DETROIT (3/30/2017) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team closes its four-game homestand this weekend, hosting ASUN foes Furman and Coastal Carolina at Titan Field for a pair of contests on Friday and Sunday. Both games may be seen on ESPN3.com and the WatchESPN Applications and admission into both contests is free.

Detroit Mercy's game Friday against Furman is set for 3 p.m. ET, while the contest on Sunday against league-newcomer Coastal Carolina is slated for a 12 p.m. start. Sunday's game is also Detroit Mercy's All Cancer Awareness game with proceeds from the game going towards Gilda's Club, a local cancer support organization.
 

Games 10 & 11  |  Detroit Mercy (2-7, 0-2 ASUN) vs. Furman & Coastal Carolina
Dates / Times	Friday, March 31 - 3 PM  // Sunday, April 2 - 12 PM
Location	Detroit, Mich. (Titan Field)
Live Stats	DetroitTitans.com
Live Stream / TV	Friday: ESPN3  //  Sunday: ESPN3
Social Media	Twitter (In-game tweets): @DetroitTitans  |  @DetroitWL  |  Facebook     Instagram  |  Tweet #DetroitsCollegeTeam
All-Time Series	Tied with Furman, 1-1  |  Last Meeting: Furman 14, Titans 12 (4/10/16)
	Titans trail, 0-1  |  Last Meeting: Coastal Carolina 14, Titans 13 (3/22/13)

Titan News & Notes
• Sophomore attack Lexie Kinmond is just three points shy of 100 in her Titan career. She leads the team with 33 points this season.
• Detroit Mercy is 13-7 at home in the past three seasons (2015-2017), which includes a 2-3 mark this year.
• The Titans rank second in the ASUN in free-position goals with 25 on the season. Detroit Mercy led the league last year in FPG.
• Sophomore goalkeeper Allison McDonough currently leads the ASUN and ranks sixth in the nation in saves (98), while also ranking eighth in the NCAA in saves per game (10.89). She has started all 29 games in her Titan career and has played every minute in net this season.
• Detroit Mercy is tied for third in the ASUN entering this weekend's games with 110 draw controls. Six different players have double-digit draw controls this season for the Titans, led by Morgan Girardi's 20 DC.
• Junior defender Lauren Webley is the team leader in ground balls (27) and caused turnovers (14). Webley ranks sixth in the ASUN in ground balls.
• Sophomore midfielder Morgan Girardi leads the team with 23 goals. She has multiple goals in seven of nine games this season.
• Junior attack Jordyn Beam has established a new career-high in goals for a season with 15 on the year. She has 14 goals as a freshman and nine last season.
• Five Titans have scored double-figure goals this season: Girardi (23), Kinmond (18), Pritchard (17), Jordyn Beam (15) and Kaitlyn Wandelt (12).
• Senior Kelsi Pritchard has scored 10 goals for the fourth time in her career. She has 89 points (70g, 19a) entering Friday's game, 11 shy of the 100-point plateau.
• Junior Emma Mucci has moved into the top 10 all-time in career draw controls (73). She ranks ninth all-time.
• Webley has moved into a tie for seventh in career caused turnovers with 44 and is tied with former teammate Morgan Lear.
• Detroit Mercy plays six of its next seven games on the road away from Titan Field to close out the ASUN schedule.
• The Titan captains in 2017 are senior Kelsi Pritchard and juniors Emma Mucci and Lauren Webley.

Scouting Furman
Furman is 4-4 and 0-1 in the ASUN Conference entering Friday's game against the Titans. The Paladins are in their third year of women's lacrosse and have played all three seasons in the ASUN. Furman is 1-2 away from its home field in 2017 and have losses on the season to Duke, Vanderbilt, John Hopkins and most recently to Coastal Carolina by a 15-8 margin in their conference opener.

Abby Shields leads Furman with 31 points (17 goals, 14 assists), while Paige Gamble ranks second on the squad in goals (16), assists (9) and points (25). Gamble also leads the squad with 30 draw controls on the season through eight games. Samantha Eckles is the team's leader in ground balls (14) and caused turnovers (12). Devon Horine ranks second on the team with 16 draw controls and has nine goals for the Paladins.

