Sports – Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
The Salem Tigers Tennis Match scheduled at Mountain View Wednesday was cancelled and will not be made up. The Tennis Team is scheduled to be at Richland today at 4:00 for a match that was rained out back on March 25th.
The Salem Tennis Team has been seeded 5th in Class 1, District 8 play. Salem will play the 4th seed who is the School of the Osage on Monday afternoon at 4:00 at Osage. The winner of that match will play the top seed, the Jefferson City-Helias Crusaders on Tuesday afternoon at Helias. The individual tournament will be held on Saturday, May 11th at Helias where seeding will be held that day.
The Salem Baseball Tigers are scheduled to begin their tournament this morning at 11:30 at the Salem High School baseball field. Teams scheduled to be in the tournament are Iberia, Pacific, Salem, Licking, St. Clair and St. James. Today’s scheduled games will feature Iberia and Pacific at 11:30, Salem vs Pacific at 2:00 and Salem vs Iberia at 4:30. These games will not be aired on KSMO Radio. Salem enters the game with an 8-9 record and they have not played since last Tuesday when they played Sullivan.
The Salem Student Council will be hosting a Fuzz (cops) vs Teachers Charity Basketball game on Friday, May 10th at 6:00 pm at the high school gym. All proceeds will go to the Loveday family, as Michael has been diagnosed with Leukemia. The entry fee will be $5.00 or adults and for children age 10 and under, the cost is $2.00. T-shirts are also for sale and if you would like to order one, you can contact chelsie.fulton@salemr80.org.
Jose Martinez drove in two runs with a single in the 1st inning as part of 3-run rally that spurred the Cardinals to a 5-1 win over Washington and Max Scherzer Wednesday. Marcell Ozuna had three hits and an RBI while Miles Mikolas went six innings for the win. The Cardinals will try to sweep the four game series from the Nationals this afternoon starting at 2:10 on KSMO Radio.
Adalberto Mondesi hit a two-run homer in a three-run first inning, and the Kansas City Royals held on to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 on Wednesday in the opener of a doubleheader. Jakob Junis (3-2) won his second consecutive start giving up two runs on six hits in 6 1/3 innings, walking two and striking out two. In the second game, Kelvin Gutierrez hit his first major league homer as Kansas City pounded American League Cy Young winner Blake Snell for the second time in a week, and the Royals routed the Tampa Bay Rays 8-2 to wrap up a doubleheader sweep. The Royals and Rays will tangle this afternoon at 1:15 at Kaufmann Stadium to finish up the four game series.
St. Louis scored an early power play goal by Vladimir Tarasenko before the Dallas Stars scored the next four goals and emerged with a 4-2 over the Blues Wednesday night to even the series at 2 games apiece. Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Western Conference semi-final between the St. Louis Blues and Dallas Stars will start at 8:00 Friday night on KSMO Radio from the Enterprise Center in St. Louis.