COMMERCE, Ga. — Ashley Force beat her father, John, on Sunday in the NHRA Southern Nationals to become the first female driver to win a national Funny Car event.

Ashley had a run of 4.837 seconds at 320.36 mph at Atlanta Dragway in her Castrol GTX Ford Mustang to take a 59-point lead over Tim Wilkerson in the season standings.

“I’m just happy to win an event. That was the main thing,” Ashley said. “Being a female, that’s exciting as far as the records and everything, but my team, we just wanted to get our first win. We went a whole year last year and got close a few times. To finally get it done, we’re just so excited.”

John, seeking his 1,000th career round win, lost traction at the start, finishing way behind Ashley with an 11.223-second run.

The historic, set up by round victories over Del Worsham, Jim Head and Ron Capps, came seven days after Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar history.

Antron Brown picked up his second win of the season in Top Fuel, beating points leader Tony Schumacher in the final round. Brown drove his Matco Tools dragster to a 4.537 run at 325.14, beating Schumacher on a holeshot.

In Pro Stock, Mike Edwards raced to his first win in over two years, driving his Young Life Pontiac GXP to a 6.680 run at 206.20. Edwards’ run was just enough to beat runner-up Jason Line, who appeared in his second consecutive final round.

Andrew Hines topped the two-wheelers with a run of 6.946 at 191.40.

Stewart wins Nationwide race

TALLADEGA, Ala. — Tony Stewart held off Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s last-lap charge to win the Nationwide Series race Saturday for his first career victory at Talladega Superspeedway.

Stewart started from the pole and sat comfortably out front with Earnhardt on his rear bumper just biding his time to make a move. Caution came out with five laps to go for debris, setting up a two-lap sprint to the finish.

They raced nose-to-tail for the first lap, then Earnhardt pulled out of line to make his charge. But Earnhardt didn’t have enough momentum and didn’t get the help he needed to race past Stewart. It allowed Stewart to go virtually unchallenged for the final lap, as Earnhardt faded to sixth.

It was Stewart’s first win in any series at Talladega, where he has finished second in six Cup Series races. His previous best finish in a Nationwide race was second last year. That race was just the first time he’d made it to the finish line in five starts, with four DNFs before it.

David Stremme finished second, his best result since he finished second in Milwaukee in 2004. Bobby Hamilton Jr. was third, and both agreed nobody had a car strong enough to challenge Stewart or Earnhardt.

Raikkonen wins race

BARCELONA, Spain — Kimi Raikkonen won the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday, leading Ferrari to a third straight Formula One victory.

Raikkonen, the defending world champion, captured his 17th race after starting from the pole position. Teammate Felipe Massa, who was coming off a win at Bahrain three weeks ago, was second.

Lewis Hamilton of McLaren was third. Teammate Heikki Kovalainen was taken to hospital after a high-speed crash. The Finn was in stable condition.

GOLF

Scott wins in playoff

IRVING, Texas — Adam Scott made a 9-foot birdie putt on No. 18 to force a playoff, then made a 48-footer playing it again on the third playoff hole to beat Ryan Moore in the EDS Byron Nelson Championship.

Scott, the Australian star who cut short a post-Masters trip home so not to waste his good play there, blew a three-stroke lead he carried into the final round. But he made the clutch shots when he needed them for his sixth PGA Tour victory.

A playoff was fitting after a back-and-forth final-round duel between Scott (71) and Moore (68), who finished at 7-under 273, four shots ahead of Bart Bryant (72). Nicholas Thompson (67), Mark Hensby (69) and Carl Pettersson (69) were 2 under.

Sorenstam edges Creamer

AVENTURA, Fla. — Annika Sorenstam won the Stanford International Pro-Am for her 71st LPGA Tour victory, beating Paula Creamer with a par on the first playoff hole.

With considerable help from Creamer 69), Sorenstam (70) erased a one-hole deficit in the final two holes of regulation. They finished at 8 under.

Watson, North team for win

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Tom Watson and Andy North won the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, beating Craig Stadler and Jeff Sluman by a stroke.

Watson, the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am winner last week in Florida, and North teamed for a better-ball 64 at The Club at Savannah Harbor for a 31-under 185 total. Stadler and Sluman shot a 61 on the island course in the middle of the Savannah River.

TENNIS

Russians beat Americans

MOSCOW — No Serena. No Venus. No Lindsay. And no spot in the Fed Cup final for the United States.

Defending champion Russia advanced to its fourth Fed Cup final in five years, clinching its semifinal match when Vera Zvonareva rallied to defeat Vania King 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. The Russians will face five-time champion Spain in the Fed Cup final in September.

In Beijing, Spain defeated China 4-1 in the other World Group semifinals.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

LOS ANGELES — UCLA quarterback Patrick Cowan will have knee surgery and miss the 2008 season, the latest in a long string of quarterback setbacks for the Bruins.

Cowan, who had edged out the also-injured Ben Olson for the starting job this spring, was carted off the field on Thursday after injuring his left knee while scrambling, and will have surgery on his anterior cruciate ligament.

“All I know is I need the surgery and I’m not going to be able to play next season,” Cowan said.

Cowan missed eight games last season because of various injuries. He had already used a redshirt season, and was unsure whether he’d apply for a sixth year of eligibility.

Olson broke a bone in his right foot the same day Cowan was hurt, both in fluke injuries that did not involve contact.

Olson, a 25-year-old slowed by injuries throughout his long college career, was considering surgery to have a screw put in the broken foot and was expected to miss six-to-eight weeks.

TRACK & FIELD

PHILADELPHIA — Any thoughts of a Tyson Gay vs. Asafa Powell showdown at the Penn Relays in a sort of Beijing Olympics preview were scuttled when the Jamaican withdrew. Any thoughts of Gay anchoring the United States to a 9-0 record in “USA vs. the World” 400-meter men’s relay went by the wayside Saturday when a teammate was poked in the eye, of all things.

Gay’s squad — the same quartet that won the 2007 world championship — wound up only fourth in a race won by Jamaica’s Marvin Anderson, Michael Frater, Nesta Carter and Dwight Thomas, who finished in 39.04 seconds.

Cheered on by thousands of countrymen waving green-black-and-yellow flags and blowing horns in the Franklin Field crowd of 49,831, Jamaica also won the women’s sprint medley.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Lolo Jones. shattered her own Drake Relays record in the 100-meter invitational hurdles Saturday, winning her fourth straight meet title in 12.74 seconds. The only real suspense for the Des Moines native and world indoor 60 hurdles champion came at the end of the race, when Jones turned to see if the wind would keep her out of the record books.

The times held up, and Jones — who had a record time wiped out in 2007 because it was wind-aided — took a triumphant winning lap on her old high school track. Jones also broke the Drake Stadium record of 12:92, set by Perdita Felicien in 2001.