Sports – Wednesday, August 8th, 2018

Registration for the City of Salem Youth Flag Football Program for 1st through 6th graders is going on now through August 24th at the Salem Community Center @ The Armory during regular business hours. There is a $25.00 registration fee per child during regular registration. Games will be played Saturdays starting on September 29th and going through October 20th. For more information contact Tye Lydon at 729-6290 or e-mail him at salemparks@salemmo.com.

A Summers’ End Kids Free Fishing Day will be held this Saturday at Montauk State Park. Fishing tags are free for children ages 15 and under on this day only to fish in Montauk State Park. Kids must wear a children’s free fishing tag that can be picked up at the lodge on Friday evening after 7 p.m. or anytime on Saturday. The tags are required for kids fishing on this day. Kids can fish anywhere inside the park; no designated fishing area will be set aside. Adults must have daily trout tag to assist children fishing. For more information, call (573) 548-2201.

Streaking Matt Carpenter, who just won his second Player of the Week Award for last week, hit his 30th home run, a tiebreaking drive in the eighth inning that lifted the St. Louis Cardinals over the Miami Marlins 3-2 on Tuesday night. Carpenter connected for the fourth time in five games and increased his career high for home runs. He also extended his streak of reaching base safely to 26 games, the longest active string in the majors. Paul DeJong hit a tying, two-run homer in the seventh for the Cardinals and Miles Mikolas (12-3) pitched seven innings, allowing two runs and five hits. The Cardinals go for their fourth straight series win starting at 5:15 tonight on KSMO Radio.

Mike Montgomery allowed five hits over six-plus innings, David Bote drove in a career-high three runs and the Chicago Cubs beat the Kansas City Royals 5-0 Tuesday night. The Royals have lost six straight and are 14-43 since May 30th. The Cubs and Royals finish up their series tonight.