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In just five words, UK head footballcoach Joker Phillips was able to summarizehis team’s entire performance in a 32-14 lossto in-state rival Louisville in the common-wealth’s 25th edition of the Governor’s Cup.

“We are better than that,” Phillips said ina blunt, frustrated tone. “We are better thanthat.”

It’s a phrase he repeated four or five moretimes following the game, still trying to over-come the disappointment of a second straightloss to his program’s greatest enemy. Andwhile the score might not resemble a closegame, it was just a few plays that turned thisgame from a back-and-forth thriller to ablowout victory for the Cardinals in theirhome stadium.

Facing third and nine from his own 2-yardline on its first drive of the game, U of Lsophomore quarterback Teddy Bridgewaterwas able to thread the needle past UK’s Mar-tavius Neloms and complete a 23-yard passdown the right sideline to pick up the firstdown. On the next play, Bridgewater com-pleted another pass, this time for 17 yards. Onthe 15th play of the same drive, U of L juniorrunning back Jeremy Wright punched in a 1-yard touchdown, giving the Cardinals the ear-ly lead.

It was one completion that turned a quickthree-and-out, not to mention a punt situationfrom the back of their own end zone, into sixpoints for the Cardinals.

“That’s what we pride ourselves on, that’swhy we work hard,” Bridgewater said of histeam’s opening drive. “We practice game-likesituations, so today was just like practice.”

UK would respond with a touchdowndrive of its own, scoring on a 1-yard touch-down pass from sophomore quarterback

Can’t shuffle CardsBy Ethan Levine

elevine@kykernel.com

See FOOTBALL on page 4

PHOTOS BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFLouisville’s Jeremy Wright runs the ball in the second half of the Governor’s Cup game at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. Louisville beat UK 32-14 in the annual rivalry.

Buy a child lemons and he or she cangive you a lemonade stand — profit in-cluded.

Forget the sugar, and it’s just a bitterresult.

For as far back as my UK footballknowledge reaches, the Cats have eitherhad a good offense or a good defense —never both.

Entering Sunday’s game againstLouisville, there was hope that maybe,just maybe, the Cats could put togethersome substance on each side of the ball.

Instead, fans were treated to lemonjuice.

Defensive coordinator Rick Minter’sunit allowed the Cardinals to essentiallydo anything they wanted.

According to the hearsay aroundcamp and practices, it was only the Cats’secondary that was to be a liability.

The creation of U of L sophomorequarterback Teddy Bridgewater one yearago, as Rick Minter said following a UKpractice, led to many nightmares Sunday.

See PORTER on page 4

CODYPORTER

Kernelcolumnist

Brantley Gilbertis known forcountry hits

“Country MustBe Country

Wide” and “YouDon’t Know Her

Like I Do.”

PHOTO COURTESYOF CREATIVE

ARTISTS AGENCY

The Student ActivitiesBoard has booked country-music artist Brantley Gilbertas the headliner for its fallconcert, following studentsurveys and voting in thespring and summer.

The concert will be at7:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in Memori-al Coliseum, and supportingacts are Uncle Kracker, Greg

Bates and Brian Davis. Theshow is part of Gilbert’s Hellon Wheels Tour.

SAB has not hosted alarge country concert since2007, said Derek Operle, di-rector of concerts for SAB.

During voting over thesummer, Gilbert won “by alandslide,” said GabrielleDudgeon, vice president ofpromotions for SAB. The oth-er choices were ChildishGambino, Ellie Goulding and

Neon Trees.“We’re trying to bring

different artists to campus totarget different audiences,”Dudgeon said.

This will be the secondfall concert on a scale compa-rable to SAB’s spring con-certs, at about 5,100 people,Operle said. The first was Ja-son Derulo and B.o.B in fall2010.

“Not only students but

SAB announces fall concert

See CONCERT on page 2

Country artist Brantley Gilbert will headline Oct. 28 showBy Becca Clemons

bclemons@kykernel.com

Even though the UKfootball team took a loss tothe University of LouisvilleSunday, women on eachcampus have found a way tokeep the heated in-state rival-ry going through social me-dia.

