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Security taking life out of party ‘Unruly’ fans get tossed for committing tastiest crime in college land Throughout the history of Carolina football, many serious questions have been posed to each student sitting in the student section. Will anyone . . notice that these are the same clothes I was Third-year wearing last P°f‘t‘ca^ night? Am I student responsible for Blake Mitchell’s injury because I started the wave at the exact second he got hurt? Great taste, or less filling? Is this body paint waterproof? And, as of 2005, is it worth getting beat down and thrown out to throw the opposing team’s football out of • the stadium? Last week, even though I was way up in the press box, I could see this guy who was clearly cooperating and leaving, willingly being pushed down the stairs with his arm twisted way up behind his back by a police officer. Apparently the football he threw out contained the antidote, because the police officer was treating it as a life and death situation. Save the police brutality for child molesters and murderers, not college kids who threw a football out of a stadium. Anyway, I’ve got plenty of guts, but even I’m not dumb enough to write an entire column calling out the behavior of the police. So I figured I would supply you with a few alternatives that won’t leave your wrists sore from handcuffs and your shoulders sore from unnecessary force. My first suggestion is to do absolutely nothing. Catch the ball, pass it to the center of the row, put it on the seat between two people and do absolutely nothing. Keep your eyes on the field, don’t make eye contact with the police and do not, under any circumstances, throw the football. Just sit there and make them come find it. I doubt they can arrest you for that. Plus, if they can, it would be cool to see in the police report in The Gamecock. “Student provided adequate seating for a football. The subject was taken into custody.” It isn’t as good as the drunken squirrel they found in a shoebox last year, but it is top five, nonetheless. My second suggestion is for everybody who has any type of old ratty football to bring it to the game. After the first time an opposing team kicks a PAT or a field goal, everybody should throw their old footballs down on to the field at the same time as the opposing team’s ball is thrown out. It probably sounds stupid to you, but I’d love to see about 1,200 footballs sprinkled all over the first 30 yards of the field. The only downside is that it reminds me of when hockey fans throw their hats onto the ice after a player gets a hat trick. Anything that reminds me of hockey is considered a downside. My third suggestion is pretty simple — play keep away. Throw rhe foorball hark and forth, up and down, just anywhere except out of the stadium. You could even just pass it around instead of throwing. Watching the police try to keep up with this would provide guaranteed comedy, and I doubt they could go around and arrest everybody who touched the ball. Although I really do appreciate and respect them, some of these guys couldn’t find their own butts with an extra hand and a map. I seriously doubt they’ll be able to remember every single person in every single row that participated in the keep away. Finally, my personal favorite idea is to throw the ball out of the stadium. Just heave it as far and as high as you can. But instead of trying to play it off and pretend you didn’t do anything, escort yourself out. Just hit a dead sprint straight out of the stadium and don’t stop until you get back to your tailgate. If you’re going to go, you might as well go all out. Jim jBWTHB GAMECOCK The Gamecock women’s soccer team dropped two weekend games to conference foes Ole Miss and Mississippi State. * SEC foes give Carolina woes Womens soccer team drops matchups against Ole Miss, Mississippi State (1J Bembry STAFF WRITER USC’s women’s soccer team was looking for fall break to be slightly more prosperous. Instead, the team lost back to-back games against Ole , Miss and Mississippi State, making a two-game tour of Mississippi feel more like a nightmare than a vacation. The losses drop Carolina to 5-10 on the year and 1-8 in the SEC. Things were looking good early, however, as freshman midfielder Mary Worthen drilled a pass from junior forward Darcel Mollon into the net only 14 seconds after the opening kickoff. USC clung to its 1-0 lead for 80 minutes and hoped to close out the game. The Rebels had other plans, as freshman defender Austin Brown awakened the dormant Ole Miss offense and knotted the score with a goal at 80:33. The Rebels exploded for two more goals to turn the tide and win the game, 3-1. Ole Miss freshman midfielder Jennifer Hance headed the ball past sophomore goalkeeper Lindsay Thorstenson to take a 2-1 lead, and sophomore midfielder Amy Gill added another goal less than a minute later to seal Carolina’s fate. The Rebels scored both goals within 23 seconds, their second-fastest string of consecutive goals this season. USC was outshot 15-8 in