Men's Lacrosse 02.19.25

@UDMLAX Heads To Bellarmine On Saturday

Men's Lacrosse 02.19.25

@UDMLAX Heads To Bellarmine On Saturday

Senior Eoghan Mullett and the Titans will look for their second-straight win at Bellarmine.

DETROIT (2/19/2025) -- After a week off, the University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team will get back on the road as the Titans travel to Louisville, Kentucky, to meet Bellarmine on Saturday.

Game time is set for Noon and will be broadcast live on ESPN+.

Detroit Mercy is 0-2 on the season, with setbacks at Ohio State and at Marquette.

Three Titans top the squad with two goals in senior Caden Loken, redshirt freshman Marcus Thundercloud and freshman Zach Gleason. Junior Kyle Grant leads the team with seven caused turnovers, while senior Ryan Richters has made 29 saves in the two contests.

Bellarmine is 2-3 on the year and is coming off a 16-10 loss at Cleveland State.

BORN AND RAISED IN MICHIGAN

While the Titans recruit nationally - witnessed by 14 states plus Canada on their 46-man roster - there is no arguing that Detroit Mercy loves to keep players in its home state, as 25 of its 46 players hail from the Great Lakes State.
Next up is California and Wisconsin with three, Ohio and Illinois with two and one apiece from Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington, along with two from Canada (2).

A NEW HOME IN 2025

Detroit Mercy accepted an invitation to join the Northeast Conference (NEC).
After a two-year hiatus, NEC commissioner Noreen Morris announced that the NEC reinstated men's lacrosse as the league's 25th championship sport for the 2024-25 academic year.
The league will feature four full-time members in Mercyhurst, Le Moyne, LIU and Wagner, along with affiliates Detroit Mercy, Cleveland State, Robert Morris and VMI.
The Titans were members of the MAAC from 2010-2021 and the Atlantic Sun from 2022-24.

ALL-TIME SERIES

Detroit Mercy and Bellarmine have met 15 times as the Knights lead the all-time series, 9-6.
UDM is 3-4 on the road in the match-up, taking last year's battle as ASUN rivals 18-10.

All-Time Series
Feb. 14, 2009 @ Louisville, KY L, 18-8
Feb. 6, 2010 @ Pontiac, MI L, 12-8
Feb. 12, 2011 @ Louisville, KY L, 9-6
Apr. 21, 2012 @ Detroit, MI L, 9-8
Mar. 5, 2013 @ Louisville, KY L, 10-4
Mar. 4, 2014 @ Pontiac, MI L, 12-8
Mar. 1, 2015 @ Louisville, KY W, 14-11
Mar. 4, 2016 @ Columbus, OH L, 7-6
Mar. 3, 2017 @ Milwaukee, WI W, 13-10
Mar. 2, 2018 @ Pontiac, MI W, 11-5
Mar. 2, 2019 @ Louisville, KY W, 15-14
Feb. 18, 2020 @ Pontiac, MI W, 20-13
Apr. 16, 2022 @ Louisville, KY L, 13-8
Apr. 22, 2023 @ Detroit, MI L, 18-3
Apr. 20, 2024 @ Louisville, KY W, 18-10

I KNOW YOU

Detroit Mercy and Bellarmine have played every year - outside of the pandemic-shortened season of 2021 - since the Titans started their program in 2009.
This will be the 16th meeting, the most against any opponent in school history, ahead of the 14 versus Marist.
Most of the meetings have been as non-conference rivals, but both programs were in the ASUN from 2022-24.

LAST YEAR'S MEETING

Three Titans tallied hat tricks and UDM scored a school-record 10-straight goals at one point in an 18-10 road victory.
Chase Mahabir had four goals and an assist, a career-high in points for Mahabir, and Aidan Bishop had three goals and a helper, while Sean Donahue netted two markers.
Ryan Richters made 18 saves in net, one shy of his season high. Sean Henige registered two caused turnovers and four ground balls, and junior Billy Hart won 9-of-22 faceoffs and picked up four GBs.
Bellarmine started the game by scoring the first three goals and led 6-2 after the first.
The Titans responded with back-to-back goals by Bishop, helped by two faceoff wins by Hart, to pull within two, 6-4, but Bellarmine scored to make it a 7-4 game at the 12:43 mark.
That is when the red, white and blue went on an offensive fury, scoring 10-0 straight to take control of the contest for a 9-7 advantage at the break and a 14-7 lead at the 9:46 mark of the third.
Bellarmine was within five at 15-10 with 12:40 remaining, but the Titans ended the game with three straight markers.
The Titans were 14-of-16 on clears and held Bellarmine to 0-6 on the extra-man attack.

