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UE eliminated by Dallas Baptist

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 TERRE HAUTE – After staving off elimination with a morning victory over Southern Illinois, the University of Evansville baseball team saw its season come to an end on Friday evening with a 13-6 loss to Dallas Baptist at Bob Warn Field.

“Our back was against the wall, and we showed a lot of character these last two days,” UE head coach Wes Carroll said. “I’m really proud of this team. We ran into an Omaha-caliber squad in Dallas Baptist today, but our seniors really performed all year for us, and I couldn’t be more proud of that group of guys.”

The Aces, who finish the year with a 29-27 overall record, fell behind early on a pair of home runs in the third inning from Tim Millard and Daniel Sweet, and Camden Duzenack’s two run blast an inning later highlighted a five-run frame for the Patriots (39-17) as they grabbed an 8-0 lead after four.

The Patriots went on to tack another score in the fifth before Trey Hair put the Aces on the board with a three-run shot to center in the bottom of the eighth. DBU would wipe it out in the ensuing half-inning with a four-run frame to make it 13-3.

Josh Jyawook rounded out the scoring with a three-run blast in what would prove his final collegiate at-bat in the ninth.

Earlier in the day, Austin Allinger tossed what he described as the best outing of his career, giving up four hits and a run over eight innings of work to help the Aces muzzle a Saluki team that handed them their first loss of the tournament earlier this week. Hair’s fifth-inning three-run blast was the difference as the Aces won 3-2

The loss to DBU comes after one of the more memorable postseason runs in school history. After dropping four conference series entering the week, the Aces reeled off back-to-back elimination game wins against Illinois State and Southern Illinois, becoming just the third team under the direction of Carroll to collect multiple postseason victories.

“Our seniors really gave it their all this season,” Carroll said. “When you judge classes, you try to determine whether this place is better off for having them here, and that is definitely true with these guys. This group really helped take this program forward. They were a big part of that dogpile in 2014, and to battle through some of the things they have and fight like that up here, I’m really proud of this club.”

 

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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http://www.vanderburghsheriff.com/recent-booking-records.aspx

Pence’s Empty Office

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Pence’s Empty Office
By Rob Kendall of Intoretront

On Saturday, thousands of people from across the state flocked to Downtown Danville for the Mayberry in the Midwest Festival. This was great for Governor Mike Pence. He recently opened a campaign office on the corner where the event was taking place. As a candidate, one could not ask for better free exposure.
There was only one problem…no one was at his office. Even worse, there were no signs in the storefront window. There was not one worker passing out information. No promotion at all. Nothing to identify Pence, other than his name on the door. Unless passersby looked closely, the office resembled just another attorney on the Courthouse Square.
At a time where polling shows the governor in a very tight race, thousands of potential voters walked right past his door. Unfortunately, there was no one to seize the opportunity. I was broadcasting the event. I watched as other campaigns had volunteers walking the streets to promote their candidate.
Mistakes in May do not necessarily make or break a campaign, but a lack of discipline and organization throughout will. Pence’s campaign no-show at his office was just that. The race to elect Indiana’s next governor will be razor thin. Unforced errors will haunt both candidates. Pence has several built-in advantages. He needs to exploit them if he is to be victorious. One is volunteers and infrastructure, which failed on Saturday.
The visual of Pence’s empty office was striking. Many people commented. The fact the governor, who personally attended a grand opening for the office just a week ago (complete with a bus full of people to help celebrate), left it unattended, was inexcusable. I was at that event and interviewed Pence. There were placards and signs set up all over the office. Not only did someone remove them when he left, but did not take the effort to transfer them to the window which faces one of the town’s busiest streets. It also means there has likely been no promotion (completely free mind you) for over a week.
Much of politics is about impressions. Pence’s empty office left an awful one. His campaign’s lack of presence fed a narrative many hold of the governor: A guy more about fanfare and publicity than attention to detail which produces good public policy. At the office’s opening, many staffers were on hand, hours before his arrival. Nothing was out of place. Every detail perfectly attended to. After he left, the office apparently became out of sight, out of mind.

Shoulders Welcomes Selby to Commissioners Race

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Ben Shoulders, Democrat candidate for Vanderburgh County Commissioner, District 1, tonight released the following statement regarding the entrance of Sean Selby into the race as the Republican candidate:

“I would like to congratulate Sean Selby on winning the Republican Party caucus tonight, and to welcome him to the race for County Commissioner, District 1. In the coming months, I look forward to the opportunity to exchange ideas about how to build an even stronger and more vibrant Vanderburgh County.”

AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION

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Gavel Gamut
By Jim Redwine

AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION

Let’s say you and your neighbor have lived next to each other for twenty years. He helped you coach your son’s Little League team. You and he risked your lives cutting down a large oak tree that had blown halfway down across the property line between your backyards. Your wives conspired frequently to make sure the two of you did not spend your weekends playing golf or watching football or doing anything they hadn’t planned. About every other year either you or he or sometimes both of you dutifully attended a play, graduation, wedding or birthday party involving one of your children or his. Then, you decided to build a fence between your houses because your wife saw a picture in a magazine and told you via “female speak” you needed to build such an “improvement”.

Because you put the entire fence well on your side of the property line you saw no need to consult your neighbor first. After all, he didn’t check with you before allowing his twelve-year-old son to take a shortcut to school across your back yard.

The first thing that happened was, because his twelve year boy could no longer traipse across the back of your yard to get to school, he and his buddies started climbing over your new white picket fence to keep their shortcut. Your wife, who was unamused by a path through her new flowerbeds by the fence, demanded that you, “Do something!”

