Student sections are usually pretty hectic, especially at away football games where there isn’t as much room as would be in the home stands.  Students are pushing and shoving in order to get closer to the railing to see the action up close.  At the Har-Ber versus Bentonville game on September 27^th, things got more than just “pretty hectic” when a Bentonville student who had found her way into the Har-Ber student section bit down on the arm of senior Douglas Matthews.

“Everybody was shoving everyone, trying to get a better spot at the railing,” recalls Matthews.  “There was this girl next to me from Bentonville and I guess she got mad and just…bit my arm really hard.  It actually started bleeding.”  Matthews later uploaded a picture of the bite mark to his Instagram page, eliciting questions from fellow students as to what exactly a Bentonville student was doing in our student section in the first place.

“I didn’t even know she was from Bentonville until after the game,” Matthews admits.  “I thought I recognized her from school.  If I’d known she was from Bentonville, I would have done something about it.”  The Bentonville student was reportedly visiting with a friend in the student section in Har-Ber.

Student sections are crowded anyways, without the contribution of students from the opposing team joining the section as well.  “There wasn’t much room to begin with,” states senior Emily Kate Davis.  “And this group of girls came up and started shoving everybody around trying to get a better view.” Har-Ber students are not allowed in Bentonville’s student section, and they shouldn’t be allowed in our student section.

Now that all has past, it is easy for those involved to laugh and joke about the occurrence now.  “I was kinda scared that maybe she had rabies,” jokes Matthews.  “I just kinda cleaned it off though and just went on with my life.”