Sports – Friday, March 21st 2025

Salem Tiger Spring Sports have begun!!!! The Salem Track and Field Teams will have a practice meet today at 3:00 at Fredericktown.

The Salem Tiger Baseball Team will open their regular season with a doubleheader Saturday at the SHS Field. Salem will face Vienna Saturday morning at 9:00 followed by the Cuba and Father Tolten game starting around 11:30. Then the losers of the first two games will play each other at 2:00, followed by the winners of the first two games playing each other at 4:30.

The Salem Lady Softball Tigers will participate in the East Carter round-robin tournament at Ellsinore Saturday. Salem will play Portageville at 12:30 and then face East Carter at 2:00.

The Missouri Tigers faced the Drake Bulldogs last night in a low scoring affair, in the end the Bulldogs would upset the Tigers 67-57, ending Mizzou’s season with a 22-12 record. 

The St. Louis Blues hosted the Vancouver Canucks last night and in a close one, Zack Bolduc would put the first points on the board with a wrist shot late in the second period. In the third there would be no shortage of goals scored but it was the last second goal from the Canucks’ Brock Boeser pushing the game into overtime. Just under 4 minutes into overtime Philip Broberg put in a backhand shot giving the Blues the 4-3 victory. The Blues will be busy this weekend as they host the Chicago Blackhawks tomorrow afternoon at 2:00. On Sunday the Blues will host the Nashville Predators at 5:00 in the afternoon. You can listen to both of these weekend games live on KSMO 1340 AM & 95.7 FM.

The Cardinals are nearing the end of their spring training schedule. Today they have split squad games versus the Astros at 12:05 and the Mets at 12:10. On Saturday the Cards will play the Marlins at 12:10 and on Sunday play the Washington Nationals at 12:05. Listen to Sunday’s game live on KSMO Radio.

The Kansas City Royals are playing a split squad game today versus the Mariners and Athletics, with a simultaneous first pitches at 3:05. Then on Saturday they’ll face the Rangers at 2:05 in the afternoon and have Sunday off.