The Indiana Department of Athletics and the Big Ten Conference announced today that the start time for the Sept. 10 football home opener against Ball State has changed from noon to 4 p.m. ET.
WSLM 97.9 FM will broadcast the game, beginning at 3p with the pre-game show with Don Fischer.
Indiana opens the 2016 campaign at Florida International on Thursday, Sept. 1 (7:30 p.m. ET, 6:30p WSLM 97.9 FM), and kicks off its seven-game home schedule against the Cardinals.
IU also hosts Wake Forest (Sept. 24), Michigan State (Oct. 1, 8 p.m., BTN), Nebraska (Oct. 15, 3:30 p.m.), Maryland (Oct. 29), Penn State (Nov. 12) and Purdue (Nov. 26).
Season tickets are available by clicking here, by phone at 1-866-IUSPORTS or in person at the Assembly Hall Ticket Office.
The Hoosiers full schedule is available by clicking here.
Cream and Crimson Spring Football Game, 04/18/15_Mike Dickbernd
Indiana fifth-year senior right guard Dan Feeney is a member of the Outland Trophy Watch List for the second straight season, the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) announced today. The list includes 22 offensive tackles, 20 offensive guards, 17 defensive tackles and 11 centers.
Cream and Crimson Spring Football Game, 04/18/15_Mike Dickbernd
Feeney, an ESPN, Associated Press, CBS Sports and SI.com All-America selection as a redshirt junior, has allowed just one sack in 37 career starts at right guard (2,719 snaps). In 2015, he did not allow a sack in 475 called pass attempts.
The Orland Park, Ill., native finished with a team-best 102 knockdowns in 1,069 snaps. A first team All-Big Ten honoree, Feeney was also a Lombardi Award Watch Lister.
Indiana finished 2015 first in total offense, passing offense and scoring offense, while placing second in rushing offense in the Big Ten. The Hoosiers became the first team since Ohio State in 1995 to lead the league in total, passing and scoring offense.
IU led the Big Ten in scoring offense for the first time since the league began using the entire season as the statistical champion in 1985. Indiana had not led the league in total offense since 1988.
The Hoosiers became the fourth college football team to have a 3,500-yard passer, a pair of 1,000-yard running backs and a 1,000-yard receiver in the same year. IU was also one of only two Power Five conference teams with two 1,000-yard running backs (Baylor).
Indiana opens the 2016 campaign at Florida International on Thursday, Sept. 1 (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPNU), and kicks off its seven-game home schedule against Ball State on Saturday, Sept. 10 (noon, ESPNEWS). IU also hosts Wake Forest (Sept. 24), Michigan State (Oct. 1, 8 p.m., BTN), Nebraska (Oct. 15, 3:30 p.m.), Maryland (Oct. 29), Penn State (Nov. 12) and Purdue (Nov. 26). Season tickets are available by clicking here, by phone at 1-866-IUSPORTS or in person at the Assembly Hall Ticket Office. The Hoosiers full schedule is available by clicking here.
The Outland Trophy winner is chosen from three finalists who are a part of the annual FWAA All-America Team. The FWAA All-America Committee, after voting input from the entire membership, selects a 26-man first team and eventually the three Outland finalists. Committee members, then by individual ballot, select the winner. Only interior linemen on offense or defense are eligible for the award; ends are not eligible.
The list will be trimmed to six or seven semifinalists on Thurs., Nov. 17. Five days later, three Outland Trophy finalists will be named by the FWAA. The winner of the 71st Outland Trophy – named after the late John Outland, an All-America lineman at Penn at the turn of the 20th century – will be announced on live on ESPN on The Home Depot College Football Awards on Thurs., Dec. 8. For the second straight year, the show will air from the National Football Foundation’s College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.
The Outland Trophy presentation banquet, sponsored by the Greater Omaha Sports Committee, will be held on Jan. 11, 2017, in Omaha, Neb. This year, Oklahoma’s Greg Roberts, the 1978 Outland Trophy winner, will be honored and presented an Outland Trophy, which was not given in the era in which he won the award. In addition, former Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer, will receive the Tom Osborne Legacy Award at the same banquet.
The Outland Trophy is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA) which encompasses the most prestigious awards in college football. The 22 awards boast over 722 years of tradition-selection excellence. Visit www.ncfaa.org to learn more about our story.
