USC football Spring Camp notes: Defense makes necessary strides (4/11)

USC football’s penultimate practice of Spring Camp featured a defensive victory, while Clancy Pendergast explained how his unit has shown what he hoped it would.

Defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast has seen what he wanted to see from his new USC football defense this Spring Camp.

“I wanted to see good technique, improvement at all three levels of the defense,” Pendergast said after the Trojans’ 14th practice on Thursday.

All three levels of the defense have hit the right notes for the defensive coordinator so far.

“I wanted to see the defensive line play with a consistent stance, to play with good hand placement and move their feet on contact and then be disruptive versus the pass,”…