Game Information
Opponent	Lafayette Leopards
Date	Friday, April 26, 2019
Time	7:30 p.m.
Location	Easton, Pa. | Fisher Stadium
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Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland plays its final 2019 regular-season game on Friday, April 26, in Easton, Pennsylvania, where it will face Lafayette College.
• Loyola has earned a quarterfinals' bye for the Patriot League Championships and will be either the No. 1 or 2 seed.
• Dating back to March 23, 2016, Loyola is averaging 12.77 goals over its last 57 games. It has scored less than 10 only seven times in that span.
• Pat Spencer now holds the Loyola and Patriot League career records in both assists (216) and points (356). He set the Loyola assists mark in 2018 and the points record in 2019 against Navy.
• Kevin Lindley is tops in NCAA Division I in goals per game, averaging 4.08 per game through 13 games.
• Jacob Stover has 567 career saves, sixth on the NCAA's active leader board. Stover is fourth in NCAA Division I this year with a .582 saves percentage.
• Pat Spencer has recorded two or more points in all but three of the 64 games to start his collegiate career, and he has 40 multi-goal and 52 multi-assist games. He has scored a point in all 64 outings.
• Chase Scanlan leads all NCAA Division I midfielders with 37 goals.

Last Time Out

• Loyola trailed Army West Point, 3-0, after the first quarter, but the Greyhounds outscored the Black Knights, 13-6 over the remainder of the game to post a 13-9 victory on Saturday afternoon.
• Pat Spencer scored twice in the first 2-1/2 minutes of the second quarter to get Loyola within a goal, and he finished with game-highs of four goals and seven points. 
• After Spencer's two goals got Loyola within one at 12:41, Army West Point reeled off two in a row as Connor DeWitt scored unassisted and Tommy Marino tallied an extra-man score at 6:09, making it a three-goal game once again.
• Loyola scored the frame's first four goals. Chase Scanlan drifted from his defender and Duffy found him on the low left-side wing for a low-to-low goal 62 seconds into the half.
• Kevin Lindley then converted a Scanlan pass for a goal at 11:18, and the game was tied for the first time since it was 0-0.
• Scanlan added his second, this coming when Spencer beat his defender with an underneath roll, and he threw to Scanlan on the doorstep for a one-timer that put Loyola in front at 8:30. Duffy would tack on another goal at 7:15.

In The Polls

• Loyola is ranked eighth in the USILA Coaches Poll, matching its ranking the Inside Lacrosse media version.
• Lafayette is unranked in both polls.

Series History

• Loyola and Lafayette will play for the seventh time in series history and sixth time as Patriot League opponents. The teams first met in the opening game of the 1939 season. In that contest, the Greyhounds beat the Leopards, 15-1, to open their second year of varsity lacrosse. Loyola has won all five of the meetings between the teams since it joined the Patriot League in 2014.
• Last year on February 24, 2018, Loyola scored nine-straight goals to end the second quarter as part of an 11-0 run that spanned both halves, and the Greyhounds opened Patriot League play with a 19-5 win over visiting Lafayette.
• Jay Drapeau scored two of his team-high three goals during the second quarter, and Brian Begley had his second-straight game with two goals.

One, Two, Three

• Loyola players rank either first, second or third in all three of the major offensive statistical categories in NCAA Division I this season. Kevin Lindley tops all players with 4.08 goals per game, while Pat Spencer is second in points (6.92) and is third in assists (3.85) per game.
• Spencer is also tied for 12th in goals per game, making him the only player in NCAA Division I to be ranked in the top-15 of all three categories this year.

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 (356) and assists (216) and is second all-time at the school in goals (140).
• Spencer has 140 goals through 64 career games, a total ranked second after he passed Pat Lamon (133, 1983-86) in the Lehigh game. Hanley (151) is the school-record-holder in goals. The 2017 and 2018 Tewaaraton Award finalist, he is first among active NCAA Division I players in assists, goals and points.
• Against Virginia in the 2018 NCAA First Round game, Spencer moved into the top-10 of NCAA Division I history in assists. Versus Lehigh on April 6, Spencer moved into third in career assists, passing Cornell's Rob Pannell (204, 2009-13) and Brown's Darren Lowe (205, 1989-92). Spencer now stands at 212 assists; Albany's Lyle Thompson (225, 2012-15) is the all-time leader, and North Carolina State/Syracuse's Tim Nelson (221, 1982; 1983-85) is second.
• Versus Army West Point, Spencer passed Duke's Justin Guterding (351, 2015-18) and  Matt Danowski (353, 2004-08) and Cornell's Rob Pannell (354, 2009-13) to move into third all-time in points. Albany's Connor Fields (364, 2015-18) is second.

