DETROIT (3/19/2024) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team will gear up for two road games this week, starting with a trip to Robert Morris on Wednesday.

Game time is set for 4:00 p.m. at Joe Walton Stadium and will be streamed live on ESPN+. Live stats will also be available.

UDM has started the year with four straight road games and is coming off a 17-11 setback in its home and ASUN opener on Saturday. Junior Ryan Richters made a career-high 19 saves and junior Chase Mahabir tallied a career-best three goals. 

Robert Morris is 1-5 on the year and 0-1 in the Atlantic Sun after falling 13-9 at Jacksonville over the weekend. 

After the game, the red, white and blue will head out west to face Utah on Saturday. 

ALL-TIME SERIES VS. ROBERT MORRIS

• The Titans are 2-8 all-time against Robert Morris, but claimed last year's meeting at home, 14-8, to end a three-game slide in the series.
• The series has featured a couple of overtime games, a 14-13 setback in 2011 and an 11-10 victory in 2015, both at home. Three other games have been decided by four goals or less. 
• UDM is 0-5 all-time on the road, but the last trip to Moon Township was in 2017.

TITANS PICKED EIGHTH BY COACHES

• Detroit Mercy was picked to finish eighth in the Atlantic Sun's Preseason Coaches Poll.
• UDM garnered 28 points to finish ahead of Queens and Lindenwood. 
• Utah took the top pick with 99 votes and nine first-place tallies, while Jacksonville was second, Air Force, Bellarmine, Robert Morris, Mercer and Cleveland State were the next six selections. The top six teams make the ASUN Championship - all held at Air Force this year - with the top two teams earning a bye to the semifinals. 

THE MAGIC MAN

• Graduate senior Luke Majick recorded his seventh career hat trick with three goals against VMI and is coming off a pair of goals at Ohio State and a season-high four points on two goals and two assists versus Mercer.  
• He has scored a goal in all five games this season, six in a row dating back to last year and 26 of his 35 career games as a Titan. 
• He leads the team with nine goals and 13 points and is approaching top 10 in school history in points (77) and goals (48).
• Majick started the year honored by his conference peers as he was named to the Preseason All-ASUN Team as a midfielder after a poll by the league's head coaches. 
• A team captain, he played in all 13 games with 11 starts last season and tied for the team-high with a career-best 31 points, ranking 18th in the ASUN with 2.38 points per game. He led the team with a career-best 11 assists and was third with a career-high 20 goals.
• He also tied for the team lead with three man-up goals and had 11 ground balls and two caused turnovers.
• During the year, he posted a career-high seven points on a career-best four goals with three assists at Mercer. He also had a few other hat tricks, coming up with three goals, three ground balls, and a caused turnover versus Robert Morris, two goals and a career-high four assists against Lindenwood, three markers at Air Force, and four goals with an assist and two ground balls at Cleveland State.

WEARING THE BIG "C"

• Detroit Mercy will have a trio of outstanding leadership this season as the Titans announced that graduate seniors Kyle Loken and Luke Majick as well as senior Noah Martin will have the honor of wearing the capital 'C' this year. 
• "These men have demonstrated to the team and the coaching staff how much they care about their fellow teammates and the program and continue to showcase what we have built this program on," said head coach Chris Kolon '09 (MBA). 
• Loken - just the fourth Titan to be named a team captain three times - has seen action in 41 games as a defensive midfielder and has recorded 24 caused turnovers and 71 ground balls to go with 10 goals and an assist. He just had a pair of caused turnovers against Mercer. Last year, he tied for fourth on the team with a career-tying 24 ground balls and fifth with a career-high eight caused turnovers, scoring two goals. 
• Majick returns as captain for the second straight year. The midfielder has played in 35 games as a Titan and has posted 48 goals and 29 assists.
• Martin - a first-time captain - has been the anchor of the defense the last two years and has played in 36 games in his first three seasons, tallying 26 caused turnovers and 57 ground balls. He just had two caused turnovers and three ground balls against Mercer. Last season, he tied for the team lead with a career-best 13 caused turnovers and was second with a career-high 34 ground balls.

WE HAVE OUR DREW

• Sophomore Drew Kessenich scored two goals in the opener at Marquette, added a pair of assists against VMI and Ohio State and scored a goal at #16/14 Rutgers and Mercer.  
• He had 10 assists last year and already has four this season with four goals. 
• He had a fine freshman season, where he was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Freshman Team.
• He tied for the team lead with 31 points and was second with 21 goals and 10 assists to go with 19 ground balls. He also topped the squad with five man-up goals.
• He scored a goal in nine games, with multi-strikes in seven, including seven points on five goals and two assists against Lindenwood and back-to-back three-goal games at Ohio State and Mercer. 

NEWBIES

• Freshman Sean Donahue notched his first career goal in the opener at Marquette and tallied his first hat trick with an assist at Ohio State, while freshman Lucas Goeller registered his first assist and point against the Golden Eagles and scored his first goal against the Buckeyes and Mercer. 
• Freshman Owen Miller scored his first goal against VMI, while rookie Sawyer Van Antwer notched his first marker at Rutgers and scored another at Ohio State. 

