Detroit Mercy DETMERCY 6-6

Le Moyne LEM 9-6

Detroit Mercy DETMERCY

6-6

Final

May. 01, 2025

Le Moyne LEM

9-6

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	F
Detroit Mercy DETMERCY	1	1	2	2	6
Le Moyne LEM	2	1	0	0	3

Summary
Box Score

The Titans celebrate their win over Le Moyne

Game Recap: Men's Lacrosse | 05.01.25

Titan Defense Drowns Top-Seeded Le Moyne To Advance To NEC Championship

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (5/1/2025) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team tied its school record with a fifth-straight win by ending the game with five straight goals, and this one will send the team to the NEC Championship as the Titans upset the number one seed Le Moyne, 6-3, on Thursday afternoon.

The three goals allowed is tied for the fewest in school history and the fewest since winning at Manhattan 9-3 in 2016, while the 6-3 win was the lowest scoring postseason game in school history, overtaking the 7-5 win over top-seeded Marist in the 2013 MAAC Championship semifinals.

The fourth-seeded Titans (6-6) will now take on second-seeded Robert Morris - who beat LIU in overtime 12-11 in the other semifinal- on Saturday, with the winner earning the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Senior Ryan Richters made 14 saves and allowed a career-low three goals - the least amount of goals a Titan has ever allowed in the postseason - including shutting out Le Moyne (9-6) for the final 37 minutes.

Freshman Andrew Parker scored two goals, while senior Aidan Bishop had a goal and two assists. Senior Nolan Graalman, Chase Mahabir, and freshman Zach Gleason all found the back of the net, and junior Kyle Grant tallied three caused turnovers and six ground balls.

The Titans took an early 1-0 lead as Gleason split a double team and fired one in from long range at the 9:16 mark, but the Dolphins scored twice in the final 32 seconds for a 2-1 lead.

The deficit was then 3-1 with 7:19 to go in the second, but that was the last time the top-seeded team would net a goal as Parker netted his first late in the first half to make it 3-2.

UDM would knot the score at 3-3 with 4:39 on the clock in the third as Bishop set up Graalman and after a turnover by the Dolphins, senior Harold Skinner located Bishop in front of the net, and his marker put the red, white and blue in front, 4-3, with 2:36 left.

Mahabir tickled the twine early in the fourth for a 5-3 advantage and Parker added the dagger with 8:35 to go for the three-goal lead and the eventual winning score.

The Titans outshot the Dolphins, 35-25, and took the ground ball battle, 25-22. UDM was 21-of-22 on clears and forced 16 of Le Moyne's 19 turnovers.

Freshman Ian Greenwell had two caused turnovers and two ground balls, while sophomore Gavin Moore picked up a career-high three GBs. Freshman Malakhi Berry Stats had a season-high two takeaways, and freshman Canton Lanham was 7-of-12 in faceoffs.

The NEC Championship game will be held at Le Moyne and will begin at Noon at Ted Grant Field.

Game Notes:

Detroit Mercy is now 1-1 all-time against Le Moyne, falling to the Dolphins at home, 8-5, in the regular season
Earlier in the season, the Titans earned a comeback at VMI by scoring the last six goals of the game
The Titans also won five in a row in 2018, with that last win in the MAAC semifinal before falling in the title game in overtime to Canisius, the senior year for head coach Charlie Hayes '18
The Titans are now 5-9 all-time in the postseason, winning the MAAC title in 2013 and advancing to the championship game in 2011 and 2018
UDM was in the postseason for the first time since 2021 when it was in the MAAC quarterfinals, falling at St. Bonaventure
In 2013, UDM was the #4 seed in the MAAC Championship and upset top-seeded Marist, 7-6, and then defeated Siena in overtime, 11-10, to win the MAAC, while in 2017, the fourth-seeded Titans fell to top-seeded Monmouth on a neutral field, 11-7
In NEC history, the #4 seed is now 5-10 all-time, with the only champion Robert Morris in 2019 as the Colonials knocked off #1 Mount St. Mary's, 13-12, in overtime in the semifinals and #2 Hobart, 11-10, in the title game
Detroit Mercy has four road wins this season, the most since winning five away from the Motor City in 2019
The Titans came into the contest leading the NEC and 16th in the nation with 9.45 caused turnovers per game and now have seven games on the year with double-digit takeaways
Redshirt freshman Marcus Thundercloud - the NEC Rookie of the Year - did not register a point for just the second time in his nine games, with the other in the season opener at Ohio State
Grant now has posted a caused turnover in nine games on the season and multi-caused turnovers in seven outings as he came into the game leading the NEC and 10th in the nation at 1.91 caused turnovers per game and ninth in the NEC with 3.09 GB's per game
Grant's 24 total caused turnovers are tied for eighth in school history, while his 2.0 CT's per game is ninth
Grant also had three caused turnovers against Le Moyne in the regular season
Mahabir still leads the team with 36 points, 24 goals and 12 assists
Richters has allowed just seven goals and has tallied 33 saves in the last two games, both on the road
Richters came into the game second in the NEC and ninth in the nation with 13.0 saves per game and third in the league and 25th in DI with a .536 save percentage
Richters now has 157 stops on the year, eighth in school history and 30 away from the 187 he had last year
Richters now has 344 career saves and has recorded double-digit stops in 22 of his 25 games
Parker also had a goal against Le Moyne in the regular season
Parker has now scored a goal in eight of his 11 games and multi-goal outings in two straight and three of the last four
Bishop has scored a goal in five consecutive games and has at least two points in five straight
Bishop now has 52 goals, 19 assists, 71 points, 71 ground balls and 12 caused turnovers
Greenwell has recorded a ground ball in 11 games and a caused turnover in nine of them
Lanham is 92-of-163 (56.4%) in the last nine games and came into the contest third in the NEC in faceoff percentage
Henige now has 34 caused turnovers and 64 ground balls in his career
Gleason has scored a goal in three of the last four games

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Scoring Summary
Scoring Play	Home Team Score
1st Period		DETMERCY	LEM
09:16	DETMERCY - Zach Gleason	1	0
00:31	LEM - Thomas Berry Assisted by Ryan Eisenmann	1	1
00:11	LEM - Ryan Eisenmann	1	2
2nd Period		DETMERCY	LEM
07:19	LEM - Zachary Delaney Assisted by Maui Wilhelm	1	3
00:45	DETMERCY - Andrew Parker Assisted by Aidan Bishop	2	3
3rd Period		DETMERCY	LEM
04:39	DETMERCY - Nolan Graalman Assisted by Aidan Bishop	3	3
02:36	DETMERCY - Aidan Bishop Assisted by Harold Skinner	4	3
4th Period		DETMERCY	LEM
13:17	DETMERCY - Chase Mahabir	5	3
08:35	DETMERCY - Andrew Parker	6	3