DETROIT (4/26/2019) -- Just one more regular season game for the Titans before the postseason begins as the University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team makes the journey to Salt Lake City to face Utah on Saturday.

Game time is set for 3 p.m. (EST) at McCarthey Stadium and the game will be broadcast live on PAC-12 Network Plus.

The Titans are currently 8-5 and have already guaranteed themselves their third winning season in school history and a winning campaign for the second-straight year.

Detroit Mercy set a school record with nine wins last season, eclipsing the previous mark of 8-6 in 2015, which was head coach Chris Kolon's first year at the helm and are looking to tie that wins record with one more victory. 

Utah is in its first season of varsity lacrosse and is 4-10 on the year as the Utes will look to end their inaugural campaign with a victory. 

Following the game, the Titans will head to Poughkeepsie, New York, and Marist College for the MAAC Championships as they seek their second conference title in school history. 

The MAAC Championship is set for May 2-4, and while the Titans have clinched a spot, they will have to wait until the season concludes on Saturday to see what seed they get and who their first-round opponent will be. 

MAN-UP VS. MAN-DOWN

• Detroit Mercy comes into the game second in the MAAC and 19th in the nation in man-up offense at 40.0 percent (20-50), while Utah is 37thin the nation at 34.8 percent (16-46). 
• Defensively, the Titans rank third in the MAAC and 33rd in the country on the man-down unit at 32.7 percent (19-58) as a unit and Utah is 55th in the nation killing off 40.5 percent (17-42). 

MAAC PLAYOFFS STILL TBA

• The MAAC Championship already has three of its four participants as Detroit Mercy, Marist and Quinnipiac have all clinched spots and the final piece is still to be determined between Canisius and Siena.
• A Canisius win against Marist on Friday and the Golden Griffins would get in, while a loss would leave the door open for Siena if the Saints were to beat Monmouth at home on Saturday.
• The Titans will have an eye on the scoreboard because if Canisius does win against Marist on Friday, they would share the conference title with the Golden Griffins and Red Foxes as all would end the season at 5-2 in the MAAC, and even in that scenario, add in a Quinnipiac win at Manhattan on Saturday and that would set up a four-way tie for first heading into the postseason. 
• Due to tiebreakers, the red, white and blue could not get the top seed in a three-way or four-way tie and will either be the 2, 3 or 4 seed.
• The MAAC Championships is set for next week, May 2-4, at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. 

VANTASTIC

• Senior Matthew Vangalen set the school record for points last season recording 51 points on a career-high 31 goals with 20 assists and he just tied that with 51 points this year. 
• His 51 points are on 19 goals and 32 assists, a new school record for helpers and he also holds the school career mark with 73 assists. 
• He has registered 13 points in the last two weeks with a pair of goals at Cleveland State, five points (1G, 4A) at Siena and a six-point game against Canisius posting two goals and four assists. He also tallied six points on five assists and had the game-winning goal at Marist.
• Vangalen posted a hat trick with four goals and five points at nationally-ranked Notre Dame and followed that up with three goals and a helper in the win at Marquette and six points on three goals and a school-record six assists at Bellarmine. 
• His third goal at Bellarmine was the game-winner with 10 seconds left in a 15-14 contest.
• Vangalen is second in school history with 149 points and third at 76 goals. 
• 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.

THE BIG LOGAN

• 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.
• He had another monster game with a career-high 21 saves and five ground balls at Siena in a postseason-clinching win. He was named the MAAC Defensive Player of the Week as the Saints posted 56 shots and he stood tall with a .677 save percentage. 
• He stopped a then career-high 17 shots in the come-from-behind win at Marist and that was after posting 15 saves against Monmouth and another then career-best 16 saves at Quinnipiac. He also had a season-high seven ground balls and a career-best three caused turnovers against Monmouth and was tabbed the MAAC's Defensive Player of the Week.
• He has now allowed 10 goals or less in 19 of his 28 games, including 14 contests with less than 10 goals. He has also recorded double-digit saves in 20 career games. 
• He was a member of the MAAC All-Freshman Team last year as he started all 15 games and picked up nine wins, including going 5-0 in the MAAC regular season and 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).

NOTHING BUT JARZ

• Junior Alex Jarzembowski already has his name on top of the Titan record book in every faceoff category for a game, season and career.
• He had another huge game going 18-of-24 with six GB's in the win at Siena.
• He was 27-of-33 with a program-best 15 ground balls in the victory at Bellarmine, where he won the game's last 13 faceoffs and also scored a goal. 
• The 27 faceoffs are tied for the second most in the nation alongside Marist's Peyton Smith (27 vs. Hartford) and behind only Hobart's Matthew Pedicine's 32 at Siena. 
• At Marquette, he was 19-of-30 with five ground balls and a goal and put together a 19-of-22 effort with 13 GB's and a score at St. Bonaventure. 
• He has now won double-digit faceoffs in 25 career games. 

