Women's Lacrosse 04.24.24

Titans Hit The Road For Hoosier State On Saturday

Women's Lacrosse 04.24.24

Titans Hit The Road For Hoosier State On Saturday

Senior Lena Kinczel and the Titans will look to end the regular season with a road win.

DETROIT (4/24/2024) -- The Titans will look to head into the postseason on a winning streak as the University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team travels to Indianapolis to face Butler on Saturday.

Game time is set for Noon on Varsity Field and will be broadcast live on FLO Sports. A live stats feed will also be available.

The Titans already know they will be in the four-team MAC Championship next week, but they will be scoreboard-watching to see if they are a three- or four-seed. A Robert Morris loss at Eastern Michigan would have the red, white, and blue as the third seed and facing EMU in the first round, while an Eagles win over the Colonials would have the red, white, and blue as the four and battling top-seeded Central Michigan.

UDM is coming off a big 15-11 playoff-clinching victory over Kent State. Four Titans had at least three goals as senior Cat Kopchia had four goals and an assist, junior Leah Bodnar and sophomore Libby Cuckler recorded three goals and a helper and junior Maddy Camm tallied three markers.

Camm leads the MAC and is 18th in the nation with 2.00 caused turnovers per game. Kopchia is second in the league and 37th in the nation with 49 goals, while junior Meredith Leavell is third in the MAC and 18th in DI with 140 saves.

Butler is 2-13 on the year and 1-5 in the BIG EAST. The Bulldogs have defeated Central Michigan, 13-12, and Xavier, 16-10.

NEED TO BE ROAD STRONG

The Titans are 37-92 all-time on the road, including 7-26 since 2020. Three of those wins were at Akron, and the others were at Robert Morris, Xavier, Youngstown State, and Winthrop.

TAKE IT AWAY

Detroit Mercy has posted 118 caused turnovers on the year, the 10th most in school history for a single season.
UDM had a season-high 10 at Duquesne, at Pittsburgh, against Marquette, at Canisius, at Lindenwood, and against Kennesaw State.
In fact, the Titans saw Duquesne turn it over 24 times, Lindenwood 19 and KSU 19 times and Pittsburgh, Marquette and Xavier had 18.
The Titans registered double-digit caused turnovers just four times last year.
Detroit Mercy leads the MAC and is 62nd in DI with 7.93 takeaways per game.

HIGH RANKS

Detroit Mercy is currently second in the MAC and 52nd in the nation with 16.3 ground balls per game and fourth in the league and 54th in the country with a .429 save percentage.
The Titans have also averaged 26.7 shots per game and 19.6 shots on goal per game, tops in the league in both stats, and are third in the league in offense at 9.93 goals per game.
UDM is fourth in the conference in scoring defense allowing 13.4 goals per game and just 10.0 in MAC battles.

YES I CAMM CAMM

Junior Maddy Camm continues to shine on both sides of the field as she has added an offensive flare to her game.
Camm just tied her career high for the third time this season with three goals against Kent State to go with a team-high six draw controls, two caused turnovers and three ground balls.
She tied her career high with three caused turnovers, pulled down five draws and had two assists at Akron. She tallied another two caused turnovers and scored a pair of goals against Eastern Michigan and recorded three caused turnovers against Arizona State.
She now has a caused turnover in every game this season, including seven straight and 11 games with two or more.
Camm leads the MAC and is 18th in the nation with 2.00 per game.
She tallied four points on a career-tying three assists and a goal, along with her usual two caused turnovers, four draw controls, and three ground balls against Youngstown State.
Camm recorded her second-straight hat trick with three goals and a career-high 11 draw controls, two caused turnovers and three ground balls in the win over Kennesaw State after three goals, a team-high three ground balls, two draw controls and a caused turnover at Central Michigan.
She has career highs in every statistical category with 34 points, 20 goals, 14 assists, 37 ground balls, 46 draw controls and 30 caused turnovers, with the 30 takeaways tied for fifth in the Titan record book and three shy of fourth.
She leads the team and is fourth in the MAC and 46th in the nation with 2.47 ground balls per game. She also leads the team with 14 assists, is second with 46 draw controls and 34 points and third with 20 goals.
Camm has 53 caused turnovers, 75 draw controls, 74 ground balls with 32 goals and 26 assists in her career.

NINE LIVES

Senior Cat Kopchia just tallied her 12th hat trick of the season and 20th of her career with four goals and five points against Kent State.
She had a team-high four goals against Eastern Michigan and four goals and five points at Robert Morris to earn her second MAC Offensive Player of the Week award.
Kopchia tied her career high with five goals against Youngstown State, posted three at Central Michigan and recorded five goals and a season-best six points at Lindenwood.
Kopchia is now seventh in school history with 143 points on 110 goals and 33 assists, seventh in school history in goals and tied for eighth in assists. On the extra attacker, her 13 women-up goals are second in Titan record book, one away from the top spot.
She currently tops the team with 55 points - second in the MAC - and 49 goals - second in the league and 37th in the nation, career highs in both stats.
She also recorded four goals in the season opener at New Hampshire en route to being named the MAC Offensive Player of the Week, the first Titan to take home that honor since Kaitlyn Wandelt was named the Southern Conference Offensive Player of the Week in 2020.

