Overtime

Volleyball

In Aiken, Shannon Byers had 14 kills and 14 digs as USC Aiken beat Francis Marion 3-2 on Friday night in a Peach Belt Conference match. The game scores were 25-20, 24-26, 25-19, 20-25, 15-9.

The Lady Pacers, who are fourth in the first NCAA Division II Southeast Region poll of the season, improve to 12-9 overall, 4-5 in the conference.

Colleges

All Peach Belt Conference championships in 2009-10 will be known as the PBC-GEICO Championship Series after the private passenger auto insurer reached a partnership agreement with the conference to be its title sponsor.

Thirteen championship events are offered by the conference.

The first one with GEICO as the title sponsor will be the cross country championships Oct. 24 in Lumberton, N.C.

- Augusta State basketball fans who purchase season-ticket packages will have the opportunity to pick their seat Friday.

From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., fans will be able to reserve their seat at Christenberry Fieldhouse. The cost to select a seat is $25. That is in addition to the cost for the season-ticket package.

Gymnastics

U.S. finishes 1-2 in women's all-around

In London, Bridget Sloan won gold and Rebecca Bross took silver as the United States posted a 1-2 finish in the finals of the women's all-around in the world gymnastics championships.

It came down to the very last skill of the night, with Bross falling on her final tumbling pass to drop to second place and give Sloan the title.

Sloan, the lone holdover from the U.S. team that won the silver medal in Beijing, finished with 57.825 points. Bross, competing at her first world championships after turning 16 in July, scored 57.775 points. Koko Tsurumi gave Japan a rare medal, winning the bronze.

Soccer

In Cairo, Ghana held on with 10 men to beat Brazil in a penalty-kick shootout Friday, becoming the first African team to win the Under-20 World Cup and ending a decade of South American dominance.

The game finished 0-0 after regulation and extra time. Ghana's Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu scored the winning penalty kick to make it 4-3 after Brazil's Maicon missed a chance to win it at 3-2.

Ghana's players and staff streamed off the bench in a wild scene.

The last team to win this tournament from outside South America was Spain in 1999.

In the third-place game, Hungary beat Costa Rica in a shootout in which goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi saved consecutive three penalty kicks. The score was 1-1 entering the shootout.

- Diego Maradona could be disciplined by soccer's governing body for his profanity-filled tirade on live television after Argentina qualified for the 2010 World Cup.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Friday from the Under-20 World Cup that it is "my duty and my obligation" to refer the matter to his organization's disciplinary committee.

"The reports we have received so far leave us no other alternative," he said.

Maradona's expletives were mostly directed at his critics and reporters following the 1-0 victory over Uruguay on Wednesday.

In Shanghai, Rafael Nadal advanced to the semifinals at the Shanghai Masters on Friday, benefiting from yet another retirement when Ivan Ljubicic became the eighth player to quit while playing this week.

In the semifinals, Nadal will face Feliciano Lopez , who eliminated ninth-seeded Robin Soderling 7-6 (4), 6-3. Second-seeded Novak Djokovic rebounded to beat eighth-seeded Gilles Simon 6-3, 2-6, 6-2.