WEARING THE BIG "C"

Seniors Aidan Bishop and Chase Mahabir and junior Kyle Grant received the high honor of leading the Titans.
"After careful consideration and evaluation of our group over the last 4-5 months, these three guys have emerged as leaders for our team," said head coach Charlie Hayes '18. "As we head into a new season and new chapter in our program, it was very important that we found leaders that embodied great work ethic, discipline, commitment, and buy-in. These three have embodied these values on a consistent basis. They have shown time and time again that they lead by example through their play, work ethic and support for their teammates."

GLEASON'S OUR MAN

Freshman Zach Gleason had himself a fine collegiate debut, finding the back of the net twice at Ohio State.
He had a team-high five shots, with four on net, all in front of friends and family as he was an All-American, All-Region and the Midfielder of the Year as a senior at Loveland in Ohio.

I WANT THE BALL

Junior Kyle Grant started the year with his best collegiate game, tallying a career-high six caused turnovers and seven ground balls in the season opener at Ohio State and added a caused turnover at Marquette.
The six caused turnovers are tied for second in school history, behind the seven Jamie Hebden had against VMI in 2013.
The last Titan to have six caused turnovers in a game was current head coach Charlie Hayes, who had six against Bellarmine in 2018.
He was named a Prime Time performer by the NEC and was also named to the USILA Lacrosse Team of the Week.
Grant played in all 13 games with 10 starts last season and tallied five caused turnovers and 19 ground balls.

GUARDING THE NET

Senior Ryan Richters started the year the way he ended last season, making double-digit saves, as he stopped 16 shots with three ground balls and a caused turnover at Ohio State and followed that up with 13 saves, three GBs, and a takeaway at Marquette.
He is already fifth in school history with 216 saves.
Last season, he tallied double-digit saves in all 13 games, posting 187 total saves, tied for 17th in the country, and was second in the school record book, just 15 shy of the single-season mark.
His 14.38 saves per game led the Atlantic Sun and was third in Division I.
He registered a season-high 19 saves with a season-best six GB's against Mercer and 19 saves with five ground balls at Utah. He also made 18 saves in a big road win at Bellarmine and had back-to-back games allowing less than 10 goals and as he made 16 stops in a 12-8 road win at Lindenwood and allowed a season-low seven goals with 12 saves in a 12-7 triumph over Queens.
Prior to his arrival in the Motor City, he played for Team Latvia at the 2023 World Lacrosse Championships and was nominated to the All-World Team.
Behind him is senior Jakob Hemme and sophomore Christian Tucker.
Hemme ranks fourth in school history with 271 saves and second with 12.9 saves per game, but did not see any action last season. As a sophomore, he topped the ASUN and was 19th in the nation with 12.45 saves per game, fifth in school history, and also tied a school record with 28 saves at Michigan as a freshman.
Tucker has yet to appear in a regular season game.

KING ME

Senior Aidan Bishop picked up an assist in the season opener at Ohio State.
He is the leading returning scorer after recording a career-high 26 points, second with a career-best 21 goals, and picking up a career-high 27 ground balls, third on the team, last season.
He scored a goal in 10 games, with multi-goal outings in eight and three hat tricks.
He posted two goals and a career-high five ground balls with a caused turnover at Ohio State. Bishop tied his career-high with three goals at Robert Morris and had another career-tying three goals and a career-high five points with four GB's at Lindenwood. He also found the back of the net three times at Bellarmine.
In his career, he has now played in 39 games with 36 starts and has 39 goals, 12 assists, 61 GB's and 11 caused turnovers.

I WILL TAKE A HENIGE

Senior Sean Henige was back in the stat sheet at Marquette as he posted a caused turnover and three ground balls.
Last season, he appeared in all 13 games with 12 starts last year, leading the team with 16 caused turnovers and finishing fourth with 26 ground balls.
Overall, he was seventh in the ASUN with 1.23 caused turnovers per game.
He tallied three caused turnovers and a career-high seven ground balls against VMI and tied his career-high with three takeaways and two ground balls at Ohio State. Henige had another three caused turnovers with a ground ball and his first collegiate goal at Utah.
In his two years, he has started 26 of the team's 28 games and has 27 caused turnovers and 49 ground balls.

WHAT'S THAT NOISE

Redshirt freshman Marcus Thundercloud missed last season with a knee injury and finally made his collegiate debut at Ohio State in the season opener.
But it was at Marquette where he will always remember his first two collegiate goals on three shots.

ROLLING 6'S

Graduate senior Ally Don Jean-Francois played in just 12 games coming into the season, but has played in both this year, scoring his first collegiate goal at Marquette.

MR. MARSHALL TO YOU

Senior Will Marshall has had a good start to the season.
He started the year with a takeaway and three ground balls at Ohio State and had two more CT's and a GB at Marquette.
Last year, he had two caused turnovers and three ground balls at #16/14 Rutgers, recorded a goal, caused turnover and ground ball at Utah, and posted a career-high three caused turnovers with three GB's and a goal against Queens
He has played in 37 career games and has four goals, 13 caused turnovers and 36 ground balls.

