BRIEFS
Chamber golf tourney

slated for April 19

The 2008 Annual Member Golf Tournament, sponsored by the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, will be held Friday, April 18, at Cherokee National Golf Club.

Registration and lunch will begin at 11 a.m. with lunch catered by Fatz. Shotgun start is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. using a Captain's Choice format. Prizes for hole in one, closest to the pin, longest drive and 1st, 2nd, 3rd Flights will be awarded. Corporate sponsorships are available at $500 which includes a team and hole sponsorship.

Team sponsorships are $300 and includes 2 mulligans and 1 red tee player. Hole sponsorships are $100 each. Sponsorships include publicity both at the tournament and in the media.

Registration form and tournament USGArules and exceptions are available at the Chamber office, via Fax and via e-mail. Contact Gene Moorhead, Executive Director, at 489- 5721 or comcher@bellsouth.net or Dr. Ronn Radcliffe, Golf Committee Chairperson, at 489-7246.

Local hoop league

begins signups

The Giving Back Organization is signing up students (boys and girls) ages 5 to 18 for the Free Spring/Summer Basketball Program.

Applications can be picked up at: The Boys and Girls Club, Sage Sport or WFGN 1180, and must be turned in by April 25.

For more info contact Stan Crosby 864-487-9733; Eddie Palmer, Sr. 864- 489-9255; or Johnny Sarratt, Sr. 864- 425-0628

Lady Saints split

with Barton

The Limestone College softball team split with Barton College on Saturday at the Lady Saints Field. Barton had the advantage in game one winning 2-1, but Limestone rebounded in game two, picking up the win 8-0 in five innings. The Saints now stand at 21-31 overall, 9-11 in the league. Barton is 14-23, 6-10 in the conference.

Summer hoop league registration continues

Registration is continuing at SageSport, the Boys and Girls Club and the Recreation District for the Cherokee County Summer Youth Basketball League. The league is for boys and girls ages 5 to 17. You also can signup by calling Chris Dewberry at 488-9596 or Laymond Dewberry at

425-5860.

Beasley to make intentions known today

Kansas State freshman Michael Beasley plans to announce whether he will enter the NBA draft at a Monday news conference on campus.

While Beasley is expected to be the first pick in the June 26 draft if he declares, the consensus All-American is apparently having a tough enough time deciding that advisers and family members gathered over the weekend to help him make a choice before his self-imposed 5 p.m. CDT deadline.

Glavine suffers

hamstring injury

Tom Glavine has made 672 starts in the majors. Twice, 19 years apart, he failed to record an out.

The second time came Sunday against the reeling Washington Nationals, when the Atlanta Braves' 42-year-old lefty departed with a strained right hamstring and was charged with two runs. The reliever who replaced him, Jeff Bennett, walked in two other runs, then hit a batter who scored, too.

Essentially handed a 5-0 lead, the Nationals gave nearly all of that back, then escaped a bases-loaded jam in the top of the ninth to beat the Braves 5-4 and end a nine-game losing streak.