Detroit Mercy UDM 4-5 (1-0)

Kent State KENTST 5-6 (1-1)

Detroit Mercy UDM

4-5 (1-0)

Final

Mar. 23, 2025

Kent State KENTST

5-6 (1-1)

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	F
Detroit Mercy UDM	2	1	3	7	13
Kent State KENTST	3	3	2	2	10

Summary
Box Score

The Titans had a big comeback win to start MAC play.

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse | 03.23.25

In A Flash, Titans Are Golden Over Kent State To Begin #MACtion

KENT, Ohio (3/23/2025) -- What looked to be a dreary afternoon in Ohio turned into a huge comeback victory as the University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team scored six in a row to down Kent State on the road in its Mid-American Conference opener on Sunday.

Senior Meredith Leavell tallied 17 saves and picked up a school-record 13 ground balls, coming up with 11 stops in the second half to help UDM's comeback effort. The 13 GB's are the most of any player in Division I this season and the most since Stetson's Sidney Heimann had 15 against Iona last year.

Junior Libby Cuckler led the offense with four goals and added an assist and senior Maddy Camm had two goals, an assist, two caused turnovers, two draw controls and five ground balls. Senior Leah Bodnar had two goals and an assist, while junior Alyssa Jarvis posted two goals, a helper and pulled down a team-high seven draws.

Detroit Mercy (4-5, 1-0 MAC) saw Kent State (5-6, 1-1 MAC) take a 6-2 lead in the second and then have an 8-5 lead late in the third when the Titans struck for six in a row across seven minutes of play.

The offensive spurt started with defense as Camm had a takeaway and that led to freshman Jaeda Jensen finding Cuckler for a marker with 40 seconds left in the period. In the fourth, Cuckler came away with a caused turnover and then scored off a pass from Camm to make it an 8-7 game at the 11:01 mark. After a draw control by senior Sophie Davis, Camm got the ball again, and she beat the keeper to knot it at 8-8.

Another draw win, this time by Jarvis, got UDM back on offense, and with the extra attacker, freshman Gabrianna Vasquez fed Cuckler, and her hat trick third goal put the red, white, and blue ahead, 9-8, with 9:49 left.

Camm added to the lead with a free position goal, and Cuckler registered her fourth almost a minute later for an 11-8 advantage with just over eight minutes to go.

Leavell put the game away with four more saves the rest of the way and Bodnar and Jensen posted goals to stop any chance of a Kent State charge.

The Titans were 22-of-23 on clears and were outshot, 33-27, but 23 of their 27 shots were on frame as they peppered the KSU goalie all game long.

Detroit Mercy will return home to host Akron next Sunday, Mar. 30, with first draw set for Noon at Titan Field.

Game Notes:

The Titans have now taken two in a row over Kent State and won at KSU for the first time in school history as the Golden Flashes lead the all-time series, 5-3, 2-1 in Kent
The previous school record holder for ground balls was Allison McDonough, who had 10 at Stetson in 2017
Leavell is now 10th in school history with 129 ground balls, two shy of ninth place
Leavell now has 106 saves on the season and 494 in her career
Leavell came into the game second in the MAC and eighth in DI with 11.1 saves per game, while her 2.88 ground balls were second in the league and 22nd in the country
Leavell has recorded double-digit saves in 27 of her 52 career games, including seven games with 15 or more stops
Jarvis moved to 10th in school history with 114 career draw controls, just two in back of teammate Maddy Camm
Jarvis now has 15 goals and 27 draws in the last seven games
Camm came into the game second in the MAC and 30th in the nation with 1.8 caused turnovers, seventh in the league with 3.75 draws, seventh in the MAC at 2.5 ground balls, and third in the conference with 1.63 assists per game
Camm now has caused a turnover in 33 of her last 37 games, including 24 with at least two and has also grabbed a ground ball in 34 of her last 37, and scored a point in 30 of her last 37, with a goal in 24 contests
Camm tied Lauren Webley for fourth in school history with 75 caused turnovers
Cuckler now has four career hat tricks and three this season
Cuckler already has a career-high 18 goals and 25 points
Bodnar has netted 15 goals in the last seven games, after not posting a marker in the first two games
Bodnar now has 73 goals, 23 assists, 96 points, 57 ground balls, 52 draw controls, and 29 caused turnovers in her career
Davis has now played in 47 games with 37 starts as a standout defender and has 16 caused turnovers and 16 ground balls
Jensen has scored a goal in four straight games

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Scoring Summary
Scoring Play	Home Team Score
1st Period		UDM	KENTST
12:55	UDM - Alyssa Jarvis	1	0
09:27	KENTST - Allie Lee	1	1
06:27	KENTST - Lizzie Lundeen	1	2
05:52	UDM - Alyssa Jarvis Assisted by Libby Cuckler	2	2
01:18	KENTST - Morgan Halli	2	3
2nd Period		UDM	KENTST
10:48	KENTST - Zayda Crumpton	2	4
06:46	KENTST - Riley LaVogue Assisted by Katlyn Binnix	2	5
06:11	KENTST - Katlyn Binnix	2	6
04:41	UDM - Tunie Mullen Assisted by Alyssa Jarvis	3	6
3rd Period		UDM	KENTST
13:55	UDM - Sophia Schwab Assisted by Leah Bodnar	4	6
13:17	KENTST - Zayda Crumpton	4	7
03:47	UDM - Leah Bodnar	5	7
03:17	KENTST - Lizzie Lundeen	5	8
00:40	UDM - Libby Cuckler Assisted by Jaeda Jensen	6	8
4th Period		UDM	KENTST
11:00	UDM - Libby Cuckler Assisted by Maddy Camm	7	8
10:34	UDM - Maddy Camm	8	8
09:49	UDM - Libby Cuckler Assisted by Gabrianna Vasquez	9	8
09:08	UDM - Maddy Camm	10	8
08:12	UDM - Libby Cuckler	11	8
06:49	KENTST - Zayda Crumpton	11	9
02:41	UDM - Leah Bodnar	12	9
00:40	UDM - Jaeda Jensen	13	9
00:26	KENTST - Morgan Halli Assisted by Peyton Gellin	13	10