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I find it very frustrating that throughout the past couple of months, statements are being made without accurate information. As a player, I can set the record straight by saying that the coach extended his hand to every player, however a few of the girls retracted their hands instead. That is absolutely their right. I know I have been angered at the end of matches and done the same thing, however I do not condone this poor sportsmanship and work to make sure I make contact with each player. In regards to fans... only about 7 of the players themselves entered this area simply to shorten the distance to the field. Our assitant coach was given access to the gate to allow players into the playing area. As you can obviously see, as well, in the comment by Wayne Quinlan it was the boys soccer team and the players themselves that entered through that gate.

Through an unreal, saddening, and difficult situation, the Dutch Fork Women's Soccer team is working very hard to always show the utmost class and maturity. Each and every one of the players finds it extremely frustrating to view comments that derive from incorrect information and a desire to take shots at the team. Although frustrating, we WILL continue to thoroughly enjoy our season and we WILL continue to handle ourselves with extremely high class and sportsmanship. We look forward to the remainder of our season and hope that we can continue to show as much kindness and sportsmanship as possible to our upcoming opponents. Let's keep the sport we know as soccer the beautiful, classy game it truly is.

The above post shows that a high school student's comments can be more classy, use better English and state her point far better than many of the adults that use this forum.

Joe,

You don't me and I don't know you. I do know and respect BOR. I asked in my reply to his post for the rest of the story. Did Coach Bo not shake hands with former DF player? Are you refuting BOR?

I do appreciate DF13's response. It is a good thing that the DF Girls are trying to do the right thing.

I am not trying to take shots. I stated if the not shaking hands is true, then I do feel that the SCHSL penalty might be worth it.

Just to clear things up once and for all:
All of the accusations or so called "criticism" made by BOR are false. Our coach offered his hand to everyone and some of the Irmo girls actually refused to shake his hand. That is their right, so we are holding nothing against them.
And as for the gate situation, our assistant coach did open the gate as we arrived just before 5 o'clock for the game. This was, as DF13 said, purely to give us a shortcut to keep us from having to walk all the way up and around the stadium to our side of the field. And I can tell you that I saw him open the gate and that I was the very last player in the gate and watched our coach lock the gate back. There were about 5 or 6 players that were let through the gate and that was it.
We know who made these accusations and do not appreciate it, we believe it more of a personal accusation, especially because of the relationship that that person has to the Irmo team and the school. It was a childish accusation and was for the soul purpose to try to take a "hit" at our coach and our program. Once again it will NOT work. So, once again lets please drop this situation. Let everyone have a great rest of the season with no more childish accusations.