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Eagles Open Spring Season at The Buc

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GERMANTOWN, TN – The University of Southern Indiana men’s golf team finished in fourth place at the Buccaneer Spring Classic hosted by Christian Brothers University in Germantown, Tennessee at the Germantown Country Club. The event was the first of the spring season for USI.

The Screaming Eagles recorded a two-round total of 620 (314-306), 45 strokes off the pace set by Arkansas-Monticello who won the event with a 602. The Screaming Eagles also finished behind Freed-Hardiman University and host Christian Brothers University who finished the Classic with scores of 607 and 618.

The Eagles were led by a pair of golfers finishing tied for 12th. Preston Van Winkle<http://gousieagles.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=2449> (Santa Claus, Indiana) shot an 80 in round one and a 75 on the second day while Trevor Grant<http://gousieagles.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=2445> (Mt. Vernon, Indiana) bounced back from an 82 on Monday to shoot the low round of the second day with a 72. Van Winkle and Grant both finished with totals of 155 (+11).

USI will return to the course this weekend traveling to Springfield, Illinois to participate in the University of Illinois Springfield Spring Invitational on Saturday and Sunday. The Invite will take place at Panther Creek Golf Course.

2015-16 University of Southern Indiana Men’s Golf
3/14/2016 — Buccaneer Spring Classic

3/14/2016 — Buccaneer Spring Classic
Germantown Country Club — Germantown, TN
Par 72, 6882 yards — 5 teams, 32 players
University of Southern Indiana          314     306       620      +44    4th
Grant, Trevor   82      73        155      +11    t-12th
Van Winkle, Preston     80      75        155      +11    t-12th
Saylor, Grant   77      79        156      +12    t-15th
Tanriverdi, Kyle        78      80        158      +14    t-18th
Wade, Alex      79      79        158      +14    t-18th

# Indicates individual player

Aces fall in extras to the Hoosiers at Braun Stadium

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 Another comeback appeared to be in the cards for the University of Evansville baseball team on Tuesday night, but the visiting Indiana Hoosiers were able to stifle the Aces’ attempted rallies as UE fell 7-6 in 10 innings at Braun Stadium.

After tying the game up in the bottom of the eighth, UE (8-8) would put the winning run in scoring position in both the eighth and ninth innings, but Hoosier reliever Jake Kelzer proved able to fight off every threat from the Aces.

“We have to do a better job with runners in scoring position late in the game,” UE head coach Wes Carroll said. “We created opportunities for ourselves tonight, and we just weren’t able to capitalize on it. That’s something that we have to work on heading into tomorrow and then this weekend.”

Things started off well enough for the Hoosiers (6-8), who cashed in a score in the opening frame off UE starter Alex Weigand. Craig Dedelow reached base when he hit a single off the chest of Weigand before moving over to second on a wild pitch, and Luke Miller followed up in the ensuing at-bat with a single up the middle to plate the opening tally. From there, Weigand would settle down for a bit, holding IU to just four hits over the next five innings.

In the meantime, the UE offense would get rolling, beginning with a Nate Reeder double and Trey Hair single in the third to tie things up. In the fourth, Jonathan Ramon sent a towering home run to center to give UE a 3-1 lead, and a two-out bases-loaded single from Hair brought in two more to send the Aces into the fifth with a 5-1 advantage.

Hair led all hitters on the day, going 4-for-5 with three runs batted in, and Eric McKibban also reached base four times, finishing 3-for-4 with a walk and a pair of scores.

However, things would unravel for the Aces in the seventh as the Hoosiers were able to get to Weigand. The freshman southpaw started off the frame with a couple walks, and it’d go downhill from there as he’d surrender four of five IU runs in the frame before UE reliever Brent Jurceka induced a pair of groundballs and a strikeout to get out of the frame.

Weigand ended the day with a no-decision, allowing five runs (four earned) on seven hits. Jurceka gave up one run on a pair of hits.

