BERLIN >> Team World just needs two more match wins to claim the Laver Cup a third straight time.

Team World won three of four matches from Team Europe on Saturday to take an 8-4 points lead into the third and final day in Berlin.

After Friday’s matches were split evenly, Frances Tiafoe and Taylor Fritz beat top-five opponents and Ben Shelton and Alejandro Tabilo crushed Europe’s Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-1, 6-2.

The Laver Cup is formatted like golf’s Ryder Cup. The first team to 13 points wins. There are four matches on Sunday, each worth three points.

Soccer

Deadly bus accident claims lives of 3 Brazilian players >> A bus carrying a Brazilian football team flipped on a road south of Rio de Janeiro, killing three people and injuring at least six, authorities said.

Local media reported the three dead were players from the American football team the Coritiba Crocodiles of the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba.

The team was headed to Rio de Janeiro, where they were set to play in the country’s American football championship. But the game was canceled following the deadly accident.

Pro football

Steelers place first round pick on IR >> The Pittsburgh Steelers placed rookie right tackle Troy Fautanu on injured reserve with a knee injury.

The 20th overall pick in the draft practiced most of the week before injuring the knee on Friday, less than 48 hours before the Steelers face the Los Angeles Chargers.

Raiders’ Koonce out for season >> Las Vegas Raiders pass rusher Malcolm Koonce, who injured a knee shortly before the season opener, will miss the rest of the season, two people close to the situation told The Associated Press.

The people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the Raiders have not announced that Koonce will not play this season.