BRIEFS

Shrine Club golf

tourney June 7

The 21st annual Cherokee Shrine Club Golf Tournament will take place on June 7 at the Gaffney Country Club.

The format will be a shotgun start, captain's choice-blind draw (a,b,c,d players).

Sign sponsorships are $50. Individual player sponsorships are $50. Prizes include trophies for first and second places for low gross and low net, $5,000 for first natural holein one and prizes for longest putt on No. 9 and No. 18 and closes to line on No. 1.

Entry deadline is June 5. Make checks payable to Cherokee Shrine Club. Mail to J.W. Rogers, 127 Knollcrest Dr., Gaffney, 29340.

Lady Indians

plan car wash

The Gaffney High girls basketball team will have a car wash at Daddy Joe's on Saturday, May 31.

Donations from the car wash will be used to pay team camp expenses this summer.

Tigers sent home

from ACC tourney

North Carolina State shortstop Tommy Foschi highlighted a six-run first inning with his first home run of the season and Clayton Shunick pitched a two-hit shutout as the Wolfpack beat Clemson 10-0 Thursday in the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament.

The game was stopped after seven innings because of the league's mercy rule in tournament play.

N.C. State (38-19) evened its record at 1-1 in Division A round-robin play. Clemson (30-27-1) was eliminated from advancing to the championship game with its second tournament loss.

Gaffney's Justin Sarratt pitched in relief for the Tigers.

The Wolfpack sent 11 batters to the plate in the first, with Foshi's two-run homer to left following a two-run single by Chris Schaeffer.

Jeremy Synan went 3-for-3 and scored three runs and Schaeffer and Ryan Pond each went 3-for-4. Pat Ferguson drove in three runs.

Shunick (6-5) retired the first 13 batters he faced before Doug Hogan singled with one out in the fifth for Clemson's first hit of the game. Wilson Boyd followed with a double, but Hogan was held up at third and Shunick got out of the inning. Shunick did not allow a walk and struck out eight in pitching the Wolfpack's first shutout in conference play since a 2-0 victory over Virginia March 8.

Busch wins

pole at Charlotte

Kyle Busch races beyond his years. He's more superstitious than a lot of 23-year-olds, too.

The hottest driver in the Sprint Cup declined a $50 bill from outgoing Lowe's Motor Speedway president Humpy Wheeler on Thursday, then continued his qualifying dominance at the track to earn the pole for the Coca-Cola 600.

Busch laughed off the offer from Wheeler, who was patrolling pit road a day after announcing he'll retire after 33 years at the track. Busch's then turned in a lap of 185.433 mph in his No. 18 Toyota to edge out last week's All-Star race winner Kasey Kahne (185.300), who will join him on the front row Sunday for NASCAR's longest race.

''He took a fifty out of his pocket and then he was signing it,'' Busch said of Wheeler. ''I said, 'I don't want that.' He gave it to one of kmy crew guys and I said, 'Don't take that.' So I put it back in his pocket.''

Brian Vickers qualified third, giving Toyota two of the top three spots. Greg Biffle will start fourth, followed by David Ragan and Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Busch started from the pole in last week's All-Star race and dominated early before bowing out with engine trouble. Busch also started from the pole for last week's Craftsman Truck Series race. He led the most laps, but was involved in a wreck and finished 13th.

Busch will be the favorite to win his fourth Sprint Cup race of the season on Sunday.