Sports – Monday, September 16th, 2019
Garrett Connell threw two touchdown passes and Caden Camden scored twice for the Salem Football Tigers as they scored all their points in the 2nd quarter and hung on to beat Dexter, 19-6. Connell was 8-14 for 107 yards with two touchdowns and one interception. Camden ran the ball 16 times for 140 yards and one rushing touchdown and one receiving touchdown. Salem is 2-0 and will be at Houston Friday night.
The Salem Lady Softball Tigers will host Dixon this afternoon at the Salem City Park at 4:30 in a game that was changed on the original schedule from late September. Both the Salem Varsity and the JV have 2-1 records.
The Salem Lady Volleyball Tigers will host Winona tonight for their first home match of the year. The JV game will begin at 6:00 with the varsity game to follow at about 7:10. Salem is 0-1 on the year.
The Salem JV Football Tigers will be at Cabool tonight to face the Bulldogs starting at 6:00. The JV is 1-0 on the year.
St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Jack Flaherty pitched eight shutout innings giving up five hits and striking out ten as he and Carlos Martinez combined to shutout the Pittsburgh Pirates Sunday, 2-0. Paul Goldschmidt and Harrison Bader had the RBI’s for St. Louis in the game. St. Louis leads the Central Division by 4.5 games over Chicago and has today off.
Sandy Alcantara of the Miami Marlins went the distance giving up only four hits and shutting out the Kansas City Royals on Sunday, 9-0. The Royals will have the day off today.
Missouri Quarterback Kelly Bryant went 17-25 for 150 yards and three touchdowns as Missouri jumped out to a 31-0 1st half lead and cruised to 38-7 win over West Virginia Saturday. That evens the Tigers record at 1-1 as they will face SEMO Saturday night.
Patrick Mahomes finished the game with Jacksonville completing 23 of 33 passes for 378 yards that included three touchdowns and no interceptions as the Kansas City Chiefs rolled to a 40-26 win in their first game of the year. They will play at Oakland Sunday afternoon.