Women's Lacrosse 04.03.25

UDM Prepares For Key Road Showdown At Eastern Michigan On Sunday

Women's Lacrosse 04.03.25

UDM Prepares For Key Road Showdown At Eastern Michigan On Sunday

Senior Brooke Parrillo and the Titans will look for another road MAC win.

DETROIT (4/4/2025) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team will look to stay perfect in Mid-American Conference play as the Titans make the short bus ride to Eastern Michigan on Sunday.

Game time is set for 11:00 a.m., at Scicluna Field and will be broadcast live on ESPN+.

The red, white and blue took care of business at home last week, defeating Akron, 10-8, to move to 5-5 overall and 2-0 in the MAC. The MAC Offensive Player of the Week, Alyssa Jarvis, tallied a career-high five goals, while the league's Defensive Player of the Week, Meredith Leavell, made nine saves.

Coming into the game, the Titans lead the MAC and are 17th in the nation with a .464 shot percentage. They are also second in the conference and 25th in the country in free position percentage (.517), second in the league with 4.70 assists, and third in the league in clearing at .846. UDM ranks fourth in the MAC in scoring at 10.20 goals per game and has allowed just 19 total goals in its two league contests.

A win would put the Titans above the .500 mark for the first time since ending the 2018 season at 10-8.

Eastern Michigan - led by former Titan head coach Madeline Dugan - is 5-6 overall and 1-2 in MAC play, with a home victory over Youngstown State and road losses at Central Michigan and at Robert Morris.

After the game, Detroit Mercy will head home to host RMU on Saturday, Apr. 12, in a lacrosse doubleheader with the men at Noon and the women at 3:00 p.m.

OUR MAC HISTORY

This is the fifth season with the Titans as a member of the MAC, as UDM is 11-25 all-time in MAC games.
Detroit Mercy missed the playoffs the first three years but had quite a turnaround last season, going 3-3 and qualifying for the postseason, where the red, white, and blue upset top-seeded Central Michigan on the road in the semifinals before falling to Robert Morris in the title game.

NEED TO BE ROAD STRONG

The Titans are 42-95 all-time on the road.
Detroit Mercy has three road wins for the second straight season, and last year's three wins were the most since going 4-6 on the road in 2019.
Over half of the Titans' 271 career games have been away from the Motor City, including the 137 road games and 25 neutral site battles.

VS. EASTERN MICHIGAN

This is just the fourth meeting between the two schools as Eastern Michigan is one of the nation's youngest teams, having just started its program in 2023.
EMU leads the match-up at 2-1, including taking the only game in Ypsilanti, 17-12, to end the 2023 season.
Eagles head coach Madeline Dugan was the MAC Head Coach of the Year last season with the Titans and was also an assistant coach with the program in 2022.

Series History
Apr. 1, 2023 - Home - W, 17-7
Apr. 29, 2023 - Away - L, 17-12
Apr. 7, 2024 - Home - L, 12-9

BRING IT DOWN & PUT IT IN

Junior Alyssa Jarvis has raised her game offensively this season as the reigning MAC Offensive Player of the Week scorched Akron for a career-high five goals and pulled down a season-tying seven draw controls.
She now has a goal in nine of the 10 games this season and at least one in eight straight.
She leads the team with a career-best 21 goals, is fourth with 22 points, and has seen 29 of her 35 shots on net (82.9%). She ranks first in the conference and 12th in the nation in shooting percentage (.600). Her 29 draws are second on the team, and ninth in the MAC with 3.60 draw controls per game.
Jarvis is currently fourth in school history with 2.88 draw controls per game and has 121 draws in her career, tied for ninth with teammate Maddy Camm.
She had a team-high seven draw controls with two goals and an assist at Kent State. She posted her fourth career hat trick, finding the back of the net a career-best four times against Lindenwood.
During spring break, she had three goals, six draws, two caused turnovers and three ground balls in the win at Presbyterian, four draws and two goals at Furman, and five draw controls with two markers in the win at Kennesaw 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 draw controls per game 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 assists (14), caused turnovers (19) and draw controls (37), while standing second in points (28), ground balls (30) and fourth in goals (14).
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. She started UDM's 6-0 run to get the lead with a caused turnover and added an assist and the tying goal in the spurt against KSU.
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 third in the MAC and 31st in the nation with 1.90 caused turnovers, third in the MAC and 14th in DI at 3.00 GB's, third in the conference with 1.40 assists and seventh in the league with 3.70 draws.
She has caused a turnover in 34 of her last 38 games, including 25 with at least two and nine games reaching at least three. She has also 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.
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.
She now has 77 caused turnovers - fourth in school history - 121 draw controls - ninth in the record book - 111 ground balls with 51 goals and 40 assists in her career.

