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Navy, Men's Lacrosse Meet Saturday In Patriot League Action


Game Information
Opponent
Navy Midshipmen
Date
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Time
1:00 p.m.
Location
Baltimore, Md. | Ridley Athletic Complex
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Loyola


Quick Hits About The 'Hounds
  • Loyola University Maryland returns to Ridley Athletic Complex for two-straight games, starting with a Saturday, March 18, contest against the U.S. Naval Academy.
  • The Greyhounds and Midshipmen will start the action at 1 p.m.
  • Dating back to March 23, 2016, Loyola is averaging 12.5 goals over its last 17 games. The Greyhounds have scored less than 10 just twice during that stretch, a victory over Bucknell in the Patriot League Semifinals, and last week's loss at Duke.
  • Through six games this year, 10 Greyhounds have scored four or more goals and 10 have seven or more points.
  • Loyola is averaging 13.3 goals per game this season having scored 80 in six contests. Its goals per game average ranks sixth in NCAA Division I.
  • Pat Spencer has recorded two or more points in all 24 games to start his collegiate career, and he has 14 multi-goal and 17 multi-assist games.
  • Graham Savio has won 91-of-156 faceoffs this year and is No. 6 in NCAA Division I with 8.5 ground balls per game. As a team, Loyola is ranked fifth in ground balls per game (35.8).

Last Time Out
  • Duke went on a 5-0 run in the second quarter and outscored Loyola 8-1 during that period and the third as the Blue Devils posted a 15-7 victory Saturday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium.
  • The Greyhounds took a 2-1 lead 7:19 in to the game as Brian Sherlock ran free down the left alley and scored overhand high.
  • Duke, however, got two-straight goals starting with a man-up tally by Justin Guterding at 3:25. Joey Manown then worked topside from behind and shot low for a goal with 2:15 left in the frame that put the Blue Devils up 3-2.
  • With less than 15 seconds to play in the first, Sherlock lost the handle in traffic on the right-side of the goal, but he found the ground ball and flicked it in for his second of the day with 9.6 seconds on the clock to tie the game..
  • Brad Smith then started the Duke second-quarter run when he went low-to-low 1:16 into the stanza, and Manown added his second of the game three minutes later. Reilly Walsh added a goal at 9:41, and Smith tallied a score on a six-on-four extra-man possession. 
  • Sherlock scored three goals, while Pat Spencer had two and an assist.

In The Polls
  • Loyola checks in at No. 17 in the USILA Coaches Poll, and the Greyhounds are 18th in the Maverick/Inside Lacrosse rankings. 
  • Navy is unranked entering the game.

Series History
  • Loyola and Navy will meet for just the 10th time in series history despite being located less than 26 miles from each other (as the crow flies). The teams have met only five times during the regular-season since 1943. Loyola won five-straight in the series to take a 5-4 all-time lead, but the Midshipmen dealt the Greyhounds a 10-9 loss last year in Annapolis.
  • The Greyhounds and Midshipmen played a two-game series to open the 2010 and 2011 seasons with Loyola coming away victorious in both. Loyola won each of those meetings by just one goal, 8-7 in 2010, 9-8 in 2011, before squeaking out a 7-6 double overtime win in 2014, the Greyhounds' first season as a member of the Patriot League.
  • In 2015, Navy made the trip to Loyola's Ridley Athletic Complex, and the Greyhounds had 6-0 runs in both the first and second halves to defeat the eventual regular-season championships, 17-7, on April 4.
  • Last year at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, Jack Ray bounced a shot off the far post with 37.7 seconds left to give the Midshipmen a 10-9 victory, denying Loyola a furious second-half comeback.
  • The Greyhounds rallied from a 7-2 halftime hole to tie the game three times and take a fourth-quarter lead, but Ray's lone goal of the game proved the winner. Loyola trailed 7-2 when Casey Rees scored on an extra-man possession for the Midshipmen 29.2 before the end of the first half. Rees' goal, one of his career-high five in the game, capped a stretch where Navy outscored the Greyhounds, 6-1.
  • The Greyhounds, however, came out strong in the second half and scored the third quarter's first goal 4:02 into the frame. John Duffy caught a Pat Spencer feed and scored his first collegiate goal at 10:58.
  • Loyola then took its first lead of the game at 6:11 when Jared Mintzlaff stayed on after a transition run and beat his defender from the left side to score his second in as many games.

Twitter, Campus Insiders & The Patriot League Network
  • Saturday's game will be the second this season that will feature Loyola men's lacrosse being streamed on Twitter. The Loyola-Virginia season-opener was the first-ever lacrosse game to stream live on the platform; the game drew more than 681,000 views, the most ever to watch a Campus Insiders or Patriot League Network event.
  • Campus Insiders entered into an agreement with Twitter during the summer to air select Patriot League and other college events. Loyola's women's lacrosse game against Georgetown on Wednesday, March 22, will also be on the platform.
  • WBAL Radio's Brett Hollander, former Loyola coach Dave Cottle and Chris Gunkel '91 will call the action that can also be seen on the Patriot League Network and Campus Insiders.

