DETROIT (4/29/2022) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team will have a long flight to end the regular season as the Titans travel out to Utah on Saturday.

Game time is set for 3:00 p.m. (EST) and will be streamed live on the PAC-12 Network Plus and the ESPN Watch App.

The Titans are coming off a 13-12 victory against Cleveland State this past week as junior Luke Majick scored two goals in the final 50 seconds to lift the red, white and blue to a win.

It was Majick's second hat trick of the season as the ASUN Player of the Week finished with three goals and an assist.

Graduate senior Brett Erskine still leads the team with 19 goals, seven assists and 26 points as he is seventh in the ASUN with 1.90 goals per game and 12th with 2.60 points per game. Majick is second on the team with 18 points on 12 goals and six helpers, while freshman Aidan Bishop has 10 points on the strength of nine goals. 

Graduate senior Paul Manuszak tops the team with a career-high 22 caused turnovers and 54 ground balls as he stands second in the league and 36th in the nation with 5.40 ground balls per game and third in the conference and seventh nationally at 2.10 caused turnovers per contest. 

Redshirt freshman Jakob Hemme has started all nine games and has 121 saves and is averaging 13.44 stops per game, tops in the ASUN and eighth in Division I. 

Utah is 8-3 overall and 4-0 in the ASUN as the Utes have wrapped up the regular-season title last week with a 12-11 triumph over Bellarmine.

Game Nuggets:

• Utah won the only other meeting, 16-10, at home in 2019
• The game will be the final collegiate contest for 13 Titans 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
• The Titans are in their first season as a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference after spending 12 seasons in the MAAC from 2010-2021, with their first year as an independent in 2009. Utah is also in the first year in the league that will already see growth with Jacksonville, Mercer and Lindenwood joining the Titans and Utes, Air Force, Bellarmine, Cleveland State and Robert Morris
• Detroit Mercy leads the ASUN and is sixth in the nation with 14.30 saves per game, second in the conference with 30.90 ground balls per game and fourth with 7.10 caused turnovers per contest
• The two-time MAAC LSM of the Year, 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 seven at Marquette and six at Michigan and Ohio State
• He is third in school history with 210 ground balls - seven behind Alex Jarzembowski '21 for second-place - while his 61 caused turnovers are fourth in the school record book, nine in back of current assistant coach Charlie Hayes '20 for third
• His 210 ground balls are also 23rd among active players and his 3.96 ground balls per game is second in school history, only trailing Jordan Houtby's '13 4.74, and is 37th among active players
• Manuszak also has multiple caused turnovers in seven games with a season-best four at Ohio State and at Bellarmine and three against Marquette, Robert Morris and Air Force
• His 1.15 caused turnovers per game are tied for fourth in school history
• Hemme has posted double-digit saves in eight of the nine games he has played
• He tied a school record with 28 saves at Michigan - tops in the country at the moment
• Senior Tyler Hart came off the bench for only his second career action and made seven saves in nearly 49 minutes of action against VMI, allowing just two goals in picking up the victory, and then tallied 15 saves at High Point with two caused turnovers and three ground balls
• Erskine has 136 career points for fourth in school history, 10 away from third place and Alex Maini '15, while his 90 goals are second with the all-time leader Shayne Adams '15 at 147
• His 90 goals are also 45th among active players and 136 points are 53rd
• His 2.67 career points per game are fourth in school history, while his 1.76 goals per game are third
• Bishop has scored a goal in six of the last seven games, including a season-high two at High Point and last week against Cleveland State
• Majick had his first career hat trick with three goals in the season opener at Ohio State and added two goals and two assists against VMI and two goals with a helper at Bellarmine
• Sophomore Will Edell posted his first career hat trick with three goals at Marquette, which also tied his career-high in points
• Senior Keegan Stenstrom registered the first points of his career with a goal and two assists against VMI
• Freshman defender Evan DeVito had three caused turnovers at High Point and has seven caused turnovers and 17 ground balls on the season
• Sophomore defender Noah Martin has nine caused turnovers and 14 GB's on the year and registered a career-high three caused turnovers against VMI
• Graduate senior Mason Kamminga won a career-high 8-of-15 faceoffs with three GB's at Bellarmine, while freshman Billy Hart was also a career-best 5-of-10 with four ground balls
• Junior Ryan Birney - who had a career-high four goals against VMI - had two older brothers who played for the Titans and were All-MAAC players in Mike Birney '15 and Sean '18 as well as an older sister who played on the women's team and was All-ASUN in Kylie
• The Titans have had a long history of family connections on the team in the Birney's, Masterson's, Case's and have another pair of brothers on this year's squad in junior Kyle Loken and freshman Caden Loken and senior Tyler Hart and freshman Billy Hart
• Another family connection is senior Zach Kennedy as his grandfather played basketball and football for the Titans, while his dad played basketball for the red, white and blue
• A leader of men on and off the field and a pioneer of the game helping it flourish in the state of Michigan, Chris Kolon is in his 14th season on the sidelines – and eighth as a head coach - for Detroit Mercy in 2022 and holds a career mark of 39-56. His 14 seasons means that he has been with the program since its birth, first as an assistant before assuming the head coaching duties. On June 2, 2014, he was tabbed the program's interim head coach and then was named the permanent head coach on July 14. During his time with Detroit Mercy, The Titans have posted their first three winning seasons and led the team to a school-record in overall (9) and conference victories (5) in 2018. His teams were always at the top of the MAAC in academic accolades in both Academic All-League selections and honor roll recipients. He has also tutored five players that have gone on to get drafted in the MLL and NLL and 10 that have played in both professional lacrosse leagues. In 2019, he was named an assistant coach with the Atlas Lacrosse Club in the brand new Premier Lacrosse League. In his seven years as a head coach, Detroit Mercy made the MAAC Championships five times, reaching the title game in 2018. His first-ever win was a memorable one as Detroit Mercy upended Ohio State, 9-8, on March 7, 2015. The win was the first by the Titans over Ohio State - who were receiving votes in both the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and the USILA Coaches Poll and would go on to play in the NCAA Tournament later that season