Sports – Thursday, May 15th 2025

The Salem Boys Baseball team enter the Class 4 District 4 Tournament as the fourth seed and will play in St. Clair against the fifth seeded St. James Tigers at 4:00. Tiger Talk with Coach Edwards and Stan Stevens will start at approximately 3:50. You can listen to the Tiger’s game live on KSMO Radio 1340 AM & 95.7 FM and hear the live audio stream on KSMO Facebook and YouTube pages. KSMO Media will produce a live video stream that can be watched on MSHSAA.tv, there is a charge to watch the game that is regulated by MSHSAA.

The Licking Softball Lady Wildcats fell to the West County Lady Bulldogs Tuesday, 9-0, in the Class 2, District 3 Championship game at Potosi Tuesday. Licking finished the season with a 14-11 record. West County will face the Ava Lady Bears in the State quarterfinals for Class 2 Tuesday.

The St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies played in a doubleheader yesterday. In the first game all of the scoring action happened in the seventh when Jordan Walker single allowing Ivan Herrera to run home. The Phillies responded on a pair of singles, each driving in a run to give us the eventual 2-1 final. Going into the second game, both team’s batting would light up the scoreboard, each team would also get a five run inning but it was the Cardinals scoring 14 runs on 19 hits to put away the Phillies, 14-7. The Cardinals have the day off today as they get ready for the Kansas City Royals this Friday.

The Kansas City Royals faced the Houston Astros last night for the final game of a three game series. The Royals got on the board first in the top of the second with a Maikel Garcia solo home run. Kansas City would control the game until the bottom of the eighth when the Astors rallied back with a pair of runs scored, defeating the Royals, 3-4.