DETROIT (3/1/2019) -- The Titans celebrated for a day and then went back to work as the University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team will visit Midwest-rival Bellarmine on Saturday.

Game time is set for 1 p.m. and will be streamed live on the GLVC Network.

Detroit Mercy is 2-1 on the season with a 9-8 victory over Jacksonville in the season opener and then a huge 15-12 road win at Marquette last week. The triumph was the first in school history over the Golden Eagles and the first win ever against the BIG EAST.

Three Titans had hat tricks in the game - the first time in school history that Detroit Mercy has accomplished that - and junior Alex Jarzembowski set a school record winning 19 faceoffs. 

Senior Matthew Vangalen leads the team with 10 points on seven goals and three assists, while junior Seth Mendell, sophomore Brett Erskine and freshman Cam Kostus all have five goals on the year

Bellarmine is 0-4 on the season with three of those setbacks coming on the road. 

ANOTHER HOTEL?

• Detroit Mercy is currently playing its third-straight road game in a stretch of six straight away from the Motor City.

AGAINST THE SOCON

• The Titans are 15-18 all-time against current teams from the Southern Conference, including 4-1 versus VMI, 5-2 against Mercer, 3-3 against Jacksonville, 3-7 against Bellarmine and 0-5 versus Air Force. 
• Detroit Mercy will play three SoCon opponents on the year in Bellarmine, Jacksonville and Air Force. 

ALL-TIME SERIES VS. BELLARMINE

• The Titans are 3-7 all-time against Bellarmine, but have won three of the last four in the series. 
• Detroit Mercy is 1-3 all-time at Bellarmine with the last meeting in Louisville ending in a 14-11 victory in 2015. 

JESUIT PRIDE

• Detroit Mercy is one just eight Jesuit schools playing Division I lacrosse.
• The others are Canisius, Fairfield, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Loyola (Md.), Marquette and St. Joseph's.
• The Titans have played four of the Jesuit institutions in Canisius (6-5), Marquette (1-6), Georgetown (0-1) and Saint Joseph's (0-1). 

SCHOOL RECORD FOR WINS

• Detroit Mercy won its school-record ninth game in the come-from-behind victory over Monmouth in the MAAC Championship semifinals last year. The previous mark was 8-6 in 2015, which was head coach Chris Kolon's first year at the helm. 
• Detroit Mercy also posted a school-record five-game winning streak in 2018. 

BIG WIN OVER OUR JESUIT BROTHERS

• Detroit Mercy recorded its first-ever win against the BIG EAST and Marquette as the Titans downed the Golden Eagles, 15-12.
• Three Titans had hat tricks in senior Matthew Vangalen (4), sophomore Brett Erskine (3) and freshman Cam Kostus (3), the first time in school history that has occurred. 

BALANCED OFFENSE

• The Titans had 16 players score a goal last season, with five players at 15 or more and eight registering at least 10 markers.
• The offense is already off to the same kind of start sharing the ball as six players scored in the season-opening win over Jacksonville and 10 total have found the back of the net in the first three games.

VANTASTIC

• Senior Matthew Vangalen set the school record for points last season recording 51 points on a career-high 31 goals with 20 assists.
• He posted his 10th career hat trick with four goals and five points at nationally-ranked Notre Dame and followed that up with his 11th registering three goals and a helper in the win at Marquette. 
• Vangalen is now third in school history with 108 points, tied for third with 64 goals and 44 assists. 
• Vangalen - a preseason All-MAAC selection by the coaches and Inside Lacrosse - was a Second Team All-MAAC honoree last year for the second-straight season.
• He was seventh in the MAAC in points per game (3.19), assists per game (1.25) and goals per game (1.94), while tying for first with three game-winning goals and 10th in shots per game (5.88).
• Vangalen scored a goal in 12 games on with eight multi-goal games and five hat tricks and has nine hat tricks in his two years wearing the red, white and blue as he spent his freshman year at Furman. 
• He broke the school record with 11 points and tied another pair of school records with seven goals and four assists at Manhattan. He had two goals and three assists at No. 6/6 Notre Dame, a goal and three assists versus No. 4/6 Ohio State and posted four goals with two assists against Siena.

THE BIG LOGAN

• Sophomore Logan Shamblin showed no signs of a sophomore slump in the season opener as he tied his career high with 15 saves in the 9-8 victory over Jacksonville.
• Following that game, he was tabbed the MAAC's Defensive Player of the Week. 
• He just made 11 saves in the big road win at Marquette. 
• He has now allowed 10 goals or less in 14 of his 18 games, including 10 contests with less than 10 goals. He has also recorded double-digit saves in 13 career games, with 15 also against Siena last season.
• He was a member of the All-Freshman Team last year as he started all 15 games and picked up nine wins, including going 5-0 in the MAAC during the regular season.
• Shamblin ended the year 14th in the nation in save percentage (.544), 18th in saves per game (10.8) and 20th in goals-against average (9.13), and his 162 saves was the fifth most in school history, while his goals against average was second and save percentage fourth.
• Last year, he made his collegiate debut at nationally-ranked Notre Dame and tallied 11 saves and three ground balls. 