Beginning Aug. 27, stu-dents could vote for theiruniversity via Twitter in theVictoria’s Secret PINK Na-tion Tailgate Tour competi-tion.

Students have until Fri-day to vote.

Twenty schools arematched against one of theirbiggest rivals in a competi-tion to determine which cam-pus wins a Victoria’s SecretPINK Nation tailgate.

The Bluegrass matchuphas become among the mostcompetitive in the contest,with both schools breakingmore than 50,000 votes.

UK PINK Campus Rep-resentative Tara Dauer is ex-cited about the competition.

“This is a test of how

Contesttaps into

teamspirit

By Alexis Gray

news@kykernel.com

See CONTEST on page 2

Winning schoolgets Victoria’sSecret tailgate

The Cardinals celebrate after winning the 25th Governor’s Cup. U of L also won last year’s rivalry game. FollowingSunday’s 32-14 loss, UK defensive coordinator Rick Minter said of the Cats: “We’ve got a lot of work to do.”

if you goWhat: Homecoming concertfeaturing Brantley GilbertWhen: Sunday, Oct. 28, at7:30 p.m.; doors at 6:30 p.m.Where: Memorial Coliseum

Phillips: UK is betterthan Sunday’s game

UK offense, defense both still sour,come up short in first game of the season

In only two weeks stu-dents have auditioned, castedand rehearsed to create theNew Works Now! festival.

“We had auditions the firstweek back to school,” said di-rector, stage manager, actorand theater senior MaggieHowell. “We have been re-hearsing since then.”

UK’s young talent is host-ing a festival of new-age per-formances. For three days stu-dent artists are performingeight shows in the GuignolTheatre.

The rest of the plays to beperformed this year are differ-ent from New Works Now! be-cause they are classic or mod-ern plays that are well known,said Nancy Jones, chair of the

Festivalfeatures8 plays

By Nini Edwardsnedwards@kykernel.com

See NEW WORKS on page 2

PAGE 2 | Tuesday, September 04, 2012

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LOS ANGELES — The good news about“Coma,” A&E’s four-hour miniseries adapta-tion of the Michael Crichton film airing Mon-day and Tuesday night, is that it’s much betterthan its previous miniseries adaptation of theMichael Crichton book “The AndromedaStrain.”

The bad news? It’s still not very good.Or at least it’s not as good as it should be,

given a cast that includes Lauren Ambrose,Richard Dreyfuss, Geena Davis, James Woodsand Ellen Burstyn; it’s not even as good as the1978 film, which, though facing a few of thesame problems as this rendition, did not shyaway from a subtext both hysterical and so-cially nuanced.

In that film, as in the book, shifting genderrelations were as much a tonal context as thegrowing fear of technology. Protagonist andsurgical resident Susan Wheeler (GenevieveBujold) fights to be heard not only as the firstperson to notice that there sure are a lot offolks lapsing into comas at Boston Memorialbut also as a woman in both her personal andprofessional life.

This time around, screenwriter John J.McLaughlin (“Black Swan”) and director

Mikael Salomon (“Band of Brothers”) choosehysteria over nuance. In facing the universalobstacle of remaking a thriller with a big, badtwist at the end, producers Ridley Scott andthe late Tony Scott (who also produced A&E’s“The Andromeda Strain”) apparently decidedthat since everyone already knows the story of“Coma,” McLaughlin could just dismiss the“Is something really happening?” portion ofthe story in favor of a relentless excavation of“How awful will it be when it’s discovered?”and “Which members of the cast are in on it?”

Every shot, every plot device, every anx-ious swoop of score and burst of dialogueshoves us, with almost palpable impatience,toward the gruesome scenes of what is reallyup with all those coma patients. Even theprops conspire to ensure that we understandthat something Just Ain’t Right at ol’Peachtree Memorial and its off-site coma carefacility, the Jefferson Institute.

If you can live through the ridiculous hus-tle-forward, no-looking introduction to the sto-ry, what follows is entertaining enough, albeitin a mildly campy way. “Coma” has its mo-ments of power, but at twice as long as theoriginal film, it feels only half as scary.

