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Q-C girls' basketball roundup
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Regular season Rock Island 82, Peoria 39: The Rocks earned their 24th win on the season, establishing a single-season program record for regular-season victories. Rocky (24-3) needs one more win to tie the single-season school record established in 1999. Shavonne Brewer (14 points) and Morgan Twing (11) each reached double figures for the Rocks, who led 40-15 at halftime. All 16 players who played for Rock scored. Class 2A Kewanee Regional Kewanee 57, North Fulton 40: The fourth-seeded Boiler Girls opened postseason play by forcing fifth-seeded North Fulton into 32 turnovers. Jen Ensley scored a team-high 15 points for Kewanee (14-16), which meets top-seeded Peoria Christian in Wednesday's semifinal at 6 p.m., and Eusebia Quintero added 12 more. Class 2A Sterling Newman Regional West Carroll 51, Morrison 44: Entering postseason as the fifth seed, Morrison (5-22) could not pull a quarterfinal upset. The Fillies' Lakin Goodman tied for game-high honors with 18 points and Chelsea Eads added 11. Fourth-seeded West Carroll advances to face top-seeded Riverdale in Wednesday's semifinal at 6 p.m. Class 1A Annawan Regional Stark County 61, Galva 41: Led by senior forward Alex Strom's 20 points, the sixth-seeded Galva Lady Cats (10-18) tried to make a second-half run at No. 3 Stark County. Down 33-21 at halftime, Galva battled to within 35-27 in the third quarter before the Lady Rebels (19-8) pulled away behind seven 3-pointers, three from top scorer Ashley Phillips (21 points). Elizabeth Hippen added 16 points and Madisyn Paxson 12 to augment Phillips' efforts and send Stark County into Wednesday's 8 p.m. semifinal with No. 2 Wethersfield (22-7). The Cats' Donel Samuel and Paige Williams combined for 17 points to support Strom. 
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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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