Sports – Wednesday, September 21, 2022

The Salem Lady Volleyball Tigers swept the Houston Lady Volleyball Tigers in three straight games Tuesday by the scores of 25-17, 26-24 and 25-22 at the SHS gym. Salem improves to 9-4 on the year and 1-0 in the SCA Conference. They will play Cabool Thursday night with the JV contest at 5:30 with the varsity match to follow at the Salem High School Gym.

The Salem JV Lady Volleyball Tigers lost to the Houston JV Lady Volleyball Tigers in two games Tuesday evening at the SHS Gym. The scores were 17-25 and 22-25. The JV will play again Thursday at 5:30 against Cabool. The freshman girls split with Houston, winning the first game, 25-20 while losing the second game, 18-25.

Salvador Perez drove in the tie breaking run in the 7th inning as the Kansas City Royals went on to beat the Minnesota Twins Tuesday night, 5-4. TJ Melendez and Hunter Dozier homered for the Royals who will play the Twins again tonight at the Big K.

The St. Louis Cardinals were shutout for the second straight game as they fell to the San Diego Padres Tuesday night, 5-0. Albert Pujols had two singles in the game. The Cards and Padres play again tonight at 7:45 on KSMO.