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Aces track and field returns to full competition at Jim Vargo Invitational

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The Purple Aces will participate in the one-day meet for the third straight season

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – After a week of split competition, the entire University of Evansville track and field team will compete this weekend at the Jim Vargo Invitational hosted by the Bellarmine Knights.

The Purple Aces will make the short trip southeast to Louisville for the Jim Vargo Invitational on Friday, April 5. UE’s full team will compete this week after a select handful of runners competed in the Raleigh Relays and the WashU Distance Carnival the week prior. Twenty-one teams are expected to compete on Friday including hosts Bellarmine, Berea, Butler, Campbellsville, Cedarville, Georgetown (KY), Illinois Springfield, IUPUI, Louisville, Miami (OH), Morehead State, Ohio, Pikeville, Southern Indiana, Spalding, Transylvania, Trevecca Nazarene, UIndy, Vincennes, and Wright State.

The Aces day will begin at 11 a.m. CT on Friday with the men’s hammer throw. Running events at the Jim Vargo Invitational start at noon CT and will continue until 6:15 p.m. The invitational is named for Bellarmine coach emeritus Jim Vargo who led the Knights to cross country NCAA Championship berths three times in the 2010s.

Last time out, Evansville had a small group of runners compete at both the Raleigh Relays and the WashU Distance Carnival. Freshman runner Nicole Prauchner (Neuhofen an der Ybbs, Austria) set two program records in her only events in Raleigh, running the 400-meter race in 58.97 seconds and the 800-meter race in 2:11.35. Distance runner Samuel Lea (Worchester, England) also set a program record at the WashU Distance Carnival in the 5K race with a time of 15:07.85.

Schedule updated as softball travels to Drake

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Aces travel to Des Moines this weekend

 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – With inclement weather on the forecast in Des Moines on Sunday, the University of Evansville softball team will face Drake in a 2 p.m. doubleheader on Friday with the series finale slated for Saturday at 2 p.m.  ESPN+ will have the live coverage of all three games.

 

Last Time Out

– After dropping the first two games of the series against UIC, the Purple Aces rallied to take the finale in walk-off fashion, earning a 3-2 win

– Trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the 7th, Zoe Frossard and Taylor Howe both reached on walks before Jess Willsey forced a Flames error that scored Frossard to tie the game

– Alexa Davis re-entered the game for Howe and scored the winning run on a wild pitch

– Sydney Weatherford tossed another complete game on the way to her third win of the season

In a Zone

– Sydney Weatherford’s strong pitching continued against UIC as she allowed just two earned runs in 14 innings of work while picking up win #3 of 2024

– In her last six appearances, she has given up just five earned runs in 37 frames, good for an ERA of 1.02

– Her MVC earned run average is 1.37 while her season ERA is just 1.99

– Weatherford was at her best in the series against Valparaiso as she allowed one unearned run in 12 innings of work on her way to a pair of victories

Locked In

– Evansville’s top offensive performer has been Zoe Frossard, who leads the team in batting average (.344), on-base percentage (.474) and walks (21)

– Over the last 15 games, Frossard is batting .500 with 21 hits in 42 at-bats

– Her on-base tally is third in the MVC while her 21 walks is second and 19 runs is tied for 9th in the Valley

– She has started all 34 games for the Aces and has scored 16 runs in the last 15 games

Raising Her Average

– Batting .333 (14-for-42) in her last 14 games, Brooke Voss has seen her average rise from .146 to .244

– Over that time, Voss has accumulated 12 runs and six RBI

– Voss went 3-for-7 with two runs scored in the final two games of the UIC series

Indiana Dominates Big Ten Postseason Awards

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – For the second-straight season, Indiana swimming and diving swept the men’s Big Ten postseason awards as part of its five-award haul, the conference office announced on Thursday (April 4).

Indiana has captured 10 of the last 12 men’s postseason awards going back to 2022, as the Hoosier men have captured three consecutive Big Ten Championships and top-five finishes at the NCAA Championships.

The Hoosiers won the conference championship double, winning both the men’s and women’s titles for the first time since 2019. IU is one of two Big Ten programs to win both championships within the same season. Indiana’s men finished fourth at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, and the women placed seventh, representing the Big Ten’s top national finishers at each competition.

