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From Junior College to Big Ten, Cam Camper’s Breakout Game Helps Indiana Win Opener
Connor Bazelak did not hesitate to zip a swing move to Shaun Shivers on his first snap as a Hoosier.
However earlier than Shivers might haul it in and switch his eyes up area, Devon Witherspoon delivered a success that flipped Shivers on his head and elicited an instinctual and communal gasp from the Memorial Stadium crowd.
Bazelak faked a handoff on the subsequent play, however as quickly as he pulled the ball from Shivers’ abdomen, he was spun to the bottom for a six-yard loss. The brand new-look Indiana offense was off to a shaky begin by two performs.
Bazelak would really show his poise afterward, however he did not panic on third and 16, both. Cam Camper took a couple of onerous steps down the sector, planted his proper foot close to the sideline and used a slick head pretend to show Witherspoon round.
Bazelak hit Camper in stride for a 40-yard achieve, igniting Indiana’s first drive of the season. Camper is used to enjoying in entrance of massive crowds from his highschool days Texas, however the 44,357 followers packed inside Memorial Stadium was a brand new excessive for Camper. And after his first catch, he was in a position to calm down.
“It is a massive aid, actually,” Camper mentioned. “The play simply occurred for me. We caught them making an attempt to sub. Simply run. It was actual simple, identical to pitch and catch.”
Charles Campbell drilled a 39-yard area purpose a couple of performs later to present the Hoosiers a three-point lead, and Camper racked up 156 yards on 11 receptions in Indiana’s 23-20 win over Illinois. After his first sport of Division I soccer, Camper established himself as a go-to goal for Bazelak.
Camper obtained praised from coaches and teammates all through fall camp, and Tom Allen wasn’t shocked by his efficiency on Friday evening. When Camper first arrived in Bloomington, fellow receiver D.J. Matthews mentioned he was impressed by Camper’s measurement, palms, catch radius and the way fluid he strikes at 6-foot-2.
“That is virtually like my finest good friend proper there,” Matthews mentioned. “Me and Cam are all the time collectively, we’ve got quite a lot of chemistry, we work loads. That is my man. He had a extremely nice sport at the moment for his first sport, too, in order that was fairly candy to look at him go on the market and make quite a lot of performs and execute at a excessive degree.”
But it surely wasn’t too way back that Camper practically stepped away from soccer. After graduating Lancaster Excessive College in Texas, Camper was undersized and neglected.
“I sort of simply shut it down as a result of I did not haven’t any presents,” Camper mentioned.
He spent a semester as a walk-on at Sam Houston State, however Camper felt undervalued in a task that he described as a ‘particular groups dummy.’ He determined to go the junior school route at Trinity Valley Group Faculty in Texas, and ultimately landed a scholarship at Indiana. (To learn the full-length function on Camper’s journey to Bloomington, CLICK HERE)
“After I put [Camper’s] movie in from junior school I used to be like ‘How’s this child not a man that everyone is making an attempt to get?’” Allen mentioned. “So we obtained to know him, beloved him as an individual, thought he was an important match for us.”
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Camper needed to overcome critical adversity in his Indiana debut, as nicely. Indiana clung to a one-point lead with lower than 5 minutes left when Bazelak discovered Camper 10 yards down the sector. However as Camper fell to the bottom, Tahveon Nicholson jarred the ball free and recovered the fumble on the Indiana 45-yard line.
Illinois gained 15 yards earlier than kicking a area purpose to take a four-point lead with simply over two minutes to play. The Hoosiers’ second half possessions consisted of an interception, 4 punts and Camper’s fumble, and now, a landing was necessary to win the sport. Camper needed to shake off the error.
“Simply the subsequent play mindset, the the ‘so what?’ mindset,” Camper mentioned. “You need to transfer on, there’s nothing you are able to do about it.”
With the sport on the road, Bazelak went to his playmakers – Camper and D.J. Matthews.
