Sports – Thursday, January 11th, 2018

The Salem Lady Basketball Tigers will be at Mountain Grove tonight to face the Lady Panthers in SCA play. The JV will play at 6:00 with the varsity game to follow. The Lady Tigers are 0-2 in the SCA and they are 5-9 overall.

Jontay Porter had 15 points and 10 rebounds in his first career start, and Missouri overcame a sluggish start to defeat Georgia 68-56 on Wednesday night. The Tigers will be at Arkansas Saturday afternoon at 5:00 starting at 4:30 on KSMO radio with the pre-game show.

The National Hockey League announced that St. Louis Blues defenseman Alex Pietrangelo and forward Brayden Schenn have been named to the 2018 NHL All-Star Game that will be held on January 28th at 2:30 PM in Tampa, Florida.

The 2018 St. Louis Cardinal Caravan will be held this Saturday at 5:30 at the Rolla High School Gym. Expected This year’s current players that will be attending include Greg Garcia, John Gant and Alex Mejia with former players Kyle McClellan and Tom Lawless also expected to be in attendance. The emcee of the festivities this year will be Tom Ackerman. Fredbird may also make an appearance. The first 400 children aged 15 and under, that comes through the door on the day of the event will receive a free autograph ticket which guarantees one autograph from each current and former player.