KING ME

• Junior Aidan Bishop has started the season with a pair of goals in four games, including the last time out against Mercer. 
• He had two goals at Marquette and posted a career-best four points on two goals and two assists against VMI. He picked up four ground balls at Rutgers and raised his career best to five GB's with two goals and a caused turnover at Ohio State.  
• In his career, he has now played in 29 games with 27 starts and has 26 goals, eight assists, 45 ground balls and nine caused turnovers. 

NOLAN'S OUR MAN

• Junior Nolan Graalman started the season with a goal in each of the first two games and just scored another against Mercer after a sophomore season that saw him tally 23 points on the strength of 21 goals, including 15, fourth on the team.  
• He recorded a career-high three goals against Utah and tied his goal mark with three strikes at Cleveland State. 

THAT'S RIGHT I SAID OWEN

• Sophomore Eoghan Mullett- pronounced Owen - is back on defense and just had a career-high three caused turnovers versus Mercer. 
• He had a caused turnover, three ground balls and scored his first goal at nationally-ranked Rutgers, and added a caused turnover and three GB's at Ohio State. 
• He led the team with 36 ground balls and tied for the team lead with 13 caused turnovers, ranking 10th in the ASUN with 3.0 ground balls per game, last year.
• He registered a caused turnover in 11 games and collected a ground ball in every game, with at least three on six occasions. 

AT THE FACEOFF

• The Titans return two faceoff specialists from last season in junior Billy Hart and sophomore Logan Flaherty and add a talented rookie in Joey Nawrocki. 
• Hart won seven battles with three GB's at Marquette in the opener and added six more wins with four GB's at Ohio State, while Nawrocki won 7-of-20 against VMI, 9-of-18 at #16/14 Rutgers and seven wins with four ground balls versus Mercer.  
• Hart has now won 114 career faceoffs and was at 41.0% last season, claiming 64-of-156 with 24 ground balls. He won a career-best 10-of-22 with four ground balls and scored his first goal on his first career shot at Jacksonville. He took 9-of-17 with a season-high five ground balls at Air Force and tied his career-high winning 10-of-19 with five GB's at Cleveland State.
• Flaherty tied for the team lead with 63 wins, picking up 15 ground balls, as a rookie. He tallied 9-of-15 with a caused turnover at Queens, was 8-of-17 at Air Force and won six faceoffs against Lindenwood, where he also notched his first goal. 

GUARDING THE NET

• Juniors Jakob Hemme and Ryan Richters are the top two goalies on the roster, a roster that has five netminders.
• Richters is coming off another fine performance with a season-high 19 saves and six ground balls with a caused turnover against Mercer.
• He also had a season-high 15 saves at Ohio State, 12 with five ground balls at #16/14 Rutgers, 13 versus VMI, and 11 at Marquette.
• Hemme ranks fourth in school history with 271 saves and second with 12.9 saves per game. He saw action in 11 games with 10 starts last season and led the team with 137 saves - 10th in school history. He topped the conference and was 19th in the nation with 12.45 saves per game, fifth in school history.
• He has played in 21 games and has double-digit saves in 18 of them, tying a school record with 28 at Michigan in 2022. 
• Meanwhile, Richters hails from California and played as a freshman at Grand Canyon and as a sophomore at Concordia in California. Last season, he made 48 saves and posted a 62.3% save percentage, helping Concordia to a MCLA title. 
• He also played for Team Latvia at the 2023 World Lacrosse Championships and was nominated to the All-World Team. 

I WILL TAKE A HENIGE

• Junior Sean Henige had a career day with three caused turnovers and seven ground balls against VMI and tied his mark with three caused turnovers and two GB's at Ohio State.   
• In the opener, he had two ground balls at Marquette.
• He did not see any action as a rookie, but appeared in 13 games with 12 starts last year and was fourth on the team with 10 caused turnovers and also picked up 20 ground balls.
• He posted a season-high two caused turnovers and four ground balls at High Point, two caused turnovers and two GB's at Queens and four ground balls and two caused turnovers against Bellarmine. 

EVAN DOING A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING

• Junior Evan DeVito has showcased an all-around game this year as a LSM and defenseman.
• He has two caused turnovers, 10 ground balls and has scored his first two goals of his career, while winning a pair of faceoffs.
• He scored his first goal against VMI and picked up a career-best four GB's with a caused turnover and a goal against Mercer.  

CHASING YOU DOWN

• Junior Chase Mahabir just recorded his first career hat trick with three goals against Mercer.
• It was his fourth straight game with a marker as he scored versus VMI at #16/14 Rutgers and Ohio State.
• He came into the season with just four career goals but has six on the year. 

GIVE ME A GRANT

• Sophomore Kyle Grant just tied his career-high with two caused turnovers at Ohio State and picked up a career0-best four ground balls against Mercer. 
• As a freshman, he played in all 11 games and caused six turnovers, including a pair at VMI and Queens.