A&E’s ‘Coma’ not quite sleeper hit

Horoscope

CorrectionAn article in Thursday’s

paper contained incorrectinformation about UK The-

atre’s plays. The “NewWorks Now!” production iswritten, directed and pro-

duced only by UK stu-dents, but not all of thedepartment’s plays are.

Email corrections tobclemons@kykernel.com.

Lexington seems to draw in country acts,” Operlesaid.

“One thing that’s different about BrantleyGilbert is we seem to have brought him at the

right time. He’sbreaking and it’sthe right time.”

Gilbert, 27,is known for hits“Country MustBe CountryWide” and “YouDon’t Know HerLike I Do,”which bothreached No. 1 onthe U.S. countrychart. He alsohas written songsrecorded by Ja-son Aldean.

Tickets go onsale startingWednesday forstudents at theStudent Involve-ment Ticket Cen-

ter. Students canbuy tickets with a valid UK student ID for $10.Students can purchase up to five total tickets us-ing different IDs.

Tickets go on sale for the Brantley Gilbert FanClub starting Friday through the fan club.

Tickets for UK faculty and staff and the publicgo on sale Sept. 15 via Ticketmaster and Mondayat the Student Involvement Ticket Center. Facultyand staff tickets are $20 with a valid UK ID. Allother tickets are $25.

CONCERTContinued from page 1

much we love UK, and eventhough we aren’t technically afootball school, we still love totailgate and show how muchschool spirit we have,” saidDauer, a kinesiology and exer-cise science senior.

Dauer explained what willhappen if UK does win in itsmatchup against Louisville .

“If they do come, they willbe parked out on the block of

South Limestone and Avenueof Champions. It will be duringthe week a few days beforegame-day weekend, and it willbe basically just to rally up thefans,” Dauer said. “They willbring a DJ, have tailgategames, freebies, a photo booth,and of course the PINK truckwill be there as well.”

Broadcast journalism juniorKatherine Emoff, who is also aVictoria’s Secret PINK repre-sentative, said she “neverimagined that it would get thisbig,” and that “it’s great to

know that the girls at Kentuckyhave so much school pride.”

Both of UK’s Campus rep-resentatives expressed excite-ment about how far bothschools have come in the com-petition.

Since the competition’slaunch, dozens of Twitter pageshave been made for bothschools in order to gain morevotes.

Pages dedicated strictly totweets to rally votes for bothUK and U of L have kept thematchup neck-in-neck, with the

lead changing hands constantly,and more votes continuing topour in by the minute.

To vote, send a tweet to@VSPink with the hashtag#TailgateWithPink and theschool name. IncludingLouisville’s name in the tweetwill give it a vote as well.

Anyone can vote for theirfavorite school as many timesas they like.

UK’s PINK representativessay there are still opportunitiesto rally up more votes beforethe competition ends.

CONTESTContinued from page 1

ticket information

Students: $10, on saleWednesday.Faculty/staff: $20, on saleSept. 15.Fan club: $25, on sale Friday.Public: $25, on sale Sept. 15.

Tickets can be purchased atthe Student InvolvementTicket Center or throughTicketmaster. Student andfaculty/staff tickets must bebought in person.

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Department of Theatre.“These shows are a lot short-

er and more laid back,” actor andtheater freshman MacreenaGroody said.

The New Works Now! seriesof performances includes choreo-graphed dancing.

“This gives students the op-portunity to showcase their tal-ent,” Jones said.

The entire production is di-rected and created by UK stu-

dents with little outside help.“This is different because

everyone is teaching each other,”Groody said.

Jones said more than 50 stu-dents are involved in New WorksNow! both onstage and backstage.

“We have enough talentedpeople here to do the shows byourselves,” Howell said.

“My favorite part is workingwith the student directors,”Groody said. “It is cool to seesomebody my age make some-thing awesome.”

The series will take placeThursday through Saturday at7:30 p.m. in the Guignol Theatre.Tickets are $10 for students and$15 for the public at the Single-tary Center Box Office.

