Game Information
Opponent	Lehigh Mountain Hawks
Date	Saturday, April 6, 2019
Time	11:00 a.m.
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Ridley Athletic Complex
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Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland opens a Greyhounds doubleheader Saturday, April 6, when it hosts Lehigh University in a 11 a.m. contest prestented by Physical Therapy First. The Loyola women follow with a 3 p.m. contest against the U.S. Naval Academy.
• Prior to the game, the Greyhounds will honor their Class of 2019 – Bobby Austin, Damase Bagbonoon, P.J. Brown, Bryce Carrasco, Nick Cunningham, John Duffy, Richie Easterly, Lucas Jackson, Alex McGovern, Pat Spencer, Jacob Stover, Paul Volante – in a Senior Day ceremony starting at 10:40 a.m.
• The game will air live on CBS Sports Network.
• Dating back to March 23, 2016, Loyola is averaging 12.70 goals over its last 53 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 (203) and points (332). 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 4.44 per game through nine
• Jacob Stover has 524 career saves, seventh on the NCAA's active leader board.
• Pat Spencer has recorded two or more points in all but two of the 60 games to start his collegiate career, and he has 37 multi-goal and 49 multi-assist games. He has scored a point in all 60 outings.
• Chase Scanlan leads all NCAA Division I midfielders with 27 goals.

Last Time Out

• Kevin Lindley and Pat Spencer became the first pair of NCAA Division I teammates to log 10 points in the same game this decade on Saturday as they combined for 10 goals and 10 assists as Loyola beat visiting Colgate, 21-7.
• Lindley matched his career-high with eight goals, finishing one goal off the school record of nine set in 1986 by John Carroll; Spencer scored twice and was an assist away from his own school-best with eight in the victory.
• Dan Wigley and Chase Scanlan each had four-point days with three goals and an assist each. Wigley's three goals were the first three of his career for the sophomore midfielder. Aidan Olmstead and John Duffy each scored two goals as 11 Greyhounds scored points in the game.
• Lindley tallied four of the Greyhounds' first five goals as Loyola raced out to a 5-0 lead in the game's opening 10 minutes. He scored unassisted 45 seconds in, used a Scanlan feed to score on extra-man at 13:48, tallied one off Bailey Savio face-off win and assist at 8:41 and then posted his second man-up goal at 5:39 off a Spencer pass.
• Jacob Stover made 13 saved in just over 50 minutes of time in goal for Loyola.

In The Polls

• Loyola moved up to number three in the USILA Coaches Poll and number two the Inside Lacrosse media version on April 1.
• Lehigh is ranked 14th in the coaches version, 15th in the media.

Series History

• Loyola and Lehigh will meet for the 15th time on the lacrosse field when the teams take the field Sunday and the second time in Patriot League Championships action. The Greyhounds have won all 14 previous meetings, including five Patriot League regular-season games and the 2014 and 2018 Patriot League Championship Games.
• Loyola turned a 5-5 halftime draw into an 11-5 advantage less than midway through the second quarter on April 29, 2018, pulling away for a 15-8 victory over visiting Lehigh in the Patriot League Championship Game. Jay Drapeau scored four goals, while John Duffy and Kevin Lindley each had three for Loyola. Pat Spencer tallied a goal and four assists.
• The Greyhounds won the regular-season meeting, 16-10, on April 7, at Lehigh. 

Turn On The Television

• Saturday's game will air live on CBS Sports Network with Dave Ryan calling the play-by-play and Evan Washburn providing color commentary.

Conference & National Honors

• After the Greyhounds' win at Colgate, Kevin Lindley (Offensive Player)and Jacob Stover (Goalkeeper) earned Patriot League Weekly Awards. Lindley's was the first of his career, while Stover earned his seventh.
• Lindley was named to the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) Team of the Week for the second time in his career.

Two With Ten

• Kevin Lindley and Pat Spencer combined to score 10 goals and assist on 10 last Saturday at Colgate, becoming the first NCAA Division I teammates to record 10 points each in the last decade.
• Lindley tied his career-high with eight goals and also had a personal-best of two assists; Spencer scored twice and assisted on eight goals, one off the school record.

