Springfield SE 49, QHS 25

In its final game of the Peoria Manuel Tournament, Quincy fell behind 24-8 and lost 59-25 to Springfield Southeast today.
QHS (3-11) beat Springfield Southeast earlier this season, but coach Sandi DeVoe said turnovers and a lack of composure hurt the Blue Devils. Quincy went 1-3 in the tournament.
Southeast forced 22 turnovers. Quincy had just 11 turnovers in a 58-52 victory over Peoria Manual Monday.
Quincy has a makeup game Saturday at home against Illini West, with the junior varsity game starting at 1 p.m.

QHS 58, Peoria Manuel 52

Senior Macy Ferguson Smith scored a career high 20 points to lead Quincy past the host school Monday.

QHS sprinted to a rare first quarter lead of 16-8 and and never trailed. Manuel managed to get within two points until the Blue Devils pulled away.

Freshman Tori Kuhn had 17 points and junior Shelby Wires added eight points and seven assists.

QHS will play at noon Tuesday against the winner of the Springfield Southeast and Springfield Lanphier game. 

Peoria Update

QHS plays Monday at 4:30 against the winner of the 9:30 Fourth-place game.

Peoria Day 1

Washington 48, QHS 36: Freshman Anna Leenerts had 12 points to pace Quincy, with Shelby Wires and Emily Hart each adding nine points.

East St. Louis 41, QHS 28: The Blue Devils continued to play impressive defense but still struggled to score against a bigger and more athletic Flyers squad. Four players had five points each for Quincy. The Blue Devils will play Monday morning in Peoria, more info to come.

Peoria Tournament, Illini West

The Illini West game has been rescheduled for Saturday, Jan. 3 at QHS gym.

Here is the Peoria Tournament Schedule:

AT MANUAL
POOL A - East Peoria, Limestone, Moline. POOL B - Manual, Pekin,
Springfield. POOL C - East St. Louis, Quincy, Springfield Lanphier,
Washington. POOL D - Central, Danville, Lincoln, Springfield Southeast.
Dec. 27 games
Pekin vs. Manual, 9 a.m.
East Peoria vs. Limestone, 9 a.m. (complex gym)
Washington vs. Quincy, 10:30 a.m.
Springfield Southeast vs. Lincoln, 10:30 a.m. (complex gym)
East St. Louis vs. Springfield Lanphier, noon
Danville vs. Central, noon (complex gym)
Limestone vs. Moline, 1:30 p.m.
Springfield vs. Pekin, 1:30 p.m. (complex gym)
Danville vs. Lincoln, 3 p.m.
East St. Louis vs. Quincy, 3 p.m. (complex gym)
Central vs. Springfield Southeast, 4:30 p.m.
Springfield Lanphier vs. Washington, 4:30 p.m. (complex gym)
Manual vs. Springfield, 6 p.m.
Moline vs. East Peoria, 6 p.m. (complex gym)
Dec. 29 games
15: Pool B 3rd vs. Pool D 4th, 9 a.m.
16: Pool A 3rd vs. Pool C 4th, 9 a.m. (complex gym)
17: Pool A 2nd vs. Pool D 2nd, 10:30 a.m.
18: Pool B 2nd vs. Pool C 2nd, noon
19: Pool A 1st vs. Pool D 1st, 1:30 p.m.
20: Pool B 1st vs. Pool C 1st, 3 p.m.
21: Pool C 3rd vs. Winner 15, 4:30 p.m.
22: Winner 16 vs. Pool D 3rd, 6 p.m.
Dec. 30 games
Losers 15 & 16, 9 a.m.
Losers 21 & 22, 10:30 a.m.
Winners 21 & 22, noon
Consolation third: Losers 17 & 18, 1:30 p.m.
Consolation title: Winners 17 & 18, 3 p.m.
Third: Losers 19 & 20, 4:30 p.m.
Title: Winners 19 & 20, 6 p.m.

QHS 50, Chatham Glenwood 37

Senior Macy Ferguson Smith had career highs of 18 points and 14 rebounds to lead the Quincy High School girls basketball team to a 50-37 home victory Saturday over Chatham Glenwood.

Smith had three key free throws in the final two minutes to help QHS (2-8) pull away after Glenwood cut the lead to six points.

After having two home games canceled last week because of weather, QHS started strong and outscored Glenwood 17-9 in the second quarter to take a 29-16 hafltime lead.

Freshman Tori Kuhn had 13 points and eight rebounds for QHS, which had its second-highest scoring game of the season. The victory also doubles QHS’ win total from one year ago.

Allie Hogan led Glenwood with 21 points. Glenwood missed 13 3-point attempts in the second half.

East Moline Canceled

Today's home WB6 game with East Moline has been canceled. It will now be played Saturday, Jan. 10 in Quincy.

Ft. Madison Rescheduled

The Fort Madison game has been rescheduled for Monday, Jan. 26 at home, same times (5:30 JV game, 7 p.m. varsity).

Still waiting on the Illini West makeup date to be announced.

Illini West Canceled

Today's snowstorm has canceled our home game with Illini West. No makeup date has been announced.

Rock Island 57, QHS 42

Rock Island made seven of nine 3-pointers in the first half to jumphttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif to an early lead in a Western Big Six game against the visiting Blue Devils.

Anna Leenerts continued her strong play by leading QHS with 11 points.

The QC Online story is here. A slightly different version from The Herald-Whig is here.

Fort Madison game canceled

Tonight's home game against Fort Madison has been canceled due to snow north of us. No makeup date has been announced.

Alleman 47, QHS 36

Despite 20 points from freshman Tori Kuhn, QHS fell at home Thursday night in a Western Big Six matchup. Click here for The Whig story.

Alleman beat Quincy by a combined 55 points in the two meetings last year, but the Blue Devils gave notice this is a whole new regime by taking a 10-9 first-quarter lead, with Kuhn scoring all of her team's points.

But Alleman went on a 10-0 run and led 26-16 by halftime. QHS (1-7, 0-2 in the WB6) scored the first six points of the third quarter, but were never able to get closer than four points. Junior Shelby Wires sank two 3-pointers in the fourth quarter to help the Blue Devils keep it close.

At one point freshmen Anna Leenerts, Breanna Scholfield and Kuhn were on the floor at the same time. Almost every player saw significant time.

The junior varsity improved to 2-3 overall and 1-1 in the conference by holding on for a 41-38 win, weathering a flurry of late 3-point attempts by Alleman. Scholfield had 11 points and Darion Stephens added 10 for QHS.