CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse players Pat Spencer, Foster Huggins and Jacob Stover earned major awards from the Patriot League coaches following the conclusion of the regular-season, and the trio were among six Greyhounds who were named to All-Patriot League teams on Monday.

Spencer was named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year for the third season in a row, while Huggins and Stover garnered Defensive Player and Goalkeeper of the Year recognition.

Those three were joined on the All-Patriot League first team by midfielder Jay Drapeau and short-stick defensive midfielder Brian Begley, while midfielder John Duffy was part of the second team.

Loyola, which has a 10-3 overall record and 7-1 mark in the Patriot League, will host the Patriot League Championships on April 27 and 29, starting with a pair of semifinals on Friday evening. The Greyhounds will be the Championships top seed and take on the lowest remaining seed (No. 4 Lehigh University, No. 5 Colgate University or No. 6 Boston University) at 4:30 Friday. The U.S. Naval Academy is seeded second and will play in the second semifinal. Bucknell University enters the Championships as the third seed.

Spencer is the third player in Patriot League history to win three Offensive Player of the Year awards and the first to earn the recognition in his first three years. He is ended the regular-season tops in the conference in points per game (5.85), second in assists per game (3.69) and eighth in goals per game (2.15). He has posted 28 goals, 48 assists and 76 points. His assist total is fourth in school, and tied for fourth in conference, single-season history; his points rank sixth at Loyola and are tied for eighth in the Patriot League.

Earlier this month, Spencer set the Patriot League career record for assists and now has 155 in 47 career games, a total that is five away from tying Gary Hanley (1978-81) for tops in Loyola history. Spencer's 248 points are one shy of the Patriot League record set by Bucknell's Chris Cara from 2002-05. He is second at Loyola all-time in points behind Hanley's 311.

This season, Spencer has six games with seven or more points, including three with nine or better. He tied Hanley's school single-game record with 12 points in a March win at Navy, and he has tallied two or more points in every game of 2018.

Huggins, who earned All-Patriot League First Team honors for the second time in three years (also 2016), enters the Patriot League Championships leading NCAA Division I in caused turnovers per game (3.38). He has 36 ground balls, and his 44 caused turnovers are second in school single-season history behind P.T. Ricci's 51 in 2009.

Last week, Huggins was selected by the Denver Outlaws in the Major Lacrosse League Collegiate Entry Draft. The senior has posted two or more caused turnovers in 11 of the Greyhounds' 13 games this year (every game except versus Lafayette College and Georgetown University) and has three or more in 10 of those contests. He is a member of the Tewaaraton and USILA Player of the Year Watch Lists along with Spencer.

In six-on-six defense, Huggins has held players such as Virginia's Michael Kraus (one goal), Johns Hopkins' Shack Stanwick (one goal) and Duke's Justin Guterding (one goal) well below their 2018 averages. Kraus and Guterding are also members of the USILA Watch List.

Stover earned All-Patriot League First Team honors for the first time in his career; the junior leads the Patriot League in goals-against average during conference games (7.79) and is third in the League in save percentage (.521) during that stretch.

Overall, Stover has played more than 743 minutes between the pipes this season and has an 8.40 goals-against average with a .521 save percentage. He also scored the first goal of his career on April 14 with a length-of-the-field heave against Boston University that went in at the end of the second quarter.

Stover has yielded 10 or more goals only three times this season (Virginia, Duke, Bucknell), and he has six games with 10 or more saves. Over the last five games, he has not given up more than eight goals while in the cage.

Drapeau also picked up his first All-Patriot League recognition this season while leading the Greyhounds in goals (33). The senior is third in the Patriot League in goals per game (2.54) and among the top-six in the nation in goals by midfielders.

He has scored at least one goal in every game this season and had two or more in all but two (at Holy Cross and at Lehigh); Drapeau had two or more points in all 13 regular-season games. His .485 shooting percentage leads all Patriot League players and is among the nation's top-20.

Begley picked up All-Patriot League First Team recognition in 2018 a year after being named to the second team as a short-stick defensive midfielder. A starter on the Greyhounds' rope unit since his freshman season, Begley has tallied 26 ground balls and eight caused turnovers this season.

He also has been a key part of the offense, both in transition and settled situations with five goals and three assists. Begley has helped limit opponents to a .257 shooting percentage and 8.62 goals per game in 2018.

Duffy was named to the All-Patriot League First Team in his first season as a starter for the Greyhounds. He enters the Patriot League Championships ranked fourth on the team with 20 goals and fifth with 26 points, both career-highs.

He has scored two or more points in nine of the Greyhounds 13 games and has three outings with three goals and two with four points.

Spencer's Offensive Player of the Year Award is the fourth for the Greyhounds in their five years in the Patriot League (Justin Ward, 2014; Spencer, 2016-18). Huggins is the second Loyola player to gain Defensive Player of the Year recognition (Joe Fletcher, 2014), and Stover is the second Goalkeeper of the Year (Jack Runkel, 2014). Loyola now has 29 All-Patriot League honors since joining the conference for the 2014 season.