NEW WORKSContinued from page 1

if you goWhat: New Works Now! festivalWhen: Thursday through Sat-urday at 7:30 p.m.Where: Guignol TheatreAdmission: $10 for students,$15 for general public

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tuesday 09.04.12 page 3kernelopinionsIn October 2009, the University

of Kentucky garnered national at-tention for a decision made by theBoard of Trustees. By a vote of 17-3, the board allowed for the con-

struction of theWildcat CoalLodge, a basket-ball dormitorynamed and fundedby Joe Craft andother donors whohave made theirmoney miningKentucky coal.From the very be-ginning of thisprocess, the ulti-mate objectivewas quite clear:creating a build-

ing that would tie their industry toone of our state’s proudest tradi-tions, UK basketball, while ignor-ing the history of exploitation of thecoalfields of Appalachia and theharmful environmental and healtheffects that come with burning coal.This summer, construction wascompleted on the Wildcat CoalLodge. It now sits proudly near thecorner of Avenue of Championsand Rose Street, and its lobbyserves as a monument, personallyapproved by Joe Craft, celebrating

the history of coal in Kentucky. Considering the many negative

impacts associated with mining andburning coal, it’s hardly surprisingthat industry officials work so dili-gently to paint a positive image ofcoal in Kentucky. The Natural Re-sources Defense Council, for exam-ple, recently released a study plac-ing Kentucky at No. 1 in the coun-try in pollution associated withcoal-fired power plants, pollutantsthat are, needless to say, quite toxicand harmful to the health of citizensall across the state. The universityeven has two coal-fired powerplants located on campus, both ofwhich are so old that they weregrandfathered in under the CleanAir Act and therefore don’t have tomeet EPA standards deemed safefor other parts of the country. Sowhile UK students breathe in pollu-tants such as mercury and arsenicon a daily basis, coal executivescontinue to lean on their close tieswith the university as a means oflending legitimacy to these destruc-tive practices and distracting fromthe many important issues sur-rounding the use of coal as our pri-mary energy source.

On the whole, coal is, quite sim-ply, bad for Kentucky. The environ-mental and health impacts are obvi-

ous, but even the traditional claimthat coal is a vital industry for thestate’s economy is dubious at best.Campaigns by industry groups suchas the Friends of Coal have longframed the issue as a choice betweenenvironmental protection and theeconomic gain. Not only does thislogic force communities in EasternKentucky to choose between finan-cial security and the safety and wellbeing of their families, it clouds overcoal’s real impact on our state. A re-cent study by the Mountain Associa-tion for Community and EconomicDevelopment found that the coal in-dustry’s prominent presence in thestate actually has a net negative im-pact of more than $114 million peryear on the Kentucky state budget.These practicesnot only destroymountains andharm the healthof our state’smost vulnerablecitizens, but theyalso end updraining awayresources fromareas that are among the poorest inthe country.

Many groups in the region,though, are working to reduce ourstate’s need to burn coal in order to

meet energy needs. Programs thatpromote increased energy efficiency,combined with investments in wind,solar and geothermal projects, couldhelp move our state away from theoverwhelming reliance on this dirtyfuel. If the $114 million being bledaway from Kentucky’s economyevery year were instead spent on re-newable energy investments, wecould be well on our way toward re-alizing the goal of a more balancedand sustainable energy future. Ken-tucky has more solar potential thanthe country of Germany, which re-newable energy subsidies havehelped make one of the top solar-producing countries in the world,and there are areas of Eastern Ken-tucky that have been shown to have

tremendous windpotential. UKhas already in-vested in geot-hermal technol-ogy for newdormitories be-ing built, a deci-sion that will re-duce campus en-

ergy needs in the coming years andserve as a model for forward-think-ing technologies that could be ap-plied across the state. All of thesewill be important elements in any re-

alistic plan to address Kentucky’s en-ergy needs in a rapidly changingworld.

