The Basics
Final Score: Detroit Mercy 23, Howard 0
Records: Detroit Mercy 4-7, Howard 0-7
Location: Washington, D.C. (Greene Stadium)
WASHINGTON, D.C. (4/5/2019) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team recorded its first shutout in program history, also tying the school record for goals in a game with the Titans rolling past Howard on Friday afternoon, 23-0, from Greene Stadium. The 23-goal margin of victory was also the largest margin for a win in school history.
Detroit Mercy (4-7) dominated from start-to-finish in the road victory and the team saw 11 Titans find the back of the net, including the first career goals for Titan freshmen
Jess Turner and
Emily Beazley. The red, white and blue scored on their very first shot just 21 seconds into the game and racked up nine goals in the first nine minutes of the contest, scoring on their first nine shots.
The Titans rolled from there as the defense was also stout all game long, totaling 16 caused turnovers and allowing just three shots on goal total and just one shot on goal in the final 52 minutes of the contest. The Titans had a 31-7 shot advantage total in the contest. Detroit Mercy was up 4-0 just after the game started with junior
Kaitlyn Wandelt winning four consecutive draw controls and Detroit Mercy scoring on each possession.
Senior attacker
Lexie Kinmond led the way offensively with a career-best six goals and seven points, surpassing the 50-point plateau for the fourth time in her Titan career. Wandelt and freshman midfielder
Elise Harder each added three goals, while senior attacker
Emma Leszczak, sophomore attacker
Kamryn Corraro and freshman attacker
Julianne Snyder all scored twice for Detroit Mercy. Senior midfielder
Morgan Girardi posted five points, totaling a career-best four assists, while sophomore attacker
Kristina Ellis had three points on a goal and two assists.
Freshmen
Taryn McManus and both Turner and Beazley found the back of the net to round out the 11 Titans who scored, with Beazley's first collegiate goal off a pass from Girardi equaling the school record with just 2:37 left on the clock. Turner had a two-point day, adding one assist.
The Titans were extremely efficient on the day, putting 30 of 31 shots on goal (96.7 percent) and allowing just seven Howard shots total and only three on net. Detroit Mercy posted 16 caused turnovers in the game, helping force 19 Howard turnovers total. The Bison were just 6-of-15 on clear attempts (40 percent), while the red, white and blue went a perfect 10-for-10 on clears.
Detroit Mercy goalkeepers were only required to make three saves with senior goalkeeper
Allison McDonough turning away two early in the first half, before sophomore GK
Maddie Johnson made the third save late in the contest. Ellis led the team with three caused turnovers, while five more players each had two caused turnovers -- Girardi, junior midfielder
Maeve Grady (making her first collegiate start), Leszczak, senior defender
Alex McCafferty and Snyder.
Wandelt tallied seven draw controls in the game and Kinmond and Ellis each added three DC for the Titans, which held a 17-8 advantage on draws during the game. Ellis led the squad with three ground balls and seven other players scooped up multiple ground balls. Detroit Mercy was also 6-for-8 on free-position shots.
Detroit Mercy held a 12-0 halftime lead before scoring the final 11 goals in the second half. The Titans scored 10 goals in the first 12 minutes of the contest. Kinmond scored three goals in each half for Detroit Mercy. Harder scored all three of her goals in the second half and Wandelt had a hat trick by the halftime break for the red, white and blue.
Titan News & Notes
• It was the first shutout in 11 years of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse.
• The Titans had previous allowed one goal in a game three times before with the last time being in a 22-1 victory over Delaware State at home in 2016.
• Detroit Mercy has scored 23 goals three times in school history with all of them coming against Howard (2015, 2018, 2019).
• The 23-goal margin of victory was also the largest in program history.
• Kinmond reached 50 points in a season for the fourth time in her career; She has 29 goals, already matching her total from her junior campaign in 2018.
•
Wandelt has hat tricks in five-straight games and is up to 71 draw controls on the season, just six shy of her single-season school record of 77, set last season in 2018.
• Girardi set a new career-high with her four assists; It was the third five-point game of the season for Girardi.
• Four Titans have 20 or more goals this season -- Kinmond (29), Wandelt (26), Harder (21) and Girardi (20).
• Junior
Maeve Grady was making her first collegiate start for the Titans and notched two ground balls and two caused turnovers.
• Five Titans have scored their first collegiate goals this season --
Elise Harder,
Taryn McManus,
Julianne Snyder,
Jess Turner and
Emily Beazley.
• Detroit Mercy has played Howard in all 11 seasons of Titan women's lacrosse; The two foes were once ASUN conference opponents.
• The Titans improved to 11-0 all-time against the Bison.
Up Next
Detroit Mercy returns to the field Sunday morning for an 11 a.m. ET contest at Delaware State in Dover, Del. The Southern Conference game is the seventh meeting all-time between the two schools. It's the second SoCon game of the season for the Titans, which returns home for four-straight games from Titan Field beginning with a Friday, April 12 SoCon game against Furman.
