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USI Chamber Choir and Irish Traditional Ensemble to present Music in the Irish Tradition March 23
USI Chamber Choir and Irish Traditional Ensemble to present Music in the Irish Tradition March 23
The University of Southern Indiana Philip H. Hagemann Performing Arts Department is proud to present Music in the Irish Tradition, a recital featuring the USI Chamber Choir and Irish Traditional Ensemble. This performance will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 23 in the Second Floor Reading Room in the Rice Library. The event is open to the public at no charge.
The music performed in this concert will also be performed on the USI Chamber Choir 2025 Emerald Isle Tour. The tour will include concerts in Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare, Westport, Co. Galway, Castlebar, Co. Mayo and Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland. The Irish Traditional Ensemble will perform traditional reels, jigs, airs and songs. “This is a lovely evening for all those who celebrate Irish culture during March,” said Daniel Craig, Associate Professor of Music.
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EVSC Meeting Notification
The Board of School Trustees of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation will meet for the regularly scheduled Board meeting Monday, March 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM in the Board Room of the EVSC Administration Building located at 951 Walnut Street, Evansville, IN. Board meetings can also be observed by tuning to EVSC’s radio station, 90.7 WPSR or live streamed online at ttps://www.wpsrhd.com/. During the meeting, as advertised, the Board will hold a Public Hearing regarding the Additional Appropriation for the 2025 General Obligation Bond.
Prior to the regularly scheduled Board meeting, three members of the Board, along with district administrators, will hold a Town Hall beginning at 5:00 PM. This Town Hall is for Vanderburgh County residents to speak directly with Board members in attendance about issues involving EVSC schools. The Town Hall will be held in the Technology and Innovation Center located at 951 Walnut Street, Evansville, IN. Members of the public who would like to attend the Town Hall should register by completing the Town Hall Registration Form located on our website at district.evscschools.com.
EPD DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT
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Gricius series finale walk off gives Vincennes series split
Gricius series finale walk off gives Vincennes series split
VINCENNES, Ind. – The Vincennes University baseball team closed out their Mid-West Athletic Conference weekend series Saturday morning against Lewis & Clark Community College in the annual ‘Battle of the Trailblazers’.
The day did not get off to a great start for VU with Lewis & Clark taking game one 10-4 before Vincennes closed out the weekend strong with a big 11-1 victory in game two.
Lewis & Clark opened the morning in game one of the day plating one run in the first to take an early 1-0 lead over VU.
Vincennes would respond and get on the scoreboard in the second after a single by sophomore Damon Kay (Spencer, Ind.) and an RBI double by freshman Carter Gricius (Scottsburg, Ind.).
Gricius would move up to third on a passed ball and later score on a groundout put in play by sophomore Yancey Edlin (Pekin, Ind.) to give the Blazers their first lead of the day at 2-1.
Lewis & Clark would even the score back at 2-2 with a run in the third and take the lead back with three runs in the fourth to hold a 5-2 edge.
Lewis & Clark broke the game open in the sixth with five runs to increase their lead to 10-2.
Vincennes would continue to battle late in game one, getting a lead off solo home run by Carter Gricius in the sixth and back-to-back doubles by freshman Jevan Andrews (Hobart, Ind.) and sophomore Nate Montgomery (Lexington, Ind.) in the seventh.
This would be as close as the Blazers would get however as Lewis & Clark closed out the 10-4 victory in game one of Saturday’s doubleheader.
Sophomore Colton Okes (Evansville, Ind.) got the start on the mound for Vincennes in game one of the day, throwing three-plus innings, allowing three runs, one earned on two hits and striking out one.
Freshman Jacob Allen (Vincennes, Ind.) was the first out of the pen for Vincennes, allowing two runs on one hit in one-third of an inning.
Sophomore Bryce Gross (Bridgeport, Ill.) pitched two and two-thirds innings of relief for VU, allowing five runs on six hits and striking out three.
Freshman Kyle Holder (Mount Vernon, Ind.) pitched the seventh inning for the Trailblazers, allowing two hits in an inning on the mound.
“Colton Okes gave us a chance,” VU Head Baseball Coach Chris Barney said. “We’ve got to swing better earlier in the game. I did something that I haven’t asked Bryce Gross to do all year which is throw 40 to 50 pitches for us and I left him in there thinking we’ve got a chance and they caught up to it. I’m going to wear that one but we’ve still got to play better all the way around, defensively and offensively when we get a chance to do that.”
The Trailblazers looked to bounce back and close out the weekend strong in game two of the day and were able to break the game open early with a monster seven-run second inning.
