Eight Butler County American Legion baseball players advanced from Saturday's all-star competition at Pullman Park.

East Butler's Nick Rossmiller (P), Ryan Geibel (C), Ryan Armahizer (SS), Bill Coleman (OF), Butler City's Chris Codispot (2B), Ken Rosenbauer (OF), Mars' Zack Bear (1B) and Prospect's Travis McDougal (OF) will next compete at the Region 8 All-Star Showcase June 28 at Berwind Park in St. Marys.

Region 8 consists of seven leagues — Elk, Warren, Clarion, Erie, Butler, Crawford/Venango and Lawrence/Mercer.

FENELTON— Slippery Rock resident Tom Brenneman grabbed his first victory at Shadetree Raceway Sunday, taking first place in the adult blue OHV kart division.Complete results follow:<B>Youth Blue Kart</B>1-Brad Gallagher (Butler), 2-Billy Porter (Butler), 3-Joshua Thoma (Cabot), 4-Dylan Weber (Prospect)<B>Youth Kart</B>1-Gregory Sherwin (Parker), 2-Cole Miller (Chicora), 3-Shannon Brickley (Cranberry Township), 4-Adam Rosenberger (Manorville)<B>Adult Blue OHV Kart</B>1-Tom Brenneman (Slippery Rock), 2-Jerry Weiland (Butler), 3-Rex Brandt (Evans City), 4-B.J. Hicks (Butler), 5-Randy Weber (Prospect)<B>Adult Kart</B>1-Keith Sherwin (Parker), 2-Shawn Fleeger (Butler), 3-Derrick Davidson (Butler), 4-Matt Thompson (Ellwood City), 5-Darin Gallagher (Butler), 6-Josh Barber (Manorville), 7-Joey Deal (Karns City), 8-Bill Milburn, Jr. (Butler), 9-Ralph Engel, Jr. (Prospect)

HALLE, Germany — Roger Federer just wanted to survive a couple of rounds at the Gerry Weber Open after his painful French Open loss to Rafael Nadal.The top-ranked Swiss did much more, beating Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 6-4 in Sunday's final for his 10th grass title. That matches Pete Sampras' Open era record of 10 grass-court titles and takes his unbeaten streak on grass to 59 matches.

CARSON, Calif. — The United States couldn't wait to get started in its qualifying run for the 2010 World Cup.Clint Dempsey scored 53 seconds in to set the tone and the United States cruised to a record-setting 8-0 rout of Barbados on Sunday in the Americans' first qualifying game for the 2010 World Cup.

SUWON, South Korea — The U.S. women's team beat Australia 2-1 in its opening match of the 2008 Peace Queen Cup on goals by Natasha Kai and Abby Wambach.