The coal industry has had a pro-foundly negative impact on thelives of countless Kentucky citi-zens, and it is embarrassing that theflagship university of this greatstate continues to stand so closelyaligned with such companies. To-bacco and alcohol brands are strict-ly prohibited from sponsoring ath-letic events associated with the uni-versity, and yet the coal industrycontinues to exploit its ties with UKto promote its own interests and di-vert attention from the many nega-tive impacts it has on our state.

To show our frustration with theuniversity, we invite everyone tothe university’s free speech zone atnoon on Sept. 5 to participate in arally bringing attention to this im-portant issue and pushing for anend to the coal industry’s influenceat the University of Kentucky.Now is the time to show that wewill not accept the continued ex-ploitation of the people and moun-tains of Appalachia. Please join usin our efforts.

Sam Beavin is a chemistry juniorand co-coordinator of UK BeyondCoal. For more information, emailukbeyondcoal@gmail.com.

UK’s union with coal endorses exploitation

if you goWhat: UK Beyond Coal RallyWhen: Wednesday at 12 p.m.Where: University free speech zone

SAMBEAVIN

Guestcolumnist

Freshmen, welcome to the Universi-ty of Kentucky! You arrive on campus atan exciting time. Construction crews arechanging the face of the university, rais-ing new buildings, renovating current fa-cilities and developing green space.More importantly, you arrive during thisuniversity’s mission to achieve Top 20national status, with a renewed energy togrow enrollment, improve programs andattract top faculty and researchers.

Such ambitious plans, though, willsurely raise concerns, just as constructioncrews raise new buildings. We encourageyou to approach your Student Govern-ment and learn about its programs, thosethat ease transitions and enhance collegeexperiences. Learn how you can makeyour own mark on campus during thisperiod of change.

Get involved by joining organiza-tions or representing your peers as anelected senator. Enjoy the opportunitiesafforded to you through Student Govern-

ment programming such as safe, late-night transportation around Lexington,professional semester and summer paidinternships and complimentary legalcounsel to name a few.

Additionally, students interested inearly involvement and growing as a stu-dent and leader should apply for theLeadership Development Program(LDP), designed to connect freshmenwith upperclassmen leaders, faculty andstaff, and administrators. Individuals se-lected after the Sept. 5 application dead-line will experience how Wildcats excelin all endeavors throughout the Lexing-ton community — how ordinary individ-uals can catalyze extraordinary change.

Mary Katherine, the student repre-sentative on the Alumni Association’sBoard of Directors and I, a universitytrustee, are committed to total represen-tation and relaying your ideas and con-cerns to the appropriate bodies. We worktirelessly to address each student initia-tive and ensure the University works onbehalf of its students. To learn moreabout Student Government’s programs,please visit www.uksga.org, or share

your ideas with us in Room 120 of theStudent Center.

Go Cats!

Bilas and Kington: Welcome, UK freshmenBy Stephen Bilas

and Mary Katherine KingtonGuest columnists

PHOTO BY TESSA LIGHTY | STAFFStudent Government Vice PresidentMary Katherine Kington and PresidentStephen Bilas.

UK is a land-locked campus.And location becomes an important factor whenever the

university considers adding to existing programs or creat-ing new ones — where is there space for new buildings?

This question is central to UK’s proposed plan of ex-panding the College of Law building.

The expansion would mean demolition for two build-ings on South Limestone by the law school building thatmembers of the local community say have historic signifi-cance.

Before UK moves forward with the plans for the lawschool, it should stop and ask if the buildings that wouldbe torn down are worth saving.

An article from Thursday’s Kernel quoted John Rohrer,chairman of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Commis-sion and a graduate of UK College of Law, as saying heunderstands the need to expand the law school, but hewonders if UK understands the buildings significance.

“It’s more or less a request for UK to slow down, look atalternatives and give it more thought,” he said in the article.

But if after more thought, at a university that shouldwant to put its students’ best interests first, that means tear-ing down two buildings that “used to be important,” then atough decision might have to be made.

The value of historic landmarks should not be over-looked, but a university that only seeks to keep its everyconnection to the past can risk limiting its ability — andthat of its students — to grow.

