The Basics
Final Score: Detroit Mercy 20, Delaware State 5
Records: Detroit Mercy 5-7 (1-1 SoCon), Delaware State 1-7 (0-2 SoCon)
Location: Dover, Del. (Alumni Stadium)
DOVER, Del. (4/7/2019) -- Senior attacker
Lexie Kinmond recorded nine points and junior midfielder
Kaitlyn Wandelt set a new school-record with 11 draw controls as the University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team completed a 2-0 weekend with a 20-5 road victory over Delaware State on Sunday afternoon.
Kinmond scored five goals and tallied four assists for her season-high-tying nine points. Wandelt added five goals and one assist for a season-best six points, securing 11 of the 17 draw controls in the contest. Wandelt also established a new school record for draw controls in a season. With her 11 on Sunday, she has 82 on the season, breaking her own school record set last year of 77.
Senior midfielder
Morgan Girardi had three goals and one assist and sophomore attacker
Kamryn Corraro had two goals and two assists as each played notched four-point games for the Titans, which improved to 1-1 in Southern Conference play in the victory.
Detroit Mercy scored 20 goals for the second-straight contest and out-scored their opponents 43-5 during the two road games over the weekend. Eight different Titans found the back of the net against the Hornets with senior attacker
Emma Leszczak adding two goals. Sophomore attacker
Kristina Ellis and freshmen
Jess Turner and
Julianne Snyder both each added goals for Detroit Mercy.
The Titans took a 5-0 lead in the first 12 minutes of the contest, before Delaware State scored the next two goals. Detroit Mercy scored the next six, using a 6-0 run to finish the half and take an 11-2 halftime lead. Girardi, Kinmond and Wandelt all scored first-half hat tricks for the Titans with Kinmond tallying six points in the first half.
Wandelt, Snyder and Corraro began the second half with back-to-back-to-back goals as Detroit Mercy led by 12 goals, 14-2, early in the second half. After DSU scored two-straight, the Titans scored six of the final seven goals with five different Titan players scoring during that stretch. Turner scored for the second-straight game late with just 3:36 left and Leszczak scored her 12th goal of the 2019 campaign, just one off her career-high.
Senior goalkeeper
Allison McDonough and sophomore GK
Maddie Johnson split time in net with the pair combining for three saves. Detroit Mercy held a 39-10 advantage in shots during the game, including a 32-8 edge in shots on goal. The Titans also had a 17-8 advantage in draw controls.
Freshman
Elise Harder and Kinmond each added three draw controls in the game in addition to Wandelt's school-record 11 DC.
Titan News & Notes
• Wandelt's 11 draw controls set a new school record; She held the previous record of 10 with Kinmond and former Titan teammate
Emma Mucci.
• It was fifth game of nine or more draw controls this season and third of 10 or more DC in 2019.
• Wandelt also set the new single-season mark in DC (82) and already holds the career record with 239.
• Kinmond notched her second game of nine points in 2019; She leads the team with 60 points (34 goals, 26 assists).
• Kinmond has 263 career points (No. 2 all-time) and is just nine off the all-time mark held by former Titan standout Emily Boissonneault (272 points).
• Girardi moved into fifth place in career points (177), surpassing former Titan standout Tessa Keuler (176 career points).
• Wandelt surpassed 30 goals on the season for the third time in her Titan career; She has 169 career markers in the red, white and blue.
• Wandelt has hat tricks in six-straight games and eight overall this season.
• Kinmond has four assists in five games this season and multiple goals in all but one contest in 2019.
• The Titans out-scored their opponents this weekend by a 43-5 margin.
• Detroit Mercy improved to 7-0 all-time against Delaware State and 2-0 since the two teams joined the SoCon.
Up Next
Detroit Mercy returns home for its next four games, beginning with a pair next weekend against Southern Conference opponents Furman and Wofford. The Titans host the Paladins on Friday, April 12 at 3 p.m. from Titan Field before welcoming Wofford to town on Sunday for Senior Day in Detroit.
