Butler native Matt Clement survived control problems Sunday to get the win as the Boston Red Sox defeated Texas, 6-5.

Clement (3-0) allowed only four hits over six innings, but walked four, threw two wild pitches and hit a batter.

He was charged with three earned runs.

The Red Sox improved to 13-11 and trail Baltimore by four games in the American League East.

Butler's boys track and field team had numerous athletes place at Saturday's Erie McDowell Invitational Meet of Champions.Brian McCandless placed second in the high jump while Ryan Banner was third. John Strutt was fourth in the 800 meters.Junior Dunn was fifth in the javelin, Marcus Hough sixth in the shot put, Adam Pritts eighth in the discus and Andy Strutt eighth in the pole vault.The Golden Tornado's 400 meter relay team of Sean Colonna, Jason Fair, Adam Monday and Casey Piper was sixth. The 1,600 meter relay unit of Mike Fisher, Bobby Ridley, Colonna and Piper finished eighth.

NEW YORK - Baseball commissioner Bud Selig asked players to agree to a 50-game suspension for first-time steroid offenders and a lifetime ban for a third violation.In a letter sent this week to union head Donald Fehr, Selig proposed a 100-game ban for a second offense. He also asked the union to ban amphetamines, to have more frequent random tests and to appoint an independent person to administer the major league drug-testing program.Under the rules that began this season, a first offense gets a 10-day suspension, with the penalty increasing to 30 days for a second positive test, 60 days for a third and one year for a fourth. For a fifth positive, the penalty is at the commissioner's discretion.Baseball currently has no penalties for amphetamine use by players on 40-man major league rosters. Amphetamines are banned for players under minor league contracts.

FRANKLIN, Tenn. - Stacy Prammanasudh won the Franklin American Mortgage Championship for her first LPGA Tour title, birdieing Nos. 16 and 17 to pull away from defending champion Lorena Ochoa en route to a three-stroke victory Sunday.Prammanasudh closed with a 3-under 69 for a 14-under 274 total.Ochoa finished with a 70.

SHANGHAI, China - Ernie Els ran away with the BMW Asian Open on Monday, finishing off a 13-stroke victory with a bogey-free 7-under 65.The South African star, a three-time winner this year on the PGA European Tour, had a 26-under 262 total on the Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club course.England's Simon Wakefield (73) finished second.

WARSAW, Poland - Justine Henin-Hardenne won her second clay-court title in two weeks, defeating Svetlana Kuznetsova 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 Sunday in the J&S Cup final.The Belgian extended her winning streak to 11 matches in a final in which both players preferred to rally from the baseline and rarely ventured to the net.

FORTE-DE-FRANCE, Martinique - Marion Jones won her first race in nearly a year on Saturday, sprinting away from the competition to victory in the 100 meters at an IAAF Grand Prix II meet.Jones led from the start and won in a comparatively slow time of 11.28 seconds at the Meeting du Conseil General. Wyllesheia Myricks and Melissa Barber shared second at 11.35.Jones' boyfriend Tim Montgomery ran in Martinique, too, struggling to a fourth-place finish in the 100, a race won by former world record holder Maurice Greene in 10.03.

NEW YORK - James Toney outpointed John Ruiz to win the WBA heavyweight title Saturday night.Toney, a former champion at three other weights who took his first title in 1991, won just his third heavyweight bout, becoming only the third one-time middleweight champion to take boxing's top crown.