ORG Dan Feeney
Outland Trophy Watch List
No. 1 Offensive Guard Nationally – Phil Steele, Lindy’s, USA Today
1st Team All-American – ESPN, Sporting News, Phil Steele, Lindy’s, Athlon
1st Team All-Big Ten – ESPN, Sporting News, Phil Steele, Lindy’s, Athlon
K Griffin Oakes
Lou Groza Award Watch List
No. 6 Kicker Nationally – Lindy’s
1st Team All-Big Ten – Sporting News, Phil Steele, Lindy’s, Athlon
WR Simmie Cobbs, Jr.
Maxwell Award Watch List
1st Team All-Big Ten – Phil Steele
2nd Team All-Big Ten – Lindy’s, Athlon
The preseason recognition for senior defensive tackle Jake Replogle continues as he was named to the watch list for the Outland Trophy on Friday. The Outland is presented to the nation’s top interior offensive or defensive lineman. Replogle is one of 17 defenders on the list.
Placed on the watch list for the Chuck Bednarik Award earlier in the week, Replogle enters his final season at Purdue with 113 career tackles, 25.5 tackles for loss, five sacks, three passes defended and a blocked kick.
He posted his best season as junior last year, finishing fourth on the team with 60 tackles, a team-high 14.0 tackles for loss, a pair of sacks and the blocked kick.
Replogle, along with Ja’Whaun Bentley and DeAngelo Yancey, will represent Purdue at the Big Ten’s media day and kickoff luncheon later this month.
The Outland Trophy winner is chosen from three finalists who are a part of the annual FWAA All-America Team. The FWAA All-America Committee, after voting input from the entire membership, selects a 26-man first team and eventually the three Outland finalists. Committee members, then by individual ballot, select the winner. Only interior linemen on offense or defense are eligible for the award; ends are not eligible.
The list will be trimmed to six or seven semifinalists on Thurs., Nov. 17. Five days later, three Outland Trophy finalists will be named by the FWAA. The winner of the 71st Outland Trophy – named after the late John Outland, an All-America lineman at Penn at the turn of the 20th century – will be announced on live on ESPN on The Home Depot College Football Awards on Thurs., Dec. 8. For the second straight year, the show will air from the National Football Foundation’s College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.
The Outland Trophy presentation banquet, sponsored by the Greater Omaha Sports Committee, will be held on Jan. 11, 2017, in Omaha, Neb. This year, Oklahoma’s Greg Roberts, the 1978 Outland Trophy winner, will be honored and presented an Outland Trophy, which was not given in the era in which he won the award. In addition, former Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer, will receive the Tom Osborne Legacy Award at the same banquet.
More clean, renewable solar energy will soon flow to Duke Energy Indiana customers with the construction of a new 17-megawatt solar power plant at Naval Support Activity Crane, also known as the Crane naval station, located about 40 miles southwest of Bloomington, Ind.
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission has approved a settlement agreement between the company and the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor to build the solar plant, which will sit on roughly 145 acres in the southeast portion of the naval base. It will be the second-largest solar power plant in the state, and the largest on the Duke Energy Indiana system.
WILL BE COMPANY’S SECOND MAJOR SOLAR POWER PLANT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY — CUSTOMERS BENEFIT FROM ADDITIONAL CLEAN ENERGY SOURCE
“This helps provide our customers with a more balanced energy mix using both traditional fuel sources and renewable energy sources,” said Melody Birmingham-Byrd, president of Duke Energy Indiana. “We are pleased to partner with the Navy on a project that will deliver clean energy to Indiana customers, and improved energy security for the Navy.”
Construction activity will begin this month, with installation of approximately 76,000 solar panels. The power plant is expected to start sending solar energy to the grid by early 2017.
The project marks the second major solar project that Duke Energy is building in partnership with the Department of the Navy. The company announced in 2015 a 13-megawatt solar plant at Camp Lejeune in Eastern North Carolina, which is now operational.
Duke Energy is a leader in renewable energy with more than 2,000 megawatts of wind and solar facilities in 12 states.
Gladys I. Steph, age 90, passed away Thursday, July 7, 2016. Gladys was born February 19, 1926 near Corydon, Indiana to the late Delmar and Alice Lang Lynch. She was a homemaker and member of St. Bernard Catholic Church, Frenchtown.
Also, preceding her in death were her husband, Russell Steph; daughter, Carol Ann Terrell; brothers Richard and Robert Lynch and sisters Joyce Bumm and Helen Rose Lynch.
Surviving are Daughters: Mary S. Morgan (Mick) of Vine Grove, KY and Betty M. Williams of Corydon, IN; Brother: Dallas Lynch (Kathy) of New Salisbury, IN; Sister: Lois Oetting of Fort Wayne, IN; 6 Grandchildren, 11 Great Grandchildren.
