Sports – Monday, May 12th 2025

Reagan Dubois hit a walk-off one-out homerun in the bottom of the 4th inning capping off a Salem 16-1 win over Kingston Friday in Potosi in the Class 2, District 3 opening round. Alaina Norris also homered and added an RBI triple for Salem, plus she pitched four innings of one-hit ball and struck out nine batters. Alexis White went 2-3 driving in three runs, while Izzy Thomas and Olivia Bettigrew each had two RBI doubles. The Tigers will take on the Licking Lady Wildcats Monday at 6:00 in the district semi-final at Potosi as Licking beat Steelville on Friday, 11-1 in six innings. The game will be audio-streamed on the Internet only on ksmoradio.com, KSMO Stream Facebook and KSMO YouTube. The game will be video streamed on MSHSAA.TV and there is a charge to watch the game. The game will NOT be on KSMO Radio due to the St. Louis Cardinals broadcast from Philadelphia. Admission at Potosi is $6.00 per person six years of age and older.

At the Salem Baseball Tournament in Pool “B” on Friday, the Licking Wildcats beat Waynesville, 7-0, and then beat Cuba, 16-1. In the other round robin game Friday, Cuba edged Waynesville, 6-4. On Saturday, Salem lost to Pacific, 5-0, before shutting out Mountain Grove, 8-0. In the other game in Pool “A,” Pacific beat Mountain Grove, 7-3. In the championship game, Pacific beat Licking, 6-3. Named to the All-Tournament Team were Cayden Moody and Kash Howard from Salem, Landon Adams and Cameron Carnal from Cuba; and Carson Walker, Kannon Buckner and Jett Sullins from Licking.

The Salem Baseball Tigers play St. James Thursday at St. Clair in the Class 4, District 4 tournament Thursday at 4:00. Salem is seeded 4th in the tournament while St. James is seeded 5th. Admission at St. Clair is $6.00 per person six years of age and older.

The Salem Track and Field Teams competed in last week’s SCA Conference Meet in Mountain Grove where the girls finished third overall, and the boys finished second. Notable first place finishes included Evan Mendenhall in the 200m and 400m dash and the girl’s 4x800m relay team. On Saturday both teams were in Cuba for the MSHSAA Class 3 District 5 Track Tournament. The boys team finished third while the girls finished eighth overall. Evan Mendenhall took home Salem’s only first place finish at the meet during the 400m dash.

The St. Louis Cardinals had no problem sweeping the Washington Nationals over the weekend. On Friday the red birds posted a 10-0 shutout followed by a 4-2 finish on Saturday and a 6-1 result yesterday afternoon. The Cardinals start a new three game series tonight against the Philadelphia Phillies that you can listen to live on KSMO Radio with coverage set to begin at 4:50.

The Kansas City Royals lost their series against the Boston Red Sox two games to one. On Friday, the Royals pulled out a close 2-1 victory but subsequently fell the next two games on Saturday, 10-1 and Sunday, 3-1. The Royals are starting a new three game series tonight as they’ll be in Houston to face the Astros with the first pitch at 7:10.