Pleasant Valley boys head basketball coach Steve Hillman discusses the Spartans’ Mississippi Athletic Conference matchup against Burlington with QCSportsNet’s Dallon Christensen on Tuesday, February 16th.
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Pleasant Valley boys head basketball coach Steve Hillman discusses the Spartans’ Mississippi Athletic Conference matchup against Burlington with QCSportsNet’s Dallon Christensen on Tuesday, February 16th.
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The “second season” begins in girls basketball this week, and QCSportsNet joins the Rock Island Rocks and Pleasant Valley Spartans girls teams on their journeys to the state tournament! The Rocks and Spartans have legitimate state tournament hopes, and QCSportsNet will be there every step of the way. Rock Island opens regional play on Wednesday night and plays Friday if it wins. Pleasant Valley opens Iowa regional play Saturday night at home against Dubuque Hempstead.
In boys basketball action, Pleasant Valley has two chances to win its first outright Mississippi Athletic Conference championship since 2006 when the Spartans travel to Burlington on Tuesday before closing the regular season with a home game against Davenport Central on Friday night. The voice of Burlington Bees baseball, Michael Broskowski, joins QCSportsNet to call the PV-Burlington game. Rock Island and United Township square off on Friday night.
Please review the schedule carefully and follow the game links. If the Rock Island girls win on Wednesday night, the UT-Rock Island boys game will only be on the QCSportsNet UT channel. We will continue to update you on Twitter and our website with game listings. The schedule shown below assumes the Rock Island girls win on Wednesday night. We will update the game listings on Wednesday night.
Pleasant Valley at Burlington – Game time 7:15 PM (Michael Broskowski)
Rock Island girls basketball at Ottawa regional (United Township/Ottawa winner) – Game time 5:40 PM (Ken Jacoby)
Pleasant Valley boys vs. Davenport Central – Game time 7:15 PM (Dallon Christensen)
Rock Island girls at Ottawa Regional championship game – Game time 6:40 PM (Ken Jacoby)
Rock Island at United Township (boys) – Game time 7:10 PM (Joe Winkel, Tanner Rowe)
Pleasant Valley girls basketball vs. Dubuque Hempstead, Iowa Class 5A regional semifinal – game time 6:40 PM (TBD)
Rock Island boys basketball vs. Peoria Manual – game time 7:10 PM (Ken Jacoby)
Pleasant Valley head boys basketball coach Steve Hillman spoke with QCSportsNet’s Zach Mackey following the Spartan’s 69-50 victory over Davenport West on Friday, February 12 2016 at Pleasant Valley High School.
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Key Mississippi Athletic Conference and Western Big 6 matchups highlight the Friday night QCSportsNet schedule. Your game listings are below. We are also pleased to welcome back QCSportsNet alum and current Big Ten Network and Iowa baseball radio voice Zach Mackey to call play by play on the Pleasant Valley-Davenport West game Friday night. Dallon Christensen will move to the analyst chair for PV-West.
Following QCSportsNet’s announcement that we will carry all state playoff games for the Rock Island Rocks and Pleasant Valley Spartans girls basketball teams, we are pleased to announce that we will also carry the Rock Island girls basketball team’s Western Big 6 regular season finale at Thiel Gym in Galesburg as the Rocks take on Galesburg. The Voice of the Rocks, Ken Jacoby, will have the action starting live at 6 PM Thursday night. The Rocks go for a girls basketball Western Big 6 championship on Thursday night, and you can catch all of the action on QCSportNet!
Thursday, February 11th Rock Island girls basketball at Galesburg, airtime 6 PM (Ken Jacoby)