Funeral 10 A.M. Monday, July 11, 2016 at St. Bernard Catholic Church, 7600 Hwy 337 NW, Depauw, IN with burial in the church cemetery.
Visitation 4 – 8 P.M. Sunday, July 10, 2016 and after 8 A.M. Monday at Swarens Funeral Home, 1405 Hwy 64 NW, Ramsey, IN.
Back on November 6, 2015, Eric Lock, 32 years old, from Cutshall Road in Scott County, (Austin mail address), made a police report to troopers from the Indiana State Police at Sellersburg that he was allegedly robbed with the robber using a knife.
Eric Lock, 32, Scott County
It was later discovered he was not being completely truthful about the incident.
He was arrested early Friday morning after an arrest warrant was issued by the Scott County Courts.
Eric Lock was incarcerated at the Scott County Jail on the charge of False Informing.
July 1 marked the start of Indiana’s new fiscal year, when many of the laws passed by the Indiana General Assembly during the 2016 session take effect.
My colleagues and I addressed a wide variety of issues during the last legislative session. From keeping children safe in school and under the care of a babysitter, to ensuring veterans receive the help they deserve once they return home from military service, I believe these new laws will have a positive impact on Hoosiers throughout the state.
Here are some of the new laws passed by the Indiana General Assembly that are now in effect:
I authored Senate Enrolled Act 11, known as the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act. It allows individuals with disabilities to establish tax-free savings accounts without placing benefits they receive at risk.
Eligibility for the Military Family Relief Fund (MFRF) was expanded to include all Indiana veterans who served during a national conflict or war with Senate Enrolled Act 295. The bill also creates a place on state income tax forms to enable a taxpayer to donate all or part of their refund to the MFRF if they wish to do so.
Senate Enrolled Act 145, which I authored, establishes a proper military burial process for remains of deceased veterans who have no surviving family members.
House Enrolled Act 1005 requires all Indiana schools to check with the Indiana Department of Child Services to see if there are substantiated reports of child abuse or neglect against any employee or contractor.
I also co-authored Senate Enrolled Act 357, known as Kirk’s Law, which creates a child-abuse registry similar to the sex- offender registry. This gives families another resource to ensure they are choosing trustworthy individuals to care for their children.
Senate Enrolled Act 80 allows a pharmacist to deny ephedrine or pseudoephedrine sales to a customer if the pharmacist believes the product will be used to make meth. This will help curb the increasing number of meth labs in Indiana without affecting law-abiding citizens’ ability to purchase the cold medicines they need.
House Enrolled Act 1087 promotes fairness, transparency and reliability in BMV services by simplifying the Indiana Code concerning BMV activities, streamlining registrations and driver’s licenses and reducing the complexity of the BMV’s fee structure.
To view a summary of all laws passed during the 2016 legislative session, visit my website at www.IndianaSenateRepublicans.com/Houchin and click “Publications” on the right side of the webpage.
A Campbellsburg woman was arrested Thursday night for Operating While Intoxicated after a one-vehicle accident.
Sara D Quillen, 27, turned her truck over in a ditch along State Road 60 West, about 2 miles outside of Salem, and only received a cut above her left eye.
Police examine the 1994 Dodge Truck driven by Sara Quillen, 27, Campbellsburg.
According to Washington County Sheriff’s Deputy Nathan Maudlin, Quillen was traveling west on SR60 when she turned her 1994 Dodge 1500 truck over into a ditch.
“She said she had been drinking at home,” said Maudlin.
He said her BAC returned at .183.
It is illegal in the State of Indiana to drive with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level of .08 percent or greater.
Quillen only received a small cut over her eye and refused EMT attention.
Maudlin said Quillen will be facing three charges – OWI. OWI per se, having a BAC over .15 and OWI with a prior conviction.
Quillen had another OWI charge against her in September 2015.
Salem Fire Department, Washington County EMS, Indiana State Police and the Salem Police Department assisted in the accident.
A 2009 Salem High School graduate, Tommie Lillpop, has been charged with criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon along with another person in New Albany who is being held on attempted murder charges.
Lillpop is charged with a level 6 felony count of criminal recklessness with deadly weapon and is being held in the Floyd Count jail on a $20,000 cash-surety bond.
