Sports – Wednesday, April 15th, 2026

Izzy Thomas went 3-3 and scored two times to help lead the Salem Lady Softball Tigers to an 11-2 win over Licking Tuesday at the Salem City Park. Maddie Mercer and Alexis White each had a hit and two RBI, while Raven Gillam had two hits and an RBI. All told, six different Lady Tigers had RBI’s in the game. Taylor Hicks went 3-4 and Mya Rinne added two hits for the Licking Lady Cats. The Lady Tigers improve to 9-4 on the year while Licking falls to 5-7. Salem will host the Thayer Lady Bobcats Thursday afternoon at 4:30 at the Salem City Park in SCA Conference play.

The Salem Tennis Tigers beat Willow Springs Tuesday at the Salem City Park to go to 7-2 on the year. The Tennis Tigers will take on Licking Thursday at 4:00 afternoon at the Salem City Park.

At the Cabool Golf Invitational held Tuesday in Cabool, Aiden Summers shot a 75 capturing 3rd place and helped lead the Salem Tiger Golf Team to an overall 6th place finish out of 12 teams. Other Salem individual player scores were Ben Owen who shot an 87 followed by Daniel Black who finished with a score of 90. Walker Smith ended up with a final score of 91 and Brasyn Hampton ended up with a 94, but his score didn’t count in the team total. The Salem Tiger Golf team finished with a score of 343 as Eminence took 1st Place overall shooting a 311 followed by Willow Springs who shot a 321. Salem will be at St. James to play in the Tiger Tournament today.

The Salem High School Boys and Girls Track Teams will participate in the Farmington Simpson Relays starting at 1:30 today.

The Salem Middle School Boys and Girls Track Teams will be at Cuba to compete in the Cuba Middle School Relays starting at 3:15 today.

The St. Louis Cardinals hosted the Cleveland Guardians last night for game two in their three game series. Iván Herrera hit a home run early in the game and JJ Wetherholt had two home runs in two different innings. While the eighth inning saw five combined runs scored, most of the excitement for Cardinals fans came in the bottom of the ninth. Yohel Pozo came to the plate and with two outs he doubled to bring home Masyn Winn, forcing extra innings. Then, in the bottom of the tenth Nathan Church hit a sacrifice fly that allowed Thomas Saggese to tag up at third and score the winning run. The final score, 6-5. The deciding game of the series will be this afternoon live on KSMO Radio with coverage set to begin at 11:20 this morning. 

The Blues played their last home game of the season against the Pittsburgh Penguins late last night. In yet another high scoring game the Blues found themselves down 3-0 early when Jimmy Snuggerud scored a goal at the end of the first to get St. Louis on the board. Snuggerud, Mailloux, and Sundqvist brought the Blues storming back in the second period to tie the game at four. Then Holloway and Buchnevich finished the game out with a combined three goals in the third to defeat Pittsburgh, 7-5. The Blues are off today as they’ll go on the road tomorrow to finish the season against the Utah Mammoth.