DETROIT (4/3/2019) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team closes out a five-game road trip this weekend, heading East for contests against Howard and Delaware State on Friday and Sunday, respectively. Friday's game time is set for 1 p.m., while Sunday's SoCon contest is slated for an 11 a.m. start time.

The Titans are coming off a pair of setbacks last weekend in Georgia, falling in their Southern Conference opener at Mercer before dropping a game against Kennesaw State on Sunday. Following the pair of games this weekend on the road, Detroit Mercy has four-straight from Titan Field in Detroit.
 

Games 11 & 12 // Detroit Mercy (3-7, 0-1 SoCon) vs. Howard (0-6) & Delaware State (1-5)
Dates / Times	Friday, April 5 // 1:00 PM ET
	Sunday, April 7 // 11:00 AM ET
Location / Tickets	Washington, D.C (Greene Stadium) // Admission: FREE
	Dover, Del. (Alumni Stadium) // Admission: FREE
Live Stats	Friday: SideArm Stats
Live Stream	No Live Streams
Social Media	Twitter (In-game Tweets): @DetroitWL | Facebook | Instagram
All-Time Series	Titans lead, 10-0 // Last Meeting: Titans 23, Howard 10 (4/8/18)
	Titans lead, 6-0 // Last Meeting: Titans 21, DSU 5 (4/6/18)

Titan News & Notes
• Detroit Mercy is 10-0 all-time against Howard and 6-0 against Delaware State.
• The Titans have captured four SoCon Player of the Week accolades so far in 2019 -- three offensive and one defensive. Senior attacker Lexie Kinmond has earned two of the offensive honors, while Kaitlyn Wandelt picked up the other for the Titans. Senior GK Allison McDonough also earned her fourth career weekly nod on the defensive end on March 19.
• Senior Lexie Kinmond has a team-high 44 points (23 goals, 21 assists), notching at least three points in eight of 10 games this season and a season-high nine points against Kent State. She is currently in second place in career points (247), just 25 points of the all-time mark held by former Titan standout Emily Boissonneault (272 points).
• 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.
• 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 64 DC in seven games (6.4 per game), including four games of nine or more draw controls. She tied the single-game school record with 10 DC against both Duquesne and Saint Francis.
• Senior GK Allison McDonough became the second player in school history with 500 career saves after turning away nine shots at Marquette. She has 576 career saves, which is second all-time. She has started all 65 games in her Titan career and ranks third in school history with 191 ground balls, just seven off the school record. McDonough leads the team with 39 ground balls.
• McDonough ranks No. 2 in the NCAA In GB per game (3.9). Wandelt ranks 10th in the country in ground balls per game (3.5) and 16th in draw controls per game (6.4). Kinmond is 19th in the country in assists per game (2.1) and 26th in points per game (4.4).
• 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 23 draw controls and fourth on the squad in both goals (18) and points (19).
• Wandelt is the Titan leader in draw controls (64) and caused turnovers (19) on the season, ranking second on the squad with 34 points and second with 35 GB. She leads the SoCon in draw controls, ranking in the top 20 in the NCAA in draw controls per game and is just 13 off the single-season school record, which she set last season (77).
• Kinmond and Wandelt both lead the team with 23 goals, while senior Morgan Girardi (19 goals), Harder (18 goals) and Kamryn Corraro (15 goals) are all in double-figure goals so far in 2019.
• Three current Titans have surpassed 100 career goals -- Wandelt (161 goals), Girardi (138) and Kinmond (136). All three are in the top-five in school history in goals. Kinmond also became the third player in school history last season to reach 200 career points (currently has 241 points) and is the school record holder in career assists (111).
• Sophomore attacker Kamryn Corraro has two goals in six of 10 games and recorded a career-high four points (two goals, two assists) in the victory over Kent State. She notched her first career hat trick at Saint Francis in Detroit Mercy's last game, adding three more goals at Kennesaw State.
• As a team, Detroit Mercy had 21 draw controls in the win over Butler, which was tied for the fourth-most in single-game school history.
• 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.

Milestone Watch
• Senior attacker Lexie Kinmond has 247 points (136 goals, 111 assists) and is 25 points off the all-time mark, held by Emily Boissonneault (272 career points). She moved into second place in career points, passing for Titan standout Anna Eidem (234 career points) with nine points against Kent State on March 16. Kinmond became the first Titan in school history to reach 100 career assists, tallying four helpers against Duquesne on March 3. Kinmond ranks second in points per game in school history (3.92) and first all-time in assists per game (1.76).

• Junior midfielder Kaitlyn Wandelt ranks fourth all-time in career points (206) and became the fourth player in school history with 200 career points at Mercer on March 29. Wandelt has 161 goals and 45 assists in 54 career games and ranks third all-time in school history in points per game (3.81), ranking only behind former Titan standout Emily Boissonneault (3.94 points per game) and Kinmond (3.92 ppg). Her 161 goals is third all-time in school history. Wandelt already owns the career draw controls record in school history in the season opener at Ohio State and has 221 DC in her career, becoming the first player in program history to surpass 200 career draw controls. She has four times tied the single-game school record with 10 DC in a game.

• 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 576 career stops and ranks third in career ground balls (191). McDonough is first in ground balls per game (2.94) in school history. She ranks No. 1 among active NCAA Division I players in ground balls (191), fourth in total saves (576) and seventh in saves per game (8.86) among active D1 goalkeepers.

All-Time Series
The Titans are 16-0 all-time combined against Howard and Delaware State. Detroit Mercy is 10-0 against Howard and has played the Bison in every single season in women's lacrosse. The red, white and blue have also won six-straight against Delaware State in the all-time series that started in 2013. Detroit Mercy has scored 19 or more goals in 12 of the 16 games between the two teams.

Scouting Howard & Delaware State
The Bison are 0-6 on the 2019 season, while Delaware State is 1-5 with its victory coming over Howard, 14-11. Howard is led by sophomore midfielder Jillian Jones, who had team-highs with 10 goals, 11 points, 37 shots and 21 shot on goal. Sophomore midfielder Lailah Robey leads the team with 20 draw controls and ranks second with six goals on the season. Freshman GK Andrea Fievre has 36 saves in net for the Bison.

DSU senior midfielder Olivia Summerville leads the Hornets in goals (8), points (10), shots (26), shots on goal (19) and caused turnovers (4). Freshman midfielder Emmy McGill ranks second on the team with six goals and seven points. GK Portia Wiggins leads the team with 22 saves and a 31.4 save percentage.

Up Next
Detroit Mercy returns home for the next four games following this weekend's road games, opening the stretch on Friday, April 12 against SoCon rival Furman. The Titans then take on Wofford on Sunday, April 14 from Titan Field in the fourth Southern Conference contest of the 2019 campaign. Detroit Mercy follows the next weekend with Coastal Carolina on Saturday, April 20.