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Boys basketball preview: Geneseo (8-13, 3-4 NIB12W) at Streator (6-15, 1-6 NIB12W)
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Tonight: 7:30 at Streator's Pops Dale Gymnasium. Sophomores at 6. Twitter updates: @TT_jtpedelty Saturday: Both are idle until Northern Illinois Big 12 crossover games Tuesday, with Geneseo at Rochelle and Streator visiting Morris. Starting lineups Geneseo: G: Jordan Starkey, 5-9, Sr. & Ethan Radue, 5-10, Jr. & Luke Snyder, 5-11, Jr.; F: Ethan Reschke, 6-2 Sr. or Grant Burress, 6-1, Sr. or Austin Frank, 6-7 Sr. Streator: G: William Phillips, 5-6, So. & Nolan Sokol, 6-0, Jr. & Matt Urbance, 6-1, Jr. F: Colton Olson, 6-2, Jr. & Josh Houch, 6-5, Sr. (Note: Statistics unavailable). Why watch: With the conference crown out of question for either team, momentum heading into the postseason later this month is the focus. Geneseo won the season's first meeting, 39-33 in mid-December. "They're a much improved team from the last time we saw them, and they almost beat us then,'' Geneseo coach Brad Storm warned. "They just beat Sterling (last Friday) and should have beaten (league leaders) Ottawa and LaSalle-Peru. So they're playing their best basketball right now.'' ... Both teams are coming off blowout losses Tuesday to smaller schools. Streator fell 64-33 at Putnam County. State-ranked Rockridge ripped Geneseo, 70-35. ... Storm reports 6-foot-7 center Austin Frank is finally back to 100-percent from a knee injury that sidelined him most of January. "He's looked good in practice so far,'' the coach said. "We might start him.'' If not, Storm won't have to choose between Ethan Reschke and Grant Burress up front. ... The flu bug has bitten the Leafs, with a pair of reserves missing practice time this week. "Luckily, our regulars have missed it so far,'' Storm said. ... Starting tonight, Geneseo's next three games are on the road. ... Streator had fourth-quarter leads in four of its six league losses, and is 1-7 so far in the 2013 portion of its schedule. Geneseo's Storm: "We like to get out and play in transition, as long as the opportunities are there and we're not throwing the ball around. We need to play our tempo because last time we didn't play our game against these guys and almost got beat. We've got to get back to playing like we did in almost beating LaSalle-Peru (last Saturday). We need to bounce back from (Tuesday's loss to) Rockridge. That's a good team, but we didn't compete in the first half like we did in the second half.'' Streator coach Beau Doty: "(Tuesday loss is) one of those that you just have to get erased from your memory banks as soon as possible and get ready for (tonight). We've got to try to get rid of it and get ready. Geneseo is a much different team, tempo-wise, which benefits our style a lot more.'' -- By Steve Tappa, tappa@qconline.com 
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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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