DETROIT (4/18/2019) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team returns to the field Saturday afternoon for a non-conference tilt with visiting Coastal Carolina from Titan Field. The opening draw is set for 12 p.m. ET and the game may also be seen live via ESPN-Plus.

Detroit Mercy (7-7, 3-1 SoCon) is riding a four-game win streak with the last three coming in Southern Conference play. The Titans swept the Southern Conference Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week honors on Tuesday, the second time this season that the squad has swept the weekly honors in the league.

The Titans are raising money for Cancer Awareness with the game and proceeds from the contest against Coastal Carolina will go towards Gilda's Club Metro Detroit, a cancer support organization based in Royal Oak. The first 100 fans at the game will also get a free pair of sunglasses.
 

Game 15 // Detroit Mercy (7-7, 3-1 SoCon) vs. Coastal Carolina (10-4, 4-2 ASUN)
Dates / Time	Saturday, April 20 // 12:00 PM ET
Location / Tickets	Detroit, Mich. (Titan Field) // Admission: FREE
Live Stats	Saturday: SideArm Stats
Live Stream	Friday: ESPN-Plus
Social Media	Twitter (In-game Tweets): @DetroitWL | Facebook | Instagram
All-Time Series	Titans trail, 0-3 // Last Meeting: CCU 14, Titans 6 (4/19/18)

Titan News & Notes
• Detroit Mercy and Coastal Carolina are meeting for the fourth time in women's lacrosse and second time in Detroit.
• The Titans have captured seven SoCon Player of the Week accolades so far in 2019 -- five offensive and two defensive. Senior attacker Lexie Kinmond has earned three of the offensive honors, while junior midfielder Kaitlyn Wandelt and sophomore attacker Kamryn Corraro picked up the other two for the Titans. Senior GK Allison McDonough and freshman midfielder Taryn McManus have both earned SoCon Defensive of the Week accolades this season.
• Senior Lexie Kinmond has a team-high and Southern Conference-best 71 points (38 goals, 33 assists), notching at least three points in 12 of 14 games this season and season-highs with nine points against Kent State and Delaware State. She broke the career points record (274) topping former Titan standout Emily Boissonneault (272 points).
• Wandelt became the all-time leader in draw controls in Titan history in the season opener at Ohio State, recording six to surpass former Titan standout Anna Eidem. Wandelt has a team-high and school-record 99 DC in 14 games (7.07 per game), including six games of nine or more draw controls. She set a new school record with 12 draw controls at Delaware State.
• Senior GK Allison McDonough became the second player in school history with 500 career saves after turning away nine shots at Marquette. She has 592 career saves, which is second all-time. She has started all 69 games in her Titan career and ranks No. 1 in school history with 199 ground balls. McDonough leads the team with 47 ground balls in 2019.
• Sophomore attacker Kamryn Corraro has two goals or more in 10 of 14 games and recorded a career-high six points (four goals, two assists). She has career-highs in both goals (28) and points (35) and was named the SoCon Offensive Player of the Week on April 16 after leading the Titans with nine goals and 11 points in a 2-0 week.
• Freshman Elise Harder began her Titan career scoring in her first six contests, including scoring on her first collegiate shot in the opener at Ohio State on Feb. 10; Harder ranks second on the team with 33 draw controls and fifth on the squad in goals (26) and points (27). She has five hat tricks and eight multiple-goal games.
• Wandelt is the Titan leader in draw controls (99) and caused turnovers (22) on the season, ranking second on the squad with 51 points and second with 42 GB. She leads the SoCon in draw controls, ranking in the top 10 in the NCAA in draw controls per game (7.07) and has twice set a new single-game draw control record this season with 11 DC at Delaware State and then 12 DC at home against Wofford.
• Three current Titans have surpassed 100 career goals -- Wandelt (174 goals), Kinmond (151) and Girardi (146). All three are in the top-five in school history in goals. Kinmond became the third player in school history to surpass 200 career points and is the school record holder in career assists (123). Wandelt was the fourth player to surpass 200 career points earlier this season.
• Kinmond was named the SoCon Offensive Athlete of the Month for February after leading the conference in points (15) during the month. She also became the first Titan in school history to surpass 100 career assists at Duquesne. She is the all-time leader with 111 career assists. She is a two-time SoCon Offensive Player of the Week this season.
• Detroit Mercy is in its 11th season as a program; The Titans earned a share of the Southern Conference regular-season title last season, going 4-1 in league play.
• The Titans have more than 10 victories in three of the past four seasons; The Titans went 10-8 last year and had a school-record 12 triumphs in 2016.
• Head coach Megan Callahan '13 is in her first season at the helm of the Titans; She played for the squad from 2010-13 and was the assistant coach in each of the past two seasons.
• Callahan earned her first victory as a head coach on Feb. 19 in a 17-13 victory over Butler in the Titans' home opener.

