Written by Carly Kester<\/p>\n
With spring under way, the Harding University lacrosse team has started off its season with six new players, two wins and five losses, and no coach.<\/p>\n
The new players, all of whom are freshmen, are attacker Nathan Carpenter, midfielders Chris Stalcup, Ian Thompson, Brian Vogl, Kyle Weiland and goalie Jonathan Wood.<\/p>\n
Since January, the Bisons have won against Tulane (10-6) and Oklahoma StateUniversity (11-10), and lost to Centenary College (12- 11), University of Oklahoma (14-6), Washington-St. Louis (18-6), University of Arkansas (16-15) and Missouri S&T (16-10).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This has been a rough season in more ways than one. The lacrosse team has been competing this season without a head coach because former coach Chris Hamilton accepted a teaching job in China last fall, according to senior Ryan Ishmael, a captain of the lacrosse team.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“Basically, me, John [Dunlop] and Zach Morgan have been coaching; planning practices and all that,” Ishmael said.”We don’t have a real coach, so it’s kind of hard to get stuff together, especially with new players.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Senior midfielder Spencer Broom said that the team is still persevering despite not having a head coach and not getting the number of recruits it had hoped for.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“We’re doing pretty goodfor not having a coach; [the team is] completely player run,” Broom said. “We didn’t get as many new people as we were expecting so that didn’t really help out, but it hasn’t deterred us from playing.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ishmael said the team is also trying a new offensive strategy: isolation-based rather than set-based.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“Basically the strategy is to utilize the athletic talent we have and attack to win one-on-one matchups with our opposing defenders,” Ishmael said.<\/p>\n
Junior and captain Zach Morgan said that the team is also trying to concentrate on accuracy and simplicity.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“We’re focusing on little things like keeping plays simple, trying to get everything right and not being too fancy in what we do,” Morgan said.<\/p>\n
The lacrosse team’s next game will be Saturday, March 26, at 2 p.m. against Sam Houston State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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