Detroit DETMERCY 5-6, 4-3

Cleveland State CSU 4-10, 2-5

Detroit DETMERCY

5-6, 4-3

Final

Apr. 26, 2025

Cleveland State CSU

4-10, 2-5

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	F
Detroit DETMERCY	3	4	3	5	15
Cleveland State CSU	0	1	2	1	4

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Box Score

The Titans celebrate their postseason-clinching win!

Game Recap: Men's Lacrosse | 04.26.25

Titans Torment Cleveland State To Clinch A Spot In NEC Postseason

CLEVELAND (4/26/2025) -- For the first time since 2021, the University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team will be in the postseason as the Titans cruised past Cleveland State, 15-4, on Saturday night.

UDM will be the No. 4 seed and will play top-seeded Le Moyne in the Northeast Conference Championship semifinals at Le Moyne on Thursday.

Detroit Mercy (5-6, 4-3 NEC) scored the first three goals of the game and led 9-1 early in the third en route to its fourth straight, the second-longest winning streak in school history behind the five in a row in 2018.

Senior Chase Mahabir tallied a career-high eight points on four goals and a career-best four assists. The eight points are tied for the third most in school history and the most by a Titan since 2019, while the four helpers are tied for the fourth-best in the record book.

Redshirt freshman Marcus Thundercloud posted five a season-high five points on four goals and one assist, while freshman Andrew Parker finished with a season-high five points on two goals and three assists and collected three ground balls.

Senior Ryan Richters made 19 saves and allowed a career-low four goals - the fewest goals by the Titans since 2018 - and senior Harold Skinner had a career-high three caused turnovers and six ground balls.

Parker got the Titans going with a goal three minutes into the game. A few minutes later, a takeaway by Skinner led to another goal as senior Nolan Graalman found sophomore Gavin Moore for his second of the season. After a few saves from Richters, the Titans peppered the net with shots when Mahabir set up Thundercloud's first, and it was 3-0 at the 5:27 mark.

Cleveland State (4-10, 2-5 NEC) netted its first goal midway through the second, but the Titans kept the pressure on as Mahabir and Thundercloud went back-to-back. Mahabir would score again with the Titans down a man - the second straight week, he found the back of the net with the man down - and a couple of minutes later, Mahabir fed senior Aidan Bishop, and he beat the keeper with the man down to make it 7-1 at the break.

Thundercloud scored early in the third, and Bishop had a man-up tally at 12:01 to extend the advantage to 9-1 before taking a 10-3 lead after three with a goal from Graalman. Mahabir added two more goals in the fourth, and the rout was on from there.

Bishop finished with two goals and an assist, while Graalman had a goal, an assist, and a pair of caused turnovers. Senior Will Marshall had two takeaways and three ground balls, and freshman Ian Greenwell had a caused turnover and four GB's.

The Titans attempted a school-record 59 shots - compared to 34 from CSU - and had the ground ball advantage, 40-33. UDM registered a season-high 10 assists - tied for third in school history - was 22-of-25 on clears and 4-of-5 with the extra-man attack, all while scoring a school-record two man-down markers.

The Northeast Conference Championships will get underway on Thursday as #2 Robert Morris will play #3 LIU in the other semifinals. All game times will be released in the near future.

Game Notes:

Cleveland State leads the all-time series, 4-3, but the Titans picked up their first-ever win on the road in the match-up, dropping the three previous trips
Last season, it came down to the same scenario between these two teams for a playoff spot, but the Vikings took the game 13-8 in the Motor City
UDM's three road wins on the year are the most since winning five on the road in 2019
The four goals allowed were the fewest since beating Monmouth 6-4 in 2019
The Titans held Cleveland State to just one goal in the first half, the fifth time in school history it has held a team to just one goal in the opening half, and the first since leading St. Bonaventure at home 6-1 in 2021 and the first time on the road since leading #2 Notre Dame 5-1 at the break in the 2013 NCAA Tournament
The 10 assists are the most since tying the school record of 13 against Bellarmine in 2020
The previous record for shots was 58 against Manhattan in 2015
Detroit Mercy came into the contest leading the NEC and 17th in the nation with 9.3 caused turnovers per game, finishing with 11 in the contest for the sixth time this season with double-digit takeaways
Richters came into the game second in the NEC and 15th in the nation with 12.4 saves per game and fourth in the league with a .508 save percentage
Richters is fourth in school history with 330 saves and has recorded double-digit stops in 21 of the 243 games he has played in
Richters' career-high in saves was 21 at LIU earlier in the season
Thundercloud now has four hat tricks on the season and also had four goals against Le Moyne and Mercyhurst
Mahabir now has eight career hat tricks and five this season, following three goals and an assist at Hampton and LIU, six goals against Wagner and five against Mercyhurst
Mahabir now has 20 goals and nine assists in NEC play
Mahabir's eight points were the most by a Titan since Matthew Van Galen had nine at Bellarmine in 2019
Bishop has scored two goals in each of the last three games and five times this season
Parker's season high in points was four against Wagner on three goals and an assist
Marshall also had two caused turnovers at Marquette
Skinner had just three career caused turnovers and 11 ground balls coming into the game
Billy Hart now has 202 career faceoff wins
Graalman now has 33 goals and 38 points in his career

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Scoring Summary
Scoring Play	Home Team Score
1st Period		DETMERCY	CSU
12:44	DETMERCY - Andrew Parker	1	0
10:51	DETMERCY - Gavin Moore Assisted by Nolan Graalman	2	0
05:27	DETMERCY - Marcus Thundercloud Assisted by Chase Mahabir	3	0
2nd Period		DETMERCY	CSU
08:03	CSU - Alex Van Voorhis Assisted by Amiri Austin	3	1
06:00	DETMERCY - Chase Mahabir	4	1
05:37	DETMERCY - Marcus Thundercloud Assisted by Andrew Parker	5	1
02:34	DETMERCY - Chase Mahabir	6	1
00:58	DETMERCY - Aidan Bishop Assisted by Chase Mahabir	7	1
3rd Period		DETMERCY	CSU
13:58	DETMERCY - Marcus Thundercloud	8	1
12:00	DETMERCY - Aidan Bishop Assisted by Marcus Thundercloud	9	1
10:04	CSU - Amiri Austin Assisted by Dylan Tomarchio	9	2
06:09	DETMERCY - Nolan Graalman Assisted by Andrew Parker	10	2
01:44	CSU - Griffin Burkey Assisted by Alec Blessing	10	3
4th Period		DETMERCY	CSU
14:30	CSU - Wyatt Robertson Assisted by Amiri Austin	10	4
13:24	DETMERCY - Marcus Thundercloud	11	4
09:08	DETMERCY - Andrew Parker Assisted by Chase Mahabir	12	4
06:01	DETMERCY - Chase Mahabir Assisted by Aidan Bishop	13	4
02:30	DETMERCY - Chase Mahabir Assisted by Andrew Parker	14	4
01:23	DETMERCY - Sean Donahue Assisted by Chase Mahabir	15	4