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Maxwell Smith to senior tightend Tyler Robinson, doing itsbest to keep up with U of Lon the scoreboard.

But after kicking the ballback to the Cardinals, Smithand the offense watched theirteammates on defense allowback-to-back scoring drivesof 85 and 93 yards. With justmore than four minutes left inthe first half, the Cardinals’three possessions had resultedin 277 total yards and threetouchdowns.

“We’ve got a lot of workto do,” defensive coordinatorRick Minter said, just asbluntly as Phillips uttered hisstatement.

UK took its own chancesin the second half, openingthe half by recovering its ownonside kick. But that bonusdrive ended empty-handedfor the Cats, as Craig McIn-tosh pushed a 42-yard fieldgoal wide right, keeping thescore at 22-7. Later in thehalf, down 18 points, UK wasinside the Louisville 5-yardline, preparing to score atouchdown that would put

UK back within striking dis-tance.

Instead, senior tailbackCoShik Williams, who ran fora team-high 62 yards on theday, fumbled the ball on the3-yard line, ending UK’schances of scoring a touch-down and the game’s compet-itive life.

“We can’t be two for six(on trips inside the U of L 25-yard line) with missed fieldgoals, turnovers, those aremissed opportunities,”Phillips said. “We’re betterthan that.”

The Cats did have theirbright spots on the afternoon,especially on offense. An of-fense that seemingly failed toever gain traction a year agomoved the ball up and downthe field against a veteranLouisville defense.

Smith completed 35 ofhis 50 pass attempts for 280yards, two touchdowns andno turnovers. Of his 35 com-pletions, Smith was able toconnect with 11 different re-ceivers, including seniorLa’Rod King eight times andredshirt freshman DarylCollins seven times.

“I thought I played prettywell,” Smith said, “but I havelots of improvements I need

to make.”Collins, in his first colle-

giate game, had 64 yards re-ceiving on his seven catches,showing himself as a threatover the middle of the field aswell as on the outside inUK’s extensive screen game.

Phillips said Collinsplayed “like a veteran” in hisfirst live collegiate action,something Collins has made agoal of his since high school.

“In high school I was al-ways coached to play like aveteran,” Collins said, “so itjust carried on over to col-lege. As I go farther fromhere I’ll play like a veteran,too. It’s just something I do.”

But it was the defensethat allowed the Cardinals torack up 466 total yards of of-fense, 438 of which theygained in the first three quar-ters alone before Bridgewa-ter was removed from thegame. U of L finished thegame with an average of 6.5yards per play, down fromthe more than 8 yards perplay they were allowing onaverage for most of the after-noon.

Turnovers, a lack ofstops in critical situations,and wasted opportunities.Those are the kinds of plays

Phillips was referring towhen he said “we are betterthan that.”

UK’s next chance toshow how good it really is

will be Saturday at homeagainst the Kent State GoldenFlashes. But Phillips and histeam will be taking sometime to reflect on the loss to

Louisville first.“We have to make Ken-

tucky better before we thinkabout Kent State,” Phillipssaid.

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His dual-threat abilitystretched the field in an in-comparable manner.

Bridgewater opened thegame with several passes of15 or more yards, whichopened the run for two Car-dinal running backs, who inrecent weeks went unmen-tioned.

At game’s end, juniorsJeremy Wright and Sinorise

Perry rushed for a combined224 yards on 38 carries, 19more attempts than the Cats’entire team.

Allow me to take youback to media day on Aug. 3.

“The defensive lineshould be the strength of ourdefense,” said UK headcoach Joker Phillips. “Shouldbe the strength of our foot-ball team.”

Yeah, Joker, about that.Ball in hand after UK’s

eight-play opening drive, theCardinals rammed it down

the throat of the Cats’ de-fense — going almost the en-tire length of the footballfield, 99 yards, to score, be-fore padding on a two-pointconversion for an early 8-0lead.

“That’s the most intimi-dating thing you can do to adefense is run the ball downtheir throat when they can’tstop you,” Minter said.

