Sports – Tuesday, February 10th 2026

Leah Schmidt scored 25 points to lead the Cuba Lady Basketball Wildcats past the Salem Lady Tigers Monday night at the SHS Gym, 62-41. Cuba opened up a close game after one quarter by outscoring Salem, 28-13, in the second quarter and the Lady Tigers could never recover. Paisley May led the Salem Lady Tigers with 10 points. Salem has now lost four straight games and they fall to 9-11 on the season. They will host the Steelville Lady Cardinals Thursday night around 6:15 at the SHS.

The Willow Springs Bears will be in Salem tonight to face the Salem Boys Basketball Tigers in SCA Conference play starting with the JV game at 6:00 followed by the varsity game around 7:30. The Salem Varsity Tigers enter the game with a 14-7 record while the Bears are 13-9. Salem is 3-0 in the SCA Conference while the Bears are 2-1. The game can be heard on KSMO Radio starting with Tiger Talk and Coach Jared Patterson around 7:15, and video streamed on KSMO Media (ksmoradio.com, KSMO Stream Facebook Page and the KSMO YouTube Page).

Kinsey Barton scored 31 points to lead the Bunker Lady Eagles past the Mountain View-Liberty Lady Eagles Monday night at Bunker, 71-45 on Senior Night. Keira Turnbough netted 15 points and Hailey Turnbough added 14 more in the win as the Lady Eagles improve to 18-2 on the year. They will be at Lesterville today at 5:00.

Owen Sanders last second 3-pointer hit the rim, then bounced away as the Bunker Eagles fell for the first time this season to the Mountain View-Liberty Eagles Monday night at Bunker, 59-58 on Senior Night. Liberty outscored Bunker in the second half, 38-27 to send the Eagles to their first loss and they are 21-1 on the season. Brennen Maloy scored 35 points in the loss and Chetan Calzado added 12 more. The Eagles will play Saturday at 4:30 in the People’s Community Bank Shootout against St. Vincent who is 15-5 on the year.