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Addison Lutes uses a swim move to get by a Georgia defender.<\/p>\n
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Sophomore defenseman Matt Paquin thinks the team\u2019s success this year is because of how the team has bonded.<\/p>\n
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Senior defenseman Alex Wenzel says senior leadership has helped a lot of the younger players on the team grow on and off the field.<\/p>\n
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Matt Paquin comes in to play defense against Georgia back on February 3.<\/p>\n
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Alex Wenzel cradles the ball in front of a Georgia defender; the Gamecocks would go on to win the game, 12-5.<\/p>\n
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The University of South Carolina men\u2019s club lacrosse team has had a very successful season so far, winning all nine of its games,<\/strong>\u00a0including many on the road.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s just been a new team culture,\u201d Matt Paquin, a sophomore defenseman on the team, said. \u201cI think every year when you have new team leadership and guys spending a lot more time together, as well as just how hard we work day in day out at practice, it tends to lead to good work ethic in general.\u201d<\/p>\n Alex Wenzel, a senior defenseman on the team, credits good teamwork to the club\u2019s success this year.<\/p>\n \u201cOverall, it\u2019s the team chemistry we have,\u201d Wenzel said. \u201cI think it\u2019s at a whole other level this year than it has been in the past. We hang out a lot more off the field.\u201d<\/p>\n The team is very senior-heavy this year, which gives a lot of the more inexperienced players someone to look up to.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have 13 seniors on the roster and I think having them all have a strong mental game, that trickles down all the way to the freshmen,\u201d Wenzel said.<\/p>\n The team still has a lot of important games left this season.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have some good divisional games still left on our schedule,\u201d Paquin said. “<\/strong>We haven\u2019t played anyone but Elon that\u2019s in our division. And those games, if we don\u2019t win the right ones, directly lead to us not going to the playoffs, which kicked us out last year with losses to NC State and Clemson.\u201d<\/p>\n The Gamecocks play Clemson and NC State again this year in Columbia, while its other three remaining games include contests with George Washington University, Virginia Tech and Pittsburgh<\/span><\/span> all in Blacksburg, Virginia. The team is familiar with and does well on road trips, beating Southern Methodist University, Texas State and Texas Tech in Dallas while also<\/span><\/span> beating Florida and Florida State at their respective universities.<\/p>\n \u201cIt can be fun,\u201d Paquin said. \u201cYou\u2019re on a plane, you\u2019re with the guys all the time, you\u2019re all wearing the same clothes, everyone sees that you\u2019re Carolina Lacrosse.\u201d<\/p>\n However, there are downsides to being on the road.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s difficult for schoolwork because we are club, the school doesn\u2019t really recognize it as much,\u201d Paquin said. \u201cSo, there\u2019s a lot more communication that happens between professors and you.\u201d<\/p>\n The team\u2019s next game is on March 24 against NC State at the Bluff Road Fields.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” prev_background_color=”#000000″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The USC men’s club lacrosse team has won all eight of its games this year, with a majority of those victories coming on the road. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":5543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5809,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions\/5809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}