Minter added that seeinghis defense give up not onlythat drive, but three othersgoing 85, 93 and 71 yards is

“demoralizing.”“Our offense did it to us

one day in practice. Maybethat was a forwarner ofthings to come. They went98 (yards) on us,” he said.

That 98-yard drive duringan Aug. 18 practice broughtan abundance of optimismfor Phillips because thatdrive was carried out pre-dominantly by his team’srunning backs — runningbacks that were rarely usedSunday.

Obviously since this sto-

ry has unfolded, and UK did-n’t carry the ball in greatquantities, the proverbialwool was pulled over ourfaces again. Maybe the Cats’altering success can be foundonly during summer days atthe Nutter Training Facility.

Trailing 22-7 at the half,Phillips’ optimism for his de-fense may have leftLouisville, along with theremnants of Hurricane Isaac,as the Cats opened the sec-ond half with an onside kick.

Later, freshman punter

Landon Foster dove into thedepths of the red sea whenhe attempted a fake punt.

Risks like this were ex-pected. But not as result oftrying to compensate for anunderachieving defense.

Now, the Cats can im-prove — this is only onegame — but to take a stepforward from last season,they need to reflect the im-provements of their offense.

After all, isn’t watered-down lemonade better thanno lemonade at all?

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tuesday 09.04.12 page 4kernelsportsdavid schuh | sports editor | dschuh@kykernel.com

PHOTO BY TESSA LIGHTY | STAFFSenior tailback CoShik Williams is tackled in the second half of Sunday’s game. UK was down 22-7 athalftime, and a Williams fumble on the 3-yard in the second half line ended the game’s competitive life.

PHOTO BY JAMES HOLT | STAFFSophomore defender Arin Gilliland runs toward Southeast Missouri’s Nikki Edwards during Sunday’s game. UK beat SEMO 1-0 in addition to beating UNC-Greensboro 2-0 on Friday.

After pulling out a 2-0victory over UNC-Greens-boro on Friday, UK continuedits undefeated season by beat-ing Southeast Missouri 1-0on Sunday.

The game marked the fi-nal game of the UK TropicalSmoothie Invitational and

was played through constantrain. The one and only goalcame from UK senior for-ward Natalie Horner nineminutes into the second half.

SEMO started the firsthalf with the midfield kick-off but quickly lost posses-sion to UK and did not regainit until momentarily late inthe first half and for longer inthe second half.

The Cats came out ag-gressively and picked up twocorner kicks in the first twominutes. This set the offen-sive pace for UK throughmost of the rest of the half,but the Cats did not giveSEMO keeper Ashton Aubu-chon much to do.

Set pieces came regular-ly for UK and some sneaky,low shots by senior AlyssaTelang and junior AshleyVanLandingham nearedgoal, but both missed wideleft.

Toward the end of the

half, some sloppy passing byUK put SEMO in control ofthe ball as the 45-minutemark approached.

The second half beganwith UK attacking like in thefirst, and the Cats again gotseveral set pieces in the firstfew minutes. It was 10 min-utes before a corner kickfrom junior Danielle Krohnfound Horner in the back ofthe goal to put UK up 1-0.The Cats totaled eight cornerkicks in the second half, 11on the game.

With about 15 minutes

left in the game, SEMO be-gan to put together somestrong offensive drives, butUK sophomore goalie KaylaPrice along with her backline of VanLandingham,Telang, Horner and sopho-more Arin Gilliland, wereable to fend off any signifi-cant threats on their owngoal.

The Cats’ defense hasconceded one goal this sea-son, and they put that one inthemselves.

UK head coach Jon Lip-sitz said of his defense this

weekend: “I think we reallycame together.” He said earli-er in the season that the de-fense was playing well indi-vidually but needed to be a“team within a team.”

Though UK won both ofits games in the invitational,Louisville was the overallchampion with a greater goaldifferential.

The Cats travel toLouisville next weekend totake on the Cards for the firstgame of the Cardinal Classic.The match will begin at 7:30p.m. Friday.

2 wins keep women’s soccer undefeatedUK beats UNC-Greensboro,

Southeast Missouri in invitationalBy Boyd Hayes

bhayes@kykernel.com