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LTC girls' basketball tourney tips off with today's trio of first-round games
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The 2013 Lincoln Trail Conference girls' basketball tournament will tip off this afternoon with a trio of first-round games at various sites. The earliest of those three tips off at 1 p.m. at Galva, where the seventh-seeded Lady Cats host No. 10 Sciota West Prairie. The other two games are both set for 3 p.m., with No. 6 Ridgewood entertaining No. 11 Princeville at AlWood High School and No. 8 United -- the tournament host -- welcoming No. 9 Mercer County to its new fieldhouse. Of the four teams, Ridgewood (7-9) is the hottest right now with five wins in its last six games, including two wins in its last three league outings that has the Spartans at 3-3, keeping them on the bubble in the regular-season title race. The remaining five LTC teams open tourney play Monday night in a quartet of 7 p.m. quarterfinal games. Top-seeded Annawan (16-2) hosts either United or Mercer County; No. 2 Stark County (14-6) welcomes the Galva-West Prairie winner; No. 3 Wethersfield (17-4) hosts the Ridgewood-Princeville winner; and No. 4 West Central and No. 5 ROWVA (12-8) square off in Biggsville. The losers' bracket quarters are Wednesday at 7 p.m., with the higher seeds hosting. The winners' bracket semifinals(at United)and losers' bracket semis (at various sites) are Thursday at 6 and 7:30 p.m. The finals are next Saturday at United, capped with the 7 p.m. championship game. -- By Terry Duckett 
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Today is Saturday, May 25, the 145th day of 2013. There are 220 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The annual review of the fire department of this city took placeyesterday and made a fine showing with machines and hose carts in tip-top order.
1888 -- 125 years ago: Last night's prayer meeting at Central Presbyterian Church wascalled off due to water in the basement, residue of last week's flood.
1913 -- 100 years ago: The junior class of Rock Island High School will hold a riverexcursion on the steamer St. Paul next Tuesday.
1938 -- 75 years ago: The 75th Anniversary of the Rock Island Arsenal today finds thenation's largest ordinance manufacturing plant filling many important orders for the army.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Miss Patrice Daly, Rock Island, a senior at Rock Island HighSchool, won second place in the recent state public speaking contest held in Peoria underthe auspices of the Knights of Pythias.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Hampton's sesquicentennial committee and the Hampton HistoricalSociety have scheduled a full slate of activities, which will be held throughout the year, to celebrate the village's 150th birthday. The first celebration will be the Memorial Dayprogram at 10 a.m. May 30, at the Brettun and Black Store Museum on River Road. Therewill be a sesquicentennial display.
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