With another high school basketball season in the books, the sports staff is preparing to salute the Butler County area's finest by naming the Butler Eagle Basketball Honor Rolls, as well as the top players and coaches, for 2009-10.

The girls honorees will be published in the Wednesday edition of the Butler Eagle while the boys selections will appear Thursday.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Knoch senior wrestler Brittney Faust placed second at the USA Junior Nationals in Oklahoma City over the weekend.Faust, wrestling in the 123-pound women's division, won her first three matches before losing in the finals to Tonya Tusse of New York.Faust downed Nichole Almanzain the first round before toppling Aexia Moreno in the second round.That set the stage for her matchup with No. 1 seed Roni Goodale of Iowa. Faust won that match to advance to the finals.More than 400 female wrestlers from 29 states were at the tournament.Faust will compete this weekend at Eastern Michigan University, where she'll defend her U.S. Girls Wrestling Association title at 120 pounds.

MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Denny Hamlin surged to the front after a blunder Monday and won the rain-delayed NASCAR race at Martinsville Speedway in a wild finish.The victory was Hamlin's second straight here on the shortest, oldest track in the Sprint Cup Series.Hamlin gave up the lead with less than 10 laps left when he headed to pit road for tires. He then rallied from ninth place to the lead in a span of four laps. The finish was an overtime two-lap sprint on which Hamlin started fourth, pushed Ryan Newman out of the way, then slipped inside Matt Kenseth and leader Jeff Gordon for the victory.

NEW YORK — Having a couple of freshmen on The Associated Press' All-America team is nothing new. This year, however, they are from the same school.Kentucky's John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins were on the All-America team Monday. Joining them were Ohio State junior Evan Turner, who received all but one first-team vote, Syracuse junior Wes Johnson and Villanova senior Scottie Reynolds.After a year without any freshmen being honored, Wall and Cousins moved in as the ninth set of teammates to be selected and the first since Duke's J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams in 2006.

ORLANDO, Fla.— Ernie Els went two years without a PGA Tour victory. Now he's won two in a row. Els survived a few nervous moments Monday by making two clutch par putts, closing with a 1-under 71 for an 11-under 277 total to win the rain-delayed Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.Coming off a four-shot victory in the World Golf Championship at Doral two weeks ago, Els won for the 18th time in his PGA Tour career and made it consecutive wins for the first time since 2003.