MLAX hosts No. 14 Georgetown on Saturday in Valley Stadium

MILWAUKEE – The Marquette University men’s lacrosse team continues BIG EAST Conference action on Saturday afternoon against No. 14 Georgetown at Valley Fields.

The contest is slated for a noon Central time first faceoff and the game is broadcast live on the BIG EAST Digital Network through FloCollege. Scott Sudikoff will handle the call and live statistics are available through GoMarquette.com.

Tickets for Saturday’s game, which is slated to take place in the stadium at Valley Fields, are on sale now and can be purchased online or by calling the Marquette Ticket Office at (414) 288-4668.

After the matchup with the Hoyas, MU hits the road for a pair of league contests at Providence and Villanova before a return to Milwaukee for the regular season finale against Denver on April 25.

MARQUETTE (6-3, 1-0 BIG EAST)

• The Golden Eagles are off to their best nine-game start (6-3) to a season since 2017. MU’s three losses this year have all come on the road at top-15 opponents.
• MU’s current four-game winning streak is the first since that year.
• Marquette is tied atop the BIG EAST standings at 1-0 with the Hoyas and Villanova, which won in overtime at Denver on Saturday.
• MU enters the week as the league’s top team in the March 29 NCAA RPI rankings (No. 28), ahead of Georgetown at 30.
• Three Golden Eagles earned BIG EAST weekly recognition on Monday: Carsen Brandt (offensive player of the week), Peter Detwiler (honor roll) and Bobby O’Grady (honor roll).
• Brandt and O’Grady each scored four goals against the Red Storm, while Detwiler, a junior SSDM, notched his first goal of the year and new career bests in ground balls (five) and caused turnovers (three).
• As a team, the Golden Eagles are third in the nation on man-up opportunities with a .619 success rate (13-of-21).
• MU is also 15th in the nation in faceoff winning percentage (.572).
• Senior attackman Nolan Rappis is MU’s point leader (22-13-35) and set a program single-game record with 10 points (five goals, five assists) in the win over Detroit Mercy on Feb. 8.
• Senior midfielder Will Foster is among MU’s all-time leaders in goals, assists and total points. His 46 career assists are fourth in program history, while he is seventh in points (94) and 10th in goals (48). He’s on pace to become just the third player in program history to reach 100 career points with at least 50 goals and 50 assists (Ryan McNamara and Conor Gately).
• MU goalie Lucas Lawas has picked up his play in recent weeks, especially in late-game situations. He notched 15 saves and held Air Force scoreless for the final 19:12 in a 9-8 win on March 22 in Wilmette, Illinois. In the win over St. John’s on March 29, Lawas made eight of his nine saves in the second half and held the Red Storm to just one goal over the final 21:09 (only goal allowed in that stretch was a man-up tally with 2:38 to play and MU up four goals).
• O’Grady Foster and Detwiler are team captains for the 2025 campaign.
• Former MU USILA All-American Jake Richard, a Team USA and PLL defensive midfielder, is in his first season as head coach at his alma mater. Richard has been involved with all 170 games in program history as either a student-athlete (2013-16) or assistant coach (2017-24). During his playing career, he led MU to the program’s first BIG EAST Conference title in 2016 and still ranks among MU’s all-time leaders in games played (fourth, 61), ground balls (fourth, 193), and caused turnovers (sixth, 38).

GEORGETOWN (6-3, 1-0 BIG EAST)

• The Hoyas won their BIG EAST opener on Saturday over Providence, 14-13, at Cooper Field in Washington, D.C.
• Graduate attackman Aidan Carroll leads the team in points (20-16-36), and classmate Fulton Bayman reached a career-high six points against the Friars in Saturday’s game.
• Redshirt freshman Pax Marshal was named BIG EAST Freshman of the Week after a career-high four goals against Providence to earn a spot on the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll alongside Bayman.
• Carroll (36 points) and Bayman (35) are ranked third and fourth, respectively, in points in the BIG EAST this season.
• Head Coach Kevin Warne is in his 13th season leading the Hoyas. The five-time BIG EAST Coach of the Year has led Georgetown to six consecutive BIG EAST Championships in 2018-24.

HISTORY WITH THE HOYAS

• Marquette is 5-9 all-time against Georgetown, which has won each of the last six meetings. MU had won four-straight contests in the series from 2016-19.
• All five of MU’s wins over GU have come by a single goal.
• MU is 3-2 against the Hoyas in Wisconsin but has dropped each of the last two meetings (2021 and 2023) at home.
• The only game between the two played on the natural grass field in the Valley Fields stadium was a 10-8 win by the Hoyas on April 10, 2021.
• MU fell to then-No. 9/10 Georgetown in overtime, 15-14, on April 15, 2023 during the last matchup in Milwaukee.
• The Hoyas claimed an 11-8 win last season in Washington, D.C., led by 14 saves from Anderson Moore and two goals apiece from three players, including Caroll. Foster had a career-best five goals in that game for MU and faceoff specialist Luke Williams won 19-of-22 faceoffs (.864) with 15 ground balls.
• Career vs. GU:
  • Carsen Brandt: 1 GP, 1a
  • Peter Detwiler: 2 GP, 2 gb
  • Will Foster: 4 GP, 7g, 3a, 10 pts
  • David Lamarca: 5 GP, 1a, 13 gb, 1 ct
  • Lucas Lawas: 1 GP, 62:12, 15 ga, 15 saves, .500
  • Bobby O’Grady: 4 GP, 9g, 1a, 10 pts, 6 gb
  • Mike Piraino: 2 GP, 4 gb, 1 ct