NOTHING BUT JARZ

• Junior Alex Jarzembowski already had his name on top of the Titan record book in faceoff wins as he twice tied a school record with 16, but he now has the mark all to himself.
• Jarzembowski set a school record winning 19-of-30 in the road win at Marquette and also picked up five ground balls and scored a goal. He has now won double-digit faceoffs in 16 career games and 13-straight dating back to last season. 

ALEX THE GREAT 

• Junior Alex Jarzembowski - a preseason All-MAAC selection by the coaches and Inside Lacrosse - started the 2019 season off with a big performance in the win over Jacksonville, winning 15-of-21 faceoffs with five ground balls and scoring his first two collegiate goals.
• Coming into the contest, he had attempted just one shot in his first two seasons. 
• For that effort, he was tabbed the MAAC Offensive Player of the Week on Feb. 4. 
• Jarzembowski was named to the All-MAAC Second Team in 2018 as he set a school record winning 163-of-313 (.521) with a career-best 46 ground balls, third on the team. In MAAC play, he boasted a .553 winning percentage (77-of-139). 
• He was 16-of-25 with four GB's against Marist and 16-of-24 with six ground balls at Monmouth in the MAAC Championship semifinals. 
• He is currently the school's career leader in faceoff winning percentage at .541 (281-of-519), while his 281 wins are third in the record book, just nine away from second place and Damien Hicks' 290. 

ERSKINE SHINES

• Sophomore Brett Erskine had a huge game last week in the win at Marquette with a career-high four goals and tying his career best with five points.
• A couple of his goals were highlight reel acrobatic dives to the net and he also had three ground balls. 
• For that effort he was named the MAAC Offensive Player of the Week. 
• Erskine earned MAAC All-Rookie Team recognition last season after he started all 16 games and was second on the team in points (35), goals (22) and assists (13).
• He also led the team and was second in the MAAC and 22nd in the nation in shot percentage at .449.
• Erskine scored a goal in the last 10 games on the season and had nine multi-goal contests on the year, while picking up 25 ground balls, tying for the team high among attackman.
• He registered two goals and an assist at Mercer, at Jacksonville and against No. 19 Marquette and had a season-high five points on two goals and three assists against Siena. 
• Erskine just scored his first goal of 2019 at Notre Dame and also added an assist. 

MENDELL OFF TO A QUICK START

• Junior Seth Mendell could not wait for the season to start as he led the Titan offense with three goals and four points in the 9-8 victory over Jacksonville.
• It was his fourth career hat trick.
• In the win last week at Marquette, he posted two goals and an assist. 
• Despite battling an injury, Mendell played in all 16 games with 14 starts last year and finished third on the team with a career-high 27 points, tied for third with a career-best 19 goals and fifth handing out eight assists, tying his rookie mark.
• In his career, he has 60 points on 42 goals and 18 assists in 35 games. 

DIAPER DANDY

• Freshman Cam Kostus was not shy in his collegiate debut firing a team-high 11 shots and finishing with a goal, assist and three ground balls in the win over Jacksonville. 
• At Notre Dame, he scored one goal on three shots and just recorded his first collegiate hat trick with three goals in the road win at Marquette.
• On the season, he is tied for second on the team in points (7), goals (5) and assists (2). 

BLEVINS, VOORHIS WITH SCORES

• Sophomore Matt Blevins and freshman AJ Van Voorhis each had a solid game at Marquette as Blevins scored his first collegiate goal and Voorhis tallied his first points on a goal and two assists. 

AKINS LEADS THE D

• Junior defender Alex Akins - a preseason All-MAAC selection by the coaches and Inside Lacrosse - has earned All-MAAC honors in his first two years, including First Team accolades last season. 
• A team captain, he was fifth on the squad with 11 caused turnovers and seventh picking up a career-high 23 ground balls in 2018. 
• He is a key cog on the Titan defense that produced  8.56 caused turnovers per game to not only lead the MAAC, but also rank eighth in the country, as well as ranking second in the conference and 19th in the nation in scoring defense at 9.38 goals per game.
• In his career, he has 23 caused turnovers and 42 ground balls. 

WHAT A GAME FOR MCCLAIN

• Redshirt sophomore Sam McClain had a big week on defense for the Titans in the win at Marquette as he helped shut down All-BIG EAST First Team selection John Wagner, holding the Golden Eagles attackman two just two assists and no goals on his 10 shots.
• McClain was credited with a caused turnover and two ground balls in the contest. 

HORTON WITH THE CAUSE

• Senior Sam Horton is back as one of the stalwarts on the defensive side of the ball.
• He played in all 16 games with 15 starts last year and helped the defense tally 8.56 caused turnovers per game to not only lead the MAAC, but also rank eighth in the country, as well as ranking second in the conference and 19th in the nation in scoring defense at 9.38 goals per game.
• Horton was second on the team with a career-high 19 caused turnovers and ranked fifth in the MAAC with 1.19 caused turnovers per game. 
• In his career, he has 26 caused turnovers.

LEAVE IT TO THE LSM

• Sophomore Paul Manuszak had a fine rookie campaign and came back with a big debut in the season-opening victory over Jacksonville as he tallied a career-best three caused turnovers and six ground balls.
• He was back on his game in the win at Marquette coming up with a caused turnover and six more GB's. 
• He appeared in all 16 games as a rookie and had two goals, 17 ground balls and three caused turnovers. He scored his first collegiate goal on his first-ever shot against Air Force.