The West Penn Doubles Tennis Championship will be held Saturday at the Butler Area Senior High School courts.

The field will include teams from Butler Junior Tennis, Allegheny Country Club, Butler Country Club, Edgeworth Country Club, Seton Hill, Sewickley Area, Treesdale Country Club and Wildwood Country Club, with each one featuring three varsity teams and three junior varsity teams.

The varsity tournament will be played from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; JV teams will compete from 1:30 to 4:30.

This event wraps up the West Penn summer season.

SRU football picked No. 1

LOCK HAVEN — Slippery Rock University’s football team was projected to win the PSAC West title in the preseason poll, which was released Thursday.

The Rock has won three straight division championships and received three of eight first-place votes, matching Indiana (Pa.) for the top spot. California (Pa.) received the other two votes to finish third in the poll, which is voted on by the league’s head coaches.

The rest of the division was picked to finish as follows: 4th-Gannon, 5th(tie)-Edinboro/Seton Hill, 7th-Mercyhurst, 8th-Clarion.

Shepherd and Kutztown both received four votes in PSAC East voting.

Dodgers’ Kershaw start cut short by back pain

SAN FRANCISCO — Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw left his start at San Francisco with lower back pain.

Kershaw appeared to tweak something while he was warming up before the bottom of the fifth inning Thursday. The three-time NL Cy Young Award winner winced and pointed to his dugout, and then walked off the field gingerly with a trainer.

The 34-year-old Kershaw made 66 pitches through four innings, allowing one earned run and three hits with four strikeouts. He left with a 4-2 lead.