VU got the inning started with a lead off walk by Carter Gricius. Bryce Gross followed him by reaching on a fielder’s choice and Vincennes got on the board with an RBI single by Yancey Edlin.
Gross came around to score the second run of the inning on a double steal with Edlin before Edlin scored on an RBI single by freshman Evan Doran (Indianapolis, Ind.).
Sophomore Bradyn Douglas (Frankton, Ind.) kept the inning going with an RBI single, with Doran coming around to score on a fielding error to put the Blazers ahead 5-0.
Carter Gricius would cap off the Vincennes scoring in the inning with a big two-RBI single to give the Trailblazers an early 7-0 lead over Lewis & Clark.
Lewis & Clark would get a run on the board in the fourth, with Vincennes immediately responded in a big way in the bottom of the fourth.
VU opened the fourth inning with back-to-back singles by Nate Montgomery and Carter Gricius, before sophomore Corbin Napier (Indianapolis, Ind.) launched a big three-run home run, his first of the season and second home run of his VU career, to move the Vincennes lead to 10-1.
After holding Lewis & Clark scoreless in the fifth the Trailblazers came to bat needing one run to end the game early.
Bradyn Douglas led off the inning with a walk and later moved into scoring position with a stolen base.
Carter Gricius kept his hot bat going, coming through for the Trailblazers with a two-out walk-off RBI double to end the game and give Vincennes the 11-1 series finale victory over Lewis & Clark.
In the two games combined Saturday, Gricius was an outstanding five for six at the plate, with two doubles, a home run, five RBIs and four runs scored.
VU’s game two starter, freshman Grayson Reichert (Shepherdsville, Ky.) also had a big day on the mound, throwing a five inning complete game, allowing one unearned run on just one hit and striking out two.
Reichert was very efficient on the mound right from the start, retiring nine of the first 10 batters he faced on just 28 pitches in the first three innings, going through three innings without allowing a hit.
“It all starts on the mound today with Grayson Reichert,” Barney added. “I thought guys had some big games at the plate. Carter Gricius had three RBIs and the walk off RBI. Obviously Napier hits a three run home run. RBIs by Edlin and Doran. Doran barreled one up and went two for three and an RBI by Douglas. So some things went really well swinging the bats all the way through. It was multiple guys stepping up and doing things for us. That’s what it’s going to take for us to be successful as we continue to play through the conference schedule.”
The Trailblazers will look to keep this positive momentum going as VU gets set to hit the road next week to face Olney Central College Wednesday, March 19 at 3 p.m. eastern in Olney, Ill.
VU will then be on the road Saturday, March 22 for the first two games of their weekend MWAC series with Parkland College in Champaign, Ill. First pitch Saturday is set for 1 p.m. eastern.
The series will then shift to Jerry Blemker Field in Vincennes for the final two games of the weekend slate Sunday, March 23 with first pitch Sunday scheduled for 1 p.m. eastern.
“Hopefully we can start putting consecutive better games back to back instead of playing really well in one and struggling in another,” Barney said. “Our pitchers have got to learn how to step up, throw shut down innings after we score and obviously our hitters have to put hits together back to back to back and push some runs across to make it a little bit easier for us.”
“We had some opportunities on the weekend to do some things and missed,” Barney added. “In the games that we won, we didn’t miss on those opportunities. We were able to take advantage of a lot of mistakes and guys really stepped up.”
BOX SCORE
GAME ONE
Lewis & Clark – 101 305 0 – 10
VU (9-12, 1-6) – 020 001 1 – 4
VINCENNES HITTING
2B – Andrews 2, Gricius, Montgomery. HR – Gricius. RBI – Gricius 2, Montgomery, Edlin. HBP – Johnson.
GAME TWO
Lewis & Clark – 000 10 – 1
VU (10-12, 2-6) – 070 31 – 11
VINCENNES HITTING
2B – Gricius. HR – Napier. RBI – Gricius 3, Napier 3, Edlin, Doran, Douglas. HBP – Fessel, Napier, Montgomery. SB – Douglas, Gross, Montgomery, Edlin.
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The Vincennes University baseball team improves to 10-12 on the season, with a 2-6 record in MWAC Conference play.
Aces golf completes match against USI
Aces golf completes match against USI
Screaming Eagles take the win in playoff
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Friday’s match pitting the University of Evansville golf teams against USI saw the Screaming Eagles win in a playoff.
