USI baseball player’s family comes to watch game and solar eclipse
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - With good weather conditions expected in the Tri-State, many people are flocking to Evansville to view Monday’s eclipse.
Since much of the Tri-State is inside the eclipse’s path of totality, it’s a popular place for people to come watch.
Now, the USI baseball team is full of men from out of town, and naturally there a lot of their family and friends who come in from out of town to watch them play.
First baseman Tucker Ebest has family from Chicago and Texas who specifically came to see him play here over the weekend so they could then stay to watch Monday’s eclipse.
Ebest’s parents temporarily moved to Evansville from Texas, but he also has family in Chicago.
Playing a lot of games in the Ohio Valley makes it tough for Ebest’s family and friends to see him play, but this weekend, they went out of their way to make it work.
“Very excited to see Tucker play. I’ve never seen him play, because he grew up in Austin, and I grew up in Chicago, but very fortunate to get to watch him play in his senior year,” said Tucker’s cousin, Paul Roach
Roach is from Chicago and drove down, not just for the USI game, but also for the big solar show Monday.
“It kind of feels like fate with my cousin being up here and my uncle and aunt living here for the season and us being close in Chicago,” said Roach. “Added benefit of seeing the eclipse, pretty cool.”
It’s also the first time that Tucker’s aunt and uncle, Terry and Tere, are seeing him play, but it’s not the first time they’ve seen an eclipse.
“My wife and I, Tere, we were in Herman, Missouri seven years ago, path of totality, we saw it then,” said Terry. " So that kind of encouraged us, if we can do it, let’s try to make it another trip. We knew we wanted to see him play this spring, and it just kind of worked out that it’s the same timing as the eclipse. He’s going to be playing, and if we stay over an extra day, we’ll see the eclipse.
Tucker’s grandmother, Annette, is from Dallas, and she also came up for the doubleheader.
“I knew I wanted to see him play, so I checked with Terry and Tere to see if they were coming, and I flew up to ride down with them,” said Annette. “We are getting a total, but it may be cloudy.”
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