GIVE ME LIBERTY

Junior Libby Cuckler is having her best collegiate season as she leads the team with a career-best 29 points, second with a career-high 19 goals and tied for second with 10 assists.
She had her fifth straight game with at least three points last week against Akron, registering four points on a goal and three assists. She tallied her fourth career hat trick with 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, 32 of her 37 shots have been on net as she leads the team with an .865 shots on goal percentage, and she also ranks fifth in the MAC with a .514 shot percentage.
Cuckler was fifth on the team with 23 points, second handing out 12 assists, and sixth, registering 11 goals last season.

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 12 caused turnovers and 22 ground balls on the year, as she is currently eighth in the MAC with 1.20 takeaways.
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 56 career games with 46 starts and has tallied 38 caused turnovers and 74 ground balls.

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 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 115 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 leads the MAC and is eighth in the nation with 115 saves, second in the league and fourth in the country with 11.5 saves per game, leading the conference and third in DI with 3.70 ground balls per game and fourth in the league with a .466 save percentage.
She has recorded double-digit saves in 27 of her 53 career games and has allowed less than 10 goals nine times in her career when playing at least 45 minutes.
Leavell's 503 saves and 9.49 saves per game are third in school history. She is also second with a .450 save percentage, fourth with a 13.68 goals-against average and 10th with 130 ground balls.
Last season, Leavell recorded a school-record 187 saves, leading the MAC and finishing 21st in the nation with a .468 save percentage, second in school history. Leavell was also second in the league, and fourth in the nation, in total saves, and third in the conference and eighth in the country with 10.39 saves per game.
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 has netted 16 goals in the last eight games, after not posting a marker in the first two games.
She just had three points on a goal and two assists against Akron after two goals and an assist at Kent State and is now just one point away from 100 in her career.
Bodnar had three goals and an assist, along with two draws and two ground balls versus Lindenwood. Before that, she had a goal, assist, a career-tying four ground balls, two draw controls and two caused turnovers in the win at Presbyterian. Bodnar tallied 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.
In her career, she has played in 56 games and has 74 goals, 25 assists, 99 points, 60 ground balls, 52 draw controls, and 31 caused turnovers, collecting 14 hat tricks.
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 nine games this season and has a caused turnover in five of those contests.
She started the year with two takeaways and two ground balls against San Diego State and added a caused turnover and GB at Arizona State. Hook 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.
After seeing action in just four games as a freshman, she played in 16 games with 11 starts and recorded 15 ground balls and five caused turnovers last year.

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 and just had two takeaways in the win over Akron.
She has played in 48 games with 38 starts as a standout defender and has 18 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.

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.

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.
She had her first two collegiate goals and an assist in the win over Canisius and had two more goals at Furman.

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 11 goals on 22 shots in the last eight games.
In the conference opener at Kent State, she finished with a goal and a helper.
She had her first career hat trick, finishing with three goals and an assist at Presbyterian, and had two goals and an assist against Lindenwood.
Jensen 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.

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Players Mentioned

#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

#1 Sophia Schwab: A; 5' 5"; Freshman

Players Mentioned

#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

#1 Sophia Schwab
: 5' 5"; Freshman
: A