Camper mentioned he constructed sturdy belief with Bazelak this offseason, and informed his quarterback on the sideline, ‘I’m going to get to my spot, simply get the ball out and I obtained you.’ Orchestrating a 75-yard two-minute drill, Bazelak stayed calm below strain and hit Matthews 5 occasions for 44 yards and Camper twice for 26. Camper mentioned Indiana practices two-minute drills to the purpose the place the ultimate drive felt pure.
Shaun Shivers plowed forward for the game-winning one-yard landing run, and Camper noticed a brand new aspect of Bazelak on the drive that gave Indiana a 1-0 begin to the season.
“Actually, for the primary time, that was the primary time I’ve seen Connor speak for actual, and I used to be sort of blissful to see that.” Camper mentioned. “It was good to see him retaining us up after sure performs, telling us, ‘We’re good. We’ll get the subsequent one.’ It introduced out [Connor] being a frontrunner, actually … He was pumped up, and that obtained me going.”
Camper credit practising in opposition to All-Large Ten cornerbacks Tiawan Mullen and Jaylin Williams for his speedy improvement and skill to make a direct affect in his leap from junior school to the Large Ten.
“I feel that was the most important factor, they sort of make the sport simple for me,” Camper mentioned. “They’re so good at what they do, they usually’re in all probability one of the best I’ll see this entire season. If I can compete with them, I can compete with anyone.”
Camper wasn’t with the Hoosiers final season, however he might really feel the significance of Friday’s win from the response of the followers and the ‘good vibes’ within the locker room. It was Indiana’s first win since Dec. 5, 2020 at Wisconsin and one that may construct critical momentum for the 2022 season.
Indiana hosts Idaho and Western Kentucky the subsequent two weeks, representing a possibility to start out 3-0 and surpass final season’s win whole. And if his first sport with the Hoosiers is any indication, Indiana has two explosive playmakers on the surface with Camper and Matthews.
‘[Camper] confirmed the world who he’s,” Matthews mentioned. “There’s much more within the tank. Y’all actually ain’t seen nothing but.”
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Cam Camper Racks Up 156 Yards in 23-20 Win Over Illinois
Associated tales on Indiana soccer:
- CAM CAMPER’S JOURNEY FROM JUNIOR COLLEGE TO INDIANA: Cam Camper graduated Lancaster Excessive College with zero scholarship presents, and he practically stepped away from the sport after getting used as a ‘particular groups dummy’ at Sam Houston State. However after grinding by junior school, ‘Coach Cam’ Camper is impressing his teammates and coaches at Indiana. CLICK HERE
- BAZELAK LEADS INDIANA ON GAME-WINNING DRIVE: In his first sport in an Indiana uniform, quarterback Connor Bazelak led the Hoosiers 75 yards down the sector, ultimately handing the ball to operating again Shaun Shivers for a 2-yard landing run to present Indiana a 23-20 win over Illinois of their season opener. CLICK HERE
- WHAT TOM ALLEN SAID AFTER INDIANA’S WIN OVER ILLINOIS: Indiana defeated Illinois 23-20 on Friday evening within the Hoosiers’ season and residential opener at Memorial Stadium. Here is what Tom Allen mentioned after the sport in a press convention. CLICK HERE
- POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES FROM INDIANA’S WIN: Indiana soccer began its season with a 23-20 win over Illinois on Friday evening. Tom Allen mentioned it was a large win for Indiana, however acknowledged areas of obligatory enchancment. Here is what went proper and what went mistaken within the season-opening win. CLICK HERE
CHICAGO (CBS) — Crews were searching Lake Michigan on Friday evening for missing boaters near Hammond, Indiana.
Police marine unit officers boarded a small powerboat that had been damaged near the mouth of the Indiana Harbor near the Inland Steel plant.
Crews later started towing the boat back to shore as a U.S. Coast Guard fast rescue boat and other marine unit boats were searching the water for an unknown number of people.
Further details were not immediately available.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – The National Weather Service confirmed two separate tornadoes touched down in WAVE Country on Independence Day. One was an EF-1 tornado in Louisville’s Parkland neighborhood, the other an EF-0 in Harrison County, Indiana.
