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Football CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 Greene to Brown, which capped off an 11-play, 86-yard drive for the Bulldogs. On the very next drive with USC facing a fourth-and-long, the Gamecocks used a fake punt to pick up a 24-yard gain, but an un sportsmanlike conduct penalty pushed them back 15 yards. Two plays later, Pinkins threw his first of two interceptions to Georgia safety Sean Jones, who had two picks in the contest. The Gamecocks’ best effort to put points on the board in the first half came after they recovered a Georgia fumble at the UGA 35-yard line. But, Carolina came away with nothing after a 27-yard touch down was called back for holding, and Pinkins threw his second in terception to Tony Taylor. Greene threw another touch down late in the half to Brown af ter Jones picked of his second pass and the Bulldogs headed into the locker room up 17-0. in tne seconu nan, cooper put Georgia up 24-0 on a 2-yard touch down set up by his 36-yard recep tion. Daniel Weaver missed a 25 yard field goal early on in the quarter. With the game out of reach, Swygert hooked up with Matthew Thomas for a 48-yard gain and the Gamecocks scored its only touchdown two plays lat er on Summers’ 37-yard catch and run play. It was the first collegiate touchdown pass for Swygert as well as Summers’ first touchdown as a Gamecock. Despite the mistakes the Gamecocks made along with poor - offensive production, Holtz thought much of the problems were because of the Bulldogs’ per formance. “Let’s give Georgia credit,” Holtz said. “We would’ve had to play a perfect game to come up with a win down here and we cer tainly didn’t do it.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Mistakes CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 at practice and look at some of these younger kids, see how they run the team, how well they do things. I think we need to take a good, strong look at Blake Mitchell. He runs the scout team well; he’s accurate and I like his poise and demeanor. We’ll have to wait and see.” However, Holtz was quick to say that his junior quarterback isn’t the only reason the offense struggled and said, “It was a team effort. It wasn’t Dondrial.” Regardless, Pinkins took re sponsibility for the lack of execu tion that was exhibited against the Bulldogs. “I had two turnovers and the of fense didn’t perform well and I think it reflects me as well as the rest of the offense,” Pinkins said. “I think the biggest part of it is on me and I’m the leader of the of fense and we got to get things go ing.” The Gamecocks don’t have much time to figure its problems out with a game coming against Alabama-Birmingham Saturday at 7 p.m. at Williams-Brice Stadium. Comments on this story?E-mail gainecocksports@hotmail.com Do you like the new Sports Illustrated on Campus? Let us know! E-mail gamecocksports @hotmail.com Decision CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 That is not necessarily true. Need proof? Look no further than some other of last Saturday’s games. With less than 90 seconds left ■ Saturday, Louisiana Tech trailed Michigan State on the road 19-7. The Bulldogs scored a touchdown, recovered an on side kick and scored another touchdown to shock the Spartans 20-19. Some will say that Georgia is much better than Michigan State, and I completely agree. However, even defending na tional champions Ohio State surrendered 17 points in the fi nal nine minutes Saturday, which allowed the N.C. State Wolfpack to send the game into a triple-overtime thriller. The truth is that the game was not over before we lined up for the fourth quarter field goal, but rather when we attempted it. Perhaps those that believe we still would have lost would have been right, but at least there would have been a chance to be wrong. Does any one remember USC rallying to beat Alabama just two years ago by scoring two touchdowns in the last five minutes? I am not second-guessing be cause we missed the field goal. I am simply wondering what the field goal would have done. Cutting the lead to 24-3, USC still would have needed three touch downs and extra points just to tie the game. Had USC gone for the touchdown, there was a chance to cut the game to two possessions if the Gamecocks converted a two-point conver sion after the possible score. USC was not going to get three possessions from that point on, but there was good reason to expect two. USC ac tually did manage to get three more possessions, but only be cause of giving up a touchdown on a late onside kick, some thing I had not seen since play ing College Football 2000 on my Sony Playstation. However, I missed that play because I did something I’ve never done before: leave early. In my quarter century of being a Gamecock, I have stomached losses to Vanderbilt, The Citadel, East Carolina and even a tie to Duke. I remember a road trip to Georgia Tech where we lost 34-0 to a team sporting the longest losing streak in the country. There was also a 45-0 loss to Clemson when we had a backup defen sive end playing quarterback because no one else could after current Gamecock announcer Todd Ellis went down against N.C. State. 1 I did not see that when we lined up to kick the field goal Saturday, and it was more im portant to score points on Georgia and soothe a bruised ego than to compete. I am not the only one that shares this opinion because several others voiced it to me as I was leaving. At the beginning of the year fans were criticized for booing the team in the opener. I would like to return serve by saying that when fans drive 200 miles to support the team, we expect that team to try for a win, even if it means losing by a larger margin or getting shut out in the process. It is amazing what one can accomplish when people be lieve and never give up. I am just disappointed that our coaches did not believe that in the fourth quarter Saturday. Sinclair is a graduate student in the College of Education. 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Carolina’s finish in the final round was the best of the round, with a team total of 286. The fi nal round performance placed the Gamecocks only one shot out of third place. USC junior Martin Rominger tied Camilo Villegas of Florida for second place with a final score of 210. Sophomore Eirik Johansen finished the tourna ment in sixth place, tied with Jack Ferguson of Clemson and Andrew Price of Kansas. The Gamecocks’ next stop is at the Mason Rudolph Intercollegiate in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 22-23. Women’s soccer ends Texas road trip The USC women’s soccer team (2-3-1) failed to pull out at win in either of its games during its trip to Texas. But Carolina almost pulled an upset on No. 5 Texas A&M (4-0) at College Station, Texas, on Friday. Carolina forward Amanda Thurber scored the first goal of the game 31 minutes into the second half. It looked like USC might pull the upset until Aggie forward Emma Smith hit an open-net goal with two minutes left. Defenseman Amanda Burke wrapped up t&e game for A&M when she knocked in a goal at the 96:46 mark in overtime. This loss is the Gamecocks’ second overtime loss to a ranked opponent this season. USC faired better against the Houston Cougars (2-4-1) Sunday ' afternoon, playing to a 1-1 tie. Midfielder Erin Geldhof scored her first goal of the season just before the end of the first half. Houston had scored just six min utes into the game to put the Cougars up 1-0 before Geldhof s goal. Carolina outshot Houston 18 9 for the match and the Gamecocks accounted for all three shots in both overtime periods. Men’s soccer wins Gamecock Classic The USC men’s soccer team re mained undefeated at 6-0-0 after shutting out Jacksonville (1-4-1) and Alabama A&M (2-4-0) this weekend at the Gamecock Soccer Classic: Carolina goalkeeper Brad Guzan was named the defensive MVP of the tournament. Friday night, USC knocked off the Jacksonville Dolphins 4-0 by being solid on both sides of the ball. 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