Ramon would once again play a role in the Aces comeback in the eighth as he followed up a McKibban lead-off single with a triple to center, but UE was unable to bring him home to surge back ahead.

Ramon, a senior out of Jackson Heights, N.Y., was 2-for-5 on the day with three RBI.

Miller would lead off the 10th with a double off Ryan Brady, and Scott Bradley brought him home later in the frame to hand the Hoosiers their third lead of the game. This time, the visitors would hold on as Kelzer stranded McKibban at second base in the bottom half to pick up his first win of the season.

Brady fell to 0-1 on the mound.

The Aces will be back in action on Wednesday as they set out for SIUE. First pitch from Simmons Baseball Complex is scheduled for 6 p.m.

 

NOTES: Eric McKibban is riding a 16-game on-base streak … Jonathan Ramon, who hit just eight home runs in his first three seasons wearing a UE uniform, has left the park four times in the first 16 games of the season … Overall, UE has homered 14 times this year … Tuesday was the first home loss of the season for the Aces … Since 1978, the Aces are 16-18 against Indiana and 274-205 vs. schools that hail from the state of Indiana … UE is 16-6 against SIUE … Against Illinois schools, UE owns a 220-196 record, including a 3-0 mark this year after the NIU sweep.

 

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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

Exciting Lunch with the Aces event set for April 15

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Event to be held on campus for the first time 

A new and exciting format will be in place for the annual “Lunch with the Aces” event, which is set for Friday, April 15.

For the first time, the event will be held on campus and will feature a full program.  Running from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m., the Maikranz Gym in the Carson Center will hold the lunch.  It will also feature a full program with keynote speaker Colt Ryan.  Ryan, one of the top players in Purple Aces men’s basketball history, graduated in 2013 as the leading scorer in University of Evansville history.

Attendees will be able to eat lunch at any point from 11-1 with the program beginning at 12:30 p.m.  This allows people who are on a strict lunch period to come and go as they need.

The cost of the lunch is $25 for those who register before April 11.  Tickets will also be available at the door for $30.  Marx Barbecue is catering the event and will serve a whole roasted pig.  UE student-athletes will be sitting at each table while coaches of the Aces programs will be serving food and drinks.

Corporate tables may be purchased for $350 and contain several great benefits.  It includes a full table of 8 seats, tables in the front of the room, logo in the program and on the video screen as well as mentions by the emcee.

Another great part of the day is that those who attend can purchase baseball tickets for the 6 p.m. game versus Bradley that night for just $3.  Tickets normally cost $7 for home baseball games.

For more information, please contact Amy Davidson at 812-488-2338 or ad204@evansville.edu.  Those who would like to attend can register here: www.uealumnionline.com/PACLunch

or by filling out the registration form and sending it back.

ILNEWS Appeals court rules Notre Dame police subject to APRA

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Scott ruers for www.theindianalawyer.com

The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday the University of Notre Dame Police Department is a public agency under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act and is subject to APRA requests, overturning a trial court decision in St. Joseph Superior Court.

The COA remanded the case to the lower court, ordering it find in favor of ESPN. The COA said the trial court must determine which records the police department was required to produce under APRA and produce only those records, not all of the public documents ESPN sought.

ESPN investigative reporter Paula Levigne filed a request for public incident reports in Sept. 2014, but the ND police department denied the request, saying it was not a public law agency. After two decisions by Indiana’s Public Access Counselor which said Notre Dame should produce the documents, ESPN filed a complaint in St. Joseph Superior Court. Both parties filed cross motions for judgment and on April 20, granted judgment in the police department’s favor, saying it was not a public agency. ESPN appealed.

The COA said that all of Notre Dame is not a public agency, but its police department is. It cited an Ohio Supreme Court decision that said a private entity is only considered a public agency when it performs a government function, which Notre Dame does not as a university, even though its police department does.