Senior Class
The Titan senior class has seen many team and individual accomplishments during their four years at Detroit Mercy, winning 35 games across that stretch, including defeating Jacksonville for the first time in ASUN history in the semifinals of the ASUN Championship in 2016 during their freshman season and winning the first championship of any kind in program history after earning a share of the regular-season conference title in the first season of the Southern Conference in 2018.

The class has totaled 335 goals and 592 saves (from Titan goalkeeper Allison McDonough). The players have combined for four First Team All-Conference accolades and a Player of the Year laurel. McDonough has started and played in every game during her Titan career, while Girardi has played in all 69 games as well for the Titans. Kinmond has made 66 starts and played in 67 games, while all the members of the class have played in at least 30 games across their careers. Numerous individual records have also been broken from the class. Kinmond and Girardi both rank in the top-five in goals and points in school history.

Milestone Watch
• Senior attacker Lexie Kinmond has 274 points (151 goals, 123 assists) and became the career leader in points in Titan history in the Senior Day win over Wofford, surpassing former Titan standout Emily Boissonneault (272 career points). Kinmond became the first Titan in school history to reach 100 career assists, tallying four helpers against Duquesne on March 3 and was the third player in school history to top 200 career points in the SoCon semifinals last season. Kinmond ranks first in points per game in school history (4.09) and first all-time in assists per game (1.83). Kinmond, with 71 points on the season, is also just 12 points off the single-season mark in points (83), which is currently held by Boissonneault, Eidem and Wandelt. With her 33 assists, she is six helpers behind the single-season record of 39, which she set last season.

• Junior midfielder Kaitlyn Wandelt ranks fourth all-time in career points (223) and became the fourth player in school history with 200 career points at Mercer on March 29. Wandelt has 174 goals and 49 assists in 58 career games and ranks third all-time in school history in points per game (3.84), ranking only behind Kinmond (4.09 points per game) and former Titan standout Emily Boissonneault (4.06 ppg). Her 174 goals is third all-time in school history. Wandelt already owns the career draw controls record in school history and has 256 DC in her career, becoming the first player in program history to surpass 200 career draw controls. She set new single-game and single-season draw control records at Delaware State (11 DC) and then broke the single-game DC record again against Wofford (12). She has 99 draw controls on the season and with one more would become the first player in school history with 100 draw controls in a single season.

• Senior goalkeeper Allison McDonough became the second player in program history with 500 career saves after turning away nine shots at Marquette. She is second all-time in school history with her 592 career stops and broke the Titan career record in ground balls (199) in the Senior Day win over Wofford. With one more ground ball, she would become the first player in program history with 200 career GB. McDonough is first in ground balls per game (2.88) in school history. She would also become the second player with 600 career saves with eight more stops. She has started all 69 games in her career and is also No. 1 in school history in goalkeeper wins (35).

• Senior midfielder Morgan Girardi ranks fifth all-time in goals (146) and points (182) in Detroit Mercy history and is the 12th player in school history to surpass 100 career ground balls (105). Girardi is also seventh in school history in caused turnovers (60), ranking second on the team with 17 in the 2019 season.

Scouting Coastal Carolina
The Chanticleers are 10-4 and 4-2 in ASUN play entering Thursday's game against Central Michigan. Coastal Carolina defeated both Kennesaw State (20-7) and Mercer (17-5) at home and also topped common opponents in Howard (26-2) and Kent State (19-2) earlier this season. Coastal Carolina has two losses in league play, both of them narrow setbacks, falling 11-10 to Liberty at home and 15-11 at Jacksonville.

CCU is out-scoring its opponents 209-131 this season and is dead even with its opponents on draw controls, 181-181. Senior attacker Haley Alexander leads the team in goals (45) and points (60), while junior attacker Samantha Courtemanche (34 goals) and senior attacker Madeline Bromley (29 goals, team-high 23 assists) both are tied for second on the team with 52 points entering Thursday's game at CMU. Alexander also has a team-best 44 draw controls, while junior midfielder Megan Kilpatrick has a team-high 20 caused turnovers. In net, senior GK Harley Barrett holds a 48.7 save percentage and 9.99 goals against average on the season to go along with 110 total saves.

All-Time Series
Detroit Mercy is 0-3 all-time against Coastal Carolina and 0-1 in home games against the Chanticleers. The Titans have met Coastal Carolina in each of the past two seasons, falling 12-6 in 2017 at home before dropping a 14-6 non-conference game last season on the road. The two squads spent one season as conference foes with Coastal Carolina joining the ASUN for the 2017, which was the last season Detroit Mercy was in the league.
 

Join us Saturday at 12pm for our breast cancer awareness game. There will also be a sunglasses giveaway! pic.twitter.com/CGo6sUTkeu

— Detroit Mercy WLAX (@DetroitWL) April 17, 2019

Up Next
Detroit Mercy closes its 2019 home schedule on Tuesday, hosting No. 8-ranked University of Michigan for a 5:30 p.m. game from Titan Field. It's also the final non-conference game of the season as the Titans visit Central Michigan on Saturday, April 20 for the regular-season finale in a pivotal Southern Conference contest.