Spreading The Wealth
  • Loyola has averaged 9.3 assists in its six games despite recording just one last Saturday at Duke. The Greyhounds are seventh in Division I in assists per game through games of March 14. Of Loyola's 80 goals this year, 70 percent (56 total) have been assisted this season. 
  • In Loyola's 14 wins last year, 59.6 percent (96-of-161) goals were assisted. Conversely, only 41.6 percent (15-of-36) goals in its four losses came off assists. This season, it has assists on 68.9 percent (20-of-29) goals in its wins.

Lots of Options
  • Four players – Pat Spencer (10), Brian Sherlock (9), John Duffy (8) and Jordan Germershausen (8) – have scored eight or more goals this season, while three others – Brian Begley (6), Romar Dennis (6) and Jay Drapeau (5) – have five-plus. 
  • As a team, the Greyhounds are converting 32.7 percent of their shots this season, a mark that is good for 18th in the nation. Meanwhile, they are putting 58.8 percent of their shots on goal.

Anatomy Of A Record
  • Pat Spencer tied the Loyola program record and set a Patriot League standard with nine assists on March 4 against Holy Cross. He matched the nine assists Gary Hanley posted on April 25, 1979, against Morgan State University and were two more than Brian Duffy's Division I record of seven against Towson State University on April 1, 1995.
  • Spencer posted assists on four of Loyola's first five goals, and he had three in the third quarter as Loyola extended its advantage to 13-7. He earned USILA/BSN Sports National Offensive Player and Corvias Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week honors after tallying two goals and 13 assists between the Holy Cross game and Loyola's 11-7 win at then-No. 13 Towson on March 1.
  • His total represents the most by a Division I player this season and is tied for 10th most in Division I single-game history.

Focal Point
  • Pat Spencer was in the starting lineup on attack for his first collegiate game at Virginia last season, and he made an immediate difference on the Greyhounds' offensive side of the ball. The sophomore from Davidsonville, Maryland, scored two goals and assisted on a pair, earning Corvias Patriot League Rookie of the Week honors after the fact.
  • Honors were a large part of his freshman campaign for the Greyhounds, one in which he was named to the USILA All-America Second Team. He also became the first player in Patriot League history to outright win the conference's Offensive Player and Rookie of the Year honors.
  • In 18 games, Spencer led Loyola in points (89), assists (52) and goals (37, tied), and against North Carolina in the NCAA Semifinals, Spencer tied Gary Hanley's 1982 record for points in a season with 89. Hanley and Spencer are the only two players in Loyola history to score 80 or more in one year; Hanley did so three times in 1979 (83), 1980 (86) and 1981 (89). A week earlier versus Duke, Spencer eclipsed the school Division I mark of 71 shared by Eric Lusby (2012) and Justin Ward (2014). 
  • Spencer finished second in single-season assists with 52, just one behind the 2014 record of 53 set by Ward. Spencer was second nationally with 2.89 assists per game and 4.94 points per game.
  • Spencer has recorded two or more points in all 24 of his collegiate games. He has 14 multi-goal games and 17 multi-assist outings. He is the NCAA active career leader in assists per game (3.13) and is second in points per game (5.08). 
  • Against Lafayette (the 21st game of his career), he crossed the 100-point mark for his career and now has 47 goals, 75 assists and 122 points. His 75 assists are seventh on Loyola's all-time list. Through six games this year, he is second in Division I with 3.83 assists per game and fourth in points with 5.5.

Transition Scoring
  • Loyola has emphasized scoring in transition and during unsettled situations for the last several years, and the Greyhounds have shown success in this area. Brian Begley has led the effort with six goals and an assist in five games this season, including two outings (Virginia and Towson) in which he scored twice. Prior to 2017, Begley had two career goals (both in 2015 as a freshman, and one was as part of the second midfield).
  • In addition to Begley's scoring, Graham Savio has scored three times after winning faceoffs forward to himself, tripling his career total from years prior. Jared Mintzlaff has two goal and two assists this year, and Zac Davliakos has a goal and two assists.

Savio Starts Year Strong
  • Graham Savio has been the Greyhounds' primary face-off specialist since his freshman campaign in 2014, and he has opened his senior year with a career-high effort. Savio won 19-of-35 restarts and tied his career-best with 12 ground balls and Virginia and then went 19-of-31 with 10 ground balls versus Johns Hopkins. In less than three quarters of action, he was 12-of-19 at Lafayette with 10 ground balls. 
  • He tied his career-best against Holy Cross, going 20-of-28 with 10 ground balls, and against Duke All-American Kyle Rowe he was 12-of-22 with seven ground balls; he now ranks sixth in NCAA Division I with 8.5 ground balls per game.
  • He also set a new career-best with two goals against Virginia, and he scored another at Johns Hopkins. Prior to the 2017 season-opener, he had scored just once in his career, a goal versus the Blue Jays in 2014.
  • The native of Greenwich, Connecticut, is fifth among active Division I players in career face-offs won (597), and his 289 career ground balls are sixth.

