Good evening and welcome everybody to the Rock Garden, for the Illinois High School Association’s Class 3A boys basketball sectional, between the hosting Rock Island Rocks (20-9) and the upset-minded Morton Potters (17-11).
I’m Steve Tappa, from The Moline Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus, and I’d like to welcome you to our live blog. A word of warning: REFRESH OFTEN! That’s the only way you’ll be able to get all of my thoughts.
I’m in, finally. Sorry for the technical difficulties. The new-fangled website we’re doing live blogs through was not cooperating here at the Rock Island Fieldhouse.
I’m Steve Tappa, from The Moline Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus, and I’d like to welcome you to our live blog from the Class 3A Rock Island Boys Basketball Sectional.
A word of warning: REFRESH OFTEN! That’s the only way you’ll be able to get all of my thoughts. The scoring and such will also be noticeably different fron last night, when fellow staffer Dan Makarewicz was blogging from the Class 1A boys basketball sectional at Northern Illinois University.
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By Steve Tappa, stappa@qconline.com
Moline Dispatch/Rock Island Argus prep basketball writer
Originally Posted Online: Feb. 28, 2009, 10:33 pm
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Bettendorf heads into Tuesday’s Iowa Class 4A Substate Finals with near-unanimous first-place support in the last Quad Cities Prep Basketball Power Poll of the season.
Retaining their No. 1 ranking for a fourth straight week, the Mississippi Athletic Conference champs earned 13 of 14 first-place votes, and 139 of 140 voting points in balloting by the sports staffs at WQAD-TV, The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus.
The final girls’ rankings were released Feb. 16, as the last local girls’ teams entered postseason action.
In today’s 10th and final installment of this season’s local boys’ rankings, Moline (20-5) and Orion (27-4) also ended up in a dead heat behind the No. 1 Bulldogs (19-3).
