DETROIT (4/5/2024) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team will look to stay in the hunt for a regular-season championship as the Titans entertain Eastern Michigan on Sunday. 

Game time is set for 1:00 p.m., at Titan Field and will be broadcast live on ESPN+, with Steven MacDonald on the call. A live stats feed will also be available. 

The Titans have won three of the last four, including a pair of conference wins. They fell to Arizona State their last time out, but prior to that, the red, white and blue won at Robert Morris, 12-9.

The reigning MAC Offensive Player of the Week Cat Kopchia leads the team and is second in the conference with 42 points as well as tied for second in the MAC with EMU's Mackenzie Blackwell at 38 goals. Junior Maddy Camm tops the team and the league with 23 caused turnovers, while junior Meredith Leavell is third in the MAC and sixth in Division I with 117 saves.

Eastern Michigan is 5-5 on the season and 2-0 in the league after an 11-10 road win at Akron and a 12-11 victory over Kent State.

VS. EASTERN MICHIGAN

• Eastern Michigan is in just its second year of varsity competition, as the Titans and Eagles split last year's meetings. 
• Detroit Mercy won the first-ever match-up at home, 17-7, while EMU claimed a 17-12 decision in Ypsilanti. 

TAKE IT AWAY

• Detroit Mercy has posted 98 caused turnovers on the year, with a season-high of 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 56th in the nation with 8.2 takeaways per game.

HIGH RANKS

• Detroit Mercy is currently third in the MAC and 59th in DI with 15.8 ground balls per game and second in the league and 47th in the country with a .434 save percentage.
• The Titans have also averaged 26.8 shots per game and 19.5 shots on goal per game, tops in the MAC in both stats.   

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 finished with three caused turnovers against Arizona State and now has a caused turnover in every game this season, including four straight and eight games with two or more.
• She leads the MAC and is 24th in the nation with 1.92 per game.  
• She had another multi-point game with a goal, two assists,two caused turnovers and a ground ball at Robert Morris and 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.
• Camm posted a career-best four points, a career-high three assists, five draw controls, two caused turnovers and a team-best three ground balls at Lindenwood.
• She has career highs in every statistical category. 
• She leads the team and is fourth in the MAC and 44th in the nation with 31 ground balls and 2.58 per game.  
• She also leads the team with 12 assists, is second with 35 draw controls, 27 points and fourth with 15 goals.  
• Camm has 45 caused turnovers, 66 draw controls, 69 ground balls with 27 goals and 24 assists in her career.

NINE LIVES

• Senior Cat Kopchia had a goal against Arizona State after registering eight-straight hat tricks. She has nine games on the year with three or more goals and 17th in her career 
• She tallied 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 ninth in school history with 129 points on 99 goals and 31 assists, seventh in school history in goals and ninth in assists. On the extra attacker, her 11 women-up goals are second in Titan record book. 
• She currently tops the team with 42 points - second in the MAC - and 38 goals - second in the league and 33rd in the nation, career highs in both stats. 
• Kopchia had three goals at Xavier, five points on three goals and two assists with two ground balls, and two caused turnovers at Canisius and three goals against Marquette. 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 been unstoppable in the offensive zone the last four games, tallying a hat trick in three of them.
• She had an assist against Arizona State after helping the Titans beat Robert Morris on the road with four goals.
• She now has four hat tricks on the season and seven in her career. 
• 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 tied for third on the team with 19 ground balls, third with 11 caused turnovers and 25 points and second with 18 goals and seven assists. 
• 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 had another great effort with 12 saves and allowing just nine goals in the win at Robert Morris, her 17th career double-digit save performance. 
• It was the third time in the last four games 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 sixth in DI with 117 saves, third in the league and 12th in the nation with 9.7 saves per game, second in the league and 48th in the country with a .438 save percentage and third in the MAC with a 14.1 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 and posted 14 at Xavier and 13 at Duquesne. 
• Leavell is currently fourth in school history with 313 saves, fourth with 8.69 saves per game, third at a .435 save percentage and fourth with a 14.06 goals-against average.
• Last year, she led the MAC and was ninth in the nation with 10.36 saves per game as well as led the conference and 18th in the country with 2.86 ground balls per game.
• Her 145 total stops and 10.36 saves per game were third in the Titan record book, while her 40 total GB's and 145 saves were the third most in the league. Leavell registered double-digit saves in eight games and tallied a career-best 17 saves against Butler at home earlier in the year, tied for 10th in school history, along with five ground balls.  

