Sports – Tuesday, May 6th 2025

The West Plains Zizzers scored seven times in the 1st inning after Salem had a 2-0 lead and cruised to a 12-4 win over Salem Monday at West Plains. Ethan Tuma doubled and homered for the Zizzers and finished the game with four RBI. Cayden Moody had two of the five Salem hits and also reached on an error. Salem is 10-7-1 on the year and they will host Cuba this afternoon at the SHS Baseball Field Complex starting at 4:30. You can hear the game on KSMO Radio and video streamed the game on ksmoradio.com, the KSMO Stream Facebook Page and the KSMO YouTube Page starting at 4:15 with Tiger Talk and Coach Tony Edwards.

Ther West Plains Zizzers JV shutout the Salem JV Tigers Monday, 10-0. They fall to 3-8-1 on the year with their final game tonight against Cuba.

The Salem Lady Softball Tigers fell to the Ava Bears in the makeup game Monday, night, 9-2. Olivia Bettigrew had two of the five Salem hits. Salem is 11-10 overall and finished 2-5 in the SCA Conference. The Lady Tigers will be at Plato today in their regular season finale.

The Salem Tennis Tigers beat the Willow Springs Bears in the Class 1, District 5 Tournament Monday, 5-2 and they will face Springfield Catholic today in the semi-final at 4:00. The winner of this match will play the winner of the Logan-Rogersville and Osage match for the district championship on May 7th at 4:00.

The SCA Middle School Track and Field Championships are today and begin at 3:00 this afternoon.

Cole Ragans pitched eleven strikeouts over five innings as the Kansas City Royals shutout the visiting Chicago White Sox, 3-0. They’ll play again today in Kansas City at 6:40.

The St. Louis Cardinals found themselves in an early two run hole against the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates. A Jose Barrero and Alec Burleson homerun in the third tied the game up at two a piece. Then in the bottom of the sixth Willson Contreras hit a home run and Jose Barrero batting in two runs for the Red Bird winner, 6-3. Game two is tonight, tune into KSMO Radio following Tiger Baseball for the live game.