Full results are below:
Bannister (USI) defeated Andres Rodriguez (UE) 2&1
Kate Petrova and Mallory Russell (UE) defeated Luthy and Ready (USI) 8&6
Vertanen and Boone (USI) defeated Masatoyo Kato and Mason Taylor 4&2
Louise Standtke and Elizabeth Mercer (UE) defeated Navato and Kirsch (USI) 2&1
Omar Khalid and Julian Kiessling (UE) defeated Goebel and Worthington (USI) 3&2
Vera and Blakeley (USI) defeated Destynie Sheridan and Jane Grankina (UE) 2&1
Luke Schneider and Miguel Sobrado (UE) defeated Reynolds and Peck (USI) 2&1
Schneider and Wymer (USI) defeated Izzy Steele and Trinity Dubbs (UE) 1 up
Daniil Romashkin and Jamison Ousley (UE) halved Ornelas and Bauschek (USI)
Playoff
Hole one Andres Rodriguez and Kate Petrova (UE) halved Bannister and Vera (USI)
Hole two Daniil Romashkin and Mallory Russell (UE) halved Vertanen and Schneider (USI)
Hole three Goebel and Wymer (USI) defeated Omar Khalid and Loiuse Standtke (UE)
The Purple Aces women return to action on Monday at the Nevel Meade Collegiate while the men are back on the course for the Don Benbow Butler Invitational on March 31.
THUNDERBOLTS SPLIT WEEKEND SERIES AT FAYETTEVILLE
THUNDERBOLTS SPLIT WEEKEND SERIES AT FAYETTEVILLE
Fayetteville, NC.: After defeating Fayetteville in overtime on Friday, the Thunderbolts were moments away from going to overtime again on Saturday night at Crown Coliseum, however the Marksmen scored with only two seconds remaining to defeat Evansville in regulation by a 3-2 score. The Thunderbolts’ next home game will be on Saturday, March 22nd against the Quad City Storm at 7:05pm CT.
Evansville struck first, as Logan vande Meerakker scored a power play goal from Nolan McElhaney 1:28 into the game. However, the Marksmen tied the game with a power play goal of their own at 9:01, scored by Cayden Cahill. Tied most of the way through the second period, the Marksmen grabbed their first lead of the weekend at 19:12 as Dalton Hunter scored off the rush, the puck just barely crossing the goal line. In the third period, Evansville tied the game back up at 2-2 as Tyson Gilmour scored an unassisted goal off a Marksmen turnover at their blue line with 6:41 remaining in regulation. Unfortunately, Evansville could not hold on for overtime, as Tyler Love scored with 2 seconds remaining to give the Marksmen a 3-2 lead, with not nearly enough time remaining for Evansville to get a chance to tie the game, and the Thunderbolts were forced to settle for the weekend split.
Vande Meerakker and Gilmour scored one goal each, while Cole Ceci finished with 42 saves on 45 shots on goal. The Thunderbolts and Marksmen do not meet again this regular season, with the season series ending in a 1-1 tie. With Macon’s regulation loss tonight, Evansville now only needs a maximum of 6 points out of 14 possible remaining points to clinch a playoff spot.
Individual game tickets and group packages are on sale for the 2024-25 season. Season tickets for the 2025-26 season are on sale now. Call 812-422-BOLT(2658) or visit our website (www.evansvillethunderbolts.
About Evansville Thunderbolts: The Evansville Thunderbolts is the area’s only professional hockey team. The Thunderbolts are a proud member of the SPHL. The team is owned and operated by VW Sports, L.L.C, a subsidiary of VenuWorks, Inc. www.evansvillethunderbolts.com
BREAKING NEWS Possible Tornado Damage in Gibson County
The early morning storms that hit the area caused significant damage in Oakland City and Francisco and officials believe it was from a tornado.
Gibson County Sheriff Bruce Vanoven said that they have set up a perimeter around Oakland City, and they are only allowing emergency vehicles and locals through.
Officials urge people to avoid the storm-damaged areas.
This is a developing story.
Groundbreaking for New Airport Terminal in Huntingburg
Dubois County officials gathered Friday morning to break ground on a new addition coming to the Huntingburg Regional Airport. The event marked the official start of construction on the new Frosty Jones Terminal.
Mark Messmer, 8th District Congressman, talked about the man whom the terminal is being named after. “Frosty Jones was a revered figure in the aviation community,” Messmer told the crowd. “Jones bought the land and started the airport as a grass airstrip in 1938.”
Dubois County’s most famous resident, Indiana
Governor Mike Braun, was among the dignitaries to turn a shovel. He spoke about the airport’s growth, including lengthening the runway to 5,501 feet and building the first tunnel at a public airport in Indiana.
Training programs will be integrated into the facility through a partnership with the Patoka Valley Career Technical Education Center.
