DETROIT (4/7/2022) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team will have the honor of hosting the Air Force Academy this weekend in another Atlantic Sun Showdown.

The game is slated for 11:00 a.m. at Seaholm High School in Birmingham, Michigan. It is set to broadcast live on the Titans Sports Network on YouTube and will have live stats.

Tickets to the contest are $5 and can be purchased here. Tickets can only be purchased electronically as no cash will be accepted. 

Graduate senior Brett Erskine still leads the team in every offensive category with 17 points, 13 goals and four assists. Graduate senior Paul Manuszak tops the team with 13 caused turnovers and 43 ground balls as he leads the ASUN and is 25th in the nation with 6.14 ground balls per game and eighth in the league and 59th in the nation with 1.29 caused turnovers per game. 

Air Force is 5-5 overall and 0-1 in the Atlantic Sun as the Falcons dropped a 10-8 home game against Utah last week, which snapped a five-game winning streak. 

After the game, the Titans will hit the road for Kentucky as they face Bellarmine next Saturday.

Game Nuggets:

• Air Force has won all six previous meetings, including both on the road, but four of the games have been decided by five goals or less
• The four-straight true road games to start the season were the most in a row since the Titans played five straight in 2012, while the four road games to start the year were tied for the longest span in school history with the four in a row in 2011
• Detroit Mercy leads the ASUN and is 30th in the nation with 31.7 ground balls per game, while placing first in the league and seventh in DI with 14.7 saves per contest
• The two-time MAAC LSM of the Year, Manuszak has registered at least five ground balls in five games with back-to-back season highs of eight against VMI and at High Point and is third in school history with 199 ground balls - 18 behind second-place - while his 52 caused turnovers are tied for sixth in school history and seven away from fifth place
• His 199 ground balls are also 22nd among active players and his 3.98 ground balls per game is second in school history and 35th among active players
• Manuszak also has multiple caused turnovers in four games with a season-best four at Ohio State and three against Robert Morris
• Freshman goalie Jakob Hemme posted double-digit saves in five of the first six games he has played and is leading the conference and 10th in the nation with 13.5 saves per game
• He tied a school record with 28 saves at Michigan - tops in the country at the moment - and has 82 total stops on the season.
• 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 is eighth in the ASUN with 1.86 goals per game and 14th in the conference with 2.43 points per game
• He has 127 career points for fourth in school history, 19 away from third place, while his 84 goals are second with the all-time leader Shayne Adams at 147
• His 84 goals are 44th among active players and 127 points are 50th
• Freshman Aidan Bishop has scored a goal in four-straight games, including a season-high two at High Point
• Junior Luke Majick is second on the team with seven goals and nine points and 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
• 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, while sophomore defender Noah Martin has six caused turnovers and 11 GB's on the year
• 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 and Sean 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 38-54. 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