BRIEFS

YMCA hoop

results

YMCA basketball results from Saturday, Jan. 13

Biddyball Division

The Timken Tarheels (MVP A.J. Blanton) played the Blakely Funeral Home Blue Devils (MVP Alyssa Flynn)

The Ace Hardware Yellow Jackets (MVP Mark Lyons) played the Elks Club Gamecocks (MVP Torien Olgesby)

Intermediate Division

The WAGI 105.3 FM Indians (MVP Shane Camp) defeated The Party Place Blue Devils (MVP Caleb Kierstead) 19-13

The Hamrick's Kids Cavaliers (MVP Charlie Black Jr.) defeated the Cline, Brant, Kochenower Wildcats (MVP Nicholas Wells) 24-6

Youth Division

The Daddy Joe's Warriors (MVP Franquia Byers) defeated the House of Pizza Lakers (MVP Geofenete Jeffries) 36-21

The Clear View Window Tinting Saints (MVP Alex Holcolmbe) defeated the Correll Insurance Tarheels (MVP David Turner) 20-9

Homecoming

on Oct. 12

Gaffney High will celebrate homecoming on Oct. 12, 2007. The Indians will host Hillcrest.

Spiller committed

to Clemson

Running back C.J. Spiller says he's committed to staying at Clemson, despite the pull of his young daughter that had him thinking about transferring.

Spiller has arranged his classes so he can take more trips home to Lake Butler, Fla., and visit his 9- month-old daughter. Wanting to be with his family had the star runner considering a move closer to home with the national champion Gators.

But Spiller said when he returned to campus, he made up his mind to stay with the Tigers, according to a story posted Tuesday on The Greenville News'Web site.

''I plan to be home more. I have no classes on Friday so I can leave on Thursday and get a good threeday weekend,'' Spiller said. ''It's probably going to hurt my car, but it should make it down there.''

Spiller's future was in doubt last week with some reports having him enrolled at Florida and attending classes on the day of the Gators' national championship game win over Ohio State.

NASCAR champion

dies at 65

Greg Biffle believes that without help from Benny Parsons, he never would have reached NASCAR's highest level. Michael Waltrip credits Parsons for giving him the courage to propose to his wife in Victory Lane.

Parsons was remembered Tuesday in every corner of the NASCAR garage for his generous nature, lovable personality and overwhelming popularity. The 1973 NASCAR champion died in Charlotte, N.C., of complications from lung-cancer treatment. He was 65.

''Every time I think about how lucky I am to have the job and the life I have, I think of 'BP' because he's the reason I ever got this opportunity,'' said Biffle, whom Parsons discovered in the mid-1990s and then convinced car owner Jack Roush to hire him sight unseen.

Diagnosed with lung cancer in July, Parsons attacked his battle with the same aggressiveness that helped him rise up from a childhood of poverty in the North Carolina foothills to a job as a Detroit cabbie, and eventually, becoming a NASCAR champion.

Parsons carried an oxygen tank around the race track, but the former smoker couldn't win this fight.