Trent Sisley is returning to play basketball in Central Indiana early next month.

Sisley, an Indiana recruit, will participate in the Chipotle Nationals with his Montverde Academy (Fla.) team from April 2-5 at Hamilton Southeastern. There are 10 boys teams and four girls teams set to play in the event, which is in its 16^th year overall but moved to Central Indiana for the first time last year at Brownsburg.

Sisley’s Montverde team is seeded seventh and will play in the first game of the event against No. 10 Dynamic (Texas) at 6:15 p.m. on April 2. The winner of that game will play the No. 2 seed Link (Mo.) in a quarterfinal at 4 p.m. on April 3.

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All 10 boys teams are ranked in the top 10 in the country by ESPN and three of the girls teams are ranked in the top 10. Ten games in the tournament will be available across ESPN platforms, including the boys championship on ESPN at noon on April 5. The girls championship will air on ESPN2 at 10 a.m. on April 5.

The tournament will showcase 41 boys players ranked nationally by ESPN and 19 girls’ players.

A closer look at the teams:

Boys

No. 1 Christopher Columbus (Fla.)

Ranked players: No. 3 senior Cameron Boozer (Duke), No. 16 senior Cayden Boozer (Duke), No. 8 junior Caleb Gaskins, No. 13 junior Jaxon Richardson

No. 2 Link Academy (Mo.)

Ranked players: No. 6 senior Chris Cenac Jr. (Houston), No. 42 senior Jerry Easter (USC), No. 46 senior Davion Hannah (Alabama), No. 60 senior A’mare Bynum (Ohio State), No. 65 senior John Clark (Texas)

No. 3 Long Island Lutheran (N.Y.)

Ranked players: No. 32 senior Kiyan Anthony (Syracuse), No. 40 senior Kayden Mingo (Penn State), No. 54 senior Nigel James (Marquette); No. 11 junior Dylan Mingo; No. 15 sophomore Moussa Kamissoko

No. 4 Brewster Academy (N.H.)

Ranked players: No. 38 Dwayne Aristode (Arizona); No. 42 junior Sebastian Wilkins 

No. 5 CIA Bella Vista (Ariz.)

Ranked players: No. 90 senior Jaion Pitt; No. 37 junior Miles Sadler; No. 4 sophomore Paul Osaruyi 

No. 6 Prolific Prep (Calif.)

Ranked players: No. 2 senior Darryn Peterson (Kansas), No. 28 senior Niko Bundalo (Washington), No. 8 sophomore Gabe Nesmith, No. 9 sophomore Obinna Ekezie

No. 7 Montverde Academy (Fla.).

Ranked players: No. 26 senior Cornelius Ingram Jr. (Florida); No. 39 senior Hudson Greer (Creighton), No. 41 senior Dante Allen (Villanova); No. 59 senior Trent Sisley (Indiana); No. 16 junior Kayden Allen; No. 21 sophomore King Gibson 

No. 8 IMG Academy (Fla.)

Ranked players: No. 5 senior Darius Acuff, Jr. (Arkansas), No. 29 senior Sadiq White (Syracuse), No. 84 senior Kareem Stagg (Georgia); No. 47 junior Chase Foster, No. 53 junior Felipe Quinones, No. 54 junior Jermal Jones

No. 9 Wasatch Academy (Utah)

Ranked players: No. 13 senior Isiah Harwell (Houston); No. 55 junior Katrelle Harmon 

No. 10 Dynamic Prep (Texas)

Ranked players: No. 37 senior Jaden Toombs, (SMU), No. 100 senior Jermaine O’Neal Jr. (SMU); No. 3 sophomore Marcus Spears Jr., No. 6 sophomore Ryan Hampton

Girls

No. 2 Montverde Academy (Fla).

Ranked Players: No. 4 senior Agot Makeer (South Carolina), No. 5 senior Aaliyah Crump (Texas), No. 45 senior Holland Harris (Clemson), No. 51 senior Lourdes Da Silva Costa (Alabama); No. 1 junior Saniyah Hall, No. 35 junior Melissa Odom; No. 13 sophomore Jayla Forbes

No. 4 Westtown School (Penn.)

Ranked players: No. 4 sophomore Jordyn Palmer; No. 15 sophomore Jessie Moses 

No. 6 IMG Academy (Fla.)

Ranked players: No. 14 senior Deniya Prawl (Tennessee), No. 16 senior Lara Somfai (Stanford), No. 27 senior Kelis Fisher (UConn); No. 28 senior Nylah Wilson (Auburn), No. 61 senior Manuella Alves-Fernandez (Illinois); No. 19 junior Kelsi Andrews 

Faith Family Academy (Texas)

Ranked players: No. 97 senior Joy Egbuna (Alabama); No. 17 junior Amari Byles, No. 49 junior Amayah Garcia; No. 18 sophomore Finley Chastain

Call Star reporter Kyle Neddenriep at (317) 444-6649.