Two In First

• Loyola players are first in NCAA Division I both points and goals per game. Pat Spencer is tops in points (7.33), while Kevin Lindley checks in at the same spot in goals (4.44) per game.
• Spencer is also second in assists per game (4.11) and eighth in goals per game (3.22). He is the only player ranked in the top-10 of goals, assists and points per game.

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.

Both Sides Of The Field

• Loyola is the only team ranked in the top-12 of NCAA Division I teams in scoring offense (T-3rd, 15.0) and scoring defense (12th, 9.56). The Greyhounds are one of three teams to be in the top-15 of each category, joining Maryland and North Carolina. As a result, Loyola is No. 2 nationally in scoring margin (+5.44).

Chart Topping

• Spencer now holds both the Patriot League and Loyola records for points (332) and assists (196) and is third all-time at the school in goals (129).
• Spencer has 129 goals through 60 career games, a total ranked third; Pat Lamon is second all-time (133, 1983-86) and Hanley (151) is the school-record-holder. 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. He is currently fifth all-time with 203, one back of Cornell's Rob Pannell (2009-13) in fourth with 204 and two behind Brown's Darren Lowe (205, 1989-92).
• At Bucknell, Spencer moved into the top 10 in career points to pass Yale's Ben Reeves (316, 2015-18) and Brown's Darren Lowe (316, 1989-92), Brown's Dylan Molly (318, 2014-17) and Tim Nelson (320, North Carolina State, 1982; Syracuse, 1983-85). Spencer is now seventh with 332 points, 11 back of Air Force's Joe Vasta for sixth.

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 203 in 60 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 332), 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 2,955 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 8.36 goals-against average in 54 games.
• Stover has made saves on 56.0 percent of the shots on goal he has faced and has a 39-12 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, 14 versus Navy, 15 at Bucknell and 13 against Colgate to give him 148 in his last 10 games (14.8 per game).
• Stover's .603 saves percentage is No. 5 in NCAA Division I this year.

Lindley Leading

• Kevin Lindley has been on fire to start the 2019 season, scoring 40 goals in nine games, and he is tops in NCAA Division I with 4.44 goals per game. He has tallied four or more in all but two of the contests, including eight against Colgate, 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.
• Lindley's .548 shot percentage is good for fourth in the nation this season.
• He is second on the active career leader with 2.96 goals per game.

Strong Start

• Chase Scanlan is off to a solid start to his Loyola career, scoring 27 goals to go with 10 assists for 34 points in six games. He is tied for 12th nationally with 3.0 goals per game, tops amongst all NCAA Division I freshmen, and his 27 goals are also most both by a first-year player and for midfielders of any experience. He is also second among freshmen with 4.11 points per game.
• Scanlan has earned three Patriot League Rookie of the Week honors this season.

Three Of The Top

• Three Loyola players are ranked in the top-12 nationally in goals per game just over midway through the 2019 season. Kevin Lindley is first (4.44), Pat Spencer is eighth (3.22) and Chase Scanlan is tied for 12th (3.0).
• Only one other team – Georgetown with Daniel Bucaro (T-4th, 3.40) and Jake Carraway (T-19th, 2.9) – has two players ranked amongst the top-20 and ties.

Extra, Extra

• Loyola has taken 28 penalties in nine games this year, but the Greyhounds have given up just six extra-man goals. They are killing penalties 78.6 percent of the time, good for fifth in the nation.
• On the other side of things, Loyola is seventh nationally on extra-man offense, scoring 45.2 percent of the time. The Greyhounds are the only school to be ranked in the top-10 of both categories.

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 eight games of 2019, the Greyhounds have shot .386 overall, ranking third in NCAA Division I.

Defense Making A Stand

• Over the last 36 games (10 in 2017, 17 in 2018, 9 in 2019) – beginning with a March 18, 2017 win over the U.S. Naval Academy – Loyola's defense has allowed just 8.14 goals per game. The Greyhounds also have an advantage of 457-566 in turnovers (12.7-15.7) as they have gone 27-8 during the stretch.
• Of its opponents' 566 turnovers in the last 36 games, Loyola has caused 328. 

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 96 wins, an average of 12.6 per season (not including this season) since 2012, and has a 141-66 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 127 occasions; Loyola has won 81.1 percent of those games (103-24).