He wants to put episode behind him

While watching USC hockey goalie Mickey Meyer do everything but stand on his head in a game against Brigham Young on Saturday, fans at Eccles Ice Center in North Logan, Utah, must have thought, “They play this game differently in SoCal.”

With play stopped during the third period as referees tried to sort out penalties, Meyer sort of lost it. He began riding his hockey stick like a horse. Then he dropped his pants, mooned the crowd and slapped his buttocks.

“I had my fill of these refs,” Meyer said on an Internet broadcast of the game, according to the Logan Herald-Journal.

Meyer was ejected and charged with lewdness, a misdemeanor, after an officer working security at the game said he witnessed the incident.

Judging from an Associated Press report of the episode, it seems unlikely charges will be pressed.

Prosecutor Scott Wyatt laughed when told about Meyer’s wild ride.

North Park police Sgt. John Italasano told the AP, “This is a small town. This is a college hockey team and hockey’s a wild game. Sometimes things get out of hand.”

Too bad Joe Buck

didn’t call this one

USC volunteer hockey coach Mark Wilbur placed some of the blame for the incident on the Trojans’ having to play a consolation game far from home the morning after a 3-1 Friday night loss to Utah State.

“All you’re doing is asking for seniors to do stupid stuff,” he said.

The AP report included a sentence not often seen in hockey wire stories: “Wilbur said he had no specific policy for dealing with publicly bared bottoms.”

Trivia time

Where does USC’s hockey team, which is a club team, play its home games?

Where’s

Gary Pettis?

Responding to Wednesday’s item about Rawlings’ 50-man all-time Gold Glove ballot, reader Vance Hickin of Los Angeles writes that anyone who believes Devon White or Jim Edmonds played a better center field than former Angel Gary Pettis “either doesn’t remember that far back or is injecting offensive bias into a defensive question.

“Pettis won five Gold Gloves in six years between 1985 and 1990, and his amazing speed and instincts made so many plays look easy, his highlight reel only suffered for it.... For every remarkable grab there were 10 others where Pettis was standing where others would have been diving for the ball.”

Hickin concludes, “Too bad there’s no write-in option because even though he swung like a rusty gate and struck out a lot, Pettis is undeniably the best center fielder I’ve seen in 25-plus years of watching baseball.”

And Pettis was about to be named most valuable player of the 1986 American League championship series before the ceremony was interrupted and altered forever by Boston’s Dave Henderson.

Tonto says, ‘Bull’

For those wondering just how deluded Scottie Pippen might be about making an NBA comeback at 41, here’s a clue.

“I think people love me just as much as they love Michael [Jordan],” Pippen said. “The fans who understand the game -- the GMs and coaches -- I think they’d rather have a Scottie than a Michael.”

Capt. Kirk to Scottie: Hollywood makes sequels about the Lone Ranger. Nobody’s interested in a Tonto sequel.

Trivia answer

Anaheim Ice, the Ducks’ practice rink.

And finally

David Letterman, on why he did not attend the Westminster Dog Show: “If I want to see something roll over and play dead at the Garden, I’ll go see the Knicks.”

mike.penner@latimes.com