“Here it is clear that the police department is exercising a public function,” Judge Rudolph R. Pyle wrote for the COA. “Police power is a sovereign power. Even though the Police Department is not a governmental entity, the State has delegated its officers these (g)eneral police powers, including ‘the power to arrest, without process, all persons who commit any offense within the view of the officer (s).” Pyle cited Indiana Code 21-17-5-4 (a) in his writing.

However, how much precedence and effect the case will have is still in question since the Indiana Legislature recently passed a bill that would put into state law federal requirements of private college crime reporting, which is limited compared to other police departments.

During arguments Feb. 24, ESPN argued public policy, legislative intent and precedent in Indiana and other states favored a decision in favor of the company. Notre Dame said because it is a private institution, its records are its own and worried what the effects of a decision saying otherwise would mean not only for itself, but for other private institutions.

ESPN also challenged the trial court’s decision that its claim should be blocked by legislative acquiescence. The COA said legislative acquiescence shouldn’t exist because the public access counselors’ decisions have existed for just over a decade, which is not enough time to determine whether the legislature has acquiesced to the determination or not.

The case is ESPN, Inc. and Paula Lavigne v. University of Notre Dame Security Police Dept., a Dept. of the University of Notre Dame du Lac,71A05-1505-MI-381.

Kayla Katterhenry named MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Week

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Katterhenry won Don Benbow Invitational last week

 ST LOUIS – With a win and second place finish in last week’s trip to Jacksonville, Fla., University of Evansville junior Kayla Katterhenry was named the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Week on Tuesday.

Sporting a 3.705 GPA as a Management major, Kayla Katterhenry had a stellar week as the Purple Aces played in Florida.  Katterhenry picked up the seventh victory of her career and fourth of the school year, taking top honors at the Don Benbow Invitational at Jacksonville Beach Golf Club.

Despite rough and windy conditions, Katterhenry recorded scores of 74 and 76 to post a 150 and force a playoff.  That playoff took just one hole as she was able to pick up the victory over Christine Cates of Butler.  She also helped the women take second in the event as a team.

The team stayed in Jacksonville to play in the Bulldog Florida Invitational and Katterhenry had another great outing.  Still dealing with windy conditions, Katterhenry posted rounds of 75 and 76 to finish with a 151.  That gave her a second place finish, just one away from taking another victory.

To qualify for Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Week laurels, student-athletes must carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.20, completed at least one academic year at a Valley institution and must be at least a sophomore in academic standing.

Redshirt freshmen and first-year junior college transfers are not eligible. In addition to the academic qualifications, student-athletes will be evaluated on their athletic performance for a one-week period.

Governor Pence Issues Statement Following Presentation of a Study about Indiana State Police Compensation

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Indianapolis – Governor Mike Pence released the following statement following the presentation of the Indiana State Police (ISP) compensation study presented by Mercer, a global consulting company, before the State Budget Committee this morning:

“Indiana has the finest state police force in the nation, and Hoosiers value our law enforcement community. I am grateful for the study that was presented today to the State Budget Committee on the topic of compensation for the Indiana State Police. We will use this study as we begin the process of developing the next biennial budget. As governor, I want to ensure that the compensation we provide our law enforcement community reflects the gratitude of the people of Indiana.”

In 2015, the Legislative Council directed the State Budget Committee to pursue the study of ISP salary in comparison with surrounding states and local jurisdictions. The State Budget Committee, through the State Budget Agency, engaged Mercer to assist in this study.

IS IT TRUE FOR MARCH 16, 2016

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IS IT TRUE that the Evansville Brownfields Corp was just awarded the management contract for the soon to built parking garage and the new downtown Hotel?  …we are concerned that a Brownfields board member may have a conflict of interest by serving on the Evansville Brownfields Corp Board of Directors because she is the lead consultant for the building of the Downtown Convention Hotel and the parking garage?

IS IT TRUE on Monday City Council meeting City Controller Russ Lloyd Jr came before the group of apparent simpletons (City Council) to sell them on the proposition that the State Board of Accounts is an organization lacking in talent and audit expertise?  …it looks like he was successful?

