Sports – Monday, February 13, 2023
The Salem Boys Basketball Tigers battled Mountain View-Liberty close for three quarters Friday night at the Salem High School Gym trailing by only seven points at that point, but the Tiger were outscored in the 4th quarter, 22-8 as they fell to the Eagles, 80-59. Gunnar Konkel scored 20 points to lead Salem followed by Bryson May with 16 points and Trethan Rictor with 15 more. Salem falls to 6-16 overall and 2-3 in the SCA Conference. Salem has lost eight of their last ten games. The Tigers will host Mountain Grove Tuesday night in SCA Conference play and it will be Senior Night with those festivities held in between the JV and varsity games.
The Salem Lady Basketball Tigers will host the Mountain Grove Lady Panthers tonight in a key SCA Conference tilt and it will be Senior Night. The JV game tonight at 6:00 will be ONLY two quarters. The Senior Night festivities held before the varsity game should begin around 6:30. Salem enters the game with a 14-9 record and 5-0 in the SCA Conference. You can hear the varsity game on KSMO Radio AM 1340 and 95.7 FM and both games will be video streamed on KSMO Media including ksmoradio.com, the KSMO Stream Facebook page and the KSMO YouTube page.
The Missouri Tigers jumped out to a 17-point lead Saturday at Tennessee only to have the Volunteers rebound to take the lead late in the 4th quarter. Following two missed free throws by Tennessee’s Santiago Vescovi with 4.2 seconds left which could have sealed the victory for Tennessee, Missouri trailed 85-83 when DeAndre Gholston received the inbounds pass from underneath his own basket and dribbled down the court, pulled up from 35 feet and drained the game-winning three-pointer to lead Missouri to an 86-85 SEC Conference win. Kobe Brown led Missouri with 21 points and Gholston finished with 18. Missouri is 19-6 on the year and 7-5 in the SEC Conference. Missouri will be at Auburn Tuesday evening. That game will NOT be heard on KSMO due to Salem Basketball.
Ryan O’Reilly scored the game winning goal in overtime Saturday night as the St. Louis Blues edge the Arizona Coyotes, 6-5. The Blues trailed 2-0 after the 1st period, then scored the next five straight goals including two by defenseman Calle Rosen. Arizona then scored the next three goals in the 3rd period to send the game into overtime before O’Reilly won it. The win snapped a five-game Blues losing streak. They will host Florida Tuesday night. The game will air on KSMO at 9:00 following Tiger basketball on a delayed basis.
Harrison Butker’s 27-yard field goal with eight seconds left won the Super Bowl for the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday night over Philadelphia, 38-35. Patrick Mahomes, who was named the Super Bowl MVP just a week after being named the league’s MVP, threw three touchdown passes and ran for 44 yards. Travis Kelce, Kadarus Toney and Skyy Moore each had a touchdown reception for the Chiefs while Isiah Pacheco had a rushing touchdown. Former Missouri Tiger Nick Bolton had a fumble recovery for a touchdown and led the Chiefs with eight tackles.