Sports – Friday, January 28th, 2022

The Salem Lady Basketball Tigers had four girls with double digit scoring as they dominated the Sullivan Lady Eagles Thursday night at the SHS Gym, 66-21. On Senior Night, Savannah Manthey scored 24 points to lead the Lady Tigers with Avery Erway and Ashton Bowers scoring 14 points each. Senior Bella Jadwin netted 12 points in the game to help Salem even their record at 9-9. Salem will be at Mountain View-Liberty Monday night.

The Salem Boys Basketball Tigers will host the Licking Wildcats in the “Cat Classic” tonight which will also be Homecoming. The JV game will be at 6:00 followed by the Homecoming festivities, then the varsity contest. The varsity game will be heard and streamed on KSMO Media while the JV will be video streamed on KSMO Media without audio.

The Salem Freshman Boys Basketball Tigers lost to Herman in the 3rd place game at the Owensville Tournament.

The Missouri Basketball Tigers will play Iowa State Saturday afternoon at 12:30 on KSMO. Missouri enters the game with an 8-11 overall and 2-5 in the SEC Conference.

Brendon Saad scored two goals as the St. Louis Blues beat the Calgary Flames Thursday night, 5-1. Ryan O’Reilly, Jordan Kyrou and Braydon Schenn also scored for the Blues will host the Winnipeg Jets Saturday afternoon at 3:00 on KSMO after the Missouri Tigers basketball game.

The Kansas City Chiefs will host the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship game Sunday afternoon at 2:00. Earlier this year, Kansas City blew a 28-3 lead at Cincinnati and lost 34-31. The game will be aired on CBS TV.