DETROIT (4/14/2016) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team returns home for a pair of Atlantic Sun games this weekend, hosting Florida rivals Stetson and Jacksonville from Titan Field on Friday and Sunday. Detroit begins the weekend with a 3 p.m. Friday contest with the Hatters. The game is set to be streamed live on ESPN3.com and the Watch ESPN Application.

Detroit (6-5 overall) is 1-1 in Atlantic Sun play through two games this season. Four of Detroit's final six regular-season games are at home against A-Sun opponents. The Titans are 5-0 all-time against Stetson (5-8, 1-3 A-Sun), earning two victories over the Hatters last season.

The Titans are looking for their first-ever victory over Jacksonville (9-4, 4-0 A-Sun), who is first in the Atlantic Sun standings. Detroit has matched up with the Dolphins in the past three Atlantic Sun Championship games.
 

Games 12 & 13 - Detroit (6-5, 1-1) vs. Stetson (5-8, 1-3) & Jacksonville (9-4, 4-0)
Dates	Friday, April 15, 2016  |  3 p.m. ET
	Sunday, April 17, 2016  |  12 p.m. ET
Location	Detroit, Mich.  |  Titan Field
Tickets	Admission is FREE
Live Stats	DetroitTitans.com
Live Stream	Friday: ESPN3  |  Sunday: ESPN3
Social Media	Twitter (In-game tweets): @DetroitTitans | @DetroitWL | Facebook Instagram | Tweet #DetroitsCollegeTeam
All-Time Series	Detroit leads Stetson, 5-0  |  Last Meeting: Detroit 12, Stetson 7 on April 29, 2015
	Jacksonville leads, 8-0  |  Last Meeting: JU 15, Detroit 5 on May 3, 2015

Scouting Stetson
The Hatters are 1-3 in conference play and 5-8 overall on the season. Stetson is 1-4 in road games. The Hatters have fallen in some close contests during league play, losing two one-goal games to Kennesaw State and Mercer, while also falling 13-9 to Old Dominion. Stetson's lone conference win was 18-5 over Howard.

Hallie Merz leads the Hatters in scoring with 27 goals and 43 points. Lindsay Summers is the team leader and the A-Sun leader in assists with 28 and is one point behind Merz with 42 points. Shelby Lehmann has nine goals and 13 assists for 22 points for the Hatters. Maddie Holvey leads the squad with 24 draw controls, while Quinn Roe leads all Stetson field players with 21 ground balls.

In net, Whitney Meyers has 111 total saves (second in the league) and sports a 41.1 save percentage and 12.73 goals against average.

Scouting Jacksonville
The Dolphins are on a five-game win streak, including four straight in conference play, entering Friday's game at Central Michigan. Jacksonville has never lost an Atlantic Sun contest in its four years in the conference. JU is 3-1 in conference road games entering Friday's contest against the Chippewas.

Jacksonville leads the conference with 14.92 goals per game and also fewest goals allowed per game at 7.13. Danielle Della Rocca leads the team with 31 goals and 45 total points. Rachel Aus is the team leader in assists with 17 and has 33 points, while Jaime Chapman (23 goals, 9 assists) and Taylor McCord (21 goals, 10 assists) also have more than 30 points for JU. Caitlin McMahon has 32 draw controls, while Kristin Ridenour leads the squad with 29 ground balls.

In goal, Kaylyn Kearns is second in the league with a 46.2 save percentage and first with a 7.82 goals against average.

All-Time Series
The Titans are 5-0 all-time against Stetson, which includes two wins over the Hatters during the 2015 season. Detroit earned a 13-12 win over the Hatters during the regular season last year before topping Stetson 12-7 in the Atlantic Sun Championship quarterfinals in Jacksonville on April 29, 2015. Kylie Birney had a hat trick in the A-Sun quarterfinal, while Detroit had a 33-20 shot advantage over the Hatters.

Detroit and Jacksonville have met in all three Atlantic Sun Championship games and the Titans trailed JU just 5-3 at halftime of the A-Sun title game last season before the Dolphins scored 10 goals in the second half on their way to a 15-5 win over Detroit. The Titans are 0-8 against Jacksonville all-time.

Atlantic Sun Ranks
Freshman Kaitlyn Wandelt, a two-time A-Sun Player of the Week this season, ranks in the top five in the conference in several categories. She is first in draw controls (43), caused turnovers (21) and free position goals (10), while ranking second in goals (32) and fifth in points (38). She is also tied for the conference lead with 11 draw controls in league-only games even though Detroit has only played in two. She is also tied for 12th with teammate Allison McDonough in ground balls (25). Senior defender Ally Shrader is tied for 16th in ground balls with 24.

