Sports – Thursday, March 27th 2025
The month of March has seen a number of Dent County youth be very successful in a variety of sporting events. On March 15th Salem’s Liam Duncan teamed up with Bolivar Middle School’s Fisher Williams to win The Bass Federation of Missouri State Championship in their division at Table Rock Lake. Their 5-fish winning total of 16.13 pounds qualifies Liam and Fisher to compete in The Bass Federation Junior World Championship on Lake Oahe in South Dakota July 30th through August 1st. The Missouri National Archery in Schools Program (MoNASP) State Archery Championships were held March 19th through 22nd in Branson. Over 4,000 students from nearly 300 schools competed during the four-day event. Northwood R-IV’s Wyatt Clancy won his division in the 3D Competition with a score of 290. The Salem Tiger 7th grade traveling basketball team coached by Amber Duncan and Brandon Scholemer competed in the Missouri State Basketball Championship in Columbia March 21st through the 23rd. The team won all 4 games in the 7th Grade Silver Division outscoring their opponents 184 to 147 to secure their State Championship.
Alaina Norris struck out 15 Lady War Hawks and was supported offensively as Salem banged out ten hits as the Lady Tigers beat Bourbon Wednesday, 6-3. Salem was led by Bailey Mahurin and Molly Fleener who each had two hits and two RBI as the Lady Tigers move to 3-1 on the year. Alexis White and Shaylee Thomas also had two hits for the Lady Tigers who will play in the SCA Tournament in Mountain Grove this Saturday on Field #1 starting at 9:00 in the morning against Houston.
The Salem Boys Baseball Tigers host the Ellington Whippets today with a varsity only game starting at 4:00 at the SHS Baseball Field Complex. The Tigers comes into the game with a 2-0-1 record and the contest can be video streamed on KSMO Media starting at 3:45 with Tiger Talk and Coach Tony Edwards. The game will NOT be heard on KSMO Radio due to it being the St. Louis Cardinals Opening Day.
The wait is over! St. Louis Cardinal Baseball is back and you can listen to their season opener against the Minnesota Twins this afternoon on KSMO Radio 1340 AM & 95.7 FM, with coverage starting at 1:35 and first pitch at 3:15.
The Kansas City Royals will be at Kauffman Stadium this afternoon to start their season with a matchup against the Cleveland Guardians. The game will begin at 3:10.
The St. Louis Blues are in Nashville to take on the Predators for the third time in ten days. You can listen to this game live tonight on KSMO Radio with pre-skate staring at 6:30 and puck drop at 7:00.