Because you have watched every episode of every television legal show from Perry Mason to Judge Judy you run to the County Clerk’s office and file a lawsuit seeking a million dollars in damages and an injunction against the boy.

Or … You call your best friends and neighbors of twenty years and invite them over for bar-b-q where you agree that you and he will build a gate in your fence and your wives agree to replant the flowers. Then your wives head to the mall together while you and your buddy finally get in a round of golf where he shoots 110 and writes down 88 and after you see his score you also write down 88 instead of the score you quit keeping after you hit a ball out of bounds on the third hole. Everybody’s happy.

The lawsuit would’ve cost you and him enough money to furnish game-day beer for the rest of your lives. It also would’ve languished in court for months or even years before it was settled on about the same terms you four friends worked out by yourselves. Which seems more rational? That is, which reminds you less of the present presidential campaign?

Of course, to resolve matters before suit is resorted to, someone has to swallow their pride and start the talking process. Based on my experience as a judge for thirty-five years I have decided most lawsuits could have been avoided if someone had just picked up the phone and started a conversation. The remaining legal matters may require some help from the legal system. If you are not busy “Mending Walls” between you and your neighbors, maybe we can move to this next stage next week.

USI’s Broughton Claims All-America Honors

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BRADENTON, Fla.—University of Southern Indiana junior Chase Broughton (Marengo, Indiana) finished sixth in the finals of the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase Friday evening at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships to claim his first career All-America honor.

Broughton, who earned first-team accolades with his placement, finished the race in nine minutes, 0.01 seconds, less than seven seconds off the winning time of 8:53.29, set by Black Hills State University freshman Jonah Theisen.

After finishing 17th in the steeplechase at the 2015 NCAA II Outdoor Championships, Broughton found himself challenging for the lead throughout the first five laps of the seven-lap competition. He briefly held the lead going into the water jump midway through the race before falling back in the last two laps.

In a race that featured four student athletes from the Midwest Region, Broughton was the top finisher from the region as he edged the GLVC champion, Lewis University junior Michael Leet, who was seventh with a time of 9:00.71.

Broughton’s effort gave the No. 11 Screaming Eagles three more team points, bringing their total to eight. USI, which is in a tie for 12th in the men’s standings and 16th in the women’s standings through two days of action, concludes the NCAA II Outdoor Championships Saturday as seniors Johnnie Guy (Palmyra, Indiana) and Tyler Pence (Springfield, Illinois) compete in the men’s 5,000 meters and sophomore Emily Roberts (Fredericktown, Ohio) competes in the women’s 5,000 meters.

 

 

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COA: Court cannot order juvenile to pay restitution as a civil judgment

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Scottroberts for www.theindianalwyer.com

The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled a trial court may not order a juvenile to pay restitution as a civil judgment after a minor was ordered to pay restitution in two cases where he violated his probation.

J.B. violated his probation in four causes and the trial court held a disposition hearing, ordering him to pay $500 in restitution in each of the two causes. Later, the trial court reduced the orders to civil judgments and added judgment fees of $252.50 and $315.63. Three days later, the court entered a separate judgment ordering $500 in restitution for the same two causes and a $250 civil judgment fee.

J.B. then filed a motion to correct error and rescind order for the civil judgment fee asking for clarification on which order he was supposed to follow and asking to rescind the order in both. The trial court rescinded the first order but not the second. J.B. appealed.

After J.B. appealed, the court rescinded the second order as well, rendering the case moot, but the COA in an opinion written by Judge Melissa May said it would still rule on the merits of a case because of public interest. She also noted that whether a juvenile court may reduce a restitution order to a civil judgment has not been addressed in any published Indiana opinion.

May wrote there is no judgment lien in Ind. Code 31-37-19-5(b)(4) in the juvenile statute and the COA is not going to read into the code a provision not expressly stated. Because of that, the trial court did not have the authority to order J.B. to pay the restitution owed his victims as a civil judgment.

The case is J.B. v. State of Indiana, 49A02-1509-JV-1372.

Not Sorry

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Allinger and Hair send Aces into Friday afternoon contest

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TERRE HAUTE – Facing a morning elimination game for the second consecutive day, Austin Allinger and Trey Hair combined to help extend the season for the University of Evansville baseball team as the Purple Aces handed Southern Illinois a 3-2 loss at Bob Warn Field.

Allinger, a freshman, allowed just four hits over eight innings, and Hair made it count, firing a three-run blast to dead center in the fifth to put the Aces (29-26) ahead. It was the ninth homer of the year for the junior out of Firth, Neb., and it secured a fifth win for Allinger.

With the win, UE will return to Bob Warn Field later this afternoon to take on reigning conference champion Dallas Baptist. The Aces will be in an elimination game once again and will need to beat DBU twice in order to punch their ticket to Saturday evening’s championship game.

SIU, meanwhile, finished its season with a 31-25-1 record on the year.

NOTES: UE has homered 49 times this season, which is the most since leaving the park 53 times in 2010 … Korbin Williams and Jonathan Ramon, who is out for the season with an injury, are the first Aces to record double-digit homers this season since the NCAA changed its bat standards prior to the 2011 season … The Aces are 25-34 all-time in the Missouri Valley Tournament … Friday marked the first extra-innings win for the Aces in Missouri Valley Championship history … The Aces last won two MVC tournament games in 2013 … UE’s lone conference tournament trophy was lifted in 2006.

 

 

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