On Friday, residents in the area were in clean up mode after the storms rolled through. The tornado travelled on a path stretching for around a mile. Bringing winds estimated at 80 miles an hours. The storm topped trees onto driveways, a car and even a home.
One resident cleaning up on Friday was Leo Book, who’s lived in his home for over 30 years. He said this was the second worst storm in terms of damage he’s seen.
“I’ve seen them [trees] go back and forth a lot real bad, but these, some of these trees were going around and around,” Book said. “It’s the first time I had seen that.”
Some people in Harrison County were without power for about six to eight hours, according to the Harrison County Emergency Management. Now all power has been restored.
No injuries were reported from Thursday’s storms.
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What is pentobarbital? More questions than answers surround Indiana's new execution drug. • Indiana Capital Chronicle
After state officials announced last week that Indiana will resume executions for the first time in over a decade, secrecy largely shrouds the new drug, pentobarbital, acquired for the impending lethal injections.
The one-drug method is a departure from the state’s protocol used since 1995, involving a series of three chemicals.
Although no state-level executions in Indiana have used pentobarbital before, 13 federal executions carried out at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute have been carried out with the drug. Fourteen states have used pentobarbital in executions, too.
But state and federal officials alike have remained closed-lipped about where pentobarbital is sourced from and how much it costs. Also still unknown is the amount Indiana has acquired and when the current doses expire.
Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. that tracks state and federal executions, said it’s also critical for the public to know who will be administering the drug — and how — as well as what training those individuals will receive.
“These are the hard questions that have to be asked,” Maher told the Indiana Capital Chronicle. “This is an official government function, and in a democracy, we value honesty and transparency in our government officials and the acts they do on our behalf. This is absolutely one of those official acts, and voters in Indiana deserve to know what their government is doing in their name.”
What is pentobarbital?
The Hoosier state has carried out 20 executions since 1981. The first three — in 1981, 1985 and 1994 — were by electrocution. The rest have been by lethal injection — which is now the only method permitted by state law.
The Indiana Code doesn’t specify what drugs are to be used for executions, saying only that the drugs must be injected intravenously in a quantity and for an amount of time sufficient to kill the inmate.
Previously, when a prisoner was executed by lethal injection in Indiana, they were strapped to a gurney, and an IV line was inserted to inject a lethal combination of three substances: a barbiturate to render the person unconscious; pancuronium bromide to paralyze voluntary and reflex muscles; and potassium chloride to stop the heart.
But after Indiana’s last execution in 2009, the state was effectively forced to pause. Increased scrutiny of lethal injection drugs led pharmaceutical companies to refuse to sell their products for use in executions. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said that made acquiring the necessary drugs “harder to get.”
It wasn’t until last week that the governor, along with Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, announced that the state’s Department of Correction has obtained the pentobarbital to carry out the death penalty.
The state is so far seeking an execution date for Joseph Corcoran, a man convicted in the killings of four people in Fort Wayne in 1997. There are currently eight men on Indiana’s death row, including Corcoran. No one has been added to the state’s death row since 2014.
In the one-drug executions, a prisoner is injected with an overdose of pentobarbital. The new drug, which Maher described as a sedative, has commonly been used to euthanize pets.
“It’s a barbiturate that explodes the activity of the brain and the nervous system and breathing,” she said. “When you’re given an overdose of that, it will ultimately suppress breath and kill you.”
Pentobarbital was first introduced in 2010, according to the DPIC.
So far, 14 states have used the drug in executions: Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia. Five additional states — Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, North Carolina and Tennessee — additionally plan to use pentobarbital. Colorado includes pentobarbital as a backup drug in its lethal-injection procedure.
The same drug was also used for the 13 federal executions during the last six months of Donald Trump’s presidency.
In 2019, former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr approved the use of pentobarbital in executions, though President Joe Biden’s Justice Department announced a moratorium on federal executions in 2021.