IS IT TRUE the State Board of Accounts issued a supplemental disclosure of the State audit claiming that the General Fund balance as presented by the Winnecke administration was materially incorrect? …we wonder why City Controller Russ Lloyd Jr CPA don’t understand the State Board of Accounts supplemental disclosure report claiming that in 2014 the City of Evansville had a deficit of $6 million dollars?

IS IT TRUE we hear that the State Board of Accounts discovered that City Controller Russ Lloyd Jr may have mis-stated the General Fund balance?  …the SBOA found Lloyd Jr borrowed money earmarked for 2015 from the Water and Sewer Department to prepay  obligations the city had in 2014 in the grand sum of $2,440,000?

IS IT TRUE we are hearing that the State Board of Accounts may have discovered the that the City  failed to transfer money from the General Fund to the City Hospitalization Fund over $3.7 million in order to pay for our city’s employees’ medical bills? …by doing so it had the effect of overstating the General Fund balance by $3.7 million?

IS IT TRUE that the State Board of Accounts discovered in 2014 the City’ of Evansville did not properly reconcile it’s books and records to the bank balances? …that the State Board of Accounts reported that the combined errors in the City bank reconciliation account was off by $660,000?

IS IT TRUE we heard the City’s General Fund was negative 10 out of 12 months?  … when Mayor Winnecke, “ was told this he looked like a deer in head lights and made no comment?

IS IT TRUE that Riverboat Funds according to the 1995 City Council Resolution are to be used for capital improvements for firetrucks,  police squad cars, etc?   …these funds from this account must be approved in each year’s budget hearings by the City Council.?

IS IT TRUE  at the end of  December 2015, Tropicanna prepaid $12,500 million to the City that represented future rental income to be used to purchase future firetrucks, squad cars, etc.?  …Russ Lloyd Jr did this  without formal approval from City Council to moved future prepaid revenue from the Riverboat Fund into the General Fund order to help disguise the City deficit spending habits?

IS IT TRUE that in May of 2015 City Controller Russ Lloyd Jr failed to transfer nearly $4 million from the General Fund to the Hospitalization Fund?

IS IT TRUE that Russ Lloyd Jr received an advancement on City Revenues earmarked for 2016 in the amount of $1.4 million from the Evansville Water and Sewer Utility Department?

IS IT TRUE we wonder when members of the main stream media are going to do some serious investigative reporting that will expose the real truths about the obvious financial mismanagement  and over spending habits by the City of Evansville?

FOOTNOTES: Our next “IS IT TRUE” will be posted on this coming Friday?

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Eagles Visit UE Before Starting Homestand

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TRACY ARCHULETA’S COMMENTS VIA GOUSIEAGLES.COM

 The nationally ranked University of Southern Indiana baseball team concludes its six-game road swing Friday at 6 p.m. when it travels across town to play the University of Evansville before starting a six-game homestand Saturday at the USI Baseball Field. The six-game homestand begins with a two-game set with Quincy University Saturday at 6 p.m.

Live coverage of the game at Evansville and the two-game series with Quincy can be found at GoUSIEagles.com.

SCREAMING EAGLES BASEBALL NOTES:

Next Up: 500 Wins. USI Head Coach Tracy Archuleta is one win shy of 500 all-time victories with 499 wins combined between his seasons at USI and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Archuleta has a USI record of 351-175 (.667) in eight-plus seasons and is 499-299 (.625) in 13-plus seasons as the head coach. He has been named the ABCA Division II Coach of the Year twice (2010 and 2014) after leading the Screaming Eagles to a pair of national championships. He also has earned a pair of GLVC Coach of the Year awards (2011 and 2014).

USI in the national polls. USI is ranked 26th in the latest Collegiate Baseball/ABCA Top 30 poll, jumping four spot from last week. The Eagles also are ranked 17th in NCBWA Top 25, rising one spot in the poll.

