ST. CHARLES, Mo. (4/6/2024) -- Junior
Aidan Bishop tallied a career-high five points and sophomore
Zach Snider posted a career-best four points and helped ignite an 8-0 run as the University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team put down the Lindenwood Lions, 12-8, on the road on Saturday.
The 8-0 spurt was the most by the red, white and blue since the 2022 campaign when they ended a 16-11 victory over VMI with nine in a row.
Bishop tied his career-best with three goals and handed out two assists, to go with four ground balls and a caused turnover. Snider tied his career-high with two goals and had a career-best two assists, while graduate senior
Luke Majick added two goals and two assists and sophomore
Drew Kessenich scored a pair of markers.
Junior
Billy Hart won a career-best 14-of-22 faceoffs and picked up a career-high and team-best seven ground balls, and junior
Ryan Richters made 16 saves in net.
Snider scored the first goal for the Titans (2-7, 2-3 ASUN) on the man-up, but Lindenwood (0-8, 0-5 ASUN) had a 3-1 lead until the 3:40 mark when freshman
Julian Greendeer found Snider and he beat the goalie again for the first of eight-straight markers.
Richers made two saves in the final few minutes and in the second, Bishop tied the game at the 11:55 mark. UDM jumped in front a couple of minutes later as Snider set up freshman
Owen Miller's goal for a 4-3 advantage. Bishop then found freshman
Sean Donahue for a goal and Kessenich followed and it was 6-3 with 4:36 remaining. A faceoff win by Hart got the Titans right back in the offensive zone and Bishop fed Majick to make it 7-3.
Another Hart triumph led to Majick's second score. Right after that, Hart tallied another win and this time junior
Chase Mahabir finished it off for a 9-3 lead at the break.
Lindenwood got two back in the third, but Richters made six saves in the period to keep the lead at 9-5. In the fourth, Bishop had two-straight goals to make it an 11-6 advantage with 10:32 left, and Kessenich put any chance of a Lions' comeback with a marker with under a minute to go.
The Titans outshot Lindenwood, 46-43, and won the ground ball battle, 33-24. They were also 18-of-21 on clears.
Senior
Noah Martin had a caused turnover and a ground ball. Junior
Will Marshall and sophomore
Eoghan Mullett recorded three GB's, while junior
Kyle Grant had two loose ball pick-ups.
The Titans will come home for two straight games, starting with a battle with Jacksonville on Wednesday.
Game Notes:
- The Titans now lead the overall series, 2-0, as they beat the Lions at home last year, 17-16
- Detroit Mercy has won back-to-back games for the first time since 2021
- The eight goals were the fewest allowed by the Titans since a 14-8 win at home against Robert Morris last season
- The 46 shots were the most by the Titans since firing 47 against RMU last year
- The 33 ground balls were one shy of the season-high 34 against Mercer
- Bishop also had three goals against Robert Morris this season and last year, while his previous career high in points was four against VMI earlier this season
- Majick moved past Joel Matthews for ninth in school history with 88 points, while his 53 career goals nudged him ahead of Ryan Birney and Scott Harris into ninth in the record book
- Majick has scored a goal in eight of the nine games this season and 29 of his 39 career games as a Titan
- Kessenich has now scored a goal in five straight games
- Snider also had two goals at Jacksonville and at VMI last season
- Hart's 14 faceoff wins were the most since Connor Baratta was 23-of-29 against VMI in 2022
- Hart's previous high was 10 wins at Jacksonville and at Cleveland State last year, while his high in GB's was five at Air Force and the Vikings
- Ryan Richters now has double-digit saves in all nine games this season, with his season high of 19 at Utah and against Mercer
- Mahabir now has a point in eight straight games
