Women's Lacrosse 04.24.25

Women's Lacrosse Looks For Playoff Opportunity On Sunday

Women's Lacrosse 04.24.25

Women's Lacrosse Looks For Playoff Opportunity On Sunday

DETROIT (4/24/2025) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team will look to do exactly what they did last season - win its final home game to get into the playoffs - as the Titans host Central Michigan on Sunday.

Game time is set for Noon and will be broadcast live on ESPN+, with Steven MacDonald '23 on the call.

The Titans come into the game at 5-8 overall and 2-3 in the MAC, while Central Michigan is 5-9, 3-2 in league play, as both teams need a victory to clinch a playoff spot with a win.

A win could have the Titans rise to the No. 3 seed if Akron loses to Robert Morris, where UDM would play Eastern Michigan in the semifinals, at RMU. A win coupled with an Akron victory will have the Titans at No. 4 and will play top-seeded Akron in the semifinals, at Akron.

Last season, UDM defeated Kent State, 15-11, in its final MAC regular season contest to earn the fourth seed, where the red, white and blue made a run to the championship.

LET'S TALK PLAYOFFS

It is pretty simple for the Titans - WIN - the same spot they were in last year when they defeated Kent State, 15-11, in its final MAC regular season.
A win could have the Titans rise to the No. 3 seed if Akron loses to Robert Morris, where UDM would play Eastern Michigan in the semifinals, at RMU.
A win coupled with an Akron victory will have the Titans at No. 4 and will play top-seeded Akron in the semifinals, at Akron.

VS. CENTRAL MICHIGAN

The Titans ended a seven-game losing streak to Central Michigan when Detroit Mercy upset the top-seeded Chippewas in the MAC Championship semifinals last season.
All 12 meetings have come as conference rivals in the Atlantic Sun, Southern Conference, or the Mid-American Conference.
CMU leads the all-time series, 7-5, and is 3-2 in the Motor City, winning the last three meetings at Titan Field.

Series History
3/30/16 - Home - W, 13-8
4/29/17 - Away - W, 17-12
4/28/18 - Home - W, 17-9
4/27/19 - Away - W, 10-9
3/7/21 - Away - L, 4-17
5/3/21 - Home - L, 7-20
3/2/22 - Away - L, 6-18
4/9/22 - Home - L, 9-18
3/29/23 - Away - L, 8-13
4/15/23 - Home - L, 8-20
3/17/24 - Away - L, 8-9
5/2/24 - Away (MAC SF) - W, 11-10

BRING IT DOWN & PUT IT IN

Junior Alyssa Jarvis has raised her game offensively this season and is one of the MAC's main threats at winning the draw.
She just tied her career high with five goals and tied for the team lead with five draw controls at Youngstown State. The week before, she grabbed a season-high nine draw controls against Robert Morris, while scoring a goal.
Jarvis was named the MAC Offensive Player of the Week after scorching Akron for five goals and pulling down seven draw controls.
She has now scored a goal in 12 of the 13 games this season and in 11 straight.
Jarvis is tied for the team lead with a career-best 29 goals, is fourth with 30 points, and has seen 43 of her 52 shots on net (82.7%). She ranks first in the conference and 25th in the nation in shooting percentage (.558). Her 53 draws top the squad, while her 4.08 draw controls per game are sixth in the league.
She is currently fourth in school history with 3.07 draw controls per game and has 138 draws in her career, eighth in school history.
Earlier this season, she had a team-high seven draw controls with two goals and an assist at Kent State.
She had a breakthrough season as a sophomore as she was named All-MAC Second Team after topping the team with 67 draw controls to go with 10 caused turnovers and 26 ground balls. Her 3.72 draws were fourth in the MAC and seventh in the school record book, while her 67 total draws were sixth in Titan history.
Jarvis was also fourth on the team with 24 points and 20 goals. During the regular season, she secured a career-high 11 draw controls - tied for fourth in school history - at Central Michigan.

