CINCINNATI (3/5/2024) -- Five Different Titans scored, but nationally-ranked Rutgers got on top early and never looked back as the University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team fell, 17-5, on the road on Tuesday afternoon.
Junior
Ryan Richters made 12 saves and picked up a team-high five ground balls. Junior
Will Marshall had two caused turnovers and sophomore
Eoghan Mullett recorded his first career goal with a caused turnover and three ground balls.
Freshman
Joey Nawrocki was 9-of-18 in faceoffs with two GB's. Graduate senior
Kyle Loken registered a caused turnover and two ground balls AND Junior
Aidan Bishop had a career-high four ground balls with a caused turnover.
The Titans (0-3) trailed 3-0 early when Nawrocki got the faceoff in the offensive zone, and Mullett scooped up the ground ball and fired one in off the long pole.
#14/16 Rutgers (5-1) took charge with nine straight markers when sophomore
Drew Kessenich ripped one past the goalie in the third. UDM added one late in the period on the man-up as freshman
Owen Miller fed graduate senior
Luke Majick and he put it in to make it 13-3.
In the fourth, off another faceoff victory from Nawrocki, freshman
Sawyer Van Antwerp slithered by his defender and put a shot inbetween the pipes with 8:04 left. The Titans' fifth goal came almost two minutes later as Nawrocki started the set with a faceoff win and junior
Chase Mahabir finished it with his second goal of the season.
The Titans will now get ready for another Big Ten team as they are at Ohio State next Tuesday, Mar. 12.
Game Notes:
- This was the first meeting between the two schools
- The Titans are 0-23 all-time against nationally ranked teams.
- Detroit Mercy is 2-17 all-time against current members of the Big Ten
- Head coach Chris Kolon played lacrosse at Rutgers from 1996-999 and lettered for four years as a defenseman for the Scarlet Knights
- Majick now has 71 career points and 44 career goals
- Marshall's career high in ground balls was four at Cleveland State last year
- Mullett tied for the team lead with 13 caused turnovers last season
