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Salem Lady Tiger Basketball Coach Cody Woody will be holding a Youth Salem Lady Tiger Basketball Camp at the Salem High School starting Monday and lasting through Friday, June 13th. The cost for the camp is $30 per athlete and each girl will receive a camp T-shirt. The morning camp for the 3rd through 5th grade girls will be held from 11:00 to 12:00; the camp for the 6th through 8th grade girls will be from 9:30 until 10:30; and the camp for girls in 9th through the 12th grade will be from 8:00 until 9:30. Contact Coach Woody to get a camp form to fill out at cody.woody@salemr80.org. Please include the camp fee (checks can be made out to Cody Woody) when girls bring their completed form to the first day of camp at the high school gym.

Miles Mikolas threw six solid innings Wednesday afternoon surrendering two runs on five hits with three strikeouts while Nolan Arenado hit his 6th homer of the year as the St. Louis Cardinals salvaged the third game of the series, beating Houston, 4-2. Ryan Helsley got his 20th save of the year retiring three straight batters in the 9th inning. The Cards start a four-game series with Colorado tonight at Busch Stadium.

The Kansas City Royals and Cleveland Guardians game Wednesday night was postponed due to rain and will be made up on August 26th. The Royals and Guardians will play this afternoon in Cleveland.

Yainer Diaz hit a three-run homer to cap a four-run 3rd inning that propelled Houston to an 8-5 win over St. Louis Tuesday night. Alec Burleson and Nolan Gorman homered for the Cards who have lost four of their last five games. They will play the Astros today at 12:15 on KSMO.

Kansas City jumped out to a 5-0 lead only to have the Cleveland Guardians rally to come back and beat the Royals Tuesday night, 8-5. Bobby Witt Jr. crushed a pair of two-run homers, but his throwing error in the eighth allowed three runs to score in the five-run inning. The Royals and Guardians square off again tonight in Cleveland.

Houston scored four 8th inning runs on a game tying homer by Alex Bregman and the game winning two-run homer by Yanier Diaz as they beat St. Louis, 7-4. The Cardinals will be in Houston tonight to face the Astros for a three-game series beginning at 6:15 on KSMO Radio.

The Kansas City Royals were off Monday and they will start a three-game series tonight in Cleveland against the Guardians.

Nolan Gorman’s RBI single in the 10th drove home the winning run as St. Louis beat the Philadelphia Phillies Sunday night, 5-4. The Red Birds had dropped the first two games of the series. Gorman and Alec Burleson each had two-run homers for St. Louis who committed three errors in the game. The Cardinals will be in Houston tonight to face the Astros for a three-game series beginning at 6:15 on KSMO Radio.

Down two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning with runners on first and second, Kansas City’s Nelson Velázquez ripped his first triple of the season to the center-field wall, tying the game with no outs, then scored the winning run on Nick Loftin’s sacrifice fly to right field, and the Royals ended the weekend with a 4-3 walk-off win at Kauffman Stadium. The win snapped the Royal’s losing streak at three. They will have the day off before starting a three-game series against Minnesota Tuesday.

Salem Lady Tiger Basketball Coach Cody Woody will be holding a Youth Salem Lady Tiger Basketball Camp at the Salem High School from June 10th through the 13th. The cost for the camp is $30 per athlete and each girl will receive a camp T-shirt. The morning camp for the 3rd through 5th grade girls will be held from 11:00 to 12:00; the camp for the 6th through 8th grade girls will be from 9:30 until 10:30; and the camp for girls in 9th through the 12th grade will be from 8:00 until 9:30. Contact Coach Woody to get a camp form to fill out by e-mailing him at cody.woody@salemr80.org. Please include the camp fee (checks can be made out to Cody Woody) when girls bring their completed form to the first day of camp at the high school gym.

The St. Louis Cardinals were off Thursday and will be in Philadelphia this weekend to face the Phillies starting today at 4:45. Saturday’s game will be at 5:20 and the game on Sunday will begin at 5:15. All the games cane be heard on KSMO Radio AM 1340 and FM 95.7.

The Kansas City Royals blew a 4-0 lead as Minnesota’s Ryan Jeffers hit two homers as the Twins came back for a 7-6 win Thursday to take 3 out of 4 games in the series. The Royals will host San Diego this weekend.

The St. Louis Battlehawks will play the San Antonio Brahmas at The Dome at America’s Center this Saturday afternoon starting at 3:00 in United Football League action. The Battlehawks enter the game with a 6-3 record and San Antonio is 7-2.

The Salem High School has announced the Tigers Awards for the 2023-2024 school year. Haiden Sanders was this year’s recipient for the boys and the Lady Tiger Award went to Emily Strange. Congratulations Emily and Haiden!!