YOU RANG

• Graduate senior Marina Butler has scored a goal in eight games this season after notching two strikes at Robert Morris.
• She had a four-point effort with three assists and a goal against Youngstown State. She had a season-high four points on a goal and three assists against Kennesaw State and scored twice at Xavier.
• 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 93 points on 49 goals and 44 assists - fourth in school history - along with 44 ground balls, 23 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. 
• Butler tied her career-high with five points on three goals and two assists against Eastern Michigan. She also handed out a season-high three assists and scored a goal against Lindenwood and tied her season-high with three assists at Akron and at Eastern Michigan. 

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 and added four draws at Duquesne and two at Pittsburgh. 
• Schillinger is third on the team with 16 draw controls after registering just 15 in her career coming into this season. 

OUR WASHINGTON TITAN

• Sophomore Alyssa Jarvis, the first Titan from the state of Washington, had a solid rookie campaign last year and has improved in all areas, especially in the draw as she leads the team with 50 and is fourth in the MAC and 78th in DI with 4.17 per game. 
• Jarvis now has 45 draw controls in the last eight games as she had a team-high three with a goal at Robert Morris/ She grabbed six with three goals and two GB's against Youngstown State.
• She had eight draws, two goals and four ground balls against Kennesaw State and that was after pulling down a career-best 11 at Central Michigan, the most by a Titan since Elise Harder had 11 against Kent State in 2022. 
• Prior to that, she recorded six draw controls with a goal and a ground ball at Lindenwood and back-to-back games with five draw controls at Xavier and at Canisius. 
• Jarvis has scored a goal in 11 games and is third on the team with 16 goals and fourth with 18 points to go with 19 ground balls, tied for the third most.
• She netted multi-goal games with two markers at New Hampshire and at Canisius, and picked up a career-best four GB's with a goal and caused turnover at Pitt. 
• She played in 14 games with 12 starts as a freshman and was sixth on the team with 10 goals and tied for sixth with 13 points. She was also fourth on the squad with 18 draw controls and had 12 ground balls and four caused turnovers. 
• She scored two goals on her first two collegiate shots at Xavier. Jarvis posted a season-best three goals with two draw controls and a ground ball against Robert Morris and pulled down a season-high five draw controls and had a goal and ground ball against Kent State.

ALL 3 BACK AT D

• The Titans' starting defensive unit will be led by a trio of returning starters from last season in graduate senior Kiah Nuessgen and juniors Katie Bilello and Sophie Davis.
• Nuessgen has been a starter since he stepped foot on campus, playing in 50 games with 48 starts and posting 28 caused turnovers and 53 ground balls, including a career-high 10 caused turnovers and 19 GB's last season.
• Bilello as seen action in 40 games with 33 starts and had a career-best three caused turnovers against Marquette and a caused turnover and three GB's versus Arizona State. Last season, she registered 17 caused turnovers and 34 ground balls. 
• Davis has appeared in 32 games with 22 starts and tied her career best with a pair of takeaways at Central Michigan. She also had a caused turnover at Xavier, a caused turnover and a ground ball against the Golden Eagles and two GB's at Lindenwood. 

OUR PRESIDENT

• Senior Sarah Meek not only holds the distinction of being one of the captains, but she also serves as President of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
• Meek picked up a career-best seven ground balls with two caused turnovers and a draw control at Xavier, the most GB's by a Titan since 2019.
• She had five ground balls and three caused turnovers at Duquesne and matched that effort with three caused turnovers and two GB's at Pittsburgh and three more takeaways and GB's at Canisius. 
• She is second on the team with 20 ground balls as well as second on the team with 13 caused turnovers.
• A three-time member of the Athletic Director Honor Roll and a two-time member of the MAC All-Academic Team, Meek tied for the team lead with a career-high 27 draw controls and also posted a career-best 10 points, tying her career-high with seven goals and adding nine ground balls and three caused turnovers.
• She recorded a career-high seven draw controls with a ground ball at Marquette and scored a career-best two goals with two draw controls and a ground ball against Lindenwood. 
• In her career, she has 52 draw controls, 32 ground balls, 16 caused turnovers and 19 points on 14 goals and five assists.