BALTIMORE – Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse clinched its fourth Patriot League regular-season title in six years on Friday, beating Lafayette College, 15-4, and will host the Patriot League Championships May 3-5 at Ridley Athletic Complex.
 
The Greyhounds will play in the Friday evening's first semifinal at 5 p.m., and second-seeded Lehigh University will play in the second at 8 p.m. Boston University drew the third seed and will host sixth-seeded Bucknell University in a quarterfinal game on Tuesday, May 1; the U.S. Military Academy will be the fourth seed and host College of the Holy Cross on Tuesday in the quarterfinals.
 
Kevin Lindley broke the Loyola single-season goals record late in the first half of Friday night's game, and he tied classmate Aidan Olmstead for game-high honors with three goals.
 
Lindley scored his second unassisted goal of the night with 31 ticks left on the first-half clock for his 55^th goal this year, breaking the mark of 54 set in 2012 by Eric Lusby. Lindley added another goal off an Olmstead feed with 2:15 to go in the third quarter. His 56 goals this year also rank third in Patriot League single-season history.
 
Olmstead added three goals and an assist, while Pat Spencer had three assists, and Alex McGovern and Peter Swindell each scored once and had two assists.
 
Lafayette got on the board first on a Connar Dehnert goal 6:50 into play, but Loyola scored three in a row, starting with an unassisted tally by Olmstead at 3:43.
 
The Leopards (4-11 overall, 0-8 Patriot League) were flagged for a slash while Olmstead was running to score, and Loyola tallied an extra-man goal 41 seconds later as Spencer found Chase Scanlan on the low, left side for a goal.
 
Lindley then added his second of the game with 11:12 in the second before Robbie Garavente got Lafayette within one on a goal at 9:56.
 
Loyola (11-3, 7-1) won the ensuing face-off, however, and after a clear, Peter Swinell threw it to long-stick midfielder Alex Johnson who scored from 12 yards out 25 seconds after the Lafayette score.
 
That sparked a 4-0 Loyola run that extended into the second half. Olmstead and Lindley tallied goals in the last two minutes of the first half, and Swindell dunked a one-timer off a Spencer assist from X on extra man just 62 seconds into the third quarter.
 
Spencer's third and final assist of the game moved his season totals to 53 assists and 93 points, one off his school single-seaosn records set last year.
 
Garavente scored again to make it 7-3 Loyola with 7:49 left in the third, but Nick Cunningham used a McGovern feed to score his first of the season at 6:07, starting a 7-0 Greyhounds run.
 
McGovern and Lindley scored the next two, followed by Olmstead and John Duffy. Riley Coddx then added one with 9:28 left in the fourth, and Jack Raba tallied the first of his career with 8:17 on the clock.
 
Dehnert added his second of the night with 7:38 left for the Leopards, but Loyola got that one back when Adam Wagner made a nice catch of a Bobby Austin feed, and Wagner flicked in a goal from a low-angle on the right side for his first career goal.
 
Loyola outshot the Leopards, 53-27, in a game that was played in rain for the first 30 minutes. Loyola also had a 40-25 advantage in ground balls, and it went 16 of 23 on faceoffs.
 
Bailey Savio was 15 of 20 at the X with a game-high 10 ground balls. Swindell added four ground balls, while Paul Volante and John Railey each had three.
 
Jacob Stover had his 15^th-straight game with 10 or more saves, making 12 for Loyola.