HARD WORK PAYS OFF

Senior Caden Loken did not see any action in his first three season, but after making his collegiate debut at Ohio State, he scored his first two goals at Marquette.
Loken's older brother, Kyle, was a five-year letterwinner from 2020-24 and a three-time captain as a defensive midfielder.

PARKING IT HERE

Freshman Andrew Parker did not play in the season opener at Ohio State, but on his first-ever shot at Marquette, he beat the keeper for his first collegiate goal.
He also added a caused turnover and ground ball.

THAT'S RIGHT I SAID OWEN

Junior Eoghan Mullett - pronounced Owen - was third on the team with eight caused turnovers and seventh with 21 ground balls last season.
He scored his first collegiate goal at #16/14 Rutgers, where he also had three ground balls and a caused turnover and had a takeaway and three GB's at Ohio State. He also posted a career-best three caused turnovers with a ground ball against Mercer.
In his first year with the team after transferring from Bryant, 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 and 11th with 1.08 caused turnovers per contest.

ANOTHER DONAHUE IN THE MIX

Sophomore Sean Donahue scored a goal in the season opener at Ohio State.
He earned a spot on the ASUN All-Freshman Team last season after seeing action in all 13 games with 11 starts and was fifth on the team with 17 points and tied for fourth with 15 goals. He also picked up 17 ground balls and scored a goal in nine games, including hat tricks in two contests.
He posted a season-high four points on three goals and an assist, along with two ground balls, at Ohio State and tallied three goals at Robert Morris.
His sister played on the women's lacrosse team for four years and just graduated in 2024.

SHOWING SOME LOVE AT THE FACEOFFS

Senior Billy Hart is off to a slow start like last season, but is fourth in school history with 179 faceoff wins and ninth at winning 40.7%.
Last season, he led the team with a career-best 44 ground balls and 77 faceoff wins, as his 3.67 ground balls per game was good for sixth in the Atlantic Sun.
He was 77-of-178 at faceoffs for a career-high .433 win percentage, but after starting the year 22-of-74 (.297) in his first seven games, but ended the season 55-of-104 (.528) in his last five games.
He won 14-of-22 faceoffs with seven ground balls at Lindenwood and came back the following game with 11 wins and seven GB's against Jacksonville. He ended the year with one of the best days in school history, going a career-best 17-of-24, tied for the 10th most wins in school history, with a career-high nine ground balls against Cleveland State.

CHASING YOU DOWN

Senior Chase Mahabir had a breakout season last year as he was fourth on the team with 21 points and third with 17 goals, all career highs. He attempted 54 shots with 38 on frame for a .704 shots on goal percentage and scored a goal in nine games, and recorded a point in 10.
He started a five-game scoring streak with a goal against VMI, at #16/14 Rutgers and at Ohio State and posted his first career hat trick with three goals against Mercer.
Mahabir netted a career-best four goals with a caused turnover at Robert Morris and recorded a career-high five points on a career-tying four goals at Bellarmine.

HAVE YOURSELF A GAME SNIDER

Junior Canadian Zach Snider started the season with a goal at Ohio State and added an assist at Marquette.
He played in 10 games with five starts last season and registered 10 points on five goals and five assists. He also led the team with three man-up goals.
After going scoreless in his first five games, he tallied a career-high four points on two goals and two assists at Lindenwood and found the back of the net twice versus Cleveland State.

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Players Mentioned

#10 Aidan Bishop: A; 5' 8"; Senior

#50 Sean Donahue: A; 5' 8"; Sophomore

#4 Kyle Grant: D; 6' 5"; Junior

#2 Billy Hart: MF/FO; 5' 5"; Senior

#3 Jakob Hemme: G; 6' 0"; Senior

#44 Sean Henige: D; 6' 3"; Senior

#19 Ally Don Jean-Francois: MF; 5' 11"; Graduate Student

#32 Caden Loken: MF; 6' 2"; Senior

#24 Chase Mahabir: MF/A; 5' 11"; Senior

#25 Will Marshall: MF/DM; 6' 2"; Senior

Players Mentioned

#10 Aidan Bishop
: 5' 8"; Senior
: A

#50 Sean Donahue
: 5' 8"; Sophomore
: A

#4 Kyle Grant
: 6' 5"; Junior
: D

#2 Billy Hart
: 5' 5"; Senior
: MF/FO

#3 Jakob Hemme
: 6' 0"; Senior
: G

#44 Sean Henige
: 6' 3"; Senior
: D

#19 Ally Don Jean-Francois
: 5' 11"; Graduate Student
: MF

#32 Caden Loken
: 6' 2"; Senior
: MF

#24 Chase Mahabir
: 5' 11"; Senior
: MF/A

#25 Will Marshall
: 6' 2"; Senior
: MF/DM