BUFFALO, NY (4/2/2021) -- Senior Brett Erskine tied his career-high with five goals and six points and senior Logan Shamblin registered 14 saves as the Titans started the game on a 5-0 run and never looked back in a 13-5 road win at Jesuit-rival Canisius on Friday afternoon.

With the win, Detroit Mercy moved to 3-2 overall and 3-1 in the conference, while Canisius fell to 2-2 on the season and 1-2 in league play.

Erskine also added a team-high four ground balls and a caused turnover. Sophomore Luke Majick and freshman Will Edell had a goal and two assists, while senior Matt Blevins, junior AJ Van Voorhis and sophomore Ryan Birney each had a goal and an assist. 

The Titans scored just a 1:10 into the game as junior Cam Kostus rifled one to the back of the net off a pass from Majick. Detroit Mercy then made Canisius pay for turning the ball over as goals by Blevins, two from Erskine and then the first career marker from freshman Cole Gellatly had the Titans up 5-0 with 4:47 left in the first.

Detroit Mercy led 7-2 at the break and 9-3 at the end of three as Shamblin kept the Golden Griffins at bay with a flurry of close cage saves. The Titans would break the game open in the fourth, scoring four goals in a span of 1:32 thanks to three consecutive faceoff wins by Jarzembowski, as he put an exclamation point to the offensive spurt scoring a goal of his own for a 13-3 advantage with 12:17 left.

Graduate senior Alex Jarzembowski was 12-of-20 at faceoffs, 10-3 after the first period, with three ground balls and a goal. Graduate senior Sam McClain had a caused turnover and three ground balls and senior Paul Manuszak also picked up three GB's.

The Titans outshot Canisius, 40-29. The defense also forced five caused turnovers as the Golden Griffins had 19 turnovers on the day and were just 15-of-24 on clears. 

Detroit Mercy will be back in action next Friday, April 9, when the Titans travel to Monmouth for a 1:00 p.m. start. 

First Period:

• The Titans got on the board first a little more than a minute into the game as Majick found Kostus for the score
• The Titans then took advantage of a Canisius turnover as Erskine found Blevins and he scored at the 12:25 mark
• Off another turnover and failed clear attempt, Edell found Erskine and he beat the keeper to earn his 100th career point and a 3-0 lead with 9:10 left
• Detroit Mercy used another Canisius turnover to jumpstart another score as Birney located Erskine and he found the back of the net to make it 4-0 with 5:55 remaining
• Sophomore Justin Petouhoff would cause a turnover and that would lead to a 5-0 lead as Van Voorhis located Gellatly and he posted his first collegiate goal with 4:47 on the clock

Second Period:

• Jarzembowski won the opening faceoff and that led to Van Voorhis ripping one from the outside that bounced in for a 6-1 lead
• Shamblin made two saves, but Canisius cut it to 6-2 midway through the period
• After another Canisius turnover, the Titans regained a five-score lead as Edell found Majick and he shot it low and passed the goalie for another tally with 3:50 on the clock and Detroit Mercy led at the break, 7-2

Third Period:

• Jarzembowski won the opening faceoff and Manuszak picked up the ground ball and fired a shot that was saved, but Erskine picked up that GB and put one in for a goal and an 8-2 lead
• Canisius scored with 12:50 on the clock to cut it to 8-3, but Shamblin would make five saves over the next 12 minutes to stop the Golden Griffins from coming back, including a couple of close ones near the cage
• McClain would force a turnover and that led to Erskine's fourth goal of the contest for a 9-3 advantage with 40 seconds left in the period

Fourth Period:

• Majick found Erskine and he posted his career-tying fifth goal at the 13:49 mark, which started a four-goal outburst over the next 1:32 to take total control
• Jarzembowski won the faceoff and that led to a goal by Edell
• He would win again and that would set up Birney's marker and finally, his next victory would see him streak down the field and fire on net for a goal and it was a 13-3 lead with 12:17 left
• Shamblin would record six more saves before Canisius scored with 5:09 remaining and the home team added another goal with a little over two minutes to play

Game Notes:

• Detroit Mercy and Canisius are two of eight Jesuit schools playing D I lacrosse with the others in Fairfield, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Loyola (Md.), Marquette and St. Joseph's
• The Titans now lead the overall series, 7-6, and are 4-2 on the road
• Detroit Mercy is 7-3 all-time at the Demske Sports Complex with neutral site wins in the 2011 and 2013 MAAC Championship as they won it all in 2013 for its only league title
• The Titans are 37-30 in regular-season league play since joining the MAAC in 2010, including 13-4 since 2019
• The five goals allowed was the fewest since beating Manhattan at home, 10-5, in 2019, while it was the fewest goals allowed in a road game since a 9-3 triumph at Manhattan in 2016
• It was Erskine's second hat trick of the season as he posted three goals at Marist, and overall, the seventh hat trick of his career
• Erskine also had a career-high six points in the opener at Marist in three goals and three assists and twice against Bellarmine in 2019 and 2020, scoring his other five-goal contest in the 2019 match-up on the road
• Erskine is now tied for fourth in school history with 104 points alongside Scott Drummond '15 and former teammate Seth Mendell '20
• Erskine also moved to fifth place all-time with 67 goals 
• Shamblin now has 442 career saves and now has 26 games with double-digit saves, while the five goals allowed marked the 18th time in his career he has allowed less than 10 scores
• Jarzembowski has now won double-digit faceoffs in 37 career games and now has 11 career goals on just 26 shots