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Maroons stay on hot streak with rout
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The last time the Moline boys' basketball team lost to a team not among the state's ranked, it came against the Alleman Pioneers. That was 51 days ago. That was 17 games ago, through a course of 12 wins and five losses. Yes, that winning thing has become quite fun in the Maroons' camp, winning their seventh of their last eight on Saturday night with a 61-35 win over Wheaton Warrenville South in the finale of the first Quad-Cities/Wheaton Shootout at Wharton Field House. "It's a whole lot less stressful than losing, that's for sure," said Moline's first-year coach Jeff Schimmel. "As I've learned, it's never easy, so you appreciate each victory." The latest one came against a struggling WWS team that is 5-15 and coached by former Alleman coach Bob Szorc. However, couple that with Friday night's exciting one-point Western Big 6 Conference victory at Galesburg and this truly was a special pair of games for the Maroons. "We've had a good weekend," said Schimmel, "but now we've got to get ready for the team that beat us before. Alleman will have our full attention." Since that 44-39 loss at Augustana's Carver Center, the only losses for the Maroons (15-9) have been to 4A's Quincy and Rock Island, 3A's Washington, 2A's Winnebago and Iowa's Bettendorf. It has been a transformation of a team whose players have learned their roles well. Tops among those is junior center Brandon Vice, who led the Maroons with seven rebounds vs. WWS and added nine points. He ranks at or near the top of WB6 players who have improved the most since the season's beginning. "He's playing with a lot of confidence now," Schimmel said of Vice. "Everything is a lot easier when you are shooting the ball well. Drew Owens, Tyler Biscontine and Jed Wood all are shooting well, and Brandon has been big inside." Wood led the Maroons in scoring with 14 points, buoyed by 4-of-8 3-point shooting. Owens only took three shots, all 3s, and hit them all for nine points. Also with a nice game was senior reserve Derrick Stabler. He put together numbers of four assists, six rebounds, four points on 2-of-2 shooting and a steal. "They are figuring out their roles as a team," said Schimmel. "Hopefully we can get Alleman and keep this thing going." Moline had all of its starters out of the game by the two-minute mark of the third quarter. Even the reserves put up some nice numbers with those additional minutes. Tanner Logan had five rebounds, and Jared Requet and DeCarlos Flores each had four points. Devin Struble and Vashaun Newman both connected on fourth-quarter 3s. 
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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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