Ryan Smith homered while pitchers Donny Beeman and Brian Warheit combined to surrender just one run as Butler City topped Karns City, 8-1 in Butler County American Legion baseball play.

Beeman added a single and double at the plate and Warheit added two base hits.

In other action:

Joe Arndt struck out nine batters in a complete game as Saxonburg defeated Meridian 11-3.

Kevin Bacon hit a grandslam in the winning effort.

Brian Bell fanned 12 batters and Dave Zarnick tallied four RBI in Butler Township's 6-1 win over Center Township.

Trei Saeler's RBI-double in the top of the seventh inning proved to be the difference as West Sunbury nipped Mars, 4-3.

Meridian 030 000 0 - 3 8 2

Saxonburg 041 204 x - 11 13 1

WP:

Joe Arndt (7 IP) 9 strikeouts, 4 walks.

LP:

Scott Cukovich (6 IP) 2 strikeouts, 4 walks

Meridian:

Scott Cukovich 1B R, Todd Purvis 2-1B R, Joe Ference 2-1B R

Saxonburg (13-1):

Aaron Shaw 2-1B R, Kevin Bacon GSHR, Josh Uncapher 1B R, Justin Demek 1B 2-2B 3R, Jeff Foster 2-1B 2R

Tuesday:

Zelienople @ Saxonburg

Butler Twp. 021 012 0 - 6 7 3

Center Twp. 000 100 0 - 1 5 6

WP:

Brian Bell (7 IP) 12 strikeouts, 2 walks.

LP:

Nathan Markle (6 IP) 9 strikeouts, 3 walks

Butler Township (8-5-1):

Joe Rekich 2B, Jordan Roycroft 2-1B, Dave Zarnick 2-1B 4RBI

Center Township:

Adam Miller RBI

Tuesday:

Butler Township @ Mars

W. Sunbury 000 000 4 - 4 8 1

Mars 010 001 1 - 3 6 0

WP:

Cruz Eshenbaugh (4 IP)

LP:

Mike Skurko (7 IP)

West Sunbury:

Greg Keppel 2-1B

Mars:

Alex Clark 3-1B

(updated with this past weekend's games)Saxonburg 13-1East Butler 11-4Butler Twp. 8-5-1Center Twp. 8-6Meridian 8-6Mars 7-7Prospect 5-8Zelienople 4-9W. Sunbury 3-9Butler City 3-10-1Karns City 3-8