Season Awards 2009

The QHS girls officially wrapped up the season with awards at the annual banquet tonight.

Freshman Tori Kuhn was named most valuable player, also picking up field goal percentage, rebound, All-Western Big Six and honorable mention all-state honors. 

Lindsay Barton won the best free throw and 3-point percentage awards, with Shelby Wires taking the assists and steals honors. 

Freshman Anna Leenerts earned most improved player kudos. Seniors Emily Hart, Macy Smith and Kati Kuhn were named to the Western Big Six All-Academic team, with Kati also winning the QHS scholar athlete award.

Congrats on great careers to our seniors, and the future looks bright for the Devils!

Moline 58, QHS 35

Moline pulled steadily away from a 20-10 halftime lead and ended Quincy's season with a Class 4A Regional Tournament win at Wharton Fieldhouse.

Shelby Wires led Quincy with 10 points. Seniors Emily Hart (six points, eight rebounds) and Macy Smith (six points, five rebounds) ended their careers as basketball Blue Devils.

The Whig story is here.

Danville 52, QHS 46

Tori Kuhn had 18 points and Shelby Wires 11 points as Quincy ended the regular season at Danville Saturday.

QHS gets ready for regional play at Moline against the host school Tuesday.

Galesburg 53, QHS 46

QHS trailed by only a point midway through the fourth quarter, but Silver Streak guard Jessica Howard buried one of her five 3-pointers to help thwart the rally as Galesburg held on.

Howard had 19 points to lead Galesburg, with QHS getting 18 points from a freshman Tori Kuhn and 11 more by freshman Anna Leenerts.

The Herald-Whig story is here.

QHS ends the regular season at Danville Saturday, then plays at Moline to begin post season play Tuesday night.

QHS 48, Jacksonville Routt 45

Shelby Wires and Haley Womack helped force key turnovers in the final 10 seconds to help QHS hold on for a Senior Day win and send seniors Emily Hart, Kati Kuhn, Macy Smith and Scottie Chatfield home winners.

Tori Kuhn had 10 points and Wires nine points to lead the Blue Devils, and nine players reached the scoring column. 

QHS won the junior varsity game 48-43 behind 11 points from Audrey Holtschlag and 10 points from Darion Stephens.

East Moline 61, QHS 43

Tori Kuhn had 12 points and Shelby Wires 10 points for Quincy in a Western Big Six road loss.

The Whig story is here.

QHS plays host to Jacksonville Routt Saturday on Senior Day. Kati Kuhn, Macy Smith and Emily Hart will be honored as the Blue Devil seniors.

QHS 51, Rock Island 48

Junior Shelby Wires led her shorthanded QHS team to a huge Western Big Six win by scoring 14 points, with fellow junior Stevee Nolan adding 10.

Without injured freshman and leading scorer/rebounder Tori Kuhn and senior Emily Hart (injured back) QHS rallied.

Check out Quincy Herald-Whig Sports Writer Matt Goldberg's awesome blog here for the box score and play by play, his story is here.

QHS 62, Fort Madison 42

Freshman Tori Kuhn had 27 points and 13 rebounds to help the Blue Devils to a home win in a makeup game Monday night.

Quincy dressed and played 15 players for the first time this year, and 11 reached the scoring column. Freshman Laken Frese saw her first significant playing time on the varsity.

Substituting five players at a time, QHS used a press to help Fort Madison turn the ball over 24 times.

In the JV game, Frese scored 10 points but QHS fell 39-38.

Rock Island Alleman 57, QHS 42

Tori Kuhn had 19 points to lead Quincy, which played a much better game and used an effective press to keep it close most of the way.

The Whig story is here.

Moline 57, QHS 34

Haley Womack had eight points to lead Quincy.

On the bright side, the QHS Pep Band played for the first time at a girls game this season and sounded really good.

Keokuk 65, QHS 57

Keokuk weathered a second-half comeback behind 14 points from Shelsey Stanley and a strong start to the game.

For the Keokuk Daily Gate newspaper account, click here.

The host Chiefs (9-4) used eight first-quarter turnovers by the Blue Devils (5-13) and some accurate 3-point shooting to build a 19-11 lead after the first quarter. The lead ballooned to 16 in the third quarter before Quincy made a run.

QHS twice had the ball and chances to cut the lead to six with about six minutes left in the game, but three missed layups stalled the Blue Devil rally.

Freshman Tori Kuhn led Quincy with 26 points, with senior Emily Hart and junior Shelby Wires each adding 10 points.

Quincy made only 18 of 32 free throws.

Ollie Vandenburg and Anna Kuckleman each had 13 points for Keokuk.

E. Moline 53, QHS 40

Tori Kuhn had 21 points to lead Quincy as the Panthers snapped QHS's two-game winning streak. Read Matt Schuckman's story in The Herald-Whig here.

Galesburg, E. Moline Updates

For the Galesburg paper's story about QHS's win Thursday, click here.

The makeup game Saturday against visiting East Moline starts at about 1 p.m. at QHS Gym. The freshmen play at 10 a.m., the JV at 11:30.

QHS 54, Galesburg 46

Quincy snapped a 19-game Western Big Six Conference losing streak by pulling a shocking upset in Galesburg.

Tori Kuhn scored 17 and Shelby Wires had 16 to lead the Blue Devils (5-11, 1-3)

Galesburg (8-11, 2-3) trailed 36-20 at halftime before cutting the deficit to 40-37 at the end of the third quarter, but the Streaks couldn't manage to get any closer.

We'll have the local newspaper links up tomorrow.

QHS 66, Illini West 56

Junior guard Shelby Wires nearly had a triple-double in leading Quincy to a 66-56 home victory over a shorthanded Illini West Saturday.

Wires had 13 points, 10 steal and eight assists to help QHS (4-11) to its second win in three games. Nine Blue Devils reached the scoring column as Quincy set a season-high for points.

Quincy scored the first 13 points of the game and led 35-19 at the half. The Chargers (7-8) drained five of their nine 3-pointers in the fourth quarter and got within 10 points several times, but Wires made three of four free-throw attempts in the last few minutes to help QHS stay comfortably ahead.

The Charges were led by Danielle Gronewald’s 15 points. Mackenzie Carroll added 14 for the Chargers.

Illini West was also missing several players due to suspension and dressed just eight players.
Senior Emily Hart had 12 points and eight rebounds for Quincy, with junior Stevee Nolan adding 10 points. Coach DeVoe also gave credit to Nolan heading Quincy’s three-quarter press.
Illini West had 31 turnovers and Quincy 30 turnovers.

The Quincy junior varsity improved to 3-4 with a 41-38 victory.