Sports – Thursday, March 21st, 2024

The Class 4, District 3 All-District teams have been named. On the boys side, Salem Tigers guard Landon Richter was named to the team. Also named to the boys team from the district were Tate Gruver from St. James, Jesse Elrod from Cuba and Preston Heads from Cuba who was also named the District Player of the Year. For the ladies, Salem Lady Tiger forward Fayth Kaminski was named to the All-District team. Also named were Tyra Haffer and Courtney Caron from Cuba, and Lydia Kemnitzer, Kendall Costoplus and Emily Recker from St. James. Recker was also named the District Player of the Year. Congratulations to all these athletes!

Kaiden Dubois, Owen Hamilton and Roy Stevens all had two-RBI hits as Salem shutout Steelville Wednesday, 15-0 to go to 3-0 on the year. The Tigers will be at Ellington to face the Whippets today at 4:30. You can hear the game on KSMO Radio (AM 1340 and 95.7 FM) and audio stream the game on KSMO Media starting around 4:15 with Tiger Talk and Coach Tony Edwards.

The Salem Tiger Tennis Team shutout the Licking Wildcats in their first match of the year, 9-0. They will be at West Plains today at 4:00.

The Salem Lady Softball Tigers will be at Bourbon Friday at 4:00. Salem is 1-0 going into the contest.

St. Louis Blues play Ottawa this evening starting at 6:00. KSMO will join the game in progress after Salem Tiger Baseball.

The St Louis Cardinals blasted the Washington Nationals Wednesday, 13-4 as Jose Fermin and Dylan Carlson homered. They will play Houston this afternoon.

The Kansas City Royals Wednesday night tied with the LA Angels of Anaheim, 8-8. Today they will play split squad games today against the Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Guardians.