Big Ten Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year: Ray Looze

Big Ten Women’s Swimming Coach of the Year: Ray Looze

 

Indiana head swimming coach Ray Looze is the only Big Ten head coach to win both the men’s and women’s coach of the year award in the same season, completing the feat for a third time this season. He was previously awarded both in back-to-back seasons: 2016 and 2017. Looze is now a 14-time Big Ten Coach of the Year, winning his eighth men’s award and sixth women’s award. He’s won the men’s award each of the last three seasons and seven times in the last nine years.

The Indiana women tied their program-record seventh-place national finish for a second-straight season and have placed top 10 in the NCAA team standings at seven of the last eight national meets. Junior swimmers Anna Peplowski and Ching Hwee Gan combined for three medals. Four relays reached the podium for the first time in program history, and all five scored for the first time since 2004.

IU’s men earned their fifth top-five national finish in six years. Fourteen Hoosiers combined for 43 All-America honors, both totals are Indiana’s most since 19 athletes from the 1974 squad totaled 50 honors in a second-place team finish.

Big Ten Men’s Diving Coach of the Year: Drew Johansen

 

Indiana head diving Drew Johansen repeats as the Big Ten Diving Coach of the Year, his third straight conference coaching award after also winning the women’s honor in 2022. Johansen is now a six-time winner, earning his fourth men’s coach of the year award.

Johansen led his squad to a dominant performance at the 2024 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving and Championships and was named the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Men’s Diving Coach the Year earlier this week. Hoosier divers scored 121 points, better than all but 10 combined swimming and diving programs, and 66 points better than the next-best diving program (Ohio State divers totaled 55 points). IU has eclipsed 100 diving points at back-to-back NCAA meets, earning 104 points in 2023.

At the NCAA Championships, the trio of juniors Carson Tyler and Quinn Henninger and sophomore Maxwell Weinrich combined for a program-record six medals from the three diving events – two gold, two silver, two bronze – and eight All-America finishes.

Big Ten Men’s Swimmer of the Year: Brendan Burns

 

Senior Brendan Burns caps his career with his third-straight Big Ten Swimmer of the Year award after perhaps his most challenging NCAA Championships yet.

On the third day of the meet, Burns repeated as NCAA Champion in the 100-yard backstroke in 43.86 despite swimming from lane one. Burns is a three-time national champion, also winning the 200-yard butterfly in 2022.

On the last day, Burns took on the daunting 200-yard backstroke, 200-yard butterfly double for the first time in his career and reached the podium in each event. Burns reached the podium in all six events he swam, including three relays.

Big Ten Men’s Diver of the Year: Carson Tyler

 

Junior Carson Tyler secured Indiana’s fifth Big Ten Diver of the Year award in six years after former teammate Andrew Capobianco won four between 2019-2023. Tyler was also named the CSCAA Men’s Diver of the Year and Big Ten Diver of the Championships.

Tyler won two NCAA Championships, repeating as platform champion after earning his first-career 3-meter title one day before, which was won by Capobianco last season. Combining the championships and a bronze-medal finish on 1-meter, Tyler totaled 56 points over the week – a total that outscored every other diving program.

Tyler won on platform with a score of 515.75, IU’s best-ever mark at an NCAA Championships.

Arrest for thefts from USPS collection mailboxes

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In fall of 2023 the Evansville Police Department began receiving multiple reports of checks being stolen after being placed in United States Post Office collection mailboxes throughout the city. Detectives in the Financial Crimes Unit began an in-depth investigation with the assistance of EPD Adult Investigations, EPD Street Crimes Unit, the Federal Bureau of

Investigations, the United States Secret Service and the U.S. Postal Inspector. This multiagency collaboration exposed a multijurisdictional crime pattern that led to the April 3rd arrest of Michael Jerome Wright (44 yrs.) and Cortney L. Young (35 yrs).

This is an ongoing investigation which involves many checks totaling several million dollars.

The Evansville Police Department would like to thank all involved agencies along with EPD patrol and the Vanderburgh County Sheriff Office for their assistance.