Salem High School Boys Basketball Coach Jared Patterson will be holding a Boys Youth Basketball Camp for children going into 6th grade through the 12th grade. The camps will begin on Tuesday, June 4th through Thursday, the 6th at the Salem High School Gym. The 6th graders through 8th graders camp will be from 4:00 until 5:45 followed by the 9th through 12th grade camp from 6:00 until 8:00. The cost is $30 per child and each camper will get a T-shirt. Signups for the camp will be due by June 4th. For more information or to get a signup sheet, call Coach Jared Patterson at 573-247-9972 or e-mail jared.patterson@salemr80.org. Children can pick up the signup sheets at the Salem Community Center @The Armory.

Nolan Gorman and Matt Carpenter homered and Andre Pallante pitched six innings of three hit ball St. Louis beat Cincinnati, 5-3 Wednesday to win the series, two games to one. The Red Birds will be off today.

Seth Lugo earned his 9th win of the year with six innings of three-hit ball as Kansas city scored four runs in the 3rd inning and beat Minnesota, 6-1. The Royals and Twins play today.

The Salem High School has announced the winners of the Tigers Awards for the 2023-2024 school year. Haiden Sanders was this year’s recipient for the boys and the Lady Tiger Award went to Emily Strange. Congratulations Emily and Haiden!!

Nolan Arenado and Nolan Gorman each hit-two run homers and Kyle Gibson went six innings of one-hit ball as St. Louis beat the Cincinnati Reds Tuesday, 7-1. The teams play the rubber game of the series this morning it 11:15 on KSMO.

The Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals Tuesday night, 4-2 to send the Royals to their 3rd straight loss. The Royals and Twins play again tonight at Target Field.

Two Salem Tigers were named to the Class 4, District 4 Baseball All-District Team from play in St. Clair. Those players were Trethan Richter and Blake Edwards. Congratulations!

For the Salem Lady Softball Tigers, Kyleigh Wood was named to the Class 4, District 3 All- District Team from play at Potosi. Congratulations Kyleigh!

Paul Goldschmidt homered for the second straight game, but that was all the St. Louis offense could muster, plus errors by Nolan Arenado and Goldschmidt led to two unearned runs in the second inning that proved to be the difference as Cincinnati beat the Cards Monday, 3-1. The teams play today at 4:45 on KSMO.

The Kansas City Royals scored four runs in the top of the 9th inning, but fell short in their comebcak bid as they lost to the Minnesota Twins Monday, 6-5 for their second straight loss after eight straight wins. The Royals and Twins play again tonight at Target Field.

The All-SCA Conference selections have been released and seven Salem Baseball Tigers and one Lady Softball Tiger was named to the conference teams. First, congratulations goes to Coach Tony Edwards for being named the SCA Conference Baseball Coach of the Year for leading the Salem Baseball Tigers to a share of the SCA Conference Championship. Named to the All-SCA Conference Baseball 1st Team were pitcher Kaiden Dubois, infielder Trethan Richter and outfielder Cayden Moody. Named to the All-SCA Conference Baseball 2nd team was infielder Owen Hamilton, and named to the All-SCA Conference Baseball Honorable Mention Team were catcher Haiden Sanders, pitcher Blake Edwards and outfielder Kash Howard. For the Lady Softball Tigers, named to the All-SCA Conference Softball Honorable Mention Team was catcher Reagan Dubois. Congratulations to all these students for an outstanding season!

The Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs will square off this weekend at Busch Stadium. Tonight’s game will begin at 6:20, Saturday night at 5:20 and Sunday night at 5:10. The Red Birds are 23-26 and are five games behind Milwaukee in the Central Division. They are a game and a half behind Chicago for 2nd Place in the division. All the games can be heard on KSMO Radio.

The Kansas City Royals will play at Tampa Bay this weekend against the Rays. The Royals are 32-19 and are a game and half behind Cleveland in the Central Division. The Royals have won their last six straight games.

Nolan Gorman’s two-run homer in the 6th inning of the suspended game gave St. Louis a 3-1 win in the first game. Then Brendan Donovan drove in two runs with a 6th inning double and scored on an error in the second game, but the difference was a Masyn Winn 7th inning homer as the Cardinals beat Baltimore, 5-4 and swept the three game series Wednesday at Bush Stadium. The Cardinals will have the day off today and play Chicago this weekend.

Cole Ragans struck out 12 batters in six plus innings to lead the Kansas City Royals to an 8-3 win over Detroit and the second straight three game sweep for the Royals who have won six straight games. The Royals will be off today and play at Tampa Bay this weekend.