Quick Hits About The 'Hounds
- Loyola University Maryland returns to Ridley Athletic Complex for three out of four games at home. The Greyhounds start the stretch on Saturday, March 16, when the host the U.S. Naval Academy at 1 p.m.
- Dating back to March 23, 2016, Loyola is averaging 12.43 goals over its last 50 games. The Greyhounds have scored less than 10 only seven times in that span.
- Pat Spencer now holds the Patriot League career records in both assists (188) and points (306). 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 has converted 25 of 47 shots this year, good for 53.2 percent.
- Jacob Stover has 482 career saves, sixth on the NCAA's active leader board.
- Pat Spencer has recorded two or more points in all but two of the 57 games to start his collegiate career, and he has 34 multi-goal and 46 multi-assist games. He has scored a point in all 57 outings.
- Chase Scanlan leads all NCAA Division I freshmen with 18 goals this year.
Last Time Out
- Duke scored all five third-quarter goals Thursday night to stretch a 6-3 halftime lead to 11-3 before going on to a 12-7 victory Loyola at Koskinen Stadium.
- Brad Smith scored with 66 seconds left in the second quarter off of a Joe Robertson assist, and he added his second of the night 1:25 into the third.
- Nakeie Montgomery and Kevin Quigley scored once each, and Joey Manown tallied his third and fourth goals of the game to push the Blue Devils' lead to 11-3 with 44 ticks left in the third.
- Bailey Savio, who had nine ground balls and went 13 of 22 on face-offs for Loyola, stopped the run by winning the opening draw of the fourth and going to goal for his first tally of the season. That sparked a 4-0 Loyola run, but the Greyhounds ran out of time in their rally.
- Duke (6-1 overall) had a 43-22 shot advantage in the game, and the Blue Devils controlled the ground balls with 35 to Loyola's 19, despite Savio outperforming Duke at the face-off 'X.'
- Jacob Stover made 15 saves in goal for the Greyhounds.
- Chase Scanlan led the Greyhounds' offense in the game, scoring three times and assisting on two.
In The Polls
- Loyola moved to number nine in the USILA Coaches Poll and number eight in the Inside Lacrosse media version on March 11.
- Navy is receiving votes in both polls.
Series History
- Loyola and Navy will meet for just the 12th time in series history despite being located less than 26 miles from each other (as the crow flies). The teams have met only six times during the regular-season since 1943 with five of those games coming since the Greyhounds joined the Patriot League in 2014. Loyola has won four of the five meetings between the teams in Patriot League play and the Greyhounds have a 7-4 all-time lead in the series.
- In last year's March 17 game in Annapolis, Maryland, Pat Spencer tied Loyola's single-game record for points with 12, scoring four times and assisting on four others.
- Jay Drapeau and Aidan Olmstead each scored four goals for Loyola, and Jack Ray had three for the Midshipmen.
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 Honors
- Following the Greyhounds game at Duke, Chase Scanlan was named the Patriot League Rookie of the Week for the second-straight week. He is tied for second on the team with 18 goals and is third with 25 points.
Second To 300
- Pat Spencer became the second player in Loyola men's lacrosse history to score 300 points in a career when he crossed the plateau against Holy Cross. He joins Gary Hanley (1978-81), the school career record-holder with 311 points. Spencer is also the 15th player to hit 300 or more in NCAA Division I history.
Closing In On Loyola Marks
- In addition to his career assist record, Spencer is second all-time at Loyola in points (306) behind Gary Haley's career total (311, 1978-1981).
- Spencer has 118 goals through 57 career games, a total ranked tied for fifth all-time at the school two shy of tying Gewas Schindler (1996-99) for fourth. Mike Sawyer (2009, 2011-13) stands third at 128, behind Pat Lamon (133, 1983-86) and Hanley (151). The 2017 and 2018 Tewaaraton Award finalist, he is first among active NCAA Division I players in assists (188) , goals (118) and points (306).
- Against Virginia in the 2018 NCAA First Round game, Spencer moved into the top-10 of NCAA Division I history in assists. He is currently fifth all-time with 188, 16 back of Cornell's Rob Pannell (2009-13) in fourth with 204. Spencer is 13th in NCAA Division I history in career points (306); with one more point, he'll tie Lehigh's Chris Cameron (1986-89) and Syracuse's Mikey Powell (2011-04) for 11th with 307. Spencer can break into the top-10 in career points with 10 more, at which point he would tie Yale's Ben Reeves (2015-18) and Brown's Darren Lowe (1989-92) for ninth with 316.
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 188 in 56 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 306), passing Bucknell University's Chris Cara (2002-05). Earlier in the 2018 season, he set the Patriot League's all-time assist record.
Veteran In Goal
- Jacob Stover returns for his fourth season as a starter at Loyola, having played 2,758 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 8.40 goals-against average in 50 games.
- Stover has made saves on 55.0 percent of the shots on goal he has faced and has a 36-12 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 has picked up where he left off, making 18 saves in 2019 season-opener against Virginia, 12 versus Johns Hopkins, 18 at Rutgers University, 13 at Towson and 11 versus Holy Cross to give him 106 in his last seven games.
Lindley Leading
- Kevin Lindley has been on fire to start the 2019 season, scoring 25 goals in six games, and he is second in NCAA Division I with 4.17 goals per game. He has tallied four or more in all but one of the contests, including six at Towson and versus Holy Cross and five versus Virginia.
- 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. With one unassisted versus Holy Cross, he has six already this year.
- He is second on the active career leader with 2.70 goals per game.
Strong Start
- Chase Scanlan is off to a solid start to his Loyola career, scoring 18 goals to go with seven assists for 25 points in six games. His 18 goals are the most by any freshman in NCAA Division I this season, and his 3.0 goals and 4.0 points per game are tops among freshmen midfielders.
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 six games of 2019, the Greyhounds have shot .378 overall, ranking fourth in NCAA Division I.
Defense Making A Stand
- Over the last 33 games (10 in 2017, 17 in 2018, 6 in 2019) – beginning with a March 18, 2017 win over the U.S. Naval Academy – Loyola's defense has allowed just 8.3 goals per game. The Greyhounds also have an advantage of 416-519 in turnovers (12.6-15.7) as they have gone 24-8 during the stretch.
- Of its opponents 519 turnovers in the last 33 games, Loyola has caused 303.
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 93 wins, an average of 12.6 per season (not including this season) since 2012, and has a 138-66 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 124 occasions; Loyola has won 80.6 percent of those games (100-24).
Up Next
- The Greyhounds head on the road next weekend to face Bucknell University at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 23, before returning to Ridley Athletic Complex for a pair of games, March 31 versus Colgate University and April 6 against Lehigh University.