ALEX THE GREAT 

• Junior Alex Jarzembowski - a preseason All-MAAC selection by the coaches and Inside Lacrosse - is currently second in the MAAC and 21st in the nation in faceoff percentage winning 60.3 percent (179-of-298). He also leads the team with a career-best 69 ground balls and is second in the league and 33rd in the nation with 5.31 ground balls per game.
• He is currently the school-record holder in season winning percentage (60.3 %) and wins (179) as well as career winning percentage (56.2 %) and faceoff wins (416). 
• He 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. 
• He has added to his arsenal with six goals on 10 shots so far on the year with five coming by way of directly winning the faceoff and firing at the goalie. 
• Jarzembowski was named to the All-MAAC Second Team in 2018 as he set a then-school record winning 163-of-313 (.521). 

MENDELL ON FIRE

• Junior Seth Mendell continues to be one of the best goal scorers in the country as he posted his seventh hat trick of the season and 10th of his career with four goals at Siena last week.
• The four goals saw him earn MAAC Offensive Player of the Week laurels for the second time this season. 
• On the year, he tops the team with 38 points and 32 goals, both career-highs. 
• He leads the MAAC and is 30th in the country with 2.67 goals per game. His 32 total goals also leads the MAAC as does his seven man-up goals, which is sixth in the nation.
• He had a streak of five-straight hat tricks at one point with three goals at Bellarmine, four goals and two assists at Air Force, six markers at St. Bonaventure and three goals at Quinnipiac and at Marist. 
• In his career, he now has 91 points on 69 goals and 22 assists in 44 games, fourth in goals and sixth in points in school history. 

ALL PAYTON

• Freshman Max Payton made his collegiate debut at St. Bonaventure, but in just his second career game, the rookie got the start and did not disappoint scoring three goals at Quinnipiac. 
• He came back to record two goals and an assist in the win over Monmouth and also had two goals with a helper at Marist to earn the MAAC Rookie of the Week. 

LUBIN AT THE SSM

• Senior Brent Lubin has had a career senior campaign posting five points on two goals and three assists along with four caused turnovers and 27 ground balls. 

ERSKINE SHINES

• Sophomore Brett Erskine - who missed games at Quinnipiac and against Monmouth with an undisclosed injury -  has looked healthy the last few games with three goals and two assists at Siena, a goal and an assist against Canisius and two goals versus Manhattan. 
• He is now third on the team with 28 points and second with 19 goals and nine assists. 
• Earlier this season, he recorded a career-high five goals and six points in the win at Bellarmine and four goals and five points in the triumph at Marquette. 
• A couple of his goals on the season have been highlight reel acrobatic dives to the net. 
• For his effort against Marquette, he was named the MAAC Offensive Player of the Week for the first time in his career. 
• He earned MAAC All-Rookie Team status last season as he was second on the team in points (35), goals (22) and assists (13).

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 recorded his first collegiate hat trick with three goals in the road win at Marquette. 
• Last week in a key game at Siena, he came up with two goals, an assist and two ground balls and that was after notching two late goals - including the eventual game-winner - against Monmouth and registered the game-tying goal in the comeback win at Marist to go with a pair in the match-up with Canisius. 
• On the year, he is fourth on the team with 20 points and 16 goals and is second in the squad and in the MAAC with six man-up scores. 

NO FEAR IN VOORHIS

• Freshman AJ Van Voorhis has had a solid start to his collegiate career with 16 points on seven goals and nine assists. 
• At Marquette Voorhis tallied his first points on a goal and two assists. In the win at Bellarmine, Voorhis had two assists, including setting up Matthew Vangalen's game-winning goal with 10 seconds left in the game. 
• At St. Bonaventure, Voorhis added back-to-back goals in the third to help the Titans pull away from the Bonnies and he just posted two goals and an assist in the win at Siena.  

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 in 2018. 
• Akins had a career day with a career-best four caused turnovers and picking up five ground balls against Canisius. 
• He had two caused turnovers at Quinnipiac and recorded three caused turnovers and picked up six ground balls at St. Bonaventure. 
• 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 was 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.
• On the year, he leads the team with 15 caused turnovers to go with 26 ground balls and in his career, he has 38 caused turnovers - eighth in school history - and 64 ground balls. 

LEAVE IT TO THE LSM

• Sophomore Paul Manuszak had a fine rookie campaign and has not suffered a sophomore slump at all.
• He is second on the squad with 14 caused turnovers and 63 ground balls to go with four goals and three assists, all career highs. 
• He was a beast again with ground balls picking up a career-best 10 last week at Siena, the most by a Titan other than a faceoff midfielder since Jordan Houtby had 10 against Michigan in 2012. 
• Manuszak had a caused turnover, assist and six GB's against Canisius and tied his career high with three caused turnovers and picked up seven ground balls against Manhattan. 
• He had a big debut in the season-opening victory over Jacksonville as had a career-best three caused turnovers and six ground balls.
• Manuszak was back on his game in the win at Marquette coming up with a caused turnover and six more GB's and picked up five more ground balls at Bellarmine. 

BALANCED OFFENSE

• The Titan offense saw six players score in the season-opening win over Jacksonville and now, 16 total have found the back of the net. 

MARKING UP OUR RECORD BOOK

• The Titans' 16 goals at St. Bonaventure is tied for the fourth-most in school history and the most since netting 18 at Manhattan last year.
• The Titans now have three games on the year with at least 15 goals.
• Detroit Mercy's 56 shots against the Bonnies were second in school history to the 58 it had against Manhattan in 2015, while the 50 ground balls are second in school history to the 55 the Titans had in a road win at Siena in 2011.