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Ottawa (15-3, 4-1 NIB-12) at Geneseo (7-10, 3-2 NIB-12)
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Tonight: The Maple Leafs welcome the Pirates to Geneseo High School for a pivotal Northern Illinois Big 12 West showdown with the tip set for 7:30. The sophomores will play the prelim. Twitter: @Ness_DA Probable starters Geneseo: G: Jordan Starkey, 5-9, Sr. (14.7 ppg., 3.6 rpg.), Ethan Radue, 5-10, Jr. (7.9, 2.2) & Luke Snyder, 5-11, Jr. (5.6, 4.0); F: Ethan Reschke, 6-2 Sr. (3.2, 2.1) & Grant Burress, 6-1, Sr. (4.2, 3.3). Ottawa: JD Bryant, 5-11, Sr. (9.0 ppg., 4.0 rpg.), John Carroll, 6-4, Jr. (15.0, 6.0), Chase Hill, 6-0 Jr. (9.0, 5.0), Jacob Draper, 6-4 Jr. (6.0, 5.0), Nick Harsted, 5-9 Sr. (8.0, 3.0). Why watch: The Pirates have won 11 straight games, not losing since Dec. 11. ... They're on a roll and are coming off an emotional win Tuesday night in Sterling. Ottawa needed two overtimes to hold off the upset-minded Golden Warriors and stay just a game back of conference-leading LaSalle-Peru. ... While it may seem tough to come back and play another tough road game just three days later, Leafs coach Brad Storm said it could be either a positive or a negative. "Sometimes it takes the energy out of you, but then again they won and have momentum. It could go either way. We'll have to wait and see." ... The Leafs are on their own streak, losing eight of their last nine, but could still be in the conference race with a win tonight. ... Jordan Starkey is putting together a monster season, averaging more than 14 points per game, but with the loss of Austin Frank to injury they're missing a big man in the middle. Frank will find out more about his knee injury soon, but the Leafs will have to shore up the inside against the always-physical Pirates. ... When the two teams met the first time in December, Ottawa won 44-39 although the Leafs led for most of the game. Five of the Leafs' seven wins have come at home, while they've won one on a neutral court and one on the road. What they said: Ottawa coach Mark Cooper: "We are going to need to play better to give ourselves a chance to get a win. We had a highly-competitive game in December and I expect the same type of contest on Friday night." Geneseo coach Brad Storm: "It we want to have a chance to winning the conference we have to win Friday. They're a game ahead of us and with a win we'll be tied for second. We played them tough the first time and had a chance to win but couldn't finish. Now we're at home and we've been pretty solid at home." -- By Dan Tomlin, dtomlin@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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