MLAX at Villanova on Saturday

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MILWAUKEE – The Marquette University men's lacrosse team heads to Villanova, Pennsylvania to face Villanova at 11 a.m. Central time Saturday at Villanova Stadium.

The game airs live on FloCollege with Ben Curtis, Enrique Hervada and Tessa Peloso on the call. Live statistics are available through StatBroadcast, courtesy of Villanova Athletics.

Following Saturday's game, the Golden return to Milwaukee to host Denver on Friday, April 25 for the program's senior day celebration. MU will honor 14 student-athletes plus three senior team managers.

MARQUETTE (6-5, 1-2 BIG EAST)

The Golden Eagles have lost their last two conference games after starting the season 6-3 with a win in their league opener against St. John's on March 29.
MU fell in double overtime to then-No. 14 Georgetown on April 5 and suffered a 14-2 loss at Providence on April 12.
The loss at PC was the second time this season that MU has been limited to two-or-fewer goals (MU lost 14-1 in the season opener at then-No. 15 Michigan).
As a team, the Golden Eagles are fourth in the nation on man-up opportunities with a .560 success rate (14-of-25).
MU is also 21st in the nation in faceoff winning percentage (.541).
Senior attackman Nolan Rappis is MU's point co-leader (23-13-36) and set a program single-game record with 10 points (five goals, five assists) in the win over Detroit Mercy on Feb. 8.
Classmate Bobby O'Grady, MU's all-time leading scorer, has a team-best 24 goals and 36 points.
Senior midfielder Will Foster is among MU's all-time leaders in goals, assists and total points. His 47 career assists are fourth in program history, while he is seventh in points (94) and 10th in goals (49). 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).
O'Grady Foster and Detwiler are team captains for the 2025 campaign.
MU's four-game winning streak from March 4-29 is the first since 2017.
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).
Richard is a native of West Chester, Pennsylvania, which lies just over 20 miles to the southwest of Villanova's campus.

VILLANOVA (6-5, 3-0 BIG EAST)

The Wildcats are the lone unbeaten team in BIG EAST play after narrow wins at then-No. 20 Denver in overtime and Providence in addition to a 10-7 home victory last Saturday over St. John's.
VU owns non-conference triumphs over Brown, Drexel and then-No. 9 Yale at home on Feb. 15.
Villanova enters the week eighth in the country in caused turnovers per game (10.36) and ninth in faceoff winning percentage (.590).
Tyler Sandoval leads the BIG EAST individually with a .627 faceoff percentage (84-of-134).
The Wildcats average 9.27 goals per game and are led in scoring by Colin Michener's 20 goals and 28 points in 2025.
Three other players have double digit goals this season, including Matt Licata (16), Nick Lucchesi (13) and Luke Raymond (10).
Denis Fargione has made eight starts in net and boasts a .536 save percentage with 90 total saves and a 9.16 goals against average. He had a career-best 19 saves earlier this season in the win over Brown.
Head coach Mike Corrado is in his 19th season on the Main Line.

HISTORY WITH THE WILDCATS

Marquette is just 3-10 all-time against Villanova and has dropped each of the last eight contests.
MU's last win over the Wildcats was a 14-9 victory in the semifinals of the 2016 BIG EAST tournament in Denver, which MU went on to win.
MU won both games against VU in 2016, including an 11-3 win over then-No. 5/6 Villanova at Valley Fields.
MU fell 12-6 at Valley Fields on April 20, 2024 in the last meeting and was led by a pair of goals from Nolan Garcia.
VU won the last matchup at Villanova Stadium in overtime, 16-15, on April 22, 2023, and is 5-1 against MU at home. MU was led in that contest by four goals from both Devon Cowan and Bobby O'Grady but had to overcome a 14-of-35 performance at the faceoff dot. MU led the then-No. 12/13 Wildcats until VU's Austin Fraser scored the tying goal with just 33 seconds remaining. The loss was MU's second of three-straight overtime losses to end the regular season against top-12 teams in the USILA Coaches Poll.
Career vs. VU:
- Peter Detwiler: 2 GP, 3 gb, 1ct
- Will Foster: 3 GP, 2g, 4a, 6 pts, 4gb
- Nolan Garcia: 3 GP, 3g, 1a, 4 pts, 1 gb
- David Lamarca: 4 GP, 1g, 3 gb, 2 ct
- Lucas Lawas: 1 GP, 61:11, 16 ga, 11 saves, .407
- Bobby O'Grady: 3 GP, 6g, 1a, 7 pts, 3 gb
- Nolan Rappis: 2 GP, 1g, 1a, 2 gb

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Players Mentioned

Devon Cowan

Peter Detwiler

Will Foster

Nolan Garcia

David Lamarca

Lucas Lawas

Bobby O'Grady

Nolan Rappis