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Mallards end 2012 portion of season with a dud
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ALLEN, Texas -- If he had an explanation for it, Quad City Mallards coach Terry Ruskowski could have slept a little easier on his team's bus trip back home from Texas last night and today. Instead, Ruskowski predicted he'd ring in the new year with a lost night of sleep after a 4-0 loss to the Allen Americans at the Allen Event Center on Monday. In the midst of a strong stretch with wins in six of their last eight games heading into their New Year's Eve tilt, the Mallards seemed to have it figured out. Then came this. "It's so frustrating,'' Ruskowski said. "I won't be able to sleep because of this. It's disheartening to play so well to get back to .500 and then play like this." The Mallards (13-14-3) seemed to be going toe-to-toe with the top team in the CHL, trailing 1-0 after one period and outshooting the hosts 10-4. Then, the game got chippy in the second period and QC backed down to the bigger and tougher Allen team. Following a pair of fights midway through the period, the Americans took command, firing the final 11 shots of the period on goal and make it a 2-0 game on a tally by Jarrett Lukin with 1:39 left in the second. "We didn't have a our big-boy pants on for this one," Ruskowski said. "We were very tentative and we got pushed around a little too much." From the midway point of the second to the midway mark of the third the Mallards were held without a shot on goal for nearly 19 minutes. "That stat right there doesn't lie,'' Ruskowski said. "If we play someone big and tough we get easily intimidated. I've really got to search some more to find some guys who are tough and can also play. We can't continue to get manhandled as we were here." The Americans put the game away with goals by Ryley Grantham and Kip Brennan late in the third to send the Mallards home for a game on Wednesday against the Wichita Thunder. "I can only hope getting back home gets us going again,'' Ruskowski said. "We just have to play less intimidated than we looked in this one." Rookie Aaron Dell earned the shutout in goal for Allen. 
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Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The Rt. Rev. Harry I. Witherspoon, D.D. Bishop of Illinois, willpreach in Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in this city this evening.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Mississippi River flooded itsbanks at Rock Island, destroying the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber companyand damaging the Lumber Company and arsenal power plant. Total loss isestimated at $100.000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of South Rock Island township are circulating a petitionfavoring the annexation of that area to the city of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Mrs. Thomas Ackles, of Rock Island, has been elected president ofthe Playcrafters for the next season. She succeeds Warren Leonard.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Some 8,000 people filed through the gates of Rock Island Arsenal on Saturday to view a display of a part of the nation's armed strength. The occasion was theannual observance of Armed Forces Day.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Willis Kuschmann, of Moline, who already has won his laurels as oneof the most artistic men in the Quad-Cities area, has a new hobby. He is deeply involvedin miniature railroading. At the age of 88, when many other seniors are dozing in theirchairs or sitting before the television, Mr. Kuschmann is planning and working on hiscollection.
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