DETROIT (3/30/2025) -- The day started with a celebration of the seven seniors, and at the end, all the Titans had smiles on their faces as the University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team stayed undefeated in MAC play with a 10-8 victory over Akron on Sunday afternoon.
Prior to the game, Detroit Mercy honored their seven seniors in
Katie Bilello,
Leah Bodnar,
Maddy Camm,
Sophie Davis,
Vanessa Evans,
Meredith Leavell and
Brooke Parrillo.
Junior
Alyssa Jarvis led the way with a career-best five goals and pulled down a game-high and tying her season-best with seven draw controls. Camm had two goals, two caused turnovers, five draws, and a game-high and career-tying five ground balls, while junior
Libby Cuckler added a goal and three assists.
Leavell made nine saves, and Davis and Bodnar each had two takeaways, with Bodnar picking up three ground balls and adding a goal and two assists.
The game was tied at 6-6 with 5:52 left in the third as Akron (7-5, 2-1 MAC) just scored twice to knot it up.
That is when Detroit Mercy (5-5, 2-0 MAC) answered with three straight markers to take the lead for good. Cuckler found freshman
Sophia Schwab and she beat the keeper at the 1:50 mark. A draw win by Jarvis gave the Titans the ball back, and after a foul, Bodnar ripped in a goal to tie it at 6-6 with 45 seconds on the clock. Another draw win by Jarvis set up another offensive opportunity in the period as Bodnar fed Cuckler, and she beat the keeper to make it 9-6 heading into the final stanza.
Akron got within two, 9-7, early in the fourth, but Jarvis struck for her fifth a few minutes later off a pass from Bodnar to make it 10-7 with 12:41 remaining.
From there, Leavell made two saves the rest of the way, and Camm ended an Akron possession with a caused turnover as the Titans iced the game away.
Detroit Mercy outshot Akron, 26-21, and won the draws, 13-9. UDM was also 17-of-20 on clears and 3-of-5 on the free position.
It was a back-and-forth affair to start the contest, as Javis opened up the scoring just two minutes into the game. Akron would take a 3-1 lead in the first, but Jarvis and Camm scored in back-to-back fashion with under a minute left to square it at 3-3.
The Zips had a 4-3 lead in the second, but Jarvis picked up a hat trick as her third tied it at 4-4 with 3:09 left, and that was the score at the break.
Jarvis netted her fourth off the free position to put UDM in front, and Camm would score on the free position at the 9:02 mark for a 6-4 advantage before the Zips tallied two straight.
The red, white and blue will now make the short trip to Ypsilanti to battle Eastern Michigan next Sunday, Apr. 6.
Game Notes:
- Detroit Mercy leads the all-time series, 5-2, and is 2-1 at home
- UDM came into the game second in the conference and 31st in the country in free position percentage (.500)
- The Titans have allowed less than 10 goals four times this year, the most since they registered six games of under 10 in 2019
- Jarvis now has five career hat tricks and has a career-high 21 goals on the season
- Jarvis and Camm are now tied for ninth in school history with 121 draw controls
- Camm passed Lauren Webley for sole possession of fourth place in school history with 77 caused turnovers, just five away from third place
- Camm now has caused a turnover in 34 of her last 38 games, including 25 with at least two, grabbed a ground ball in 35 of her last 38, and scored a point in 31 of her last 38, with a goal in 25 contests
- Camm now has 77 caused turnovers, 121 draw controls, 111 ground balls with 51 goals and 41 assists in her career
- Cuckler now has at least three points in four straight games and six times on the year
- Leavell came into the game second in the MAC and fourth in DI with 11.78 saves per game, while her 106 saves are tops in the league and seventh in the nation
- Leavell has allowed less than 10 goals nine times in her career when playing at least 45 minutes
- Leavell now has 503 career saves, third in school history and the fifth most among all active players
- Bodnar now has 74 goals, 25 assists, 99 points, 60 ground balls, 52 draw controls, and 31 caused turnovers
- Davis has posted two caused turnovers four times in her career and now has 18 in her career