In goal, Maggie Friel has started all eight games for Furman and holds a 13.32 goals against average and 37.2 save percentage. Courtney Baker has played in five games in goal for the Paladins and has a 41.9 save percentage and 7.85 goals against average.

Scouting Coastal Carolina
The Chanticleers are in their fifth season of women's lacrosse having started in 2013. Coastal Carolina is 4-4 and 1-0 in the ASUN Conference entering Friday's game against Central Michigan. Coastal Carolina has a 3-1 record on the road this season only falling at No. 19-ranked Elon on March 24. They won their first ASUN Conference game, defeating Furman by a 15-8 margin on the road.

Coastal Carolina has seven players with 12 or more points on the season, led by Sophie Crowther with 25 points (17 goals, eight assists). Keri White ranks second on the squad with 15 goals, while Maggie Carr leads the team with 16 assists entering this weekend's games. Crowther has scored 11 of her 17 goals by free-position opportunities. Haley Alexander has a team-high 25 draw controls, while Crowther leads the team with 10 caused turnovers.

In net, Harley Barrett has received six of eight starts, but played in all eight games for the Chanticleers. She has a 49.2 save percentage and 10.53 goals against average to go along with 62 saves. As a team, Coastal Carolina holds a 10.25 goals against average, which ranks third in the ASUN Conference.

All-Time Series
Detroit Mercy and Furman have met two times previously, splitting the two games with each of them in the past two seasons in league play. The Titans took the first game over Furman 9-7 at home in 2015 before dropping a 14-12 affair at Furman last season.

The Titans and Coastal Carolina are meeting for the second time, but first time as league opponents. Detroit Mercy fell by one goal on the road, 14-13, during the Chanticleers inaugural season of women's lacrosse on March 22, 2013. It's the first game between the two schools from Titan Field.

New Year, New Us
The Titans opened their ninth season of women's lacrosse last fall with a new head coach and assistant coach, but neither are new to the Titan sidelines. First-year head coach Laurie Merian is in her third year on the coaching staff having spent the past two seasons as the assistant coach for Detroit Mercy. Her assistant, Megan Callahan '13, was a four-year letter-winner for the Titans, having played from 2010-13.

Merian helped coach the Titans to new heights in her two seasons on the staff -- with Detroit Mercy notching its first two winning seasons in program history, setting school records with 10 wins in 2015 and 12 triumphs last year. The Titans made the ASUN Championship game in both seasons and upset No. 1 Jacksonville in last year's tournament semifinals, handing the Dolphins their first women's lacrosse loss in conference history. It's Merian's second gig as a head coach after she started the program at Division III Alma College and led the Scots to 34 wins over three seasons, including an MIAA Championship game appearance.

A longtime Titan, Callahan started all 73 games at midfield during her Detroit Mercy career from 2010-13. She finished her career sixth all-time in draw controls in school history. Prior to her appointment as a Titan assistant coach, Callahan spent three seasons as the varsity girls lacrosse coach at nearby West Bloomfield High School, while also serving as the school's Student-Athlete Welfare Assistant within the athletic department.

Wandelt Named Preseason Player of the Year
Sophomore midfielder Kaitlyn Wandelt was voted the ASUN Women's Lacrosse Preseason Player of the Year and classmate Lexie Kinmond also earned Preseason All-League honors with the league office releasing the preseason awards on Jan. 27.

The Titans were picked to finish fifth out of 11 teams in the preseason poll, voted on by the league's head coaches. Detroit Mercy, the only ASUN team to reach all four championship games in the history of ASUN women's lacrosse, earned 82 total points, just two points out of third place. Jacksonville was selected to finish first in the poll with 111 points.

Up Next
The Titans return to the road next weekend, making a trip to Florida for conference games on Friday, April 7 and Sunday, April 9 against Jacksonville and Stetson, respectively. Friday's game at Jacksonville is set for 7 p.m. while Sunday's game is an 11 a.m. contest against the Hatters from Deland, Fla. The road games kick off a stretch where Detroit Mercy plays six of seven away from Detroit.