DETROIT (3/22/2024) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team will make the journey out to Salt Lake City as the Titans visit Utah on Saturday. 

Game time was set for 8:00 p.m. but due to weather is CHANGING TO 4 P.M. (EST) at Ute Field and will be streamed live on the PAC-12 +. Live stats will also be available.

Detroit Mercy has battled tough in its first two ASUN games and is coming off an overtime setback at Robert Morris, 13-12. Three Titans tallied hat tricks and junior Ryan Richters made 17 saves in net, a game after he made a season-high 19 against Mercer.

Richters leads the league and is fourth in the nation with 14.5 saves per game. Graduate senior Luke Majick leads the team with 16 points on 10 goals and six assists, while junior Chase Mahabir is second on the squad with 10 goals and is coming off back-to-back career highs with three goals against Mercer and four his last time out at Robert Morris.

Utah is 3-4 on the season and 1-1 in the ASUN after a 12-11 loss against Air Force at home on Wednesday. The Utes' conference victory was a 14-13 edging of Bellarmine. 

Following the game, the Titans will return home to face Queens next Saturday.

ALL-TIME SERIES VS. UTAH

• Utah has owned the all-time series as the Titans trail 3-0, with two of those three losses in Salt Lake City.
• Last season, UDM dropped a 24-11 decision at home.

LAST TIME OUT

• Sophomore Drew Kessenich tallied a season-high six points and three Titans posted hat tricks, but the golden goal in overtime came off the crosse of Robert Morris as Detroit Mercy fell, 13-12.
• Kessenich registered a career-high five assists - tied for the second most in school history - with a goal, a ground ball, and a caused turnover. Junior Chase Mahabir posted a career-best four goals, and junior Aidan Bishop and freshman Sean Donahue each tied their career high with three goals apiece. 
• Junior Ryan Richters made 17 saves in net, including six in the fourth quarter alone, and junior Sean Henige had a caused turnover and three ground balls. 

BORN AND RAISED IN MICHIGAN

• While the Titans recruit nationally - witnessed by 12 states plus Canada on their 46-man roster - there is no arguing that Detroit Mercy loves to keep players in its home state as 28 of its 46 players (60.8%) hail from the Great Lakes State.
• The next on the list is Wisconsin with four (4), California (3), Ohio (2), Colorado (1), Illinois (1), Maryland (1), Nevada (1), North Carolina (1), Texas (1), Vermont (1) and along with one from Canada (1).

THE MAGIC MAN

• Graduate senior Luke Majick recorded his seventh career hat trick with three goals against VMI and had a season-high four points on two goals and two assists versus Mercer and three points on two helpers and a marker at Robert Morris.  
• He has scored a goal in all six games this season, seven in a row dating back to last year and 27 of his 36 career games as a Titan. 
• He leads the team with 10 goals and 16 points and is approaching top 10 in school history in points (80) and goals (49).
• 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 42 games as a defensive midfielder and has recorded 24 caused turnovers and 72 ground balls to go with 10 goals and an assist. He 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 36 games as a Titan and has posted 49 goals and 31 assists.
• Martin - a first-time captain - has played in 37 games, tallying 27 caused turnovers and 58 ground balls. He 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 GB's.

WE HAVE OUR DREW

• Sophomore Drew Kessenich is coming off a season-high six points on a career-best five assists and a goal at Robert Morris. 
• The five assists were the most since Matthew Van Galen had five at Marist in 2019 and one shy of Van Galen's school-record six at Bellarmine, also in 2019, while the seven points were the most by a Titan since Luke Majick had seven on four goals and three assists last year at Mercer. 
• He had 10 assists last year and already has nine this season with five goals. 
• Last season, he was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Freshman Team after tying for the team lead with 31 points and finishing second with 21 goals. 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 just notched his second career hat trick with three goals at Robert Morris. His first career goal was in the opener at Marquette and he tallied his first hat trick with an assist at Ohio State. 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 picked up 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 five games and is coming off a career-tying three goals at Robert Morris. He also had three markers against the Colonials last season. 
• 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 30 games with 28 starts and has 29 goals, eight assists, 46 ground balls and 10 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.
• Last year he had 16 points on the strength of 15 goals, fourth on the team.  
• He recorded a career-high three goals against Utah and tied his goal mark with three strikes at Cleveland State. 

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 ground balls at Ohio State.   
• In the opener, he had two ground balls at Marquette and just picked up three GB's with a takeaway at Robert Morris as he ranks seventh in the ASUN and 48th in DI with 1.4 caused turnovers per game. 
• 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 had 20 GB's.
• 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. 

THAT'S RIGHT I SAID OWEN

• Sophomore Eoghan Mullett- pronounced Owen - 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. 

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 great effort with 17 at Robert Morris, including six in the fourth period.
• He now has double-digit saves in all six games following the season-high 19 and six ground balls with a caused turnover against Mercer, 15 saves at Ohio State, 12 with five ground balls at #16/14 Rutgers, 13 versus VMI, and 11 at Marquette
• He is third in the ASUN and seventh in the nation with 14.0 saves per game. 
• 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 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.

 
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 is on fire on offense as he scored a goal for the fifth-straight game, recording a career-best four markers at Robert Morris.
• Before that, he had a hat trick with three goals against Mercer.
• He found the back of the net versus VMI, at #16/14 Rutgers and Ohio State.
• He came into the season with just four career goals but has 10 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 career-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.