DETROIT (2/24/2017) -- The Titans will continue its busy February schedule with a trip to Robert Morris on Saturday, Feb. 25.
Game time is set for 11 a.m., at Joe Walton Stadium on the campus of Robert Morris.
It will be the Titans fifth game in 14 days with three of those on the road.
Detroit Mercy is coming off its first win of the season as the red, white and blue scored two goals in the final five minutes in a come-from-behind 12-11 victory over Jacksonville on Thursday at Ultimate Soccer Arenas.
The offense saw seven people score goals, the second time in four games that at least seven Titans have notched a marker in the game. Detroit Mercy tallied double-digit goals for the second time this season against the Dolphins after not posting more than nine goals in any game last year.
Sophomore
Matthew Vangalen is off to a great start on offense with 15 points in the first four games on eight goals and seven assists. His 3.75 points per game is putting him on pace to break the school record for points, held by
Shayne Adams who tallied 49 points on 42 goals and seven assists in 2014.
Senior
Kyle Beauregard and juniors
Sean Birney and
Alec Gilhooly have also made a major impact on offense with seven goals apiece. Beauregard is just two goals and three points away from his career mark of 11 points and nine goals that he had in 2015. Birney has already tied his career best in goals and Gilhooly is on pace to break his career mark of 12 goals and 18 points from a year ago.
Senior
Jason Weber has made double-digit saves in all four games this season and has now posted double-digit stops in 35 of his 41 career games. He is also 49 saves away from the school's all-time record, held by
Jason Weber, who registered 609 from 2010-13.
Robert Morris comes into the game at 2-1 on the season with wins at home versus Bellarmine (10-8) and on the road at Manhattan (18-8), while also falling on the road to No. 15/14 Penn State (15-11).
There will be live stats and live video for this contest.
ALL-TIME VS. ROBERT MORRIS
The Titans are 1-5 all-time against Robert Morris, but the one win was the last time the two teams hooked up as
Kyle Beauregard tallied a hat trick, including the winning score in overtime in an 11-10 triumph at Ultimate Soccer Arenas in 2015.
Prior to that, RMU had won the first five games with four of those taking place on its home field. The other game that the Titans hosted also went into overtime as the Colonials won 14-13 at Titan Field in 2011.
AGAINST THE NEC
Detroit Mercy is 3-9 all-time against current members of the Northeast Conference with records of 1-5 against Robert Morris, 2-0 versus Wagner, 0-2 against Mount St. Mary's and 0-1 versus St. Joseph's and Bryant.
