Sports – Tuesday, September 4th, 2018
The Salem Football Tigers jumped out to a 14-0 lead with 4:07 to go in the 1st Quarter on two rushing touchdowns by Tristan Newman at Dexter Friday night only to have the Bearcats come back with three straight scores to grab a 21-14 lead at the beginning of the 4th quarter. Newman scored again for Salem midway through the 4th quarter to make it 21-20, but the Bearcats scored with 1:45 left and held off a valiant Salem last minute attack to beat the Tigers, 28-20. Salem is 1-1 on the year and they begin SCA Conference play Friday night against the Houston Tigers at 7:00.
The Salem Lady Softball Tigers will be at Ava this afternoon at 4:30 to face the Lady Bears. Salem is 0-2 on the year.
The Salem Lady Volleyball Tigers will host Eminence tonight starting at 6:00 at the Salem High School Gym. Salem is 1-1 on the year.
The Salem JV Football Tigers will be at Cabool tonight starting at 6:00.
Drew Lock continues to produce big numbers for Missouri, which beat Tennessee-Martin 51-14 in Saturday’s season opener. Lock, who set a Southeastern Conference record with 44 touchdown passes last year, completed 19 of 25 passes for 289 yards and four TDs against the Skyhawks. It was his first game with new offensive coordinator Derek Dooley, the third coordinator in Lock’s four-year career. The Tigers slowed their tempo a bit from the frantic pace they used under Dooley’s predecessor, Josh Heupel, and deployed more double-tight end formations. Lock continued last year’s trend of throwing it deep to Emanuel Hall, who finished with four catches for 171 yards and two touchdowns.
Bryce Harper hit a tying, two-run homer in the ninth inning, then delivered a sacrifice fly in the 10th that sent the Washington Nationals over St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 on Monday. St. Louis had taken a 3-1 lead into the 9th inning on the strength of a Paul DeJong’s two-out, two-run single in the 1st inning and Yairo Munoz seventh home run to lead off the 6th inning. Bud Norris blew the save and Chasen Shreve took the loss. The Cardinals have lost three straight and will be in Washington this afternoon at 5:10 on KSMO Radio.
Jakob Junis allowed two hits in seven shutout innings, Ryan O’Hearn homered twice and the Kansas City Royals extended their winning streak to a season-high six games with a 5-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Monday. The right-hander gave up two hits, hit a batter, walked none and struck out six. Danny Duffy will start tonight for the Royals against the Indians.