Eagles off to good start in 2016. USI is 11-4 after going 4-1 in the first five games of the six-game road swing. The Eagles were 1-1 in the Perfect Pitch Spring Swing, defeating Augusta University and falling to Georgia College, before sweeping a three-game set with Drury University. USI, as a team, is hitting .287 on the trip while the Eagle hurlers are holding the opposition to a .214 average.

Best at the plate; mound last week. Sophomore second baseman Sam Griggs (Evansville, Indiana) had USI’s best week at the plate, hitting .579 (11-19) with eight runs scored, two home runs, and five RBIs. Senior catcher Ryan Bertram (Zionsville, Indiana) drove in a team-high seven RBI, while sophomore designated hitter/leftfielder Drake McNamara (Mt. Vernon, Indiana) tied Griggs with two round trippers. Junior right-handers Devin Williams (Evansville, Indiana), Lucas Barnett (Princeton, Indiana), and Colin Nowak (Carol Stream, Illinois) all posted wins in each of their starts.

Hitting streak for Kempf ends at 26. USI senior rightfielder Kyle Kempf (Evansville, Indiana) saw his USI record 26-game hitting streak ended on Saturday at Drury University. The streak began with final 12 games of the 2015 season and ended with the first 14 games of this season. The 26-game streak broke the record of 21 set by Josh Perkins in 2001 (last two games of 2000; first 19 games of 2001).

Leading the GLVC. USI has four of the GLVC’s top 10 leaders in hits — sophomore second baseman Sam Griggs (second); senior rightfielder Kyle Kempf (4th); senior catcher Ryan Bertram (6th); sophomore DH/leftfielder Drake McNamara (8th). Griggs also ranks first in runs and eighth in RBIs, while Bertram is 7th in RBIs. On the mound, junior right-hander Devin Williams is second in ERA, while junior right-hander Lucas Barnett is tied for second in wins and fourth in strikeouts. USI, as a team, leads the GLVC is first in hits and runs scored.

USI vs. Evansville. USI trails Evansville in the all-time series, 31-19, after falling to the Aces last year, 7-4.

USI vs. Quincy. USI trails Quincy in the all-time series, 36-33, and will be meeting for the first times since the 2014 season when the Hawks took two of three from the Eagles during the GLVC Tournament at Bosse Field. The last time USI hosted Quincy at the USI Baseball Field was 2008 when the Eagles took three of four from the Hawks. Quincy is currently ranked 18th in the Collegiate Baseball/ABCA Top 30 poll and eighth in the NCBWA Top 25.

Collegiate Baseball Div. 2 Poll 3-14-16 (As of March 14, 2016)
Rank Team (Record)
1. Tampa (19-1)
2. St. Cloud St. (11-0)
3. Millersville (15-1)
4. Franklin Pierce (12-1)
5. Colorado Mesa (16-3)
6. West Alabama (18-4)
7. Columbus St. (20-4)
8. Cal. St. Monterey Bay (15-3)
9. S. New Hampshire (12-0)
10. Belmont Abbey (20-3-1)
S.C.-Aiken (18-5)
12. Florida Southern (14-6)
13. Lubbock Christian (15-5)
14 Missouri-St. Louis (10-1)
15. Indianapolis (11-3)
16. Cal. Baptist (17-5)
17. East Stroudsburg (14-2)
18. Quincy (9-3)
19. Emporia St. (14-4)
20. Alabama-Huntsville (17-7)
21. Missouri Southern (12-4)
22. West Texas A&M (15-5)
23. U.C. San Diego (17-7)
24. Cal. Poly Pomona (15-6)
25. Lander (20-5)
26. Southern Indiana (11-4)
27. Seton Hill (11-4)
28. Mercyhurst (10-5)
29. West Florida (14-8)
30. Texas A&M-Kingsville (12-6)

Receiving Votes: Lynn (14-8), Chico St. (14-6), St. Edward’s (16-7), Dixie St. (13-5), North Greenville (17-8), Point Loma Nazarene (15-5).

