Sports – Friday, April 11th 2025

Blake Edwards threw a five-inning two hit shutout as the Salem Baseball Tigers won their third straight game beating Houston, 10-0. Edwards finished with nine strikeouts and a walk as Salem banged out nine hits led by Kash Howard with two hits and two RBI and Bryar Bobbitt with two hits and an RBI. Roy Stevens and Hayden Ragsdale each had two-RBI singles in the game as the Tigers go to 6-2-1 on the year and 2-0 in the SCA Conference. Salem will host Cabool Monday afternoon at 4:30. The Salem Lady Softball Tigers scored nine runs in the bottom of the 6th inning to break open a 14-14 game and beat the Cabool Lady Bulldogs Thursday at the Salem City Park, 23-15. The Lady Tigers were led by Alaina Norris with three hits and five RBI, and Bailey Mahurin with three hits and four RBI. Raven Gillam had four hits and two RBI for Salem who improves to improve to 7-4 and are now 1-1 in the SCA Conference. The Lady Tigers will host East Carter today at 4:30 at the Salem City Park Field. That game can be heard on KSMO Radio AM 1340 and FM 95.7, and video streamed on KSMO Media including ksmoradio.com, KSMO Stream Facebook and KSMO YouTube starting with Tiger Talk and Coach Cody Woody around 4:15.

At the Salem Tennis Invitational held Wednesday at the Salem City Park, the Salem Tigers won the invitational over Mountain Grove, 13 points to 12 points. JJ Smith and Braiden Gapsch took first individually in doubles. The Tennis Tigers will be at Mountain Grove today at 4:00.

The Salem Golf team participated in the Salem Invitational yesterday and placed second out of six schools with a score of 438, just 27 points behind the overall team winner, St. James. Individual Medalist for Salem include, Aiden Summers (80), Atticus Givens (83), and Daniel Black (83). Salem will next compete at the Cabool Invitational next Tuesday in Cabool.

The St. Louis Cardinals had Thursday off and will host the Philadelphia Phillies this weekend starting tonight right after Salem Lady Tiger Softball on KSMO. On Saturday and Sunday, the Cards and Phillies will tangle starting at 12:20 on and both game scan be heard on KSMO.

Jonathan India’s RBI single tied the game in the 7th inning and Bobby Witt’s sacrifice fly later that inning brought in the go-ahead and eventual game winning run as the Kansas City Royals beat the Minnesota Twins Thursday, 3-2. The Royals begin a three-game series in Cleveland tonight.

The St. Louis Blues will be at Seattle Saturday night to face the Kraken starting at 8:30 on KSMO. The Blues are one win away from clinching a playoff spot.