Men's Lacrosse 04.10.25

UDM Looks To Stay In Playoff Hunt With Wagner In Town On Saturday

Men's Lacrosse 04.10.25

UDM Looks To Stay In Playoff Hunt With Wagner In Town On Saturday

Senior Nolan Graalman and the Titans will look to make it two in a row this weekend.

DETROIT (4/11/2025) -- Off its first-ever Northeast Conference victory, the University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team will look to make it two in a row and stay in the mix for the postseason as the Titans meet Wagner on Saturday.

Game time is set for Noon and is part of a UDM doubleheader as the women's team battles Robert Morris at 3:00 p.m. The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Steven MacDonald '23 on the call.

At halftime, the red, white and blue will present the annual John Conti Letterman of Distinction Award to men's lacrosse alum Greg Marzec '17.

While the Titans stand at just 2-6 overall and 1-3 in the NEC, the red, white, and blue are still alive for a spot in the postseason if they were to win out, and depending on how things shake out, they may not even need help from others.

The Titans downed VMI last week in overtime, 10-9, as they ended the game on a 6-0 run. Redshirt freshman Marcus Thundercloud tallied another hat trick with three goals and an assist for his second-straight NEC Rookie of the Week honor. Senior Ryan Richters made 13 saves, and junior Kyle Grant and freshman Ian Greenwell combined for seven caused turnovers and 11 ground balls from their defensive position.

Wagner is 1-10 on the season and 1-3 in the league, with its lone win a 12-11 contest at home in overtime against LIU.

After the game, the Titans will stay at home and host Mercyhurst next Saturday night.

ALL-TIME SERIES

This is the third career meeting between the two schools, who were rivals in the MAAC in 2010.
Detroit Mercy has won the first two meetings, 14-7 at home in 2010 and 9-8 on the road in 2014.

HIGH GRADES

Detroit Mercy comes into the contest second in the NEC and 20th in the nation with 8.7 caused turnovers per game.
The Titans have four games on the year with double-digit takeaways, with 12 at Hampton, 11 at Ohio State and at Bellarmine, and 10 last week at VMI.
UDM is also fourth in the league and 26th in the country with a .867 clearing percentage

GUARDING THE NET

Senior Ryan Richters was stellar in net last week, helping the Titans post their first NEC victory with 13 saves at VMI.
He made eight saves in the second half, a key one in overtime and allowed just two goals in the final 39 minutes of play.
Against other NEC foes, Richters had a career-high 21 saves at LIU, tied for the fourth most in school history, and 13 saves versus Robert Morris.
He started the season making double-digit saves, as he stopped 16 shots with three ground balls and a caused turnover at Ohio State.
He had 13 saves, three GBs, and a takeaway at Marquette, 13 saves with a career-high three caused turnovers at Bellarmine and 10 saves, allowing a career-low five goals, at Hampton.
Richters is second in the NEC and 10th in the nation with 13.3 saves per game and fourth in the league with a .527 save percentage.
He is fourth in school history with 293 saves and has recorded double-digit stops in 20 of the 21 games he has played in.
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.
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.
Sophomore Cooper St. Clair made his collegiate debut at Bellarmine, playing the final 2:39, and saw the last minutes of play last week at Le Moyne, while sophomore Christian Tucker made his collegiate debut against Robert Morris and made two stops in eight minutes.

WHAT'S THAT NOISE

Redshirt freshman Marcus Thundercloud has been named the NEC Rookie of the Week in back-to-back weeks.
He just had his second-straight hat trick, finishing with three goals and an assist at VMI, where he scored the first goal and the game-winner in overtime in a 6-0 run.
The week before, he tallied a season-high four goals against Le Moyne.
He is the first Titan freshman honored with an award since Will Edell was the MAAC Rookie of the Week on Mar. 31, 2021, and the first Titan to receive a conference weekly award since Ryan Birney was the ASUN Player of the Week on Feb. 7, 2023.
He missed last year with an injury, and after playing in the season opener at Ohio State, he scored his first two goals at Marquette, and added a pair of strikes at LIU.

I WANT THE BALL

Junior Kyle Grant started the year tallying a career-high six caused turnovers and seven ground balls in the season opener at Ohio State.
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 for that effort at OSU.
Last week, he led a tough Titan defense in the 10-9 overtime win at VMI, ending with four caused turnovers and five ground balls. Three of those takeaways were in the second half.
Grant had two takeaways and a team-high four ground balls against Le Moyne, and two caused turnovers and a team-high four GB's against Robert Morris.
Grant played in all 13 games last season and tallied five caused turnovers and 19 GBs, but he already has 18 takeaways and 30 ground balls this season.
He is currently leading the NEC and fifth in DI at 2.25 caused turnovers per game and sixth in the NEC and 60th in DI with 3.75 GB's per game.

