BALTIMORE – Three different Loyola University Maryland players scored in the game's first 10 minutes as the 12^th-ranked Greyhounds built a 3-0 lead and never trailed Wednesday night as they went on to a 15-6 non-conference victory over Towson Univeristy at Ridley Athletic Complex.
 
Kevin Lindley scored four times, and Aidan Olmstead had five points with a goal and four assists for Loyola (3-1 overall).
 
Joey Kamish added three goals for the second game in a row, while Peter Swindell had two goals and an assist and Evan James scored the first two goals of his collegiate career. Logan Devereaux and Ryan McNulty each had a pair of assists, too.
 
Bailey Savio went 14 of 22 on faceoffs with nine ground balls, and Sam Shafer made nine saves while yielding only five goals.
 
The Greyhounds finished with 15 caused turnovers, their most since the 2018 season in a March game against Duke University. McNulty had a game-high three, and 12 other players each had one, including four of Loyola's six offensive starters as the Greyhounds rode Towson to six failed clears out of 22.
 
Olmstead assisted on the game's first two goals, jumpstarting the Loyola offense. He threw down from the top of the box to Lindley who was curling to the middle for a shot and goal 59 seconds into the game, and he then assisted on a Dan Wigley goal with 6:22 left in the first quarter.
 
Swindell made it 3-0 Greyhounds when he banged into his defender and rolled toward the goal for a shot from the left side with 38 seconds after Wigley's goal.
 
Towson got one back with a Brody McLean goal at 2:24, but Loyola then scored the next two. Olmstead assisted on a stepdown look from Swindell on extra-man 2:24 into the second quarter, and just over a minute later, Kamish dodged to score an unassisted goal.
 
The Tigers (0-4) tallied the next two goals on shots by Greg Ey and James Avanzato to make it 5-3 Loyola at halftime, but Swindell assisted on a Lindley goal 1:14 into the third quarter to stake Loyola to a 6-3 advantage.
 
Towson, however, would get two unsettled goals to pull within one. Luke Fromert picked up a ground ball in front of the goal and scored at 9:29, and McLean tallied his second with 7:58 left in the frame to make it a one-goal game.
 
After a failed Towson clear, Olmstead picked up the restart near midfield and passed to Lindley in space. He ran to the goal, sidestepping a defender to score on the doorstep and making the cushion two with 5:43 left in the third.
 
More than four minutes later, Riley Cox got through traffic to make a tough clear, and Kamish dodged back toward the middle and scored his second with 1:13 left in the third.
 
Loyola then opened the fourth quarter with two goals in the first 54 seconds. First, the Greyhounds turned it over, but Olmstead picked off a Towson pass and went uncontested to the goal to score 13 seconds into the frame.
 
Matt Higgins then caused a turnover on the defensive end and found McNulty at the top of the offensive box. McNulty drew a defender inside and threw to Kamish on the left, and the freshman converted a high-to-high shot for his third goal of the night.
 
Less than two minutes later, Loyola went on extra-man after the Tigers' bench was flagged for two unsportsmanlike conduct flag. During the two-minute non-releasable penalty, Lindley and James each tallied goals, and Loyola quickly went man-up again after an unnecessary roughness call against Towson.
 
James tallied his second of the night, taking a Devereaux pass to score from the low-left side with 9:00 on the clock.
 
Jack Raba added his first of the season off a transition run by McNulty at 5:05, and Cox also tallied his first of the year at 2:26, completing a 9-0 Greyhounds run.
 
After four non-conference games, Loyola starts Patriot League play on Saturday, February 29, when it heads to Easton, Pennsylvania, to face Lafayette College at 12 noon.