* LITTLE LEAGUE: Warner Robins, Ga., advanced to the World Series final in South Williamsport, Pa., with a 5-2 win over Lubbock, Texas. With Lubbock runners on second and third and Georgia leading 4-2, Zane Conlon caught a hard liner to end the fifth inning. Warner Robins will play Tokyo for the championship. Japan beat Willemstad, Curacao, 7-4 for the international crown.
* GOLF: Lorena Ochoa leads by a stroke going into the final round of the Safeway Classic in Portland, Ore., after two bogeys on the last two holes narrowed her advantage over Sophie Gustafson. Ochoa, who has won two straight tournaments, had seven birdies earlier in her round that helped her finish with a 66, giving her an 11-under 133 total after two rounds. Michelle Wie missed the cut.
* TENNIS: Top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova won her first title this season when qualifier Agnes Szavay retired with a back injury while leading 6-4, 0-3 at the Pilot Pen in New Haven, Conn. This was the third consecutive match Kuznetsova won because her opponent quit. Szavay was playing her eighth match in nine days and had been battling back problems most of the week. In men’s play, James Blake beat Mardy Fish 7-5, 6-4 to win an all-American final. While Fish was playing in his first final of the year, Blake was playing in his second in a week. He lost to Roger Federer in Cincinnati last Sunday.
* OLYMPICS: Rau’shee Warren became the first American boxer in 31 years to qualify for consecutive Olympic teams by overpowering Qa’id Muhammad on Saturday night in the flyweight championship at the U.S. Olympic trials. The 20-year-old Warren battered Muhammad from the opening bell and built a 23-1 lead before the referee stopped the fight 1:11 into the second round. Warren becomes the first U.S. boxer to make back-to-back Olympic squads since Davey Lee Armstrong in 1972 and ’76.
* AUTO RACING: Dario Franchitti earned his second pole of the season, and Andretti Green Racing teammate Danica Patrick matched her career-best second-place qualifying effort in Sonoma, Calif. Franchitti will start at the front of the 18-car field in Sunday’s Motorola Indy 300. Franchitti was fastest in single-lap qualifying in 1 minute 16.7017 seconds (107.167 m.p.h.).
* SOCCER: Kristine Lilly, Shannon Boxx, Lindsay Tarpley and Heather O’Reilly scored to give the U.S. a 4-0 victory over Finland in Carson, Calif., in the team’s final game before the Women’s World Cup. Forward Abby Wambach left the game after jamming a toe on her right foot.