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.
• In 2019, he has 40 goals and 50 assists for 90 points. His 90 points are second in school history as he and Hanley have the other outputs in, or tied for the top-five. Spencer's 50 assists this year are fifth.
• Spencer became Loyola's all-time leader in assists (now 216 in 64 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 356), 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 3,195 minutes between the pipes for the Greyhounds. The 2018 Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Year and 2019 Inside Lacrosse Face-Off Yearbook Preseason All-American has a career 8.68 goals-against average in 57 games.
• Stover has made saves on 55.8 percent of the shots on goal he has faced and has a 41-13 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, 14 versus Navy, 15 at Bucknell, 13 against Colgate, 15 versus Lehigh and 16 against both Georgetown and Boston University and 12 at Army West Point to give him 203 in his last 14 games (14.8 per game).
• Stover's .583 saves percentage is No. 4 in NCAA Division I this year.

Lindley Leading

• Kevin Lindley has been on fire to start the 2019 season, scoring 53 goals in 13 games, and he is tops in NCAA Division I with 4.08 goals per game. He has tallied four or more in all but three of the contests, including eight against Colgate, six at Towson and versus Holy Cross and Georgetown and five versus Virginia and Navy.
• His 53 goals are second in school single-season history, and fourth in Patriot League history. He is one off of Loyola's single-season goals record that was set in 2012 when Eric Lusby scored 54.
• Lindley's .473 shot percentage is good for ninth in the nation this season.
• Lindley finished his freshman season in 2018 with 37 goals. He is second on the active career leader with 3.00 goals per game.

Strong Start

• Chase Scanlan is off to a solid start to his Loyola career, scoring 37 goals to go with 13 assists for 50 points in 14 games. He is tied for 22nd nationally with 2.85 goals per game, tops amongst all NCAA Division I freshmen, and his 37 goals are also most both by a first-year player and for midfielders of any experience. He is also fourth among freshmen with 3.85 points per game.
• Scanlan's 37 goals are tied for the most by a freshman in Loyola history with the 2018 total of teammate Kevin Lindley and the 2016 number by Pat Spencer. He is four shy of tying the school single-season record for goals (41) by a midfielder set just last season by Jay Drapeau.
• Scanlan has earned four Patriot League Rookie of the Week honors this season.

Surging Sophomore

• After being hampered by an injury early in the year, Aidan Olmstead has posted 10 goals and nine assists in the Greyhounds' last four games, bringing his season totals to 17 and 16. He scored twice, had career-highs of five assists and eight points against Georgetown.
• Last season, Olmstead finished with 19 goals and 21 assists in 17 games.

Three Of The Top

• Three Loyola players are ranked in the top-25 nationally in goals per game. Kevin Lindley is first (4.08), Pat Spencer is tied for 12th (3.08) and Chase Scanlan is for tied for 22nd (2.85).
• Only two other teams – Georgetown and Maryland – have two players ranked amongst the top-25.

Record Ground Ball Numbers

• Bailey Savio has a team-high 107 ground balls this year, and with his last pick-up against Army West Point, he set the single-season record for the category, surpassing Peter Haas' 106 from 1998. Savio is the fifth player to post 100-plus in a year, joining Haas, while Bailey's older brother, Graham, who had 103 in 2017, and Dan Kallaugher (2007) and Ryan Radonis (2003) who had 101 ground-ball seasons.

Two With Ten

• Kevin Lindley and Pat Spencer combined to score 10 goals and assist on 10 on March 30 against Colgate, becoming the first NCAA Division I teammates to record 10 points each in the last decade.
• Spencer then became the first Loyola player in history and the first NCAA Division I player since 2015 (University at Albany's Lyle Thompson) to post 10 or more in back-to-back games. He had 11 on five goals and six assists against Lehigh. Spencer is the only player this season to have 10 or more points in three games.

Extra, Extra

• Loyola has gone man-down 46 times in 13 games this year, but the Greyhounds have given up just nine extra-man goals. They are killing penalties 79.5 percent of the time, good for fourth in the nation.

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 13 games of 2019, the Greyhounds have shot .356 overall, ranking third in NCAA Division I.

Defense Making A Stand

• Over the last 40 games (10 in 2017, 17 in 2018, 13 in 2019) – beginning with a March 18, 2017 win over the U.S. Naval Academy – Loyola's defense has allowed just 8.56 goals per game. The Greyhounds also have an advantage of 516-625 in turnovers (12.9-15.6) as they have gone 29-9 during the stretch.
• Of its opponents' 625 turnovers in the last 40 games, Loyola has caused 366. 

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 99 wins, an average of 12.6 per season (not including this season) since 2012, and has a 144-67 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 131 occasions; Loyola has won 80.9 percent of those games (106-25).

Up Next

• With a win over Lafayette, or a Boston University loss to the U.S. Naval Academy, Loyola will host the Patriot League Championships May 3-5 at Ridley Athletic Complex.