Sports – Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021

Ava jumped out to a 21-5 1st quarter lead and cruised past the Lady Tigers Monday night, 72-43. Ashton Bowers led Salem with 12 points followed by Savannah Manthey with 11 more. Salem drops to 13-9 on the year and they will play today at 4:30 at Cuba against the Lady Wildcats in a varsity only game. Salem dropped to 4-2 in the SCA.

Salem scored only 2 points in the 1st quarter while the Ava Bears netted 19 in that quarter in their win over Salem Monday night, 72-46. Levi Smith led Salem with 11 points as the Tigers fall to 2-18 on the year and 0-4 in the conference. The boys will have a make up game with Mountain Grove Wednesday night at 6:00 starting with the JV contest followed by the varsity game.

Athletic Director Phillip Karr has indicated the SCA Conference basketball games with Houston will be made up this Saturday afternoon with the Lady Tigers game at 1:00 followed by the varsity boy’s game at about 2:30.

The Missouri Basketball Tigers will play Ole Miss tonight at 7:30 at the Mizzou Arena. Missouri enters the game with a 14-5 overall and 7-5 in the SEC. You can hear the game on KSMO Radio.

Johnathan Quick earned his 54th career shutout Monday night as the Los Angeles Kings blanked the injury riddled Sty. Louis Blues, 3-0. The Blues will face the LA Kings Wednesday night at 8:30. KSMO will join that game in progress after Salem Tiger Basketball.