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"Soccer is boring to watch.
All they do is run up and down
the field, and if you're lucky,
you may see them score once."
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's
P everybody's excuse for why
they don't go to soccer games.
It's boring. But every sport is
boring if you look at the right
(or wrong) way.
Football: It's just a bunch of
300 pound steroids that need
three hours to do 12 minutes of
real action.
Baseball: All they do is stand
around and spit and scratch
themselves.
Hockey: It's twelve grown
lutn uii ice sKaics cnasmg a
giant checkcr around while they
try to kill each other.
Wrestling: Hockey without
chcckers or ice skates.
Auto racing/track/cycling:
Watch everybody run around in
circles and hope they fall down
or crash or something.
See, everything is boring if
your looking for the wrong
things.
The reason nobody scores in
soccer is becuase of goalies.
Those are the guys that throw
their bodies in front r*f so miin
an hour shots and hope they
don't get kicked in the head or
; somewhere much worse.
A bunch of guys running
around isn't what makes it boring,
it's what makes it exciting.
Constant action. No timeouts,
no huddles, no screwing
around.
The action keeps building up
all through the game until the
rare moments when a goal is
k . scored and the action reaches its
climax.
The crowd goes crazy and the
team gets a surge of momentum
unlike any other sport. After
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| By JEFF SHREWSBURY
Sports editor
USC's cross country team will
host the second annual Carolina
Invitational Cross Country meet
Saturday at Fort Jackson's
Hilton Field.
There will be 10 men's teams
present, including Virgina Tech,
Clemson and Pembroke State.
And although USC has no
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there as well.
1 "We're hoping for the best this
weekend," said Coach Jeff
Wentworth. "We're really just
hanging back toning up for the
conference meet, Nov. 8."
The courses will be run on the
Graduation Ceremony field and
will be 3.1 miles for the women
and 5 miles for the men. The
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Clcmson Oct. 12, everyone was
drained. The players, the fans,
probably even the dogs that
chase frisbecs on the other side
of the field.
Speaking of which, that's the
other great thing about soccer
games- the atmosphere. People
and dogs play frisbee on the
field at halftiine. Little kids run
around about as much as the
players do.
And hey, where else can you
spend a sunny Sunday afternoon
finishing off your leftover
beer from the last night and
watching through the fence as
the Gamecocks blow another
team away.
And you can heckle. And
heckle. And heckle. Just ask
Duke's 5'4" midfielder, Tony
Valenti. The fans got on his
back and never got off. The
poor guy probably never wants
to come back to The Graveyard
again, even if his team did win.
USC head coach Mark Ber
son doesn't overlook the support
the crowd gives, either.
"Playing at home means a lot
to the players because of the
support," Berson said. It
shows, too because the
Gamecocks have lost only three
home games in three years.
You're probably expecting
me to finish this column off
with a real rah rah, let's support
the team ending. Nah, that
would be pretty silly. You're all
big enough to make up your
own minds. And with my luck,
the next game probably really
will be boring.
Just don't give me any more
excuses. There really isn't any
boring sport. Except maybe
bowling. . .
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women will start at about 9:30
a.m. and the men will begin at 10
a.m.
Last year at the first invitational
hosted by the Gamecocks,
Virgina Tech took first place out
of nine men's teams with 23
points while USC finished second
with 49. Pembroke State rounded
out the top three with 79.
Several runners on the USC
team have been having good
years, weniwonn saia and lour
of the top five have a chance to
make it to the national meet.
"This region is the toughest in
the nation," said Wentworth. "If
you make it to the nationals from
this region, you've really done
well for yourself."
Six of the top 20 teams in the
country are in the southern
region.
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By RICHARD BREEN
Senior sports reporter
Grenvillc Pope led USC's soccer team to a
5-0 victory at Davidson College Wednesday.
Pope, a sophomore filling in for an injured
Doug Allison, scored one goal and assisted on
three others in the win.
"Granville did a great job," Gamecock
head coach Mark Berson said. "This is the
first time he has played almost the entire game
for us, and he responded with a great effort.
"He hit the post on another shot, so he
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volleyball team ended their home match witl
schedule on a sour note Tuesday, block assi;
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unfortunately we didn't get keen our o
that," said Bonnie Kenny, USC combinatic
head coach. USC fell to 17-8 they stoppc
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team wasn't confident enough in well in sj
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Lady Bulldogs. match.
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USC's record to 13-3. The Gamccocks
slipped from fifth to eighth in this week's national
rankings, and dropped from first to second
in the south.
Sophomote Charlie Arndt and freshman
C hi is lo'ey combined for six saves in posting
the Gamecocks' seventh shutout of the year.
Davidson slipped to 4-11 -! on the season.
lunioi Scott Cook opened the scoring at
15:08 with an assist from Pope. Pope then
scored himself at 30:24 with senior Scott
Brown assisting.
Only 4:06 into the second half, Ami Arnthorsson
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Allison, a junior, hurt his knee in the Duke
game and "we didn't want to play him unless
we absolutely had to," Berson said.
"We played very well in attack," Berson
added. "We had some problems adjusting to
playing on the road, but we played much better
in the second half.
"1 would credit our team with a very
workmanlike effort."
USC is back in action at Wake Forest this
week. Match time against the Demon
Deacons is 2 p.m. Sunday.
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or us," she 134.
lad special In the three full seasons she has
team and played, she has been named to
only was it the Metro Conference Allthe
season, Tournament Team and the Allnarked
the Metro Team each year. In 1984
e of USC's Rowe was voted best offensive
'e. player and in 1985 she was voted
die blocker bejt all-around player on USC
ec, came to squad.
freshman. She is currently ranked tenth
up a posi- nationally in hitting percentage
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