DETROIT (4/23/2022) -- Junior
Luke Majick scored twice with under a minute left in regulation to lift the University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team to a 13-12 victory over Midwest-rival Cleveland State on Saturday night on Senior Night for the program's first-ever ASUN victory.
Prior to the game, the Titans honored their 13-member senior class in
Peyton Bixby,
Matt Blevins,
Cam Case,
Mitch Durst,
Brett Erskine,
Ryan Figueiras,
Mason Kamminga,
Zach Kennedy,
Paul Manuszak,
Max Payton,
Jacob Prinz,
Keegan Stenstrom and
Cole Zarola.
Detroit Mercy (2-8, 1-3 ASUN) joined the ASUN this year after being in the MAAC for the last 12 seasons.
Majick ended the game tying his career-high with three goals and four points. Graduate senior
Brett Erskine, sophomore
Will Edell and freshman
Aidan Bishop all scored two goals, while senior
Ryan Figueiras added a goal and an assist.
Graduate senior
Paul Manuszak had two caused turnovers and two ground balls and freshman
Billy Hart was 9-of-18 in faceoffs with six ground balls.
Redshirt freshman
Jakob Hemme made 11 saves with six ground balls to earn the win in net.
Cleveland State (3-9, 0-4 ASUN) was trailing 10-7 in the fourth when the Vikings scored three in a row and five out of six to jump out in front, 12-11, with just 1:31 left. Hart then won a faceoff and the Titans took advantage of a CSU penalty as Stenstrom found Majick for the game-tying score at 12-12 with 50 seconds on the clock. Hart would win the ensuing faceoff and the ball ended back in Majick's stick as he beat the goalie for a 13-12 lead with 23 seconds left in the contest.
Erskine also had five ground balls, while Bishop had two caused turnovers. Freshman
Nolan Graalman had a goal and an assist and sophomore
Noah Martin had a caused turnover.
Cleveland State took a 5-2 lead early in the second as Bishop and Erskine scored in the first period. The Titans would knot it at 5-5 with three-straight goals in the second as Edell, Manuszak and junior
Ryan Birney all found the back of the net, but the Vikings would score with a few seconds remaining for a 6-5 lead at the half.
The Titans found themselves down 7-5 early in the third when they scored five in a row to take a 10-7 lead. Erskine started that run with a goal off a pass from Figueiras and then a caused turnover by Martin led to a goal from Graalman to square it at 7-7 with 7:56 to go. A Hemme save led to a goal from Bishop and then following multiple penalties by the Vikings, Majick scored on the man-up for a 9-7 lead at the end of three.
Figueiras would put the Titans ahead by three at the 11:38 mark in the fourth as junior
Ivan Progar set him up for the marker. That is when the Vikings notched three straight goals before Edell whipped one in for an 11-10 lead with 4:21 on the clock.
Detroit Mercy outshot Cleveland State, 40-36, and won the ground ball battle, 36-33. The Titans were also 15-of-17 on clears and 3-of-4 on the man-up.
The red, white and blue will close out the regular season next Saturday as the Titans travel to Utah.