Little Of This, Little Of That
  • With his goal at the buzzer of the first half at Lehigh in 2016, Brian Sherlock scored his 100th point in a Loyola uniform, and he is the program's active career leader in points (125) and goals (81). In 2015, he was second on the Greyhounds in both goals (29) and assists (19), and he was third in all three offensive categories in 2016 with 24 goals, 13 assists and 37 points.
  • Sherlock is also the active leader in goals scored by NCAA Division I midfielders.

McGovern Makes Impact In Debut
  • Alex McGovern joined the Loyola program in January after transferring to the school from the University of North Carolina where he saw action in seven games last season. He made a start on attack for the Greyhounds against Virginia and posted five points with two goals and three assists to lead the Greyhounds with five points.
  • He followed that performance four goals and four assists over the next three games before putting up two and four versus Holy Cross. Currently, he is second on the team with 20 points on nine goals and 11 assists.

Davliakos Pick Up Slack (And Ground Balls)
  • With Ryan Fournier sidelined to start the season, Zac Davliakos has played the majority of shifts as Loyola's long-stick midfielder this season, and the junior has 17 ground balls in the first six games of 2017, more than he's had in any of his first three seasons.
  • Davliakos picked up a career-high six in the opener against Virginia, and he matched what had been his career-best with four against Johns Hopkins. In helping Loyola go 97-of-168 at the faceoff 'X' through four games.

Get To Ten
  • Since Charley Toomey became head coach at Loyola in 2006, the Greyhounds have scored 10 or more goals on 96 occasions. With the win over Lafayette, Loyola has won 79.1 percent of those games (76-20).

Preseason Patriot League Prognostications
  • Loyola was tabbed the unanimous favorite in the Patriot League Preseason Men's Lacrosse poll, receiving all 16 first-place votes of Patriot League coaches and sports information personnel (teams are not allowed to vote for themselves, and the U.S. Naval Academy picked up Loyola's first-place votes).
  • The Greyhounds were followed in the poll by the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, Bucknell University, Boston University, Lehigh University, Colgate University, College of the Holy Cross and Lafayette College.
  • Pat Spencer was named the Preseason Offensive Player of the Year, and he was joined on the Preseason All-Patriot League Team by Foster Huggins and Brian Sherlock.

Century Mark
  • Charley Toomey won the 100th game of his head coaching career Feb. 27, 2016, against Lafayette College, becoming just the second coach in Loyola men's lacrosse history to do so. Toomey is in his 12th year at Loyola and is 114-57 since 2006 at the helm of the Greyhounds program.
  • Toomey entered the season sixth among active Division I coaches in winning percentage. His collegiate coach, and current Loyola and Patriot League Network color commentator Dave Cottle, is the only other coach to win 100 or more at Loyola. Cottle was 181-70 from 1983-2001.

Up Next
  • The Greyhounds remain at Ridley Athletic Complex for their next game. They host Georgetown University at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 22, in a game that will air live on CBS Sports Network. The contest against the Hoyas will be Loyola's final non-conference game of the regular-season.
  • Following that outing, the Greyhounds travel to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania for a Patriot League game at Bucknell University on Saturday, March 25.
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Players Mentioned

Jay Drapeau

#4 Jay Drapeau

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5' 9"
Senior
John Duffy

#5 John Duffy

M
6' 0"
Junior
Pat Spencer

#7 Pat Spencer

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6' 3"
Junior
Alex McGovern

#16 Alex McGovern

M
6' 3"
Junior
Brian Begley

#17 Brian Begley

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5' 10"
Senior
Foster Huggins

#20 Foster Huggins

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5' 10"
Senior
Zac Davliakos

#34 Zac Davliakos

LSM
6' 2"
Senior
Jared Mintzlaff

#44 Jared Mintzlaff

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6' 3"
Senior
Romar Dennis

#3 Romar Dennis

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6' 5"
Senior
Brian Sherlock

#6 Brian Sherlock

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5' 10"
Senior
Jordan Germershausen

#11 Jordan Germershausen

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5' 6"
Senior
Graham Savio

#28 Graham Savio

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5' 9"
Senior

Players Mentioned

Jay Drapeau

#4 Jay Drapeau

5' 9"
Senior
M
John Duffy

#5 John Duffy

6' 0"
Junior
M
Pat Spencer

#7 Pat Spencer

6' 3"
Junior
A
Alex McGovern

#16 Alex McGovern

6' 3"
Junior
M
Brian Begley

#17 Brian Begley

5' 10"
Senior
M
Foster Huggins

#20 Foster Huggins

5' 10"
Senior
D
Zac Davliakos

#34 Zac Davliakos

6' 2"
Senior
LSM
Jared Mintzlaff

#44 Jared Mintzlaff

6' 3"
Senior
M
Romar Dennis

#3 Romar Dennis

6' 5"
Senior
M
Brian Sherlock

#6 Brian Sherlock

5' 10"
Senior
M
Jordan Germershausen

#11 Jordan Germershausen

5' 6"
Senior
A
Graham Savio

#28 Graham Savio

5' 9"
Senior
FO