Sports – Monday, May 18th 2025

Announced Friday before the Salem High School Graduation was this year’s winners of the Tiger and Lady Tiger Awards for the outstanding male and female athletes for the 2024-2025 school year as voted by this year’s coaches. This year’s Tiger Award recipients were Cayden Moody and Reagan Dubois. Congratulations to both on their outstanding athletic achievements!!

Aiden Drew Summers of the Salem Boys Golf Team qualified for Individual play at MSHSAA Class 3 State Tournament and is heading to the Twin Hills Country Club in Joplin to compete today and tomorrow. Good luck Aiden!

The St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals played their three game series at Kauffman Stadium starting this past Friday. The Cards would get the first victory in dominant fashion batting in ten runs on thirteen hits all while holding the Royals to just three runs on nine hits. Following up on Saturday, Kansas City would get four hits but fail to turn any of those into runs scored. St. Louis would only have two hits on the night and score the game’s lone run off a Jordan Walker solo home run in the top of the sixth, giving the Cardinals a 2-0 series advantage. Yesterday the Royals would avoid getting sweeped by batting a run in the fourth and seventh inning. For the second straight game the Cardinals only run scored was off a solo home run, this time by Alec Burleson. The Cardinals next game will be at home tonight against the Detroit Tigers at 6:45. You can listen to this game live on KSMO Radio with coverage starting at 5:50. The Royals travel to San Francisco to face the Giants late tonight with the first pitch at 8:45.