Sports – Friday, October 16th, 2026

The Mountain View-Liberty Lady Eagles swept the Salem Lady Volleyball Tigers Thursday night in three straight sets: 25-17, 25-22 and 26-24. With the win, Mountain View-Liberty captured the SCA Conference championship with a perfect 7-0 conference record. The Salem varsity finishes the regular season with a 16-15-3 overall record, and 4-3 in the SCA Conference. Salem is seeded 4th, and they will face the 5th seeded Cuba Lady Wildcats in the first round of District play at Cuba at 5:00. 

The Liberty Lady JV Eagles also beat the Lady JV Tigers in two straight sets: 25-8 and 25-10. The Salem JV Lady Tigers have an 11-5-1 record and will participate in the Liberty JV Volleyball Tournament on Saturday.

The Salem Tiger Varsity Football Tigers will host the Mountain View-Liberty Eagles tonight at 7:00 in a SCA Conference game. Salem enters the game with a 1-6, 0-5 in the SCA and have lost five straight. The game will be broadcast live on KSMO Radio (AM 1340 and FM 95.7) and video streamed on KSMO Media (ksmoradio.com, KSMO Stream Facebook Page and the KSMO YouTube Page) starting around 6:30 with Tiger Talk and Coach Neal Myers. 

The Salem 7th and 8th Grade Football games with West Plains were not held Thursday night due to wet field conditions. The Salem 7th graders game will be made up at 6:30 Monday night at SHS Football Field and Bill Schuchardt Stadium. The 8th Graders game was not rescheduled. The 7th graders are 3-2 on the year.

The Salem Football JV Tigers game with the Rolla Freshman on Monday will now start at 5:00 instead of 5:30 at the SHS Football Field, Bill Schuchardt Stadium.

The Missouri Football Tigers will be in Oxford, Mississippi to face the Rebels of Ole Miss starting Saturday at 2:30. Missouri is 5-1 on the year and 2-1 in conference play and ranked 13th nationally. Ole Miss is 4-1 overall and 2-1 in the conference and ranked 9th nationally. The game can be heard on KSMO Radio.

Matt Boldy had a three-goal hat trick Thursday night for Minnesota as the Wild survive a late Blues rally and hang on to beat the Blues, 5-4. Jonatan Berggren, Robert Thomas, Dylan Holloway and Mason MacTavish scored for St. Louis who will be at Nashville to face the Predators Saturday night at 7:00. You can hear the pre-game show on KSMO starting at 6:30.