Doctors are fighting to save the legs of a woman who was trapped in her car for six days after crashing into a ditch in Indiana.

Brieonna Cassell, 41, was stuck inside her Ford Taurus for six days after her car wrecked into the ditch off a rural road in Newton County, Indiana.

After surviving the harrowing ordeal, the mother of three began treatment at the Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois.

When she arrived at the hospital, she had compound fractures and infections in both of her legs and a compound fracture in one of her wrists.

Cassell underwent surgery on Wednesday afternoon. Doctors are waiting to see if her infections are going to heal before they continue with further treatment and surgeries. If the infections in her legs do not heal, then doctors may be forced to amputate them.

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Police believed she fell asleep behind the wheel of her black 2008 Ford Taurus and veered off the road while driving near the small town of Brook, approximately 80 miles south of Chicago.

Cassell crashed into a “very big, deep ditch” that couldn’t be seen from the road, her father, Delmar Caldwell, told ABC7 Chicago. He added that passersby couldn’t hear her cries for help from their cars.

“She was in excruciating pain. She was screaming out for help. She could hear cars going by, but they couldn’t see her from the road,” her father said.

The crash pinned her legs inside the vehicle and kept her from moving, but Cassell was resourceful and found a way to keep herself alive despite being immobilized.

To avoid dying of dehydration, Cassell put her vehicle in neutral, allowing it to slide further into the ditch, where she could then whip her cardigan out of her window to soak in the muddy waters around her car. She then sucked the liquid from her garment.

“She put the car in reverse and let it roll back down the bank to the water, so she could reach out,” Aaron Cassell, her husband, told WGN9. “She could only reach out with one arm to reach the water and then let it soak up in there and pull up and suck the water out of the hood.”

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After six days, an equipment operator named Johnny Martinez spotted Cassell’s vehicle and reported it to his immediate supervisor, Jeremy Vanderwell, who is also the volunteer fire chief of the nearby town, Morocco.

Martinez and Vanderwall investigated the vehicle and found Cassel conscious. They then called for medical assistance. First responders provided initial treatment at the scene and then handed Cassell off to a life-flight helicopter.

Cassell’s family has set up a GoFundMe page to help the woman cover her medical bills. Lexie Cassell, Brieonna’s 23-year-old daughter, said her mother does not have health insurance. The fundraiser has brought in $13,000 of its $25,000 goal.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The House’s top budget writer on Wednesday said Indiana’s local tax system is ultimately behind many of the problems that have brought property taxes to the fore.

For the second week in a row, the House Ways and Means Committee took testimony on Senate Bill 1, the property tax relief bill that has become the signature issue of the 2025 legislative session. Committee Chair Rep. Jeff Thompson, R-Lizton, on Wednesday floated a new proposal that would replace the bill’s current language with a property tax proposal he filed earlier this session.

Thompson’s amendment would phase out the state’s current property tax deductions and replace them with a single homestead deduction amounting to two-thirds of a home’s assessed valuation, or one-third of assessed value for homes eligible for the state’s property tax circuit breaker. The circuit breaker is for low-income homeowners age 65 and older, and limits any increase in their property taxes to 2% per year. The measure also contains several tax provisions unrelated to property taxes.

Thompson said the state’s constitution mandates setting property tax rates but, in practice, many of the state’s property taxes are levies, meaning the total amount of funds a local government unit may collect on a rate. He said his goal is ultimately to set a single, equal rate across the state of $3 per $100 assessed value.

“If you raise the rate (under the current system), I get more dollars for my unit and the other units lose,” he said. “And if I lower the rate, the other units gain and my unit loses, and my taxpayers didn’t see a penny change. And to me, that’s the most important part of the bill.”

That goal drew pointed questions from Democrats on the committee. Rep. Ed DeLaney, D-Indianapolis, asked who would be responsible for ensuring individual taxing districts did not exceed the maximum rate. Thompson said that’s the General Assembly’s job.

The question of how to balance property tax relief with the needs of local services such as police, fire and schools has driven this year’s debate over SB 1. Thompson’s proposal still would cost local governments more than $736 million per year by 2031 but, unlike earlier versions of SB 1, some local taxing units would gain revenue. For example, Indianapolis Public Schools would lose about $9.4 million in 2031 but the tax district that funds Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department would bring in an additional $8.1 million. That’s in part because the bill also would allow municipalities to set local income tax rates of up to 1.2%.

Thompson’s committee took several hours of testimony on his amendment but intentionally did not take any action on it. The language of his amendment has not been added into the bill. Thompson said the bill is still very much an ongoing conversation and his amendment does not necessarily represent his committee’s final plan. He said he expects to hear additional proposals in the coming weeks.