JEFFERSON TWP — The A-K Valley Swim League Championships will be hosted by the Penn Valley Athletic Club Sunday.

The event runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and features more than 400 local swimmers ages 8-17 competing for individual and team titles.

Punt, Pass & Kick winners announced

The Butler County Bears recently held a local NFL Punt, Pass & Kick competition at Butler's Memorial Park.

Winners were Nick Myers and Kayla Visniesky (age 6-7), Brandon Washington (8-9 boys), Noah Cunningham and Maura Denniston (10-11), Tate Mohney (12-13 boys) and Aaron Hutchison (14-15 boys).

These youths will advance to sectional competition in October.

The Butler County Bears recently held a local NFL Punt, Pass & Kick competition at Butler's Memorial Park.Winners were Nick Myers and Kayla Visniesky (age 6-7), Brandon Washington (8-9 boys), Noah Cunningham and Maura Denniston (10-11), Tate Mohney (12-13 boys) and Aaron Hutchison (14-15 boys).These youths will advance to sectional competition in October.

GROVE CITY — Grove City College has hired 2011 GCC graduate Christine Slater as its head softball and assistant women's basketball coach.Slater spent the past two years as a graduate assistant basketball coach at Waynesburg. She was a graduate assistant softball coach there this past spring.Slater is second on GCC women's basketball history with 1,634 points. She earned all-conference honors each season as a four-year starter in softball as well.

WHEELING, W.Va. — The Butler Sting 16-under traveling softball all-star team recently won a tournament in Wheeling, W.Va.The Sting defeated Nitro 6-4, the Pittsburgh Riot 9-0, Burgettstown 13-1 and the Pittsburgh Pride 5-0 — also tying the Pride, 4-4 — before edging Nitro 9-8 in the championship game.Noel Pfabe doubled and scored the winning run on an Emily McDonald double in the final inning.Other team members were Brittany Coyle, LeeAnn Gibson, Ashley Coon, Jennifer Miller, Kait Barnett, Alyssa Gibson, Clara Stoughton and Allie Green.

MEADVILLE — Carter Ehms of Cranberry Township beat Anthony Cordaro in a two-hole playoff to win the 15-16 age division at the Kings Restaurants Junior Golf Tournament at The Country Club Monday.Both Ehms and Cordaro, of Pittsburgh, shot a 75 in the 18-hole event. Ehms, though, won the sudden-death playoff.