DETROIT (4/5/2017) -- After a four-game home stand, the University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team is back on the road this weekend, making the trek to Florida to visit ASUN foes Jacksonville and Stetson on Friday and Sunday, respectively. It's the start of a stretch in which the Titans play six of seven away from Detroit to cap off the regular season.

Friday's game against Jacksonville has been moved up from a 7 p.m. start time to 5 p.m. ET. The contest is set for an ESPN3 broadcast from D.B. Milne Field in Jacksonville. Sunday's meeting with Stetson is set for a noon start and may also be seen via live stream on Stetson's website.
 

Games 12 & 13  |  Detroit Mercy (2-9, 0-4 ASUN) vs. Jacksonville & Stetson
Dates / Times	Friday, April 7 - 5 PM  // Sunday, April 9 - 12 PM
Locations	Jacksonville, Fla. // Deland, Fla.
Live Stats	DetroitTitans.com: Friday  //  Sunday
Live Stream / TV	Friday: ESPN3  //  Sunday: Hatter Vision
Social Media	Twitter (In-game tweets): @DetroitTitans  |  @DetroitWL  |  Facebook     Instagram  |  Tweet #DetroitsCollegeTeam
All-Time Series	Titans trail, 1-12  //  Last Meeting: Titans 9, Jacksonville 8 (5/6/16)
	Titans lead, 6-0  |  Last Meeting: Titans 16, Stetson 6 (4/15/16)

Titan News & Notes
• Sophomore attack Lexie Kinmond became the eighth Titan in program history with 100 career points, surpassing the mark in Detroit Mercy's last game against Coastal Carolina. She has 102 career points in just 31 career contests. She leads the team with 38 points in 2017.
• Senior midfielder Kelsi Pritchard is just five points away (95) from 100 career points. She established a new career-high for goals in a season following three goals against Coastal Carolina. She is tied for the team-lead with 23 goals this season.
• Sophomore GK Allison McDonough has started all 31 games in her career and has played in every minute possible during this 2017 season. She leads the ASUN and ranks seventh in the NCAA with 114 total saves. She is making 10.36 saves per game, second in the league.
• The Titans are tied-for-fifth in the ASUN with Jacksonville with 125 draw controls and 12.5 per game.
• Junior Lauren Webley ranks fifth in the ASUN with 31 ground balls and fourth in the league with 16 caused turnovers.
• Five Titans have scored double-figure goals this season: Morgan Girardi (23), Pritchard (23), Kinmond (20) Jordyn Beam (16) and Kaitlyn Wandelt (12).
• Pritchard has double-digit goals for the fourth time in her career. She has 76 goals total during her four-year Titan career. Pritchard also has 10 goals in four conference games, including three hat tricks.
• Junior Emma Mucci (26 draw controls) and Girardi (22 DC) are each in the top 10 in the conference in draw controls. Girardi is also tied-for-fourth in the league with eight free-position goals. Detroit Mercy ranks second in the ASUN with 30 free-position goals.
• Junior attack Jordyn Beam has established a new career-high in goals for a season with 16 on the year. She had 14 goals as a freshman and nine last season and has 39 total in her Titan career.
• 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.
• Laurie Merian is in her first season as head coach after serving as the assistant coach for the Titans in the past two years.

Scouting Jacksonville
The Dolphins (6-4 overall) are 3-0 in the ASUN Conference following road wins over Old Dominion, Howard and Delaware State. Jacksonville begins a four-game home stand with the Titans on Friday. Among Jacksonville's four losses include setbacks to Ohio State, Florida and Stony Brook.

Danielle Della Rocca leads the team with 37 points, including 30 goals. Courtney Valdez adds 22 goals and 11 assists for the Dolphins. Six different players have 10 or more goals for Jacksonville. Ashtyn Hiron has a team-best 31 draw controls, while Hannah Wilcox leads the squad with 16 caused turnovers. In net, freshman keeper Sydney Matthews (48.6 SV%, 8.44 GAA) has made seven starts and senior Mariah Cudlipp (12.96 GAA, 21 saves) has started in three contests.

Scouting Stetson
The Hatters are 2-8 on the season and 2-1 in the ASUN entering Friday's games following victories over Delaware State and Howard last weekend. Stetson has yet to win on its home turf, going 0-6 in home contests this season. Stetson opens a four-game home stand with Central Michigan on Friday before entertaining the Titans on Sunday. Stetson scored 45 goals combined in its wins over DSU and Howard, shutting out the Hornets 24-0.

Lindsay Summers leads the team with 29 points on the strength of 13 goals and a team-best 16 assists. Sam Maguire leads the team in goals with 21. Shelby Lehmann adds 23 points (16 goals, seven assists) for the Hatters, while Maddie Holvey has a team-high 28 draw controls. In net, Liza Diamond has played every single minute, turning away 78 shots and collecting a team-best 45 ground balls. She has a 34.1 save percentage.

All-Time Series
Detroit Mercy was the first opponent to defeat Jacksonville in ASUN women's lacrosse history, earning a 9-8 win over the Dolphins in last year's ASUN Championship semifinal contest. The Titans are 1-12 all-time against the Dolphins and in the first three years of the conference, the two schools met in the tournament championship game. In last year's semifinal victory, Detroit Mercy scored seven of the first nine goals of the game.

The Titans are 6-0 all-time against the Hatters and earned a 16-6 victory over Stetson last season at home. Lexie Kinmond totaled six points (five goals, one assist) in the contest for the Titans. Detroit Mercy is 2-0 in games played in Deland during the regular season. The last meeting between the two in Deland was in 2015, when the Titans earned a 13-12 triumph on a last-second goal by former Titan Tessa Keuler.

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.

On Tap
Detroit Mercy returns home for its next contest, hosting Old Dominion on Saturday, April 15 for an 11 a.m. ET game from Titan Field. It's Senior & Alumni Day for the Titans during the game against the Monarchs with four seniors being honored prior to the contest.