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Class 2A state semifinal: Clifton Central (11-1) at Mercer County (12-0)
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Today: Mercer County hosts Clifton Central in a 2 p.m. Class 2A state semifinal at George Pratt Memorial Field. Twitter updates: @Sports_DA Up next: The winner faces either Camp Point Central or Belleville Althoff in next Friday's 1 p.m. state championship game at Memorial Stadium in Champaign. Why watch: Mercer County reaches its first semifinal since Aledo and Westmer consolidated three years ago. Prior to that, Aledo's last semifinal trip was 2006. The Comets are in the semifinals for the third time and first since 2008. ... Central's lone loss was a 14-7 setback to St. Joseph-Ogden on Sept. 14. ... Senior RB Logan Gigl leads the Comets with 1,969 rush yards on 271 carries. He recently set school records for single-season and career yardage. Juniors Noah Frerichs (459 yards) and Luc Blume (456) also get carries out of the Central backfield. "They're big, physical and run downhill," Mercer County coach Nat Zunkel said. "They're very good at what they do, which is the power-run game. ... They're the best team we've played to date." ... The Golden Eagles still do not have a 1,000-yard rusher, but Zach Nelson (852 yards), Jesse Snyder (651) and Logan Snyder (577) are the top backfield options. Senior QB Tanner Matlick has completed 62.5 percent of his 160 passes for 1,684 yards and 20 TDs. "I like what we do," Zunkel said. "I like how our kids have prepared. Our success is going to be based on how we execute." ... Annawan-Wethersfield is the only common opponent between the two. Mercer County earned a 27-0 victory in the regular-season finale, which Central topped the Titans, 48-27, in the state quarterfinal. ... Mercer County senior defensive lineman Tim Willet and junior defensive lineman Bobby Lincoln are out today. Willet is recovering from an ankle injury and Lincoln is serving an IHSA-mandated one-game suspension after being ejected from last week's quarterfinal win at Amboy. ... There have been six semifinal games in George Pratt Memorial Field history. The home team has won the last four. Mercer County coach Nat Zunkel: "Our kids are smart. Our community is smart. Everyone realizes what this game is for." -- By Daniel Makarewicz, danmak@qconline.com 
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Today is Thursday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2013. There are 222 days left in the year.
1863 — 150 years ago: Messrs. J. and M. Rosenfield have moved their leather and hidestore to the building formerly occupied by Temple Bufords's store. They buy and sellhides, pelts, furs, wool, beeswax, lard, tallow, etc.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The Rock Island Lumber Company has recovered 5,000 of the8,000 logs that were carried away by the Mississippi River flood last week.
1913 -- 100 years ago: John J. Ullemeyer has been awarded the contract to furnish RockIsland fire and police department members with uniforms, at the city's expense.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Work on Aledo's new $38,000 swimming pool was started thismorning at South Park when ground for the pool was broken by Mayor John W. Murphy.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Students and teacher at Moline High School called today "MissLeona Day" day at the school in honor of the government teacher who retires at theend of the school term. Although she's been teaching for 43 years at the school, Miss Dayfound a new way of arriving at the school this morning. At 7:30 a.m., a police squad carpulled up in front of Miss Day's home and escorted her to school. A caravan of students' cars joined the procession along the way.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Barbecue cooking and riverfront antics are planned for Discover the
River Day Saturday in Leach Park, Bettendorf. A 5K run, wind surfing, a canoe race, hogcalling and more will round out the day under the Interstate 74 bridge.
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