The Financial Crimes Unit will continue to investigate this case and sort through the large number of stolen checks. If you have information or see any suspicious behavior that could be related to this type of illegal activity, please contact the Financial Crimes Unit at (812) 436-7991 or the EPD Tip Line at (812) 435-6194

USI Baseball falls to Murray to start homestand

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Baseball were frozen offensively in the final six innings by Murray State University and lost 13-6 Wednesday evening at the USI Baseball Field. USI is 13-16 overall, while Murray State goes to 19-10.
 
After falling behind 2-0 on Murray State home runs in the first and second inning, USI got on the scoreboard with a pair of runs in the bottom of the second to even the count, 2-2. USI junior centerfielder Terrick Thompson-Allen (Sioux City, Iowa) ignited the second inning rally with his fifth home run of the season, while junior catcher Logan Mock (Livermore, California) scored on squeeze play bunt by freshman leftfielder Ethan Rothschild (Evansville, Indiana) for the second tally.
 
The Eagles would break the tie in the bottom of the third when senior designated hitter Tucker Ebest (Austin, Texas) launched a three-run bomb to right field for a 5-2 USI advantage. The round tripper was Ebest’s fourth of the season.
 
The Racers would rally to tie the game, 5-5, with a pair of runs in the fifth and a single tally in the sixth. Murray State would grab the lead back for the first time since the top of the second, 8-5, when it picked up a trio of runs in the top of the seventh.
 
USI closed the gap to two, 8-6, in the bottom of the seventh when freshman leftfielder Cameron Boyd (Villa Hills, Kentucky) drove in Thompson-Allen with a two-out single to left field. The Eagles would leave the tying run at first when senior pinch hitter Tyler Kapust (Sellersburg, Indiana) struck out to end the frame.
 
Murray State would complete an offensive surge of runs in the final five innings by posting a run in the eighth and four more in the ninth to lead 13-6. USI would attempt to make a game of in the bottom of the ninth before the Racers closed the door on the 13-6 decision.
 
USI junior right-hander Adam Wiehe (Louisville, Kentucky) took the loss in relief. Wiehe (0-1) allowed three unearned runs on two hits and struck out two in one inning.

Vanderburgh County Arrest Warrants

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CenterPoint Energy crews faced with significant challenges from extensive damage in ongoing storm restoration effort

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Evansville, Ind. – April 3, 2024 – In the aftermath of Tuesday’s severe storms that swept through southwestern Indiana, with winds in excess of 80 miles per hour, CenterPoint Energy and contract crews have been tirelessly working to restore power to thousands of customers affected by widespread damage.

Crews have restored power to 60% of the 24,000 customers left without power after Tuesday’s storms. As of 9:30 p.m., there are approximately 6,300 customers without power. Restoration may continue to take more time than usual as crews continue to uncover damage and encounter new challenges while making repairs.

CenterPoint Energy is using a wide range of resources to address severe vegetation damage, extensive debris, downed poles and lines and continued identification of a significant amount of previously unidentified damage. Additional outages have been caused by wind gusts today, further increasing the challenges of making necessary repairs and restoring service.

“While the progress may not yet be fully visible in the number of outages restored, our crews continue to work tirelessly to restore service as safely and quickly as possible,” stated Richard Leger, Senior Vice President, Indiana Electric at CenterPoint Energy. “The extensive damage from this storm has been unlike anything seen by many of our linemen – a great number of them with decades of experience.

Many of the challenges crews have faced are comparable to the type of damage experienced with multiple storm events:

• More than 150 downed poles in the Evansville metro area

• Multiple transformer replacements and spans of wire to be replaced

• Many orders require tree trimming and clearing of vegetation before repair work can begin

• Crews have encountered inaccessible poles, leading to increased repair times

The company is communicating with customers who will continue to experience extended outages into tomorrow, Friday and the weekend.

CenterPoint Energy would like to remind customers if they have experienced damage to the weatherhead

– the point of entry from the service drop to the home – the customer will need to have a licensed electrician make necessary repairs before power can be restored.

For the latest information on power outages:

• Report outages by texting the word “OUT” to 83212.

• Sign up for Power Alert Service® for information on individual outages.

• Follow @CenterPoint on X (formerly known as Twitter) and visit our outage map for general outage locations; and

• Visit CenterPoint Energy’s Electric Outage Center for electric safety tips and other resources.