Tommie Lillpop, 2009 Salem High School GraduateLevi Eurton
Levi Eurton, 28, was arrested Sunday in connection with what has been called an attempted murder investigation. Eurton appeared in court for a second time Wednesday afternoon where new charges were announced. A second suspect, 26-year-old Tommie Lillpop, has also been charged in the case.
A preliminary attempted murder charge against Eurton has also been modified following an investigation by the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department, and one other person has been charged.
Sheriff Frank Loop said the new charges come after a three-day investigation that began on July 2. Court records show that’s the day the alleged victim called police to report a battery.
The victim told police he received a text message from Lillpop — who he recently met at the Token Club — around 5 p.m. Saturday.
The victim said Lillpop asked him for a ride to a store, and he agreed.
The victim drove to where Lillpop was staying with Eurton in the 6500 block of Seven Mile Lane. When he pulled up to the house, he saw Lillpop laying in the front yard.
The victim said “that as soon as he pulled into the driveway and stopped, he was [struck] with a sawed off shotgun” by a man later identified as Eurton, according to court records.
“He went unconscious and when he woke up he was punched several more times,” Loop said. “He said that the person that did it demanded that he empty everything out of his pockets, and he did. And he was pulled out of the truck and beat[en] some more.”
Loop said during the beating, the victim was shot at with the shotgun.
The victim also said Eurton threatened to kill him and his family if he reported the beating. Loop said the victim went unconscious again, and when he woke up, nobody was around.
“And he got back in his truck and his money, wallet and cell phone and all that stuff was thrown back in the truck. And he left and went to the hospital and he called police,” Loop said.
The victim sustained “excessive swelling,” bruising and scratch marks to his face, according to court documents. The victim also complained of “extreme pain” and being unable to hear out of his left ear. A two-inch in diameter hole was discovered in the passenger side of the victim’s truck and fragments from a shotgun slug were found inside the truck.
The victim was shown a photo of a six-person lineup and identified Eurton as the man who assaulted him. On Monday, investigators interviewed Eurton. He told police “some guy” showed up to his house and he assumed the man was there to pick up Lillpop so she could buy drugs.
“Eurton was mad about this,” court records state.
Eurton told police he exited the house with a shotgun, placed it on the hood of the man’s truck and started to beat the victim through the driver’s side window. At one point, Lillpop grabbed the shotgun and fired it, Eurton said. The victim left and Lillpop “walked off somewhere with the gun,” he added.
Loop said investigators believe Lillpop was laying in the driveway as a distraction so the two could rob the victim. Lillpop is now charged with a level 6 felony count of criminal recklessness with deadly weapon and is being held in the Floyd Count jail on a $20,000 cash-surety bond.
Eurton is charged with level 5 felony counts of intimidation and battery resulting in serious bodily injury, and a level 6 felony count of criminal recklessness. The level 5 felonies have a sentencing range between one to six years and a level 6 felony has a range between six and 30 months. Eurton is also being charged as an habitual offender, which means an additional two to six years could be added on to the sentencing for any charge he’s found guilty of.
At the time of the alleged incident, Eurton was on probation for a 2014 theft conviction. His probation in that case was previously revoked in April after he was charged with a misdemeanor count of driving while suspended. His earliest release date for that violation was Saturday, according to online court records. The charging information lists two other felony convictions on Eurton’s record.
Eurton is being held in the Floyd County jail on a $50,000 cash-surety bond.
Mr. Johnny Elrod age 38 of Salem passed away Thursday, July 7 at his home.
Johnny was born July 9, 1977 in Bedford, Indiana the son of William “Bill” and Sherry Sullivan Elrod. He was a member of the Bricklayer and Allied Craftsman Union and a lifetime farmer. He was also a member of the Southern Indiana Tractor Pullers Association and Westview Christian Church.
He is survived by his wife: Shelley Rosenbaum Elrod. They were married August 12, 2000. He is also survived by his daughter: Allie Elrod of Salem, parents: Bill and Sherry Elrod of Salem, sister: Julie Fleenor of Salem, and grandparents: Jack and Kathryn Sullivan of Salem. He was preceded in death by grandparents: Ralph and Margarite Elrod.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 11:00AM at Westview Christian Church. Burial will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday from 2-8PM at Westview Christian Church and Monday from 9AM-time of service at the church.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in Johnny’s memory to IU Foundation/Synovial Sarcoma Research. Please indicate “In Memory of Johnny Elrod” on your gift and send it payable to IU Foundation/Synovial Sarcoma Research, IU Simon Cancer Center PO Box 7072 Indianapolis, IN 46207.
