DETROIT (4/27/2025) -- It took one final push, but the University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team is going back to the postseason as the Titans ended the game with four straight goals to send Central Michigan home after a 9-7 victory on Sunday afternoon.

The loss eliminated CMU (5-10, 3-3 MAC) from the postseason and gave UDM (6-8, 3-3 MAC) the fourth seed in the upcoming MAC Championship, where it will play top-seeded Robert Morris in the semifinals on Thursday.

Senior Maddy Camm led the way with a career-high six points on a career-tying four goals and two assists, scoring the final two goals and assisting on the first marker in the 4-0 run. She also added two caused turnovers, five draw controls, and three ground balls.

Freshman Gabrianna Vasquez had a season-tying two goals and a caused turnover. Senior Leah Bodnar posted a goal, an assist, two caused turnovers and four ground balls, and junior Libby Cucker recorded a goal and an assist.

Senior Meredith Leavell made 14 saves in net and tied her season best, allowing just seven goals. Junior Angelina Hook had a career-high three takeaways to go with a career-best three GB's and junior Alyssa Jarvis pulled down a game-high six draws.

In a game featuring five ties, no team ever led by more than two. The Chippewas went in front, 6-5, at the 5:51 mark in the third and added another goal early in the fourth for a 7-5 advantage.

The Titans got that one back immediately as Camm won a draw and then found Vasquez, who fired one in for a 7-6 margin with 12:23 left. After a couple of saves by Leavell and with the extra attacker, Bodnar set up Cuckler for her only score, and it was 7-7 with 8:29 remaining. Camm again won the draw, and once settled in the offensive zone, she attacked the goalie and netted a goal to put the red, white, and blue ahead, 8-7.

The defense held strong again as Camm had a caused turnover, and Leavell made two more saves to keep CMU off the scoreboard before Camm put the capper on the comeback with her fourth score with under two minutes to go.

The Titans had a 12-7 edge on draw controls and were 21-of-23 on clears. UDM also held CMU to 0-of-5 on free positions.

Camm scored the first goal of the game just 15 seconds in, but Central Michigan came back with three in a row. Detroit Mercy sent the game to the half squared at 3-3 as Vasquez had a free position goal, and Bodnar found the back of the net in the second period.

UDM jumped in front, 4-3, off a Camm goal 40 seconds into the third, but the Chippewas answered with two straight. Freshman Jaeda Jensen took a pass from Camm for a goal to knot it at 5-5 midway through the third, but that is when the visitors scored twice for the 7-5 lead in the fourth.

The MAC Championship semifinals game will be at 1:00 p.m., with #2 Eastern Michigan facing #3 Akron in the other game, with the entire event held at Robert Morris.

Game Notes:

• The Titans have now won two in a row over central Michigan to trim the all-time series to 7-6, but they are 4-2 at home
• All 13 meetings between the two schools have come as conference rivals in the Atlantic Sun, Southern Conference, or the Mid-American Conference. 
• Last season, the Titans needed a win in their final MAC game to make the playoffs, defeating Kent State at home, 15-11, and then upsetting top-seeded Central Michigan in the semifinals
• The Titans have made the playoffs for back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2018 and 2019 as members of the Southern Conference
• Jarvis is now sixth in school history with 144 draw controls, passing Zaynib Hamze (141) and Emily Boissonneault (143) and is just one behind Corina Mahorn for fifth
• Camm now has seven career hat tricks and three this season after scoring three goals against Canisius and Robert Morris, while her other career four-goal game was versus RMU in last year's MAC Championship
• Camm now has 104 career points, 60 goals and 44 assists as she sits fifth in school history with those 44 helpers
• Camm is now tied for third in school history with 82 caused turnovers, ninth with 133 draw controls and tied for 11th with 119 saves
• Bilello now has 41 career caused turnovers and 81 ground balls
• Cuckler leads the team with 43 points and 26 goals and is second with 17 assists, all career highs
• Leavell now has 159 saves on the season and 547 in her career as she has recorded double-digit saves in 30 of her 576 career games and has allowed less than 10 goals 10 times in her career when playing at least 45 minutes
• Last season, Leavell recorded a school-record 187 saves and came up with 18 saves in the MAC Championship semifinals win at CMU
• Bodnar now has 79 goals and 31 assists for 110 points - 12 shy of top 10 in school history - along with 66 ground balls, 63 draw controls, and 35 caused turnovers in her career
• Hook has picked up at least one ground ball in 13 games this season and has a caused turnover in seven of those contests
• Hook's previous high in caused turnovers was two at Pittsburgh last year and in the season opener against San Diego State
• Hook now has a career-high 11 caused turnovers on the year and 20 ground balls
• Jensen has scored a goal in four straight games and in 10 total games on the year
• Vasquez also had two goals at Presbyterian