FINAL SCORE - OT
Detroit Mercy 9 (4-5, 2-0 MAAC)
Monmouth 8 (3-5, 1-1 MAAC)

WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ – The Monmouth University men's lacrosse team dropped an overtime heartbreaker to Detroit Mercy on Saturday afternoon at Hesse Field on The Great Lawn. The Titans scored with six seconds remaining to send the game to overtime and scored on the first possession of the extra period to improve to 2-0 in the MAAC.

Bryce Wasserman scored a hat trick for Monmouth, with all three goals coming in the third quarter after Monmouth battled back from a 5-2 halftime deficit.

The Hawks took an 8-7 lead after the second of back-to-back Griffin Figel goals came with 5:14 remaining in the fourth quarter, before Brennan Kamish went on to score the game-tying and game-winning goals.  

NOTES & QUOTES
"Any time you lose in overtime it's a tough pill to swallow. We never really got going today and even though we battled throughout the game to keep it close, we missed on some good opportunities and just were unable to finish out the game after we took the lead."
- Head Coach Brian Fisher

- The loss snapped Monmouth's nine-game winning streak against MAAC opponents
- Detroit Mercy leads the all-time series with Monmouth, 4-2.
- Monmouth dropped to 6-1 all-time in games played at Hesse Field on The Great Lawn
- Monmouth is 0-2 in overtime games this season.
- The Hawks are 1-3 in one-goal games in 2018.
- The Hawks wore their white helmets with white jerseys and midnight blue shorts for the first time.

NUMBERS CRUNCH
- Bryce Wasserman scored a hat trick for Monmouth with all three goals coming in the third quarter.
- Wasserman leads Monmouth with 18 goals this season and 83 for his career.
- Wasserman extended his program-best points streak to 24 games and his goals streak to 10 straight games.
- Wasserman now has 11-career hat tricks.
- Griffin Figel scored twice and added an assist. He has at least one point in every game this season and 23 career goals.
- Hunter Jones scored once and also added an assist. He increased his season totals to 13 goals and 15 points.
- Brock Anderson scored his team-leading third man-up goal of the season.
- Grier Wilson put in his second goal of 2018 and the sixth of his career.
- Dan Bloodgood and Gordon Phillips added assists in the win.
- Freshman Noah Lode made 12 saves in goal for Monmouth. It was Lode's fifth double-digit save performance.
- Garrett Pfeifer and Chandler Vanderbeek led the Hawks with six ground balls apiece.
- Monmouth has outscored its opponents 27-11 in the fourth quarter of games this season.

UP NEXT
Monmouth continues conference play next Saturday when it travels to Siena. Opening faceoff in Loudonville, NY is scheduled for 1 p.m.