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Rocks complete perfect WB6 run
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QUINCY — The Rock Island girls' basketball team could have put it on cruise control Thursday night. The Rocks had a reason not to do that. Perfection. Rock Island held Quincy scoreless the final 7 minutes, 6 seconds of thefirst quarter, put together a 17-1 run to end the first half and ran thetable on the Western Big 6 Conference with a 70-39 victory. "It would be easy to say, 'Well, we're already the conference champion,'" said Rock Island coach Thad Hoover, whose team secured their second consecutive Big 6 title two weeks. "But they came out and played hard. That's what you really want as a coach. The rest of the stuff is easy if they're playing hard." For a minute, it looked like it might not be so simple. Quincy's Hannah Reller drove the right baseline for a layin on the game's opening possession, and after Carly Hoover answered with a 3-pointer, Rellerscored again on a drive down the lane. About 15 seconds later, Rocky's Shavonne Brewer put back a missed 3-pointerand the Rocks never trailed again. Quincy went 15 possessions without scoring before Measha Ferguson-Smith ended the run with a layin with 7:14 to go in the second quarter. "Things might not always go the way we want," said Ferguson-Smith, who led Quincy with 10 points. "You keep battling." The Blue Devils did that for a stretch, closing with 19-10 on Jordan Fletcher's putback with four minutes remaining in the first half. Then Rocky ran away. Jacqueline Twing buried a 3-pointer from the left corner to kickstart the 17-1 run. The Rocks (24-3, 10-0 Big 6) scored on seven straight possessions, while converting five Blue Devil turnovers into eight points. "The kids came out with energy," Hoover said. It left Quincy befuddled. The Blue Devils went 5-of-25 from the field in the first half and 1-of-6 from the free-throw line. The Rocks also outrebounded the Blue Devils 19-16 in the first half. "It's expected," Ferguson-Smith said of facing a physical battle in the Big 6. "We're always going to expect a battle." Trailing 38-15 with 5:38 remaining in the third quarter, Quincy coach Demond Dade was hit with his second technical foul and ejected. As he left the gym, he was assessed a third technical. That led to a five-point possession for the Rocks. "I was doing my job and the refs did theirs," Dade said. "I'll learn from it." Brewer led the Rocks with 16 points as 13 players ended up in the scoringcolumn, helping Rock Island cement the perfect season. "Honestly, I thought we'd have a good team," Hoover said. "The girls just kept getting better all year. We're doing what we need to do. We're getting better every day and hopefully peaking at the right time." 
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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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