 

EDITORIAL: CCO COMMENDS MAYOR TERRY’S APPROACH TO THE USE OF OPIOID FUNDS

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EDITORIAL: CCO COMMENDS MAYOR TERRY’S APPROACH TO THE USE OF OPIOID FUNDS

by JOHNNY KINCAID

APRIL 4, 2024

Mayor Stephanie Terry’s proactive stance on utilizing the $1.3 million Evansville received from the federal settlement with opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retailers is commendable. Terry’s commitment to addressing the opioid crisis is clear.

Under the Winneke administration last year, YouthFirst, Inc. received substantial support to maintain social workers in schools and implement evidence-based prevention programs, while Forefront Therapy received funding to address drug use among pregnant mothers and bolster their clinic’s resources.

Mayor Terry’s decision to allocate all settlement funds toward combating the opioid crisis is a commendable move. By inviting proposals across various areas such as education, prevention, treatment, and enforcement, Terry uses her knowledge from past involvement with the Substance Abuse Council and demonstrates a comprehensive approach to tackling drug abuse in Evansville.

Furthermore, the mayor’s establishment of an ad hoc committee, comprising Deputy Mayor Lindsay Locasto, Communications Director Joe Atkinson, State Representative Ryan Hatfield, Superior Court Judge Wayne Trockman, LaRissa Madison, and Lisa Seif, to evaluate program effectiveness aligns with principles from Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Gov. Holcomb announces generational multi-billion-dollar investment to make Indiana leader in semiconductor packaging

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SK hynix’s new West Lafayette plant and investment in research and development bolsters Indiana’s booming semiconductor ecosystem, attracting talent and supporting US innovation, technology and security 

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Governor Eric J. Holcomb, Secretary of Commerce David Rosenberg and Purdue University President Mung Chiang joined federal partners and executives of South Korea-based SK hynix Inc., the world’s leading producer of High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) chips, today as the company announced plans to establish a new advanced packaging fabrication and R&D facility for high-intensity and AI microelectronic products and applications in Indiana. SK hynix’s multi-billion-dollar investment is the first of its kind in the U.S. and is expected to drive innovation and fill a critical gap in the nation’s advanced packaging supply chain while creating up to 800 new, high-wage jobs by the end of 2030.

“Indiana is a global leader in innovating and producing the products that will power our future economy, and today’s news is proof positive to that fact,” said Gov. Holcomb. “I’m so proud to officially welcome SK hynix to Indiana, and we’re confident this new partnership will enhance the Lafayette-West Lafayette region, Purdue University and the state of Indiana for the long term. This new semiconductor innovation and packaging plant not only reaffirms the state’s role in the hard tech sector, but is also another tremendous step forward in advancing U.S. innovation and national security, putting Hoosiers at the forefront of national and global advancements.”

SK hynix will make an initial investment of more than $3.87 billion to establish a 430,000-square-foot facility on 90 acres at the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette to support critical U.S. demand for semiconductors. The new facility will be home to an advanced semiconductor packaging production line that will mass produce next generation HBM, the highest-performing Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) chips, which are the critical components of graphic processing units (GPUs) that train AI systems. The facility will also develop future generations of chips and house an advanced packaging R&D line.

By the end of 2030, SK hynix expects to create hundreds of highly skilled jobs in areas of engineering, technical support, administrative and maintenance operations.

“We are excited to build a state-of-the-art advanced packaging facility in Indiana,” said SK hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung. “We believe this project will lay the foundation for a new Silicon Heartland; a semiconductor ecosystem centered in the Midwest Triangle. This facility will create local, high-paying jobs and produce AI memory chips with unmatched capabilities, so that America can onshore more of its critical chip supply chain. We are grateful for the support of Governor Holcomb and the state of Indiana, of President Chiang at Purdue University, and of the broader community involved, and we look forward to expanding our partnership in the long run.”

SK hynix selected the West Lafayette site due to Indiana’s resilient manufacturing infrastructure, its robust talent and R&D ecosystem, and the strong support provided by the state and local governments. The company’s new initiative is a significant win for the Midwest and for U.S. national security.

Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States Hyundong Cho, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Arati Prabhakar, U.S. Senator Todd Young and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service Arun Venkataraman were present for today’s announcement.

