One Last Time at the Ford Center

A week or so ago, I covered my last event at the Ford Center in Downtown Evansville, Ind.  It was the last sporting event I’d get in Evansville at all with my last day on December 2nd.  I ran out in the evening to cover the University of Evansville women’s basketball team playing Ball State followed by the men’s team taking on Alabama State.  The women lost 55-50 in a rather boring game.  They had every opportunity to win, but didn’t make a shot from 7:58 remaining in the game onward.

The men’s team played an equally sloppy first half of their game, when the halftime score of both teams didn’t equal 50 points combined.  Alabama State, who was winless on the season entering the game, and winless exiting it as well, wasn’t doing much to stop shot attempts by the Aces, but the Aces couldn’t get anything to fall either.

I set up an overhead camera with the intention of using a shot from the women’s game from overhead inside and a floor shot from the men’s game on the front of the sports section.  With so little going right for either team, though, I was left with only good photos from above for both, but Larry Fink, being the expert designer that he is, made it work.

I had a fantastic run in Evansville, I loved covering the local teams out there, and I’m definitely going to miss that arena.  Here’s hoping I land somewhere I can still have as much fun.

Evansville's Rokas Cesnulevicius, center, tries to gather an offensive rebound through a group of Alabama State defenders in the first half of their game at the Ford Center on Tuesday night, November 29, 2011.