Game Information
Opponent	Bucknell Bison
Date	Saturday, March 23, 2019
Time	1:00 p.m.
Location	Lewisburg, Pa. | Christy Mathewson Memorial Stadium
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Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland heads on the road for a Patriot League road trip to face Bucknell University on Saturday, March 23, at 1 p.m.
• The game will air live on Stadium and stream on the Patriot League Network.
• Dating back to March 23, 2016, Loyola is averaging 12.55 goals over its last 51 games. The Greyhounds have scored less than 10 only seven times in that span.
• Pat Spencer now holds the Loyola and Patriot League career records in both assists (192) and points (314). He set the Loyola assists mark in 2018 and the points record in 2019 against Navy.
• Kevin Lindley finished his freshman season ranked fourth in NCAA Division I, converting 52.1 percent of his shots in 2018. He has converted 30 of 55 shots this year, good for 54.5 percent.
• Jacob Stover has 496 career saves, seventh on the NCAA's active leader board.
• Pat Spencer has recorded two or more points in all but two of the 58 games to start his collegiate career, and he has 35 multi-goal and 47 multi-assist games. He has scored a point in all 57 outings.
• Chase Scanlan leads all NCAA Division I freshmen midfielders with 20 goals.

Last Time Out

• Pat Spencer scored four goals and had four assists and broke a 38-year old Loyola record for career points on Saturday as the Greyhounds beat Navy, 18-5, at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• Jacob Stover backstopped the Loyola defense with 14 saves, while close defenders John Railey and Cam Wyers each had three caused turnovers.
• Kevin Lindley posted five goals, while John Duffy added three and an assist. Chase Scanlan had two goals and an assist, while Aidan Olmstead tallied a goal and two assists.
• Stover keyed the Greyhounds defensively with six first-quarter saves as Loyola jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the opening 15 minutes. He made five more saves in the second as the Greyhounds extended their lead to 9-0 less than six minutes into the frame and 11-2 by the end of the half.
• Navy had possession for almost the first three minutes of the game, but a Wyers caused turnover started a Greyhounds' transition run that led to the game's first goal. He threw it to Matt Higgins running out of the box, and Higgins fed Ryan McNulty for a high-bouncer at 12:15 that started the 9-0 run.

In The Polls

• Loyola moved to number six in both the USILA Coaches Poll and the Inside Lacrosse media version on March 18.

Series History

• Loyola will play Bucknell for the 10th time in series history and the seventh as Patriot League opponents when the teams hit the field Saturday afternoon. 
• Loyola leads the all-time series, 6-3, after the Bison won the 2018 contest, 12-1, in Baltimore.
• Bucknell built a 12-8 lead midway through last year's fourth quarter, and despite three Loyola goals over a three-minute stretch shortly thereafter, the Bison held on for the win.
• Alex McGovern took an Aidan Olmstead pass to score with 3:03 left in regulation, bringing the Greyhounds within one, but the Bison held off any further scoring.
• Lindley finished with a team-high three goals for the Greyhounds, while Olmstead set career-highs with four assists and six total points after adding two goals. 

National Honors

• Following the Greyhounds win over Navy, Pat Spencer was named to the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) Team of the Week for scoring four goals and assisting on four more. It is the fourth time this season Spencer has been selected to the team.

King Of Points

• Pat Spencer set the Loyola career record for points on March 19, 2019, breaking the mark of 311 set by Gary Hanley from 1978-81. Spencer tied Hanley with an unassisted goal 5:45 before halftime against Navy, and he broke the points record with an assist on a Kevin Lindley transition goal 35 seconds before the break.

Chart Topping

• Spencer now holds both the Patriot League and Loyola records for points (314) and assists (192) and is fourth all-time at the school in goals (122).
• Spencer has 122 goals through 58 career games, a total ranked 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 (192) , goals (122) and points (314).
• 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 192, 12 back of Cornell's Rob Pannell (2009-13) in fourth with 204. Spencer is 11th in NCAA Division I history in career points (314); with two more points, he'll break into the top 10 and tie Yale's Ben Reeves (2015-18) and Brown's Darren Lowe (1989-92) for ninth with 316. Brown's Dylan Molly (2014-17) is seventh at 318, and Tim Nelson (North Carolina State, 1982; Syracuse, 1983-85) has 320.

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 314), 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 2,845 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 8.42 goals-against average in 52 games.
• Stover has made saves on 55.4 percent of the shots on goal he has faced and has a 37-12 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, 15 at Duke and 14 versus Navy to give him 120 in his last eight games (15.0 per game).

Lindley Leading

• Kevin Lindley has been on fire to start the 2019 season, scoring 30 goals in seven games, and he is second in NCAA Division I with 4.29 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 and Navy.
• 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 2.79 goals per game.

Strong Start

• Chase Scanlan is off to a solid start to his Loyola career, scoring 20 goals to go with eight assists for 28 points in six games. His 20 goals, as well as 2.86 and 4.0 points per game are tops among NCAA Division I freshmen midfielders in 2019. 

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 seven games of 2019, the Greyhounds have shot .388 overall, ranking fourth in NCAA Division I.

Strength In Numbers

• Loyola's seven opponents this season have a combined .674 winning percentage through games of Tuesday, March 19. Five of the seven have been ranked at the time Loyola played them, and six of the seven have been receiving votes at the time. The .674 winning percentage by its opponents is sixth in NCAA Division I.

Defense Making A Stand

• Over the last 34 games (10 in 2017, 17 in 2018, 7 in 2019) – beginning with a March 18, 2017 win over the U.S. Naval Academy – Loyola's defense has allowed just 8.2 goals per game. The Greyhounds also have an advantage of 431-540 in turnovers (12.7-15.9) as they have gone 25-8 during the stretch.
• Of its opponents' 540 turnovers in the last 34 games, Loyola has caused 315. 

Youthful On Close D

• Loyola's starting defense against Navy – Paul Volante, John Railey and Cam Wyers – came into the game with a combined 41 games of collegiate experience prior to this year, all belonging to Volante, a senior and three-year starter. Wyers has started every game of his freshman year thus far, and Railey made his first career start after missing 2017 and 2018 due to injury. Wyers and Railey each had three caused turnovers against the Midshipmen.

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 94 wins, an average of 12.6 per season (not including this season) since 2012, and has a 139-66 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 125 occasions; Loyola has won 80.8 percent of those games (101-24).

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.

Up Next

• The Greyhounds return to Ridley Athletic Complex for three-straight home games, starting with a 1 p.m. contest against Colgate University on Saturday, March 30.