YES I CAMM CAMM

Senior Maddy Camm - already a three-time MAC Player of the Week with two on defense and once on offense - leads the team in caused turnovers (22), tied for second in assists (16), second in draw controls (44) and ground balls (35), third in points (35), and fourth in goals (19).
She comes into the game with 98 career points on 56 goals and 42 assists.
She posted her sixth career hat trick with three goals, four draws, a takeaway, and two ground balls against Robert Morris.
Camm had her usual all-around game, tallying two goals, two caused turnovers, a career-tying five ground balls, and five draw controls in the win over Akron, and that was after two goals, an assist, two caused turnovers, two draw controls, and five ground balls in the come-from-behind win at Kent State.
Camm recorded one of the best defensive games in school history with a career-high five caused turnovers, five ground balls, a career-best four assists and five draw controls at Furman.
The five caused turnovers are tied for the second most in school history and the most by a Titan since 2013.
She was named the MAC Offensive Player of the Week on Feb. 25 after registering a career-best five points on three goals and two assists, along with a team-high six draw controls, three GB's, and two caused turnovers in the 12-7 win over Canisius.
Camm is second in the MAC and 40th in the nation with 1.69 caused turnovers, fourth in the MAC and 29th in DI at 2.69 GB's, tied for fourth with 1.23 assists, and 11th in the league with 3.38 draws.
She has caused a turnover in 37 of her last 41 games, including 26 with at least two and nine games reaching at least three. She has also grabbed a ground ball in 37 of her last 41, and notched a point in 33 of her last 41, with a goal in 28 contests.
Last season, Camm was All-MAC after leading the team with 35 caused turnovers and 44 ground balls, was second with 55 draw controls, third with 39 points and 25 goals, and topped the team with 14 assists, all career highs.

STAY AWAY FROM OF MY SIDE

Senior Katie Bilello has been a mainstay on the defensive side of the ball since arriving in the Motor City and is having an exceptional final collegiate campaign.
She already has a career-best 15 caused turnovers and 28 ground balls on the year, ranking 12th in the MAC with 2.15 ground balls per game.
She just had three GB's at Youngstown State, and that was after two caused turnovers and a ground ball against Robert Morris. She led the defense with five ground balls and had two caused turnovers at Marquette and was named the MAC Defensive Player of the Week on Feb. 25 after registering a career-high four CT's and seven GB's in the win over Canisius.
Bilello has now played in 59 career games with 49 starts and has tallied 41 caused turnovers and 80 ground balls.

GIVE ME LIBERTY

Junior Libby Cuckler is having her best collegiate season as she leads the team with a career-best 41 points, tied for first with 16 assists and second with a career-high 25 goals, all ranking in the top 10 in the MAC.
She had her seventh straight game with at least three points, registering five on a career-high four assists and a goal at Youngstown State. The week before, she had two goals and two assists versus Robert Morris and found the back of the net three times for her fifth career hat trick at Eastern Michigan.
Against Akron, Cuckler had four points on a goal and three assists. She tallied a career-tying four goals and five points at Kent State and had her best collegiate game, posting a career-high six points on a career-best four goals with two assists at Furman.
So far on the season, 48 of her 61 shots have been on net as she leads the team with an .787 shots on goal percentage.

NOT IN MY NET

Senior Meredith Leavell continues to attack the Detroit Mercy record book.
The four-time MAC Goalie of the Week, including back-to-back weeks to start conference play, had 13 saves against Robert Morris and 10 on the road at Eastern Michigan. She had nine saves and allowed just eight goals in the win over Akron, and that was after 17 saves and breaking the school record with 13 ground balls in the win at Kent State. In that game, she had 11 saves in the second half and let in just four goals in the final 30 minutes.
She has 145 saves on the season, including a career-high 22 stops in the opener against San Diego State - en route to being named the MAC Goalie of the Week and 13 with five ground balls in the win over Canisius to earn her second weekly accolade.
Leavell is third in the MAC and 19th in the nation with 145 saves, second in the league and sixth in the country with 11.1 saves per game, second in the conference and ninth in DI with 3.23 ground balls per game, and fourth in the league with a .442 save percentage.
She has recorded double-digit saves in 29 of her 56 career games and has allowed less than 10 goals nine times in her career when playing at least 45 minutes.
Last season, Leavell recorded a school-record 187 saves, leading the MAC, and finished 21st in the nation with a .468 save percentage, second in school history.
In the postseason, she had a then career-high 18 saves in the semifinals win at CMU, coming up with five stops in the first period and five in the fourth quarter, and then had 12 saves in the title game to earn All-Tournament honors.

NOT BODNARING ME

Two-time All-MAC second-teamer Leah Bodnar crossed the 100-point plateau with a goal and career-tying four assists at EMU and came back with two markers and a helper versus Robert Morris and a goal and an assist at Youngstown State.
In her career, she has played in 59 games and has 78 goals, 30 assists, 108 points - 14 shy of top 10 in school history - 62 ground balls, 62 draw controls, and 33 caused turnovers, collecting 14 hat tricks.
She had three points on a goal and two assists against Akron after two goals and an assist at Kent State.
Bodnar had three goals and an assist, along with two draws and two GB's versus Lindenwood, three goals at Furman, and four goals and an assist at Kennesaw State.
In the season opener against SDSU, she had a career-high three assists and a pair of draw controls.
Last season, Bodnar ended the year second on the team with 42 points and 33 goals, third with nine assists, second with 15 caused turnovers, and fifth with 24 ground balls, all career-highs. She also recorded a hat trick eight times.
She tied her career high with seven points on a career-tying five goals, a career-high four takeaways, and picked up four ground balls against Kennesaw State.