A first-time method in Indiana
Whether Indiana uses pentobarbital or other drugs for executions, Maher said there are still concerns about what could go wrong.
She noted that lethal injections have the highest rate of botched executions, which occur when there is a breakdown in — or departure from — the “protocol” for a particular method of execution.
The DPIC describes at least two botched executions that have occurred in Indiana.
In October 1985, it took 17 minutes to execute William Vandiver. Still breathing after the first application of 2,300 volts, four more bursts of electricity were fired into him before he was pronounced dead, according to media reports from that time. The Indiana Department of Corrections admitted the execution “did not go according to plan.”
Tommie Smith, who died by lethal Injection in July 1996, also had a prolonged execution, according to the DPIC. Because of unusually small veins, it took more than an hour after the execution team began sticking needles into his body for Smith to be pronounced dead. After multiple attempts, the lethal drugs were finally injected into Smith 49 minutes after the process began. It took another 20 minutes before he was pronounced dead.
Holcomb defends Indiana’s move to carry out execution, saying ‘justice will be served’
Maher said many of the documented botched executions in recent years have occurred because the drugs being used had expired, were contaminated, or they were administered “incorrectly.”
“There are a number of ways that the executions can go wrong, and it doesn’t only have to do with the kind of drug that is used,” she said, noting, for example, that if pentobarbital isn’t stored at a proper temperature, the drug can expire and should not be used.
When asked where DOC acquired the drug — pentobarbital, which can be used to carry out executions – and how much the state paid, Holcomb said he “can’t go into those details, by law.”
Lawmakers made information about the source of the drugs confidential on the last day of the 2017 legislative session.
Indiana Capital Chronicle has filed an official records request seeking the cost of the drugs.
“States have been hiding this information behind secrecy statutes in an effort to avoid answering difficult questions about their execution protocols. These are elected officials. They are using government funding, and they are saying they are conducting an official function,” Maher said. “And all of that means they should be honest and transparent about what they’re doing and why. The fact that they have shrouded everything in secrecy in an attempt to avoid answering these questions is not something that we should simply be accepting.”
Recent reporting by The Intercept and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver identified Connecticut-based Absolute Standards as the source of the pentobarbital used in 13 federal executions in 2020 and 2021. Reporting did not confirm if the company also supplied to specific states, including Indiana.
Absolute Standards produces materials for calibrating research equipment, but in 2018, it applied to the Drug Enforcement Administration to be registered as a bulk producer of pentobarbital. The company has since indicated this week that it will no longer produce the drug.
Maher further pointed to Idaho, which reportedly spent $100,000 earlier this year to purchase three doses of pentobarbital, the drug used in lethal injections. It’s not clear if that’s the same quantity purchased or price paid by Indiana, however.
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“What officials have said … is that they do not want to have people who are involved in the execution process — for manufacturers of a drug — to be harassed by advocates. But there are almost no real life examples of that happening unless we characterize criticism as harassment, which I don’t think we should in a democracy,” Maher said. “People who are critical of decisions the state is making, in terms of where they are finding their drugs and how they are choosing to administer them, that’s part of being a public official. Responding to those questions from your constituents — that’s part of being a public official. That comes with the territory, and there is no justifiable reason for them to avoid answering those questions.”
The Indiana Public Defender’s Office, which is providing Corcoran with legal counsel, did not reply to the Capital Chonicle’s requests for comment about pentobarbital or the impending execution.
Larry Komp, a federal defender for Corcoran, said the legal team is still seeking clarity on the state’s lethal injection protocol.
Groups are starting to come out against Indiana’s move, including the Libertarian Party of Indiana.
“A government whose primary function is to protect life should not be in the business of ending it, especially given the United States Constitution protects the accused from cruel and unusual punishment. There is no more cruel punishment than putting someone to death,” the party said in a statement. “The state, simply put, should not be killing its citizens. The Libertarian Party of Indiana calls upon Governor Holcomb and the State of Indiana to halt all planned executions and, furthermore, upon the General Assembly to ban the use of the death penalty in Indiana.”
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