“SK hynix will soon be a household name in Indiana. This incredible investment demonstrates their confidence in Hoosier workers, and I’m excited to welcome them to our state. The CHIPS and Science Act opened a door that Indiana has been able to sprint through, and companies like SK hynix are helping to build our high-tech future,” said U.S. Senator Todd Young.

As a technology leader, integrator, and enabler in memory solutions, SK hynix is collaborating with Purdue University, one of the leading research institutions in the U.S., on plans for future R&D projects. These projects include work on advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration with Purdue’s Birck Nanotechnology Center and other research institutes and industry partners. They also hope to collaborate on a project related to memory-centric solutions and architecture for the generative AI era, specifically system-level memory design and in/near-memory computing.

The company also plans to collaborate with Purdue University and Ivy Tech Community College to develop training programs and interdisciplinary degree curricula that will cultivate a high-tech workforce and build a reliable pipeline of new talent. Meanwhile, SK hynix plans to support the work of Purdue Research Foundation and other local non-profits and charities by building partnerships that provide community development, growth opportunities, and leadership training.

“SK hynix is the global pioneer and dominant market leader in memory chips for AI,” Purdue University President Mung Chiang said. “This transformational investment reflects our state and university’s tremendous strength in semiconductors, hardware AI, and hard tech corridor. It is also a monumental moment for completing the supply chain of digital economy in our country through chips advanced packaging. Located at Purdue Research Park, the largest facility of its kind at a U.S. university will grow and succeed through innovation.”

Today’s news solidifies Indiana as a semiconductor industry leader. Since 2022, eight companies have announced plans to establish semiconductor manufacturing plants here, committing to invest more than $6 billion and create more than 2,100 new high-skilled, high-paying jobs for Hoosiers. Indiana is now home to a new, 10-acre microelectronics campus – WestGate One – a public-private development near the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC), and the state landed a new federal microelectronics hub designation through the CHIPS and Science Act, bringing $32.9 million in funding in the first year for the Silicon Crossroads Microelectronics Commons Hub.

“West Lafayette is thrilled to join our national efforts to bring the semiconductor industry to the United States through President Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act,” said West Lafayette Mayor Erin Easter. “This partnership will leverage Purdue University’s science and research expertise with SK hynix’s innovation in semiconductor technology. The impact on West Lafayette will enable us to continue to provide the high level of service our community expects and to increase our quality-of-life amenities for the region so we can attract and retain the excellent graduates of Purdue University. In addition, SK hynix’s global dedication to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, water process reduction and recycling and zero waste to landfill programs align with our community’s commitment to environmental stewardship. We are grateful for SK hynix’s investment and commitment to West Lafayette and for our partners Purdue University, Purdue Research Foundation, the city of Lafayette, Tippecanoe County and the Greater Lafayette region.”

Based on the company’s phase one investment plans, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) committed an investment in SK Hynix of up to $3 million in incentive-based training grants, up to $3 million in Manufacturing Readiness Grants, and up to $80 million in conditional structured performance payments. The IEDC offered up to $554.7 million of Innovation Development District tax rebates with the flexibility for the project to grow to $4.644 billion in capital investment. The IEDC also committed up to $45 million through the Industrial Development Grant Fund to support infrastructure improvements surrounding the new plant. These incentives are performance-based, meaning the company is eligible to claim state benefits once investments are made.

The local community, including the city of West Lafayette, city of Lafayette and Tippecanoe County, as well as Duke Energy offered additional Incentives. The Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue University offered additional incentives and in-kind services valued at approximately $60 million, including discounted land pricing for 90 acres with an option to expand on an additional 30 acres, to support production, R&D, and talent and supply chain development.

About SK hynix Inc. SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is the world’s top-tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips (“DRAM”), flash memory chips (“NAND flash”) and CMOS Image Sensors (“CIS”) for a wide range of distinguished customers globally. The Company’s shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, and the Global Depository shares are listed on the Luxemburg Stock Exchange. Further information about SK hynix is available at www.skhynix.com, news.skhynix.com.

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Erin Murphy
Press Secretary
Office of Governor Eric J. Holcomb
Email: emurphy2@gov.in.gov
Cell: 317-618-7635
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