DETROIT (4/8/2022) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team will conclude a busy week with a trip up north as the Titans visit Central Michigan on Saturday. 

Game time is set for 1:00 p.m. at the Central Michigan Soccer/Lacrosse Complex and will feature a live stream and live stats. 

The game is the third game in seven days as the red, white and blue hosted Robert Morris last Saturday and traveled to nationally-ranked Notre Dame this past Tuesday.

Detroit Mercy is 1-10 on the season and 1-5 in the MAC with four conference games left on the schedule. The Titans have dropped four in a row after a thrilling comeback win against Akron. 

Five Titans have reached double figures in goals as senior Elise Harder, junior Annie Gilbert and sophomore Cat Kopchia all have 17 markers on the season. Kopchia also has a team-high 14 assists and 31 points, while Harder is tied for second with 21 points and leads the team with 55 draw controls.

Central Michigan is 6-6 overall and 4-1 in the conference, good for second place behind Robert Morris' 6-0 mark, as the Chippewas have defeated the Titans, Akron, Kent State and Youngstown State and have lost to RMU. 

Following the game, the Titans will host Youngstown State on Saturday, April 16, at 1:00 p.m.

Game Nuggets:

• The Titans lead the all-time series, 4-3, and are 2-1 on the road in the match-up, but Detroit Mercy has dropped three in a row to CMU
• The Titans are third in the MAC with 4.36 assists per game as well as second in the league and 38th in the nation with 14.9 draw controls per game 
• Kopchia notched a point in nine of the 11 games with a goal in eight of them as her 3.1 points per game are sixth in the conference and her 1.27 assists are third in the league
• She had a career-high seven points as she tallied six assists, tied for third in school history, in the comeback victory over Akron
• Harder now has 139 draw controls, four away from fifth place and Zaynib Hamze, while her 2.57 draw controls per game are third in school history
• Harder has also registered a point and a goal in nine of the 11 games and posted back-to-back hat tricks with four goals and five points against St. Bonaventure and three goals at Kent State
• Harder set the school record with 19 draw controls against St. Bonaventure, tied for the third-most in DI, as that figure helped the Titans collect a school-best 32 in the game, tops in the nation at the moment
• Cantelon has grabbed at least six draw controls in five games on the year, with her season-high of 10 at Youngstown State
• Her 128 career draw controls are tied for seventh in school history alongside Emma Mucci, while her 3.69 draw controls per game are second in the school record book
• Harder is currently third in the MAC and 48th in the nation with 5.0 draw controls per game, while Cantelon is fifth in the league and 55th in DI with 4.90 per contest
• Senior Taryn McManus is seventh in the league with 1.18 caused turnovers per game
• She now has 47 career caused turnovers, 10th in school history and two outside of ninth place, and has registered a caused turnover in eight games on the year
• Redshirt sophomore Charlotte Dale had back-to-back hat tricks with a career-high six points on three goals and three assists against Akron and three goals with two helpers versus St. Bonaventure as she has recorded a point in nine games and scored a goal in seven of them
• Gilbert tallied a career-high five goals against Akron and has scored a goal in nine of the 10 games
• Senior Emily Beazley is currently a member of the U23 England National Team
• Freshman Meredith Leavell's 43 saves are sixth in the conference as she has started the last six games and recorded 36 stops in that span
• Dwayne Hicks is officially in his second year as head coach of the Titans after taking over as an interim coach in 2020 before it was canceled due to the pandemic (but was not assessed any wins or losses that season) as his record stands at 3-18. His first career win was a double-overtime thriller, 15-14, in 2021, while his second was a record-breaking 24-12 contest at Youngstown State as the Titans netted a school-record 24 markers. Hicks is a familiar face within the Titan Athletic Department, having spent the prior three seasons as an assistant coach on the men's lacrosse staff. He joined the men's lacrosse program in the fall of 2017 and in both of his full campaigns with the team, he helped coach back-to-back winning campaigns with a school-record nine wins in 2018 and a trip to the MAAC Championship game and another eight wins in 2019 and another bid to the postseason. Hicks brings more than 45 years of lacrosse in his background as a player and coach and has been one of the most instrumental individuals in helping spread the game in the state of Michigan. He spent 15 years as the Director of Lacrosse at the Total Sports Complex in Wixom, Michigan. He was also the head coach and director of the Total Lacrosse's Train and Play program and Team Total Lacrosse travel team. Hicks coached the Oakland University women's lacrosse program in four seasons, as the team qualified for four national championships, placing as high as third and winning three regional championships. Hicks has been recognized as Coach of the Year on five occasions. He has also been selected National Coach of the Year twice, once as head coach of the men's team at Michigan State and the other as the assistant coach of the Oakland women's team. During his five years with the Oakland men's team, Hicks was able to develop an unknown program into a nationally ranked, highly touted lacrosse team, which included two national championship appearances and one Central Collegiate Lacrosse Association (CCLA) title. In 2006, Hicks moved from Oakland to Eastern Michigan to help build their program. After three seasons with the Eagles and helping them become a CCLA playoff contender, he moved to Michigan State, where he guided the Spartans to four CCLA playoff appearances, one championship and two runner-up efforts. After his collegiate playing career at Notre Dame, Hicks played/coached professionally in the English Lacrosse Union in Manchester England. Originally from Long Island, New York, Hicks was a standout lacrosse player and wrestler at Freeport High School