DETROIT (3/28/2023) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team will play a mid-week league game as the Titans prepare for Robert Morris on Wednesday.

Game time is set for 1:00 p.m. on Titan Field and will feature live stats. A broadcast is still to be determined based on weather.

Detroit Mercy dropped its first home Atlantic Sun game to Utah this past week as the red, white and blue is 0-6 on the season and 0-2 in the ASUN, while the Colonials are 4-3 overall and 1-1 in the conference, with a home win over Cleveland State and a loss to Jacksonville. 

Senior Ryan Birney and freshman Drew Kessenich are now tied for the team lead with 14 points, with Birney leading the squad with 13 goals and Kessenich posting 10 goals and four assists. Senior Luke Majick has 13 points on seven goals and a team-high six assists and sophomore Nolan Graalman has seven goals and eight points. 

Senior David Beacom leads the team with eight caused turnovers and 14 ground balls and junior Noah Martin has six caused turnovers and a team-high 18 ground balls. Sophomore Jakob Hemme has been busy in net and is first in the ASUN and 13th in the nation with 13.67 saves per game. 

After the game, the Titans will hit the road again as they head to Charlotte to play first-year NCAA DI member Queens in a noon start. 

Game Notes:

• Detroit Mercy is 1-8 all-time against Robert Morris and 0-4 all-time at home, with the lone win an 11-10 victory in overtime in 2015
• The Titans have a fairly young roster with 14 upperclassmen on their 47-man roster and had eight freshmen and sophomores in the starting line-up at VMI
• Detroit Mercy has student-athletes from 13 states as well as from Canada
• The Titans are in their second 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
• Birney - who had a career-high five goals in the opener at VMI - had two older brothers who play for the Titans and were All-MAAC players in Mike Birney '15 and Sean Birney '18 as well as an older sister who played on the women's team and was All-ASUN in Kylie
• Birney is the current Titan leader with 47 points and 40 goals and has six hat tricks in his career
• Going back to last season, Hemme has posted double-digit saves in 14 of his 16 career games, with a career-high and school-tying 28 saves at Michigan last season, and is coming off a season-high 19 saves with a career-best seven ground balls against Utah to go with 16 saves against Marquette and 15 at Mercer
• Three Titans notched their first career goals in the season opener as freshmen Drew Kessenich and Zach Snider had two goals and sophomore Chase Mahabir scored his first collegiate marker, while freshman Ayden Snow had his first versus Marquette
• Kessenich posted back-to-back hat tricks, with three goals at nationally-ranked Ohio State and three goals and an assist at Mercer and had two goals and two assists his last time out against Utah
• Majick was named All-MAAC Second Team in 2021 and was second on the team with 21 points and 13 goals and tied for first with eight assists last season. He has 38 points on 21 goals and 17 assists as a Titan after transferring from Furman and recorded a career day with seven points, four goals and three assists at Mercer, his third career hat trick
• Graalman netted his first career hat trick with three goals against the Utes
• Sophomore Aidan Bishop has scored a goal in two-straight games and had 10 goals and an assist last season
• Beacom tallied a career-high three caused turnovers and tied his career best with four ground balls at Mercer, and scored his second career goal against Utah last Saturday
• Martin has tallied three caused turnovers and 15 ground balls in the last three games, recording a caused turnover and five GB's at Ohio State and two caused turnovers with a career-best six ground balls at Mercer
• Redshirt freshman Eoghan Mullett started the year with two caused turnovers at VMI and at High Point
• The Titans have had a long history of family connections on the team and have another pair of brothers on this year's squad in senior Kyle Loken and sophomore Caden Loken and senior Tyler Hart and sophomore Billy Hart
• 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 15th season on the sidelines – and ninth as a head coach - for Detroit Mercy in 2022 and holds a career mark of 39-63. His 15 seasons mean 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 posted their first three winning seasons and led the team to a school-record in overall (9) and conference victories (5) in 2018. He has coached 4 USILA Scholar All-Americans, 2 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, seven (7) Senior CLASS Award Nominees, including two that went on to the final ballot for All-American accolades, 47 All-Conference players, five (5) LSM's of the Year, three (3) Rookie of the Year's, two (2) Defensive Players of the Year and one (1) Offensive Player of the Year. Has has tutored 11 players that have gone on to get drafted in the MLL, NLL and PLL and 15 that have played in all three 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 with the team in the MAAC, 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