault on Warren. He was sentenced to two years for each conviction to be served consecutively. Suggs challenged the sufficiency of the evidence, in which the Court of Appeals affirmed.
Indiana Code 35-42-2-1 provides in relevant part that battery is a Level 6 felony if the offense is committed against a family or household member. Suggs said Warren was not a family member, but he does not deny the rest of the criteria in the code for felony battery.
Indiana Code 35-31.5-2-128 dictates an individual is a family or household member of another person in relevant part because the person is related by blood or adoption to the other person, or is or was related by marriage to the other person. Suggs says Warren is neither of those to him.
Justice Robert Rucker wrote the decision in the case and said, “We are not persuaded that by use of the term ‘related by marriage’ the legislature intended to include an infinite variety of relationships whose only connection is a marriage or series of marriages identified somewhere on the remote branches of a family tree.â€
Rucker wrote that related by marriage is commonly referred to as affinity, the connection existing in marriage between each of the married persons and the kindred of the other. A relationship by affinity is not unlimited, he wrote, and the Legislature intended this meaning when it wrote the code.
“Suggs is the blood relative of one spouse – his mother’s sister – and Warren is the blood relative of the other spouse – her own brother,†Rucker wrote. “There is no affinity between the blood relatives of one spouse and the blood relatives of another,†he said quoting 2 Charles E. Torcia, Wharton’s Criminal Law Section 242 at 573.
The case is Leonard L. Suggs v. State of Indiana, 02S03-1508-CR-510, is remanded to reduce the conviction to a Class A misdemeanor.
Free Blood Pressure Screenings Tuesdays in May
May is National Stroke Awareness Month. In an effort to raise the awareness of the importance of stroke education, St. Mary’s is offering free blood pressure screenings to the public and associates from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. each Tuesday during the month of May in the lobby of St. Mary’s Center for Advanced Medicine. Dates for the screenings include May 3, May 10, May 17 and May 24. In addition, a variety of educational materials will be available in the lobby throughout the month of May.
St. Mary’s earned Advanced Certification as a Primary Stroke Center by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association in 2014.
A stroke, sometimes called a brain attack, occurs when a blockage stops the flow of blood to the brain or when a blood vessel in or around the brain bursts. Although many people think of stroke as a condition that affects only older adults, strokes can and do occur in people of all ages. In fact, nearly a quarter of all strokes occur in people younger than age 65. Strokes can affect people of all ages and backgrounds. Someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds. Each year, almost 800,000 strokes occur in the United States. It is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States, killing nearly 130,000 Americans each year. Every four minutes, someone dies of stroke.
Strokes often lead to serious, life-changing complications that include:
- Paralysis or weakness on one side of the body
- Problems with thinking, awareness, attention, learning, judgment, and memory
- Problems understanding or forming speech
- Difficulty controlling or expressing emotions
- Numbness or strange sensations
- Pain in the hands and feet
- Depression
Animal Cruelty Task Force Continues Efforts
In honor of Animal Cruelty Awareness Month, we want to take a moment to celebrate the continuing efforts between local agencies for the Animal Cruelty Task Force in Vanderburgh County.
The group, which is made up of the Evansville Police Department, Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Department, Animal Control officers and the Prosecutor’s Office, has worked diligently for the past three years on animal cruelty cases and continues to meet regularly.
The task force encourages the public to report animal abuse situations to the police or to the WeTip hotline (800-78-CRIME) to make a tip anonymously.
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