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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 Wednesday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2013. There are 223 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: Large quantities of ice from LaCrosse and Lake Pepin are beingshipped on ice boats, towed by steamers to St. Louis and points below.
1888 -- 125 years ago: With the Mississippi River at 18 feet above the low water stage,Rock Island is waging a valiant fight to keep the river from flooding the entire city.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Approval has been given by the city commission for paving 45thStreet between 7th and 11th Avenues.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Herndon Wright, of East Moline, has won the discus-throw title, by aheave of more than 140 feet, to set a new high school record at Champaign.
1963 -- 50 years ago: With the Selective Service Law recently extended by Congress forfour more years, Mrs. Hazel Doris reminded young men that they must register withinfive days after attaining their 18th birthday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Over 500 Quad-Cities area retired volunteers were honoredrecently for their community services at a Retired Senior Volunteer Program luncheonat Palmer Auditorium in Davenport. Guest speaker, William Moffitt, director of productengineering of Deere & Co., spoke about leadership and stressed the importance ofcommunity volunteers.
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