Sports – Monday, December 16th, 2019

Ashton Bowers scored 17 points and Madison Woolf added 16 more as the Salem Lady Basketball Tigers took 3rd place in the Norwood “Scallywag Showdown” when they beat Mansfield Saturday night, 67-62. Salem is now 4-1 on the year. They will play tonight at 7:00 against St. Francis Borgia in Sullivan at the People’s Bank Classic.

Logan Chick hit seven 3-pointers and scored 23 points to lead St. James to a 73-51 win over Salem Friday night. Andrew Branson finished with 22 points for St. James in the win while Salem was led by Reese Dodson with 13 points. Salem is 3-3 on the year and will be at Rolla Tuesday night.

Justin Faulk’s goal with 2:26 capped a four goal comeback as the St. Louis Blues rallied for a 4-3 victory against the Chicago Blackhawks at Enterprise Center on Saturday. Tyler Bozak scored two goals in 700th NHL game. The Blues will face the Colorado Avalanche tonight starting at 6:30 at the Enterprise Center.

Mark Smith scored 23 points as the Missouri Tigers beat the Southern Illinois Salukis Sunday, 64-48 to go to 6-4 on the year. Missouri will be off until Saturday when they play Illinois in the “bragging rights” game in St. Louis.

The Kansas City Chiefs beat Denver, 23-3 at a snowy Arrowhead Stadium Sunday to move to 10-4 on the year. The Chiefs and Chicago Bears will play this Sunday night at 7:20.