the game by the Rebels, including a 13-3 disadvantage in the second half. Sophomore midfielder Ashley Kirk paced the Gamecocks with five shots, while Thorstenson made three saves in the losing effort. On Sunday against the Mississippi State Bulldogs in Starkville, Miss., USC’s luck wasn’t much better. The Gamecocks played an inspired game and controlled most of the play, but senior MSU keeper Emily Meyers was the difference. In the first half, Meyers denied close shots by senior midfielder Amanda Thurber, junior forward M.A. Foster and sophomore midfielder Erin Sullivan to keep the Bulldogs in the game. Meyers’ team responded, and at 27:54, senior forward Betty Ann Casey rifled a shot deflected by sophomore USC defender Kali Neumann past Thortenson and into the net. Only three minutes later, sophomore midfielder Kevyn Shelledy notched the game-winning goal by launching a long ball into the far left corner just out of Thortenson’s reach at 30:10. • Carolina didn’t suffer from lack of effort though as they peppered the MSU goal, taking a 7-3.edge in shots in the second half. Meyers continued her stellar play but Thurber was finally able to solve the hot goaltender, converting a pass from Mollon into a goal, placing it in the left corner at 80:46. Thwarting one final shot by i Kirk late in the game, Meyers led her team to the win, dropping Carolina to 2-7 overall this season in games decided by a point. USC looks to build off its strong efforts this weekend, as the Gamecocks play host to the Arkansas Razorbacks on Friday at 7 p.m. for Senior Day at Eugene E. Stone Stadium III. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksports@gurm.sc.edu Graphic illustration by Laura-Joyce Gough / THE GAMECOCK Game, set, match Juan Bias/THE GAMECOCK Carolina senior captain Tom Eklund took home runner-up honors in singles competition this weekend during the USC Fall Invitational. For more coverage, check out Tuesday's online edition. ODom • conunueD PRoms will replace the emotional leadership of All-SEC forward Carlos Powell. That hole looks like it could be guard Tre’ Kelley’s to take over. The junior guard from Washington, D.C., looks poised to take complete command of the leadership role this season, a task he openly welcomes. “I’ve got something to show this year,” Kelley said. “I’ve got something to really prove. I think I will earn respect this year. It’s that time to step up and be that player I can be. I have to be ready to step into that role. They’re depending on me to be the leader this year. I have to show those qualities of being a leader.” “Tre’ Kelley, I think by end of the year, you’ll be sitting there saying ‘He was right,”’ Odom said. “He will be one of the best point guards in this league this year. On any given night, I think he will rise up and play among them.” Perhaps the most talked about player in USC’s offseason was the man who hit the basket to win the NIT title, Tarence Kinsey. After playing defense on Saint Joseph’s Pat Carroll in the final game, Kinsey’s defense will once again be relied on as SEC talent rolls around on the schedule. “Tarence is bigger, stronger. He doesn’t weigh a whole lot more, but he is bigger and stronger,” Odom said. “He’s more experienced, and I think he’s more confident. I think he’ll hit some big shots for us, but he clearly was our best defender on the perimeter last year. I expect nothing less than that this year.” The word Odom has used to describe what his team will need to succeed this season is courage. Odom says that if his ream has that, its success will be eminent. “When you look at our team, we have more experience coming back than any team I’ve had at South Carolina,” Odom said. “There’s not a single player on our team, at this point in our development, that I would mind putting in a game, any game, in any situation. I can’t remember the last time I was able to say that with any team. “My question to those guys everyday is, ‘Do you have the courage to do that?”’. Odom said. “And it takes a great deal of courage to play at the top of the heap. ‘Cause you’ve got to lay it out there every single day at practice. And you’ve got to be accountable every single night. There’s nowhere to hide. And you lay it out there, and you’re either good enough or you’re not. And that takes courage. I have a lot of faith in them. I have a lot confidence in them.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksportsQgwm. sc. edu m • Gonnnueo PRom 8 close throughout. Melvin Sanders’ 18-point performance off the San Antonio bench helped erase several Philadelphia double-digit leads. Sanders, the game’s second highest scorer, notched 12 of his 18 points in the second half. But in the end, Philadelphia was too much, as five players finished with more than 10 points, including two players off the bench. “Any win you get is big for you,” Philadelphia coach Maurice Cheeks said. “You just do it for your mentality to win a game. It’s just good to win a game.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksports@gwm. sc. edu www. daily game cock, com