BOSTON — The Red Sox hired Farrell to be their new manager after pursuing him for more than a year, agreeing to trade infielder Mike Aviles to the Blue Jays to pry their former pitching coach out of the manager's chair in Toronto.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. is expected back on the track next weekend at Martinsville Speedway.

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Tommy Gainey narrowly missed a chance at golf's magic number. He happily settled for a course-record 60 at Sea Island, and his first PGA Tour win Sunday in the McGladrey Classic.

KARNS CITY — The Karns City boys soccer team will kick off District 9 Class A playoff action with a 5 p.m. home matchup against Coudersport on Thursday, while the Karns City girls team will follow at 7 p.m. Thursday with its playoff game against the Redbank Valley-Forest Area winner.

ERIE — Westminster College junior Heather Santa, a graduate of Butler High School, captured her first Presidents' Athletic Conference tennis championship Saturday, which helped the Titans share the team title with St. Vincent.Santa, the top seed, defeated second-seeded Jacquelyn Hauser of St. Vincent 6-3, 6-1 in the No. 4 singles championship match.

SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University senior runner Kara Styles was named Champion Scholar of the 2012 PSAC Women’s Cross-Country Championships Saturday for having the highest cumulative GPA of all student-athletes at the finals.The award was initiated last season. Styles, a senior athletically, is currently a grad student in the doctor of physical therapy program. She has maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA through 144 credit hours.