LOUISVILLE (4/16/2022) -- Seven Titans found the back of the net, but a big run was too much to overcome as the University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team fell, 13-8, on the road at Bellarmine on Saturday afternoon.
Junior
Luke Majick led the offense with two goals and an assist, while graduate senior
Brett Erskine registered three assists with a goal. Graduate senior
Paul Manuszak tallied a goal along with a career-tying and team-high four caused turnovers and five ground balls and sophomore
Noah Martin had two caused turnovers with one ground ball.
Redshirt freshman
Jakob Hemme made 11 saves in net. Graduate senior
Mason Kamminga won a career-high 8-of-15 faceoffs with three GB's and freshman
Billy Hart was also a career-best 5-of-10 with four ground balls.
Detroit Mercy (1-8, 0-3 ASUN) tied the game at one with 5:57 left in the first as freshman
Nolan Graalman took a pass from Erskine and beat the goalie.
Bellarmine (4-10, 2-1 ASUN) scored three in a row to end the first, but back came the Titans as a save from Hemme led to a fast-break opportunity and Erskine found Manuszak, who fired one in. The Titans then won the faceoff and that led to a goal from sophomore
Cole Gellatly to make it 4-3 with 10:55 remaining in the second.
The Knights then took control with a 7-0 run over the next 23 minutes before the Titans took advantage of a penalty as Majick fed freshman
Aidan Bishop for the goal with under a minute to go in the third.
Junior
Ryan Birney got the offense going in the fourth as a caused turnover by Manuszak led to an unassisted marker. Two more Manuszak caused turnovers led to back-to-back strikes by Majick and Erskine to make it a 12-7 game with 3:42 left. Junior
Kyle Loken would then jump start the offense with a caused turnover that led to Majick tallying one more with under 10 seconds on the clock.
The Titans were 19-of-21 on clears and 2-of-5 on the extra-man attack.
Detroit Mercy will get back on the field next week as the red, white and blue host Cleveland State on Senior Day with game time slated for an 8:00 p.m. start.
Game Notes:
- The Titans still lead the all-time series, 7-6, and are 2-3 on the road
- Manuszak has registered at least five ground balls in six games with back-to-back season highs of eight against VMI and at High Point and is third in school history with 208 ground balls - nine behind second-place
- Manuszak has multiple caused turnovers in six games and the four caused turnovers tied him for a season-high with the four he had at Ohio State
- His 54 caused turnovers are tied for fifth with Paul Bitetti and one in back of Jason McDonald for fourth
- Hemme has posted double-digit saves in seven of the eight games he has played and came into the game leading the conference and fifth in the nation with 14.1 saves per game
- Erskine now has 134 career points for fourth in school history, 12 away from third place, while his 88 goals are second with the all-time leader Shayne Adams at 147
- Bishop has scored a goal in five of the last six games
- Majick has three multi-goal games on the year with a career-best three at Ohio State and two goals and two assists against VMI
