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Boys' basketball preview: Alleman (6-15, 1-6 Big 6) at United Township (3-19, 1-6 Big 6)
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Tonight: 7:30 at East Moline's Panther Den. Sophomores start at 6. Twitter updates: @SteveTappa_DA for tonight and sports_DA on Saturday. Special: UT inducts the 1970 single-class state runner-up boys' basketball team into the school's Hall of Fame. Illinois Transportation Secretary Ann Schotka Schneider and world-renown artist Darrell Bush also are part of the 2013 Hall of Fame class. Saturday: UT hosts Chillicothe IVC (12-10) at 6:30 p.m. Alleman is idle. Starting lineups Alleman: G: Adam Hoogerwerf, 5-11, Sr. (10.7 ppg, 4.0 rpg) & Kevin O'Keeffe, 6-0, Jr. (8.0, 3.9) & Sam Pirmann, 6-2 Sr. (2.0, 2.9); F: Joey Boland, 6-0, Sr. (0.5, 2.6) & Aaron Murray, 6-1 Jr. (1.9, 1.8). United Township: G: Trevor May, 5-8, Jr. (5.0 ppg, 2.3 rpg) & Keegan Wenskunas, 5-8, Jr. (5.0, 1.3); F: Ryan Merideth, 6-2, Soph. (4.2, 2.7) & Lamont Mitchell, 6-3, Soph. (8.1, 5.9) & Dalton Oakes, 6-3, Jr. (0.9, 1.6). Why watch: The Western Big 6 Conference's battle out of the basement finds a pair of teams tied with one league win coming in. UT has dropped nine straight overall despite becoming increasingly competitive, while Alleman's skid is six straight without senior leaders Dan Cutkomp (foot injury) and John Tracey (season-ending leg surgery last week). UT beat Alleman, 60-58 in mid-December, and the only time the Pioneers have scored at least 50 points since New Year's came in their lone win since then. ... Alleman is missing four season-starters overall tonight, with Alec Diab (flu) and Joey Mihm (ineligible) ruled out for this game. ... Football lineman Aaron Murray earns his first varsity hoops start after playing well in last week's loss at Moline. "He's only 6-foot-1," Alleman coach Pat Rangel said, "but we'll need his size and toughness inside to contend with UT's Terronez twins." Raymond and Michael Terronez are both 6-4 and come off the Panthers' bench. Alleman's Rangel: "UT is aggressive defensively and puts a lot of pressure on the ball, but we should be able to control the tempo with O'Keeffe and 'Bo-Bo' (Hoogerwerf handling the ball). The question then becomes who's going to score. We've had trouble with that with a depleted lineup, and they've had trouble with that when not in transition. So who's going to hit their jump shots?" UT coach Marc Polite: "This is an important game for us because it's time for us to take the next step. We can't keep saying we're young. We have to start playing a year older now. We have to start winning games instead of just competing and coming close. We need to do good things for all four quarters, not two or three." -- By Steve Tappa, tappa@qconline.com 
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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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