OUR ALL-MAC IS BACK

Junior Leah Bodnar has picked up the offense as the season has gone on, tallying a hat trick in five of the last seven and six of the last nine games after netting three goals with an assist against Kent State.
She now has nine games in her career with three or more goals.
She found the back of the net three times at Akron and helped the Titans beat Robert Morris on the road with four markers. Against Kennesaw State, she tied her career high with seven points on a career-tying five goals, a career-high four turnovers and picked up four ground balls and registered three markers against Youngstown State.
Bodnar got off to a quick start in the season opener at New Hampshire as she tallied a career-tying three-caused turnovers with three ground balls, two assists and a goal and tallied a season-high three goals and four points at Lindenwood.
She is currently second on the team with 25 goals, third with 33 points, eight assists and 12 caused turnovers and tied for fourth with 22 ground balls
Last year, she was named All-MAC Second Team after finishing third on the squad with 19 goals and tied for fourth with 21 points. She also led the team with 33 draw controls, had 12 ground balls, and caused six turnovers.

NOT IN MY NET

Junior Meredith Leavell did all she could with nine saves and a career-high nine ground balls against Eastern Michigan, the most by a Titan since Allison McDonough's school-record 10 at Stetson in 2017.
She had 12 saves and allowed just nine goals in the win at Robert Morris, her 17th career double-digit save performance.
It was the third time this season and the fourth time in her career that she has allowed less than 10 goals. She posted 14 saves against Youngstown State, including six in the fourth period.
She made a season-high 15 saves against Marquette and registered 12 at Lindenwood.
She is third in the MAC and 18th in DI with 140 saves, third in the league and 17th in the nation with 9.3 saves per game, third in the league and 49th in the country with a .432 save percentage and third in the MAC with a 13.4 goals against average.
She was named the MAC's Defensive Player of the Week after a stellar season opener that saw her record 10 saves with two caused turnovers and a ground ball at New Hampshire.
Leavell is currently fourth in school history with 340 saves, fifth with 8.50 saves per game, third at a .428 save percentage and fourth with a 14.03 goals-against average.
Last year, she led the MAC and was ninth in the nation with 10.36 saves per game as her 145 total stops and 10.36 saves per game were third in the Titan record. Leavell registered double-digit saves in eight games and tallied a career-best 17 saves against Butler at home.

GIVE ME LIBERTY

Sophomore Libby Cuckler just tied her career high with four points on a career-best three goals with a helper versus Kent State.
She tallied a career-high three assists against Eastern Michigan and had four points on two goals and two assists against Kennesaw State.
She recorded a goal and an assist at New Hampshire, two goals - both on the extra attacker - at Duquesne, and recorded a goal and an assist at Canisius.
She has 21 points on 11 goals and 10 helpers after accumulating just two goals and three points in 11 games last season.

OFF THE HOOK

Sophomore Angelina Hook has seen increased playing time this season and has posted 11 ground balls and four caused turnovers.
She just had a caused turnover and two GB's against Kent State and posted two ground balls and two takeaways at Pittsburgh.
Last year, she played in four games and did not record a statistic.

YOU RANG

Graduate senior Marina Butler has scored a goal in nine games this season after a goal against Kent State.
She had a four-point effort with three assists and a goal against Youngstown State and a season-high four points on a goal and three assists against Kennesaw State.
Butler had a goal with two caused turnovers and two GB's against Marquette and a goal with another two takeaways at Lindenwood.
She now has 96 points on 50 goals and 46 assists - fourth in school history - along with 45 ground balls, 25 caused turnovers and nine draw controls.
Last year, she led the team with 17 assists, was third with 30 points and tied for fourth with 13 goals.

A SCHILL OF A TIME

Senior Abby Schillinger pulled down a career-best eight draw controls and scored a goal in the season opener at New Hampshire.
She just scored against Kent State and had a goal and an assist against Eastern Michigan.
Schillinger is tied for third on the team with 16 draw controls, after registering just 15 in her career coming into this season, and now has six goals and seven points on the year after entering with just two goals and two assists.

REPRESENTING PUERTO RICO

Senior Cecelia Vergara had her best collegiate game with a career-best five draw controls against Kent State. She had a career-high three ground balls, a career best two assists as well as a draw control and caused turnover at Duquesne.
She donned a uniform for a few days in November as she was a member of the Puerto Rico National Team at the Pan-American Lacrosse Association (PALA) Sixes Cup in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Players Mentioned

#33 Leah Bodnar: M; 5' 8"; Junior

#12 Marina Butler: A; 5' 8"; Graduate Student

#27 Maddy Camm: M; 5' 7"; Junior

#8 Libby Cuckler: A; 5' 7"; Sophomore

#11 Angelina Hook: D; 5' 7"; Sophomore

#19 Cat Kopchia: A; 5' 2"; Senior

#41 Meredith Leavell: GK; 5' 3"; Junior

#17 Abby Schillinger: M; 5' 7"; Senior

#20 Cecelia Vergara: M; 5' 11"; Senior

Players Mentioned

#33 Leah Bodnar
: 5' 8"; Junior
: M

#12 Marina Butler
: 5' 8"; Graduate Student
: A

#27 Maddy Camm
: 5' 7"; Junior
: M

#8 Libby Cuckler
: 5' 7"; Sophomore
: A

#11 Angelina Hook
: 5' 7"; Sophomore
: D

#19 Cat Kopchia
: 5' 2"; Senior
: A

#41 Meredith Leavell
: 5' 3"; Junior
: GK

#17 Abby Schillinger
: 5' 7"; Senior
: M

#20 Cecelia Vergara
: 5' 11"; Senior
: M