Game Information
Opponent	Johns Hopkins Blue Jays
Date	Saturday, February 16, 2019
Time	2:00 p.m.
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Homewood Field
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Watch Online	ESPN3 (Live)
Television	ESPNU (Tape Delayed | Sunday, 8 a.m.)
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Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse sets out on a three-game road trip starting on Saturday, February 16, at Johns Hopkins University.
• Faceoff is set for 2 p.m. on at Homewood Field. 
• The game will stream live on ESPN3 and air Sunday at 8 a.m. on ESPNU.
• Loyola and Johns Hopkins will play a men's-women's doubleheader on Saturday. The Greyhounds and Blue Jays women start at 11 a.m.
• Dating back to March 23, 2016, Loyola is averaging 12.4 goals over its last 46 games. The Greyhounds have scored less than 10 only six times in that span.
• Pat Spencer now holds the Patriot League career records in both assists (168) and points (273). In the 2018 Patriot League title game, he broke the Loyola career assists mark.
• Kevin Lindley finished his freshman season ranked fourth in NCAA Division I, converting 52.1 percent of his shots in 2018. He then converted 5 of 8 shots, 62.5 percent, in the 2019 opener.
• Jacob Stover had made 413 career saves, ranking seventh on the NCAA's active leader board.
• Pat Spencer has recorded two or more points in all but two of the 52 games to start his collegiate career, and he has 31 multi-goal and 41 multi-assist games. He has scored a point in all 52 outings.

Last Time Out

• Pat Spencer had five goals and two assists, Kevin Lindley scored five himself and Jacob Stover made 18 saves on Saturday as the Loyola opened its 2019 campaign with a 17-9 win over Virginia.
• Loyola had five stretches in which it scored two or more goals in a row, but the Cavaliers only managed back-to-back goals once.
• In addition to the five goals each from Spencer and Lindley, Aidan Olmstead contributed two goals and two assists, Chase Scanlan scored twice in his collegiate debut, John Duffy and Peter Swindell each had a goal and an assist. Alex McGovern scored once, and P.J. Brown tallied an assist, as well.
• Loyola won the battle at the face-off 'X' as Bailey Savio went 15-of-28, and Loyola also had a 34-31 advantage in ground balls against a team that has led the nation in that statistical category for five of the last 10 years.
• Cam Wyers made his collegiate debut and had six ground balls and a caused turnover while holding Michael Kraus to one goal. Ryan McNulty tallied three ground balls and three caused turnovers. Stover's 18 saves were second-most in his career.

• Loyola moved up to second in both the USILA Coaches Poll and the Inside Lacrosse media version, its highest ranking since the Greyhounds spent the last seven weeks of 2014 ranked No. 1.
• Johns Hopkins is 15th in the coaches poll, 17th in the media.

Series History

• The Greyhounds and Blue Jays will be meeting for the 56th time in series history on Saturday when they take the field. Johns Hopkins holds a 48-7 advantage, but Loyola snapped a 13-game Blue Jays' winning streak in the series with an 8-4 win at Homewood Field on April 27, 2013. The Greyhounds then won meetings between the teams in 2014 (13-10) and 2016 (9-8) for their first-ever three-game winning streak in the series. Although, Johns Hopkins stopped that stretch with a 14-13 overtime victory on February 18, 2017, Loyola made it four wins in five meetings with a 12-5 win on February 17, 2018, at RIdley Athletic Complex.
• Johns Hopkins is Loyola's second most-played opponent behind only Towson (57).

Watch The Action

• Saturday's game will stream live on ESPN3, and it will air tape-delayed on ESPN in a 10 a.m. broadcast on Sunday, February 17. Anish Shroff will call the play-by-play; Quint Kessenich handles the analysis in the booth, while Paul Carcaterra mans the sideline.

Preseason Prognostications

• Loyola was picked as the Patriot League favorite for the sixth time in as many years since joining the conference in 2014, picking up all of the available first-place votes.
• Pat Spencer was named the Patriot League Preseason Offensive Player of the Year, and he was joined on the Preseason All-Patriot League Team by John Duffy and Jacob Stover.
• Spencer was also named the Preseason National Player of the Year by Inside Lacrosse's Face-Off Yearbook  and Lacrosse Magazine. He was named the Face-Off Yearbook Preseason All-America First Team, while Stover and long-stick midfielder Ryan McNulty earned honorable mention.

