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Lincoln Trail Conference Tournament Annawan 63, Mercer County 20: The Bravettes blitzed to a 42-11 halftime lead and never looked back in their Lincoln Trail Conference Tournament quarterfinal victory. Annawan (17-2) is seeking its third consecutive tournament title. "We did a good job coming out and limiting our turnovers and not creating bad habits," Annawan coach Jason Burkiewicz said. "We did what we were supposed to do." Junior forward Celina VanHyfte tallied a game-high 22 points for the Bravettes. "Obviously," Burkiewicz said, "they didn't have an answer for Celina." Paige Randall also reached double figures for Annawan, finishing with 13 points. Kristin Heath's six points led the Golden Eagles. The Bravettes will meet West Central in a 6 p.m. semifinal contest on Thursday at United. Wethersfield 71, Ridgewood 40: Sarah Hansen's hot shooting carried the Flying Geese to the quarterfinal win. Hansen scored a game-high 34 points, connecting on seven 3-pointers and hitting all five foul shots as Wethersfield outscored the Spartans 54-31 in the final three quarters. Aly Eastman scored 12 points for Wethersfield, which meets Stark County in the Thursday's 7:30 p.m. semifinal at United. Caitlin Miller tallied eight in the victory. Sabrina Medley and Ashley Collins had eight points apiece for Ridgewood. Stark County 49, Galva 36: A furious fourth-quarter comeback effort by Galva fell short. The Wildcats, trailing 45-19 after three quarters, ended the game on a 17-4 run. Sarah Jeffries led the Galva charge with eight points, and Katelyn Klein and Devon Peterson each added six. Madisyn Paxson's game-high 20 points paced the Rebels. West Central 54, ROWVA 36: The Heat advanced to the semifinals with a comfortable win at Biggsville. Maria Steck (18 points) and Emily Hopping (12) each reached double figures for West Central. Emma Johnson scored nine points in the loss. Other girls' basketball action Orion 43, Monmouth-Roseville 34: Cassidy Clark once again reached double digits, scoring a game-high 18 points in the Chargers' West Central Conference North Division win at Monmouth. Katie Garrity added 13 points as Orion was able to overcome a 26-22 halftime deficit by holding the Titans to eight second-half points. Destiny Smith's 12 points led Monmouth-Roseville. Fulton 37, Sterling Newman 31: The Steamers raced to an 11-4 first-quarter lead and never looked back in their Three Rivers Conference home win. Morgan Sanquit poured in a game-high 13 points for Fulton, which also received 12 points from Morgan Wierema. 
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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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