DETROIT (4/25/2026) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team got off to a slow start and could not recover as the Titans fell to VMI, 14-5, on Saturday afternoon.
It was Senior Day as UDM honored an eight-man senior class before the game in
Harold Skinner,
Caden Loken,
Sean Henige,
Kyle Grant,
Zane Hitch,
Christian Tucker,
Zach Snider, and
Jackson Ewald.
Junior
Lucas Goeller and sophomore
Andrew Parker each had two goals, while freshman
Dylan Belliveau had the other.
Grant ended with three caused turnovers and four ground balls. Junior
Gavin Moore had two takeaways and a GB, and freshman
Tyler Francis-Renner tied his season high with two caused turnovers and three ground balls.
VMI (7-6, 4-3 NEC) clinched the final spot in the NEC playoffs with the victory, as the Keydets scored the first four goals of the game. Goeller got the Titans on the board with his first goal of the season early in the second, but VMI took an 8-1 lead at the break.
Parker netted his first of the day just a few minutes into the third, and then, Detroit Mercy (3-10, 2-5 NEC) took advantage of a penalty as redshirt sophomore
Marcus Thundercloud fed Parker for his second marker.
In the fourth, Goeller took a pass from Loken and found the back of the net, and freshman
PJ O'Hanlon set up
Dylan Belliveau with under a minute remaining.
Redshirt junior
Cooper St. Clair made 13 saves in net, while Tucker played the final 11:31 and recorded one. Sophomore
Canton Lanham won 10-of-19 faceoffs with seven GB's.
Sophomore
Ian Greenwell ended with a takeaway and a ground ball, and sophomore
Malakhi Berry registered a caused turnover and two GB's.
UDM was 19-of-20 on clears and caused 11 of VMI's 17 turnovers.
The game wrapped up the 18th season of varsity lacrosse for the Titans.
Game Notes:
- This was the 10th career meeting between the two schools, who were once rivals in the MAAC from 2010-13, as the Titans still lead the all-time series at 6-4, 4-1 at home
- The Titans came into the game second in the NEC and 27th in the nation in caused turnovers (8.3), second in the league in ground balls (30.0) and clearing (.852), third in faceoff percentage (.520), and third in man-down defense (.638)
- Lanham ended the year with a career-high 142 wins, the third most in a single season in school history, as well as with a .567 winning percentage, fifth in the record book
- Lanham's career-high 79 ground balls is fourth in a single season and the most since Alex Jarzembowski's 82 in 2019
- Lanham is fifth in school history with 251 wins and second with a 53.1 winning percentage
- Grant ended the year tying his career best with 26 caused turnovers, tied for eighth in school history
- Grant tallied a caused turnover in 12 games - seven with multiple takeaways - as well as at least two ground balls in 12 of the 13 games
- Grant ended his career fourth in school history with 63 caused turnovers, the second most by a Titan defenseman, and with 106 ground balls
- Greenwell finished with a career-high 19 caused turnovers and has 34 in his career
- Greenwell caused a turnover in 11 games, with at least two in seven of them, as well as at least two ground balls in 10 affairs
- St. Clair recorded 181 saves on the season, which is already sixth in school history
- St. Clair registered double-digit saves in 11 of the 13 games on the year, and allowed less than 10 goals in five of the seven NEC contests
- Parker has scored a goal in 20 of his 24 career games and has at least one in 11 of 13 games on the year
- Parker ended the year leading the Titans with 19 goals and tied for first with 26 points
- Thundercloud tied for the team lead with 26 points and topped the team with 14 assists
- O'Hanlon led the UDM freshmen on the season with 21 points and 17 goals
- Ewald tallied 16 caused turnovers and 30 ground balls in 49 career games as a SSDM
- Henige played in 50 career games, starting 43, and registered 43 caused turnovers - ninth in school history - and 86 ground balls
- Moore had a career-high 19 ground balls on the year to go along with his six caused turnovers
- Goeller had two goals as a freshman