Freshman Lexie Kinmond is tied for 10th in the league in both assists (11) and points (31). Classmate Morgan Girardi is tied for 10th in the conference in goals with 22, while Kinmond is tied for 14th in goals with 20. Kinmond and senior Kylie Birney rank third in the A-Sun in free position goals with eight each.

Goalkeeper Allison McDonough ranks fourth in goals against average (11.04), fifth in total saves (75) and sixth in save percentage (39.5) in the league.

Wandelt Earns Second Atlantic Sun Player of the Week Honor
For the second time this season, freshman midfielder Kaitlyn Wandelt was selected as the Atlantic Sun Women's Lacrosse Player of the Week on April 5.

Wandelt joined former Titan standout Zaynib Hamze as the only Detroit player to earn the Atlantic Sun's Player of the Week accolade twice in the same season. Detroit earned an A-Sun weekly award for three-straight weeks as Wandelt was named Player of the Week on March 22 and classmate Allison McDonough was the recipient of the Atlantic Sun Defensive Player of the Week on March 29.

Wandelt helped lead the Titans to a 2-0 week with victories over Central Michigan and Mount St. Mary's. The midfielder filled up the stat sheet in Detroit's 13-8 win over CMU with five goals, six draw controls, four caused turnovers and four ground balls and converted on four free-position goals against the Chippewas. She added four goals and one assist, while adding four draw controls against Mount St. Mary's.

Birney Reaches 100 Goal Plateau
Senior midfielder Kylie Birney scored her 100th collegiate goal in Detroit's 10-9 win over Mount St. Mary's on April 3. She became the fourth Detroit women's lacrosse player to reach the century mark when she gets to 100 career markers and first since Corina Mahorn in 2012. Birney is 10 goals shy of Mahorn (110 career goals) on the list. Emily Boissonneault holds the all-time school record for goals with 242.

Birney is fourth on the squad with 18 goals this season and led the Titans in goals last season with 38 markers and is a two-time All-Atlantic Sun First Team honoree. The three-year co-captain and 2015 Atlantic Sun Scholar-Athlete of the Year has 15 career hat tricks.

In the Record Books
Wandelt is just nine draw controls shy of the single-season record of 52, held by former Titan standout Zaynib Hamze and set in 2013. Wandelt's 21 caused turnovers is also in the top 10 in single-season history. The record for CT in one season is 46 by Emily Boissonneault in 2010. Wandelt's 10 free position goals is also in the top 10. The single-season record is 17 by Boissonneault in 2012.

Lexie Kinmond's 11 helpers is tied for eighth on the all-time list. Tessa Keuler's 33 assists last season is the all-time record for a single-season.

Freshman Standouts
The Titans' leading goal scorer 11 games into the season is freshman Kaitlyn Wandelt, who has team-highs of 32 goals and 38 points. She has scored 21 goals in her last five games. Wandelt has the most goals for a Titan freshman since Emily Boissonneault (57 goals) and Anna Eidem (37 goals) each tallied more than 30 in their rookie seasons in the inaugural women's lacrosse season in 2009.

Classmates Lexie Kinmond (20 goals, 11 assists) and Morgan Girardi (22 goals, 5 assists) rank second and third on the team in points. Combined, the trio have 74 goals and 96 points, while all three have started all 11 games. Girardi has four hat tricks this season, totaling a season-high five points vs. Oregon. Kinmond has scored in every game and had her first career hat trick at Radford with five goals. Wandelt also leads the team in draw controls with 43 and caused turnovers with 21.

Detroit freshmen have accounted for 77 of the 126 goals this season (61.1 percent). Five of the six freshman field players have scored goals this season for the Titans, with Emma Leszczak and Ali Magyaros each picking up their first markers against Delaware State. Alex McCafferty has started four games on the defensive for Detroit and corralled two ground balls in her first collegiate start vs. VCU.

In goal, rookie netminder Allison McDonough has started all 11 games for the Titans and earned the A-Sun Defensive Player of the Week honor on March 29 after turning away 12 shots vs. Robert Morris. She has 75 saves total this season and has stopped 39.5 percent of shots to go along with a 11.04 goals against average.

Up Next
Detroit returns to the road next weekend, traveling to Georgia for its final regular-season road contests. The Titans visit Mercer and Kennesaw State on Friday, April 22 and Sunday, April 24, respectively. KSU is also the site of the Atlantic Sun Championships this season.