DETROIT (3/27/2021) -- Senior goalie Logan Shamblin became the all-time Titan leader in wins and the red, white and blue came back from a three-goal deficit to earn the victory as the University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team downed Siena, 11-9, on Saturday afternoon. 

Shamblin made 13 saves in net to post his 21st career victory, the most in school history passing former teammates Jason Weber '17. 

Senior Brett Erskine and sophomores Ryan Birney and Kyle Loken each scored two goals with Erskine also adding an assist. Sophomore Luke Majick had a goal and an assist and freshman Will Edell handed out a team-high two helpers to go with six ground balls and two caused turnovers. 

Graduate senior Alex Jarzembowski was 17-of-22 at faceoffs with five ground balls and also scored a goal. Senior Paul Manuszak picked up a team-high seven ground balls and had a caused turnover and senior Ollie Nigh tallied a career-best three caused turnovers with six GB's.

Detroit Mercy (2-2, 2-1 MAAC) scored the first goal of the game and later led 2-1 early in the second, but Siena (0-4, 0-3 MAAC) came back to take a 5-3 lead at the break. The Saints then led 7-4 five minutes into the third when the Titans ended the period on a 4-0 run to take an 8-7 lead.

The game was then tied at 8-8 and 9-9 with 5:05 left when the Titans posted the final two scores of the contest. Loken beat the goalie with what turned out to be the game-winning marker with 3:02 on the clock and added his career-tying second goal with 1:06 remaining. 

Graduate senior Alex Akins recorded two caused turnovers and two ground balls. Loken picked up a career-tying four GB's and Shamblin added three. 

The Titans outshot the Saints, 49-31, and dominated ground balls, 43-21. Detroit Mercy was also 15-of-16 in clears and held Siena to 0-for-3 on the extra-man attack.

Detroit Mercy will now hit the road for two-straight Friday games, starting with a trip to Jesuit-rival Canisius next week, Apr. 2, with game time set for 10:00 a.m.

First Period:

• Birney tallied the first goal off an assist from Majick with 10:53 on the clock
• Nigh had a caused turnover and Shamblin made a save, but Siena tied the game at 1-1 with 34 seconds left in the period

Second Period:

• Off a Jarzembowski faceoff win, junior Cam Kostus fed Birney and his second score had the team up 2-1 just 45 seconds in
• Shamblin made two saves, but Siena evened it at 2-2 with 12:18 left and took a 3-2 lead with 10:37 on the clock
• Another Shamblin save led to offense as sophomore Ivan Progar beat the keeper with 9:13 remaining to knot it at 3-3
• Siena scored two in a row to take a 5-3 lead with 2:58 remaining
• Nigh posted a couple of caused turnovers in the final 2:58, but the Titans were not able to score on their possessions

Third Period:

• The Saints scored again to jump out in front 6-3 with 13:46 left
• Jarzembowski ended that with a faceoff win as Loken picked up the ground ball and that led to Majick's score at 12:50
• Siena regained a three-goal lead at 7-4 with 10:07 on the clock, but Jarzembowski registered another faceoff win and this time he picked up the ground ball and went right to the cage for the goal
• A turnover would give the Titans the ball back and Edell found graduate senior Matt Turner, who scored with 8:26 to go to make it 7-6
• Shamblin made a couple of saves and Akins and Erskine had caused turnovers with Erskine's leading to a goal as he was able to knock the ball out of the goalie's stick and pick it up and fire it on the empty net to make it 7-7 with 3:54 left
• Another turnover by the Siena goalie forced by Edell would put the Titans in front, 8-7, with under a minute to go as Edell picked up the ground ball and located Erskine for another strike

Fourth Period:

• Siena tied the game at 8-8 at 11:41, but off a Shamblin save, senior Matt Blevins got inside for a score to put the team ahead, 9-8, with 9:15 left
• The Saints tied it up at 9-9 with 5:05 on the clock
• Off a Siena turnover, Loken was able to fire one to the back of the net for the go-ahead score and the Titans led 10-9 with 3:02 left
• Akins would force a turnover and the Titans added an insurance goal with 1:02 on the clock as Edell found Loken and he scored with the goalie out of the cage

Game Notes:

• Detroit Mercy has won five of the last six in the series and now leads the all-time match-up, 7-6, with nine contests separated by three goals or less
• The Titans are now 23-21 all-time in home games at Titan Field, with seven wins in their last nine games on campus
• Detroit Mercy is 36-30 in regular-season league play since joining the MAAC in 2010, including 12-4 since 2019
• The Titans' 49 shots is tied for the eighth-most in school history
• Logan now has 25 games with double-digit saves in his career and the nine goals marked the 17th time in his career he has allowed less than 10 scores
• Jarzembowski has now taken 1,039 career faceoffs and has 602 wins, the fifth-most among active players in DI and the most in school history in both categories
• Jarzembowski has now won double-digit faceoffs in 36 career games, including 16 games with 15 or more faceoffs wins 
• Jarzembowski now has 10 career goals on just 25 career shots
• Erskine passed Scott Harris for sole possession of sixth place in school history with 98 points and also passed Joel Matthews for seventh place in goals with 61
• Manuszak now has eight career games with at least seven ground balls
• Loken also had two goals at Manhattan last week
• Nigh's career-high in ground balls is seven at Ohio State in 2020 and against Quinnipiac in 2019
• Blevins' goal was the sixth of his career
• Turner's goal was the 10th of his career