DETROIT (3/17/2021) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team will look to stay on top in the MAAC as the Titans visit Manhattan on Saturday. 

Game time is now set for Noon (originally it was a 7:00 p.m. start) and will be broadcast on YouTube and will also feature live stats. 

Both teams come into the game at 1-1 overall and 1-0 in the MAAC as the Jaspers lost at Monmouth in the non-conference game, 8-5, before starting league play with a 10-7 victory at Canisius.

Detroit Mercy's win against St. Bonaventure was the 11th in the last 14 MAAC regular-season games. 

ROAD WOES

• While the Titans are 22-21 at home on Titan Field, the opposite has been true away from the Motor City where they are 25-66 all-time in true road games. 
• Detroit Mercy did win five road games in 2018 and 2019 and was 1-1 last season so the red, white and blue have learned to play on the road. 

OUR MAAC WORLD

• Detroit Mercy is 35-29 in regular-season league play since joining the MAAC in 2010.
• The Titans set their all-time win mark for conference games in a season in 2018 at 5-1 and tied that win mark with five wins in 2019.

CONFERENCE ROAD OPENERS

• The Titans are trying to run their winning streak of conference road openers to five in a row as they are 6-4 all-time in MAAC road openers.
• Detroit Mercy is 1-1 when its conference road opener is at Manhattan dropping an 11-8 decision in 2010 and posting a 9-3 win in 2016. 

ALL-TIME VS. MANHATTAN

• Detroit Mercy has won five in a row - three of those by at least six goals - and now leads the all-time series, 7-4. 
• The Titans are 2-3 at Manhattan having won their last two trips to Gaelic Park. 

TITANS PICKED SECOND BY COACHES

• For the second-straight season, Detroit Mercy was picked to finish second in the MAAC preseason coaches poll. 
• Detroit Mercy collected 53 points and one first-place vote, trailing only Marist's 63 points and seven first-place nods. Monmouth (40), Quinnipiac (38), Manhattan (32), Siena (29), Canisius (25) and St. Bonaventure (8) rounded out the poll. 
• The top four teams at the end of the season will compete in the MAAC Championships with a bid to the NCAA Tournament on the line.
• In 2018, the Titans were 5-1 in the league, while in 2019, Detroit Mercy went 5-2.

THE BIG LOGAN

• After stopping 14 shots in last week's victory over St. Bonaventure, senior Logan Shamblin is now tied for first in school history with 20 career wins, tying former teammate Jason Weber.
• The netminder has already earned a major award in the MAAC Defensive Player of the Year as a sophomore in 2019.
• He started all 15 games in net and recorded his second-straight winning season with eight wins, while finishing third in the MAAC with a career-best 11.47 saves per game, fifth in school history. His 172 saves was also a career-best and fifth in the record books, and he also tallied a .512 save percentage and an 11.93 goals against mark along with six caused turnovers and 32 ground balls, fifth on the squad. 
• He now has 24 games with double-digit saves and seven with 15 or more in his career, while the seven goals allowed against the Bonnies was the 16th time in his career he has allowed less than 10 scores. 

NOTHING BUT JARZ

• Senior Alex Jarzembowski already has his name on top of the Titan record book in every faceoff category.
• He owns a career winning percentage of .571 tallying 561 victories - both first in Titan history - and is second in school history with 193 ground balls and 3.79 ground balls per game.
• His 571 wins are the fifth-most among active players, while his faceoff winning percentage is 14th and his total ground balls is 18th. 
• He followed his 15-of-28 effort in the opener at Marist by going 15-of-21 against St. Bonaventure and has now won double-digit faceoffs in 34 career games, including 14 games with 15 or more faceoffs wins and five with 20 or more. He owns the top to single-game marks with a school-record 27 wins at Bellarmine in 2019. 
• Last year, he was 91-of-151 (60.3%) and was tied for second on the team with 22 ground balls, while scoring three goals on the year on just eight shots.
• In 2019, he posted a school-record with 213 wins and a 60.0 winning percentage, good for second in the MAAC and 18th in Division I. His 82 ground balls led the Titans and was second in the conference and 29th in Division I as well as third in school history.
• He won 52.1% (77-of-139) in 2018 and 57.4 % (74-of-129) in 2017. 

ERSKINE TIES CAREER MARK

• Senior Brett Erskine led the Titans by tying his career-high in points for the third time with six points and also registering his sixth career hat trick with three goals in the season opener at Marist. 
• He now ranks seventh in school history with 93 points and 35 assists and eighth with 58 goals. 
• Erskine is also one of the most accurate shooters in school history at 45.0 percent, including 72.9 percent on shots on goal. 

FEAR THE LSM

• Senior Paul Manuszak - the reigning MAAC LSM of the Year in 2019 and chosen Preseason All-MAAC this year - is coming off one of his best games with a career-best four caused turnovers and picking up seven ground balls against St. Bonaventure.
• He already has a team-high seven caused turnovers and 11 ground balls on the season to go with a goal as he is tied for second in the nation with 3.5 caused turnovers per contest. 
• Manuszak now has 33 caused turnovers - 11th in school history - and 131 ground balls - eighth in the record book - in his career to go with 10 goals and 14 points. 
• In 2019, he tallied career highs in every category with nine points, six goals, three assists, 17 caused turnovers and 72 ground balls in 2019. He was also second on the squad in caused turnovers and ground balls and was fifth in the conference and 45th in DI with 4.80 ground balls per game. 
• His 72 GB's and 4.80 per game were both fifth in school history.

WELCOME TO THE TITANS

• Junior Jack Watsic, sophomore Luke Majick and freshman Will Edell have each made an impact early on in the season. 
• Watsic actually scored the first goal of 2021 and finished with two goals in the season opener at Marist.
• Edell has posted two goals in each of the first two games, while Majick had a goal at Marist and led the team with four points on two goals and two assists against St. Bonaventure. 

BIRNEY 3.0

• Sophomore Ryan Birney has some big shoes to fill following the footsteps of his two older brothers who played for the Titans and were All-MAAC players in Mike and Sean as well as an older sister who played on the women's team and was All-League in Kylie, but so far, he is up to the challenge.
• He had a goal and an assist at Marist and is coming off his second career hat trick with three goals against St. Bonaventure. 
• As a freshman, he tied for third on the team with nine points and eight goals, while adding five ground balls and a caused turnover. He had his first hat trick in the final game of 2020 with three goals against Robert Morris. 

STEPPING UP

• Junior AJ Van Voorhis already has three goals and an assist on the season,
• He had four goals and four assists last year and eight goals with 10 helpers as a freshman.
• On the defensive side, sophomore Owen Bruinius, who did not see any games last season, already has three caused turnovers and a pair of ground balls. 

JESUIT PRIDE

• Detroit Mercy is one of eight Jesuit schools playing Division I lacrosse.
• The others are Canisius, Fairfield, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Loyola (Md.), Marquette and St. Joseph's.
• The Titans have played four Jesuit schools in Canisius (6-6), Marquette (1-8), Georgetown (0-1) and Saint Joseph's (0-1).