Conference And National Honors

• Following the Greyhounds' eight-goal win over Virginia in the 2019 season-opener, three players were honored by the Patriot League, two of whom were named to the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) Team of the Week.
• Pat Spencer scored five goals and had two assists, earning Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week recognition, and Jacob Stover was tabbed the Goalkeeper of the Week after making 18 saves. Cam Wyers earned Defensive Player of the Week honors following his collegiate debut in which he had six ground balls, a caused turnovers and held All-American Michael Kraus to one goal and three assists (two of the assists came on extra-man).
• Spencer and Stover both earned spots on the 10-player USILA Team of the Week.

Alone At The Top

• Pat Spencer set the Loyola single-season assist and points records during the 2018 NCAA First Round win over Virginia. He assisted on a Kevin Lindley goal in the first two minutes of the second quarter, breaking his own assist record of 55 set last season. His assist on a Lindley goal to start scoring in the second half was his 90th point of the year, breaking the record of 89 set in 1981 by Gary Hanley and matched in 2016 by Spencer. He finished the year with 35 goals, 59 assists and 94 points.
• Spencer became Loyola's all-time leader in assists (now 168 in 52 career games) during the 2018 Patriot League Championship Game, breaking the mark of 160 set by Hanley in 1981.
• In the Patriot League Semifinals, Spencer set the Patriot League record for career points (now with 273), passing Bucknell University's Chris Cara (2002-05). Earlier in the 2018 season, he set the Patriot League's all-time assist record.

Closing In On Loyola Marks

• In addition to his career assist record, Spencer is second all-time at Loyola in points (273) behind Gary Haley's career total (311, 1978-1981).
• Spencer has 105 goals through 52 career games, a total ranked ninth all-time at the school. In the 2019 opener, he passed his former teammate Zach Herreweyers (2013-16), and he is now three back of tying Chris Colbeck (1988-91) for eighth.
• A 2017 and 2018 Tewaaraton Award finalist, he is first among active NCAA Division I players in assists (168) and points (273).
• Against Virginia in the NCAA First Round game, Spencer moved into the top-10 of NCAA Division I history in assists. He is currently 10th, two back of the U.S. Air Force Academy's Joe Vasta who had 170 from 1983-86. Spencer is also tied for 24th in NCAA Division I history in career points (273) with the University of Notre Dame's Randy Colley (1992-95).

Veteran In Goal

• Jacob Stover returns for his fourth season as a starter at Loyola, having played 2,488 minutes between the pipes for the Greyhounds. The 2018 Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Year 2019 Inside Lacrosse Face-Off Yearbook  Preseason All-American has a career 8.11 goals-against average in 46 games.
• Stover has made saves on 55.1 percent of the shots on goal he has faced and has a 33-10 career record for the Greyhounds.
• He closed the 2018 season with one of the best performances of his career. Stover made a career-best 19 saves against Yale University in the NCAA Quarterfinals while yielding only eight goals to the Bulldogs. He picked right up where he left off in the 2019 opener against Virginia, making 18 saves in the win.

Trying Something New

• Kevin Lindley finished his freshman season in 2018 with 37 goals, all but five of which were unassisted. Three of those unassisted goals came after Lindley picked up ground balls on rebounds of saved shots and scored immediately.
• In the 2019 season-opener against Virginia, Lindley scored five goals, three unassisted off dodges.

Duffy Increases Production

• John Duffy set a career-high with five points in the 2018 Patriot League Championship Game, matching his career-highs in goals (three) and assists (two) along the way. Prior to the April 29 game against Lehigh, he had three games with three goals, and two four-point outings.
• Overall, Duffy had 11 multi-point games in 2018, and he has one through the first game of this season.
• Duffy has 26 goals and nine assists this season, career-highs in both categories in 17 games last year. In 2017, he had 13 goals and four assists in 16 outings.

