Sports – Thursday, April 18th, 2024

The Salem Baseball Tigers play in Mountain Grove this afternoon at 4:30, the Tigers are riding a 5 game winning streak and are 11-2 on the season going into the game.

The Salem Lady Softball Tigers look to turn things around as they face Ava this afternoon at 4:30. This game will be covered on KSMO Radio and live streamed starting with Tiger Talk around 4:15.

Yesterday afternoon Kaiden DuBois and Brooke Mahurin each signed letters of intent to continue their education and sports careers. Brooke Mahurin signed with East Central College for Softball. Kaiden DuBois will be heading south to Missouri State West Plains for Baseball. Congratulations to both of these Salem Tiger student athletes.

The Cardinals played game 3 against the Athletics yesterday and lost by a score of 3-6. The Cards scored all of their runs in the top of the 4th briefly taking the lead before the A’s responded with with three runs of their own at the bottom of the 5th. The Cardinals begin a new series vs the Milwaukee Brewers tomorrow.

The Kansas City Royals played their double header vs the Chicago White Sox yesterday. The Royals and Sox split the games with the Royals winning the first game 4-2 and the Sox taking the second 1-2. The Royals play the Baltimore Orioles tomorrow evening at 6:40.

The Blues played their final game of the season against the Dallas Stars last night and 2-1 this gives them a final season record of 43-33-5.

Blues captain Brayden Schenn has been nominated for the King Clancy Memorial Trophy for the second consecutive year.