BRANDT CONTINUES UPWARD TRAJECTORY

• Attackman Carsen Brandt played a big role early in his freshman season last spring and has taken a large step as a key contributor to the MU offensive unit. He notched his first hat trick of the 2025 season on Feb. 15 at No. 1 Notre Dame while being covered by USILA All-American close defenseman Shawn Lyght.
• Brandt earned the second BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week honor of his career on March 31 after scoring a career-high four goals, alongside a pair of assists, in a 13-8 win over St. John’s on March 29.
• The 6-foot-3 native of Edina, Minnesota was the No. 54 incoming freshman last season, according to Inside Lacrosse, and ended the 2024 campaign with 16 goals and 12 assists while starting all 14 contests. His 28 points were third on the squad.
• Brandt was mentored by former MU All-American and fellow Minnesotan Ryan McNamara and is one of the best prep players to come from the Gopher State. As a junior at Benilde St. Margaret’s, he set state records for most points in state tournament history (21), most points in a tournament game (10) and most assists in a state tournament (12) and most assists in a state tournament game (seven).

RAPPIS IS A REVELATION

• Senior attackman Nolan Rappis is Marquette’s point leader early in the 2025 campaign after little offensive production during his first three seasons on campus. The native of nearby Delafield, Wisconsin is an ambidextrous X attackman and has developed a quick rapport to MU’s young but talented offensive unit.
• He is the team leader with 35 total points on 22 goals and 13 assists through nine games.
• Rappis entered 2025 with just 16 total points in 19 career contests.
• Rappis was named to the USILA Team of the Week and earned BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll recognition for his play against Detroit Mercy on Feb. 8. He was also on the league honor roll for posting six points in the win over Cleveland State (2g, 4a) on Feb. 22 and against Bellarmine (5g, 1a) on March 4.

O’GRADY VAULTS UP MU RECORD BOOK

• Senior attackman Bobby O’Grady broke Ryan McNamara’s MU career points record of 152 against Bellarmine (March 4) with eight points on a hat trick and career-high five assists.
• O’Grady was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll on Monday, March 31 after posting four goals and an assist against St. John’s on March 29. The senior has earned three BIG EAST weekly nods this season and is MU’s all-time leader in both points (165) and goals (134).
• O’Grady’s game winner against St. John’s is the seventh such goal of his career, tying him with John Wagner (2016-19) for second in program history.
• O’Grady is fifth among active NCAA Division I players with 134 career scores.
• O’Grady was the 2022 BIG EAST Freshman of the Year and scored at an elite pace in his first three seasons at Marquette (2.65 goals per game). He’s a three-time All-BIG EAST performer and was named to the league’s all-preseason team in January.
• He broke Ryan McNamara’s program goal record of 102 against then-No. 13/12 Michigan on Feb. 24, 2024, in Naples, Florida.
• He turned in a record-setting season as a true freshman in 2022, setting new program records for goals (45) and man-up scores (13). He also recorded just the fourth 50-point season at Marquette and tied a BIG EAST record with eight goals at St. John’s on April 9, 2022.

OFFENSIVE DEPTH EMERGING

• O’Grady has been one of the most productive players since bursting onto the scene with a program-record 45 goals as a freshman in 2022. This season his fellow attackmen, Rappis and Brandt, have come into their own to lead the way for the Golden Eagles.
• Rappis leads MU with 35 points through nine games, while O’Grady has 32 and Matt Caputo (23), Will Foster (22) and Carsen Brandt (26) are each at 20 or more.
• The Golden Eagles are also able to roll two productive midfield lines for the first time in recent memory with freshman Noah Snyder and sophomore Beau Westphal each providing significant offense and Jake Bair returning from injury in recent games.
• Snyder was the BIG EAST Freshman of the Week on Feb. 24 after posting the first five points of his NCAA career in a 15-7 win over Cleveland State with a hat trick and two assists.
• Caputo and Foster anchor the first midfield.

NEW FACES ON DEFENSE AND SPECIALTY UNITS

• The Golden Eagles lost a pair of starting close defensemen in Woodward and Noah Verlinde as well as all-conference faceoff specialist Luke Willams and goalie Caleb Creasor, who started every game last spring.
• Poles David Lamarca (44 career games entering 2025) and Mike Piraino (22 games) return as MU’s most experienced defenders and played both LSM and close defense last season. Ryan Kilcoyne served as MU’s fourth defenseman and started four games last year in addition to serving on MU’s man-down unit.
• Head coach Jake Richard, a former D-mid himself, will rely upon team captain Peter Detwiler to lead MU’s rope unit and contributions from younger players. Detwiler played in all 28 games (34 ground balls and seven caused turnovers) over his first two seasons at MU and grad student Jadyn Castillo redshirted last spring. Redshirt junior Brendan Boyle has also played both short stick and pole during his 25-game career.
• Freshman Hayden Hiltz was inserted into the lineup against Bellarmine to infuse some athleticism at short stick and immediately provided dividends. Hiltz picked up three ground balls against the Knights and scored his first career goal with under one minute remaining in the second quarter. Hiltz is a 5-foot-11, 185-pound native of Waterdown, Ontario, who played at The Hill Academy.
• In net, Lucas Lawas returns after playing just 38 minutes last season behind Creasor. Lawas played big minutes at the end of his freshman campaign in 2023, which featured overtime losses to three top-12 teams to end the season.
• At the faceoff dot, native Wisconsinite Adam Slager (Stoughton) is the lone returner. Slager played in eight games in 2024 as a redshirt freshman, won 55.8% of his draws (43-of-77) and picked up 22 ground balls. All but one of his appearances came prior to the start of BIG EAST action.

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