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SEG NEWS AND NOTES SEC honors week’s best performances Ole Miss’ Eli Manning, Arkansas’ Arrion Dixon and Florida’s Matt Leach were hon ored as SEC Players of the Week on Tuesday with their performances last Saturday. Manning, Offensive Player of the Week, led the Rebels to a 5-0 SEC record with a 43-40 win over USC. The senior quarter back from New Orleans com pleted a season-high 30 of 42 passes for 391 yards with three touchdowns and one intercep tion. His 391 passing yards was the fifth-highest single game $o: tal in school history and his fourth over 300-yard perfor mance of this season. Manning leads the SEC in passing yards with 2,663, touch down passes with 21 and total offense with 2,682. Dixon, a defensive tackle giv en this week’s defensive award, collected a career-high 15 tack les, including three for losses and a sack in Arkansas’ 71-63 seven-overtime win over Kentucky. The junior from Wynne, Ark., forced Kentucky’s Jared Lorenzen to fumble on the game’s final play insuring the Razorback victory. He also added two quarterback pres sures and his three tackles for a loss was a career-high. Florida’s placekicker Leach received the special teams hon or after connecting on 3-of-4 field goals including a 33-yard field goal with 33 seconds left in the game that gave the Gators the 16-13 win over Georgia. It was the first time a Florida kicker hit a game-winner in the Georgia rivalry since 1967, when Wayne Barfield made one with 29 seconds left for a 17-16 victory. The junior from Sarasota, Fla., is fourth in the SEC in scoring and is 15-of-20 in field goals this season. Ole Miss, Auburn highlights .weekend Ole Miss and Auburn high light this week’s action in the SEC with a pivotal Western Division game Saturday at 3:30 on CBS. The Rebels come in undefeated in conference play while Auburn has one loss and looks to tie Ole Miss for the lead with only a few weeks left in the season. A hot ly contested game is expected since the past four’games have been decided by eight points or less. The Tigers won last season 31-24 behind Ronnie Brown’s 224 yards and three touchdowns. Auburn leads the overall series with Ole Miss 20-7. Tennessee plays a big non conference game against Miami, looking to avenge last year’s 26-3 loss in Knoxville, Term. The game will be played at noon on ABC. In other SEC action this weekend, Vanderbilt goes to Florida for the Gators home coming game and Alabama takes on Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss. higher test scores guaranteed LSAT GMAT GRE MCAT DAT OAT or your money back * 4 Attend all required classes or make-up sessions, complete all scheduled tests, and do your homework. 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This week’s games: 20 Ole Miss at Auburn 14 Michigan State at 7 Ohio State 18 Tennessee at 6 Miami Wisconsin at 24 Minnesota 11 Texas at 21 Oklahoma State 10 Iowa at 16 Purdue West Virginia at Boston College Fresno State at Nevada • 3 Florida State at Clemson USC at Arkansas Rankings are from The Associated Press. ♦ FOR TIE-BREAKING PURPOSES, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR SCORE FOR THE ARKANSAS-USC GAME. AND DON’T FORGET TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME! BRIEFLY Volleyball team to play at Kentucky The USC volleyball team (11 13,5-7 SEC) is in Kentucky to day to take on the Kentucky Wildcats (13-11, 5-7 SEC). Carolina won the first match between the teams by 3-2 on Oct. 8 in Columbia. Last weekend, USC beat Auburn and Alabama. The Wildcats beat Auburn 3-1 but lost to Alabama 3-1. The Gamecocks will put their seven-match winning streak over Kentucky on the court at 7 p.m. Lake places 7th at SEC Championship The USC cross country team ended competition at the SEC Cross Country Championships with a sev enth place finish by Jenny Lake at the 22:13 mark. Lake’s finish was the highest a Carolina runner has ever placed in the SEC Championships. As a result of her finish, Lake is now a first team All-SEC Team member. The Gamecocks finished 10th overall as a team. Karen Wigal finished 49th, Mary Wright, Christine Mudd and Tristan Rackow finished in order at 68th, 69th and 70th. Tennessee won first place at the Championships and Auburn’s Angela Homan won first place among the individual runners. USC competes next in the NCAA Southeast Regional at Greenville, N.C., on Nov. 15. J-P Sports to show USC-Florida game The USC-Florida football game, scheduled for Nov. 15 at Williams-Brice Stadium, has been named the Jefferson-Pilot SEC Game of the Week and will start at 12:30 p.m. This is Carolina’s eighth televised game this season and is the third time the Gamecocks will appear on J-P Sports. The USC-Clemson game, set for Nov. 22, currently does not have an announced starting time. Men’s golf finishes first after 2 rounds The USC men’s golf team fin ished the second round of the Hawaii/Turtle Bay Intercollegiate tied for first place with Virginia at 15-over-par on Monday. Winds at the Links of Turtle Bay gusted over 30 miles per-hour during play, which left Carolina and UVA on top, with San Francisco in second place. Gamecocks Eirik Johansen and Robert Svensson tied for third place, individually. Tournamet play will end Wednesday morning. 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I want people to be afraid of vis iting Williams-Brice Stadium, and not because 2001 will give their players the chills, but because we will light their fans and their cars on fire. I want to drop the name Gamecock and pick up the name Anarchy. Yes, South Carolina Anarchy. As I sat there, dealing with mediocrity — a reoccurring theme in my life — I thought that maybe all I really wanted was a less active imagination and a win against Clemson. That’s halfway realistic, right? Jones is a graduate student in the College of Mass Communications and Informational Studies. Soccer CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 team’s resurgence. “I think this game showed just how much character this team has,” Bersonsaid. “After coming off of Friday’s disappointing loss, to be able to come back after los ing the lead was a big, big thing. They didn’t crumble, and that is very important. I wish we could have gotten that winner, but they showed a lot of guts.” The team will look to build on its momentum with a win over nationally ranked North Carolina on Saturday in the team’s last home game of the sea son. A win would go a long way in improving the team’s playoff chances. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com CLUB CORNER Rugby Team The USC men’s rugby team won the Palmetto Cup Tournament for the third consec utive year this past weekend. The tournament, which was held at Furman, was a two-day event in which USC got first-round wins over Winthrop (54-7) and the College of Charleston (27-0). The Gamecocks won Sunday’s final over defending Division III National Champion Furman. Junior Justin Czerski was named tournament MVP. USC’s next home game will be Nov. 26 at 7 p.m. against Clemson.