OFF THE HOOK

Junior Angelina Hook has picked up at least one ground ball in 12 games this season and has a caused turnover in six of those contests.
She corralled two ground balls against Robert Morris after a takeaway and two ground balls at Eastern Michigan.
She now has a career-high eight caused turnovers on the year and 17 ground balls.
Hook started the year with two takeaways and two ground balls against San Diego State and added a caused turnover and GB at Arizona State. She had another caused turnover with two GBs in the win versus Canisius, two ground balls at Furman, and a takeaway and GB in the win at Presbyterian and at Marquette.

THE DAVIS FILE

Senior Sophie Davis helped lead a strong Titan defense in the win over Canisius as the Titan captain and current SAAC President had two caused turnovers and a ground ball.
She added two caused turnovers against Akron and at Eastern Michigan.
She has played in 51 games with 41 starts as a standout defender and has 20 caused turnovers and 16 ground balls.
Davis tallied five caused turnovers and eight ground balls last season, helping the team advance to the MAC Championship for the first time in school history.

NO STUMPING THE SCHWAB

Freshman Sophia Schwab has been making a name for herself on the offensive side of the ball.
She tallied a goal and two assists against Lindenwood and Marquette and scored a marker in her first two MAC games at Kent State and Akron.
Schwab had her first two collegiate goals and an assist in the win over Canisius and had two more goals at Furman.
She is sixth on the team with 17 points and nine goals and fourth with eight assists.

MEET JAEDA JENSEN

After not scoring in her first two games and taking just three shots, freshman Jaeda Jensen has got into a rhythm, posting 14 goals on 28 shots in the last 11 games.
In the conference opener at Kent State, she finished with a goal and a helper and scored a goal in each of the last three games at EMU, against RMU and at YSU.
Jensen collected her first career hat trick, finishing with three goals and an assist at Presbyterian, and had two goals and an assist against Lindenwood.
She had her first two collegiate markers on her two shots and a caused turnover against Canisius, and netted two more strikes and a ground ball at Kennesaw State.
Jensen is fifth on the team with 18 points and 14 goals.

SINGING A NEW TUNE

Freshman Tunie Mullen got off to a fast start in her collegiate career, scoring two goals on her first two shots against San Diego State.
The last Titan freshman to have multiple goals in her first collegiate game was Morgan Girardi, who had two goals at #18 Ohio State in 2016.
She had another in the win over Canisius and on the road in the triumphs at Kennesaw State, at Presbyterian and at Kent State.

CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES

Sophomore Erin Balbontin and freshman Gabrianna Vasquez each had a chance to celebrate as they scored their first goals in the win at Kennesaw State.
Vasquez's goal was on just her second shot of the season, as she has since added a goal at Furman and two at Presbyterian.
Balbontin also registered her first career caused turnover in the KSU contest, as she had just her first career assist in the game before against Canisius.

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Players Mentioned

#3 Erin Balbontin: MF; 5' 4"; Sophomore

#55 Katie Bilello: D; 5' 4"; Senior

#33 Leah Bodnar: MF; 5' 8"; Senior

#27 Maddy Camm: MF; 5' 7"; Senior

#8 Libby Cuckler: A; 5' 7"; Junior

#26 Sophie Davis: D; 5' 10"; Senior

#11 Angelina Hook: D; 5' 7"; Junior

#2 Alyssa Jarvis: MF; 5' 3"; Junior

#41 Meredith Leavell: GK; 5' 3"; Senior

#13 Jaeda Jensen: A; 5' 7"; Freshman

Players Mentioned

#3 Erin Balbontin
: 5' 4"; Sophomore
: MF

#55 Katie Bilello
: 5' 4"; Senior
: D

#33 Leah Bodnar
: 5' 8"; Senior
: MF

#27 Maddy Camm
: 5' 7"; Senior
: MF

#8 Libby Cuckler
: 5' 7"; Junior
: A

#26 Sophie Davis
: 5' 10"; Senior
: D

#11 Angelina Hook
: 5' 7"; Junior
: D

#2 Alyssa Jarvis
: 5' 3"; Junior
: MF

#41 Meredith Leavell
: 5' 3"; Senior
: GK

#13 Jaeda Jensen
: 5' 7"; Freshman
: A