Not Freshmen Anymore

• Loyola attackers Kevin Lindley and Aidan Olmstead formed the only first-year teammates in NCAA Division I to have logged 35 or more points last season. Lindley finished the year with 41 points this year, including a Loyola freshman-record 37 goals; Olmstead was right behind with 19 goals, 21 assists and 40 points.
• Lindley's 37 goals last season were tied for third among Division I freshmen, and his 2.18 goals per game are also third among freshman and 46th overall.
• Olmstead was seventh among freshman with 21 assists.
• Lindley set a Patriot League and Loyola freshman scoring record March 4, 2018, at Holy Cross by tallying eight goals in a 13-5 win over the Crusaders. His eight goals were one off the school record of nine set in 1986 by John Carroll against Washington & Lee University. It also matched the No. 2 mark in Patriot League history, held by six other players. The eight goals were the most by a Loyola player since Gavin Prout scored eight against Hobart College in 2001.
• Olmstead was twice named the Patriot League Rookie of the Week last season. He picked up his first recognition after a four-goal game at Navy, a contest he followed with a six-point outing (two goals, four assists) versus Bucknell. Olmstead then matched his career highs in points and goals with four goals and two assists versus Boston University in the regular-season meeting of the teams.

Shot Selection

• Loyola finished the 2018 season with a .351 shooting percentage this season marking just the third time the Greyhounds have shot 30 percent or better in the last 10 seasons (.312 in 2014; .301 in 2017).
• Loyola's shot percentage led the Patriot League and was sixth in NCAA Division I. Of the players on Loyola's starting attacker and first and second midfields, all nine shot .271 or better, and six of that group were at .325 or higher.
• In the first game of 2019, the Greyhounds shot .425 against Virginia.

Putting The Ball On The Ground

• In 17 games last season, Loyola ranked second nationally in caused turnovers per game, averaging 9.65 per game. Foster Huggins topped all individuals with 3.06 per contest, an average buoyed by his seven against Johns Hopkins on February 17 and six at Colgate on March 31. Huggins had three or more caused turnovers in 11 of the Greyhounds' 17 games. His 52 caused turnovers last year were a Patriot League single-season record.
• In 2017, the Greyhounds finished fifth in NCAA Division I with 9.31 per game.

Better Than Average Day

• Pat Spencer has put up big numbers throughout his career, but his final stats line at Navy on March 17, 2018, trended into the record-setting category. Spencer finished with four goals and eight assists with his 12 points tying the Loyola record for most in a game. He matched the 12 put up by Gary Hanley on April 25, 1979, against Morgan State University, and the 12 are the most by a Greyhounds player since the school moved to NCAA Division I in 1982.
• His eight assists were third in school single-game history, behind the nine he had in 2017 against Holy Cross and nine Hanley posted in the aforementioned game against the Bears.

Defense Making A Stand

• Over the last 28 games (10 in 2017, 17 in 2018, 1 in 2019) – beginning with a March 18, 2017 win over the U.S. Naval Academy – Loyola's defense has allowed just 7.75 goals per game, limiting opponents to an average of 31.8 shots in the process. The Greyhounds also have an advantage of 335-447 in turnovers (11.9-15.9) as they have gone 21-7 during the stretch.
• Of its opponents 447 turnovers in the last 28 games, Loyola has caused 275. 

Toomey's Team

• Charley Toomey is in his 14th year as the head coach at Loyola and his 23rd as a member of the Greyhounds' coaching staff. Overall, he is in his 27th year on the Evergreen campus, including his four seasons as a student-athlete from 1986-90.
• Toomey has directed the Greyhounds to 89 wins, an average of 12.6 per season (not including this season) since 2012, and has a 135-64 career record. Early in the 2016 season, Toomey became the second coach in program history to reach and cross the 100-win plateau; he stands second on the program's all-time wins chart behind his college coach, Dave Cottle (181-70, 1983-2001).
• As a head coach, Toomey has coached 38 USILA All-Americans, 71 all-conference selections, 18 conference positional or players or rookies of the year, four Tewaaraton Award finalists and 13 USILA Scholar All-Americans.
• In January 2019, Toomey was named to the coaching staff of the U.S. Men's National Team as an assistant coach. He will serve with Team USA in preparation for, and competition in, the 2022 World Championships in British Columbia. He was also enshrined in the USLacrosse Chesapeake Chapter Hall of Fame in January 2019 for his accomplishments as a player and a coach.

Get To Ten

• Since Charley Toomey became head coach at Loyola in 2006, the Greyhounds have scored 10 or more goals on 120 occasions; Loyola has won 80.8 percent of those games (97-23).

Up Next

• The Greyhounds remain on the road for the next two games, both against teams currently ranked in the top-10 nationally. On Saturday, February 23, Loyola visits Rutgers University for the first time since 2019. The Greyhounds then play at Towson University on Wednesday, February 27.