NCBWA DII Poll 3-15-16
Rank  Team (First Place Votes)
1. Tampa (Fla.) (12)
2. St. Cloud St. (Minn.) (3)
3. Colorado Mesa
4. Millersville (Pa.)
5. Columbus State (Ga.)
6. Southern New Hampshire
7. Cal. St.-Monterey Bay
8. Quincy (Ill.)
9. Franklin Pierce (N.H.)
10. West Alabama
11. Lander (S.C.)
12. California Baptist
13. Lubbock Christian (Texas)
14. Emporia State (Kan.)
15. East Stroudsburg (Pa.)
16. Belmont-Abbey (N.C.)
17. Southern Indiana
18. West Texas A&M
UC San Diego (Calif.)
20. Lynn (Fla.)
21. USC Aiken
22. Missouri Southern
23. Alabama-Huntsville
24. Indianapolis (Ind.)
25. Seton Hill (Pa.)

Also receiving votes: Rogers State, Okla.; Cal. Poly-Pomona; St. Thomas Aquinas, N.Y.; Minnesota State; Lincoln Memorial, Tenn.; Florida Southern; Mercyhurst, Pa.; Molloy, N.Y.

 

 

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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Below is a list of the felony cases filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Monday, March 14, 2016.

Nikki Lynn Hesse Dealing in a synthetic drug or synthetic drug look-alike substance, Level 6 felony

Dealing in marijuana, Level 6 felony

Rashad Lamar Thompson Unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, Level 4 felony

Disarming a law enforcement officer, Level 5 felony

Escape, Level 5 felony

Resisting law enforcement, Level 6 felony

Resisting law enforcement, Class A misdemeanor

Christopher Bryant King Forgery, Level 6 felony

False informing, Class B misdemeanor

Meghann Chelsey Stevens Dealing in a narcotic drug, Level 2 felony

Possession of paraphernalia, Class A misdemeanor

Possession of marijuana, Class B misdemeanor

Devontae Raheem Waddell Theft of a firearm, Level 6 felony

Carrying a handgun without a license, Class A misdemeanor

Billy Ray Arndell Conspiracy to commit dealing in methamphetamine, Level 2 felony

Dealing in methamphetamine, Level 2 felony

Carrying a handgun without a license, Level 5 felony

Operating a motor vehicle after forfeiture of license for life, Level 5 felony

Attempted resisting law enforcement, Level 6 felony

Resisting law enforcement, Level 6 felony

Derrick Laron Barnes Criminal trespass, Level 6 felony

Christopher Oshay Kyles Strangulation, Level 6 felony

Battery resulting in bodily injury, Class A misdemeanor

Disorderly conduct, Class B misdemeanor

Eva Kristina McCoy Attempted arson, Level 4 felony

Scott Joseph Bond Possession of methamphetamine, Level 6 felony

Unlawful possession of a syringe, Level 6 felony

Possession of paraphernalia, Class C misdemeanor

Charles Richard Coleman III Dealing in methamphetamine, Level 2 felony

Resisting law enforcement, Class A misdemeanor

Kyle Therese Katterjohn Dealing in a narcotic drug, Level 4 felony

Anthony Joseph Mitchell Possession of methamphetamine, Level 6 felony

Possession of a synthetic drug or synthetic drug look-alike substance, Class A misdemeanor

Possession of paraphernalia, Class C misdemeanor

James Daniel Devault Conspiracy to commit dealing in methamphetamine, Level 2 felony

Dealing in methamphetamine, Level 2 felony

Resisting law enforcement, Class A misdemeanor

Lisa Ann Watson Conspiracy to commit dealing in methamphetamine, Level 2 felony

Dealing in methamphetamine, Level 2 felony

Possession of a narcotic drug, Level 6 felony

Shannon Seven Fisher Domestic battery, Level 6 felony

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