KING ME

Senior Aidan Bishop recorded a goal and an assist last week at VMI and now has scored a point in seven games and a goal in four of them.
He picked up an assist in the season opener at Ohio State and then tallied five goals in three games, coming up with a pair at Bellarmine and at Hampton and a marker at home against Robert Morris.
He was 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.
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 ground balls at Lindenwood.
In his career, he has now played in 45 games with 42 starts and has 45 goals, 15 assists, 67 GB's, and 12 caused turnovers.

CHASING YOU DOWN

Senior Chase Mahabir recorded his first points of the season with two assists at Bellarmine and has tallied hat tricks with three goals and an assist at Hampton and at LIU.
Last week at VMI, he scored a goal - which tied the game at 9-9 with a minute left - and added two helpers.
He now has five hat tricks in his career and has found the back of the net in four of the last five games.
He had a breakout season last year as he was fourth on the team with 21 points and third with 17 goals, all career highs, scoring a goal in nine games, and recording a point in 10.
He posted his first career hat trick with three goals against Mercer, 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.

MR. MARSHALL TO YOU

Senior Will Marshall has had a good start to the season, with a takeaway and three ground balls at Ohio State. He then had two more CT's and a GB at Marquette and a caused turnover and career-high four ground balls at Bellarmine.
He just scored his first goal of the season at VMI.
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 43 career games and has five goals, 15 caused turnovers and 43 ground balls.

HAVE YOURSELF A DAY

Freshman Canton Lanham came into the game at Hampton just 10-of-35 in faceoffs in the first three games, but he was a force against the Pirates, going 12-of-18 with four GB's.
The 12 wins are the most by a Titan freshman since Alex Jarzembowski was 14-of-21 at Robert Morris in 2017.
At LIU, he was 12-of-20 with a season-high five ground balls, won 5-of-12 against Le Moyne, and tied his season-best with a 12-of-20 mark and five GB's in the win at VMI.
He is now 46-of-86 (53.4%) in the last five games after starting the year 10-of-35 (28.5%).

OUR GREEN WALL

Freshman Ian Greenwell has started seven of the eight games as a rookie and has recorded a ground ball in seven games and a caused turnover in five of them.
He is coming off his best game so far with three caused turnovers and six ground balls at VMI.
Greenwell is now tied for second on the team with eight caused turnovers and 20 ground balls.
In his collegiate debut at Ohio State, he had three ground balls. He posted two caused turnovers and two ground balls at Hampton, a takeaway and three GB's against RMU and a caused turnover and two ground balls versus Le Moyne.

THICK SKIN

Senior Harold Skinner moved into the starting line-up at Hampton and finished with a goal, an assist, a caused turnover, and two ground balls. He came back with a goal against Robert Morris, a career-high four points on two goals and two assists at LIU and found the back of the nat once at VMI.
Skinner has battled some injuries, limiting him to 22 games, where he has nine goals and four assists.

THAT'S RIGHT I SAID OWEN

Junior Eoghan Mullett - pronounced Owen - has four games on the season with a caused turnover and five picking up a ground ball.
He had two takeaways and two ground balls at LIU, collected three ground balls against Robert Morris, and posted a caused turnover at Bellarmine.
Mullett 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, Mullett 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.

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 and had two GB's and two takeaways at Bellarmine.
At LIU, he scooped up a season-high five GB's at LIU and just had a caused turnover and ground ball at VMI.
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.
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 three years, he has started 31 of the team's 33 games and has 30 caused turnovers and 57 ground balls.

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 has now scored a goal in five of his seven games after tallying another at VMI.
Parker had a takeaway and two ground balls at Bellarmine, found the back of the net with three GB's at Hampton, a goal and two ground balls against Robert Morris, and another marker against Le Moyne.

SHOW ME SOME LOVE

Senior Billy Hart is fourth in school history with 194 faceoff wins and ninth at winning 41.1%.
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 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, with a career-high nine ground balls against Cleveland State.

LEAVE IT UP TO THE CREATOR

Sophomore Julian Greendeer played in 11 games as a rookie, recording an assist at Marquette, but at Hampton, he tallied his first-ever goal in the win and added a helper last week against Robert Morris.
He scored his second goal at LIU and added another at VMI.

NOLAN'S OUR MAN

Senior Nolan Graalman got into the scoring column with a goal and an assist at Bellarmine and added another at LIU and at VMI.
Graalman started all nine games he played in and posted nine points on the strength of eight goals.
He registered two goals at Utah and found the back of the net twice against Queens.
In his career, he has played in 39 games and has 32 goals and 36 points, with 15 goals and 16 points as a sophomore.

ZACH ATTACK

Freshman Zach Gleason had 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 as a senior at Loveland in Ohio.
He had another multi-goal effort with a pair of markers at Hampton.

HARD WORK PAYS OFF

Senior Caden Loken did not see any action in his first three seasons, 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 SSDM.

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