ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (August 17, 2023) — QCSportsNet.com, the play-by-play voice of high-school sports in the Quad Cities, begins its tenth season providing professional live coverage of high-school football Friday, August 25. The network will present live audio play-by-play coverage of all regular season and play-off games involving the Moline Maroons, presented by Sexton Ford, the Rock Island Rocks, presented by Wheelan-Pressly, and the United Township Panthers, presented by Van Hoe Funeral Home.
The announcer roster for this season is skewing younger and more athletic with our latest addition to the varsity. Our play-by-play lineup (in alphabetical order):
Tristan Daffara — Tristan is in his second season calling play-by-play for QCSportsNet and is a graduate of the Western Illinois University broadcasting program.
Grant Dahlstrom — Grant is an eighth-grade student and multi-sport athlete at John Deere Middle School who has live sports-reporting experience with WQAD-TV covering the John Deere Classic and has honed his craft with numerous online play-by-play broadcasts. The future Maroon will be the primary announcer for Moline games.
Ken Jacoby — Ken is beginning his twelfth season as the primary announcer of Rock Island Rocks games. The owner of QCSportsNet, Ken is the proud dad of two Rocky grads and a senior at RIHS.
Joe Winkel — Joe is in his tenth season with QCSportsNet and has been calling United Township play-by-play since he was a student there. Fresh off the record-breaking listenership to his call of the Moline Boys Basketball state championship, he will once again be the UT Panthers’ primary football announcer.
Fans can access all games by going to QCSportsNet.com to link to all live streams and hear games on any internet-enabled device, even at the stadium.
