Sports – Friday, January 19th, 2024

The Owensville Dutchgirls hit 11 three-pointers and dominated the Salem Lady Tigers Thursday night at the SHS Gym, 71-30. Fayth Kaminski had 10 points and 10 rebounds while Addison Fulton netted 11 points. Emma Daniels led Owensville with 18 points. The Salem Lady Tigers will be at Vienna tonight in a make-up game at 6:00. It is a varsity only contest. Salem is 4-13 going into the game while the Lady Eagles are 7-7 on the year.

The Salem Boys Basketball Tigers rallied from a second quarter deficit to come back and beat Fordland Thursday night, 71-60 in the opening round of the Houston Community Foundation Tournament. Braiden Gapsch had 23 points followed Kaiden Gately with 13 points to lead the Tigers who are now 8-6 on the year. They will face Cabool tonight at 8:30 in Houston in the semi-final contest. Cabool enters the game with an 11-4 record. The winner of tonight’s game will play for the championship Saturday at 6:00 while the loser will play for 3rd place 4:30. The game tonight will be on KSMO Radio and audio streamed on KSMO Media.

The St. Louis Blues lost to the Washington Capitals Thursday night, 5-2 to drop their third game in a row. Justin Faulk and Nathan Walker scored for the Blues who will host Washington Saturday night at 6:30 as the second part of the home and home series. The game can be heard on KSMO Radio.

The Missouri Tigers will play Florida Saturday at 6:30. Missouri has lost seven of their last eight games and are 8-9 on the year and 0-4 in the SEC Conference. The game will NOT be heard on KSMO due to the St. Louis Blues broadcast.

The Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills play Sunday at Buffalo starting at 5:30. The Chiefs are 2-0 against the Bills in the playoffs since 2021, while the Bills have won all three regular season games against the Chiefs since 2021. The game will be on CBS-TV.