Quick Hits About The 'Hounds
- Loyola University Maryland steps out of conference action for a Saturday, March 7, game that will feature two top-15 teams. The Greyhounds host Duke University at 1 p.m.
- The game streams live on Patriot League Network and on Facebook Watch.
- Dating back to March 23, 2016, Loyola is averaging 12.67 goals over its last 66 games. It has scored less than 10 only nine times in that span.
- Loyola was picked first in the Patriot League Preseason Poll by conference coaches. Kevin Lindley was tabbed the Preseason Offensive Player of the Year, while Ryan McNulty drew Preseason Defensive Player of the Year recognition. They were joined on the Preseason All-Patriot League Team by defender Cam Wyers.
- Lindley ranked third in NCAA Division I in both goals (60) and goals per game (3.53) last season.
- Bailey Savio set Loyola records in 246 faceoff wins, 471 attempts and 141 ground balls during his sophomore season.
- Loyola is the only team in the Patriot League to have two players returning in 2020 who were in the top-10 in points per game: Lindley and Aidan Olmstead.
Last Time Out
- Kevin Lindley scored six goals and had an assist on Saturday, while two other Loyola University Maryland players registered their first collegiate points, as the Greyhounds beat host Lafayette College, 14-4, to start Patriot League action on Saturday at Fisher Stadium.
- Liam Bateman logged his first two goals as a Greyhounds player, and Matt Heuston also tallied his first in the Green and Grey. Aidan Olmstead added two goals and three assists, Peter Swindell scored twice, Adam Poitras had three assists, Joey Kamish posted two helpers and Jack Raba scored a goal.
- Bailey Savio continued his strong play on the faceoff 'X,' winning 11 of the 15 draws he took while picking up eight ground balls. Eric Pacheco went 4 of 4 on faceoffs, as well.
- Ryan McNulty had eight ground balls and four caused turnovers as Loyola had 13 caused turnovers, three days after it posted 15 in a Wednesday night win over Towson University. Loyola's defense held Lafayette scoreless for a stretch of 37 minutes, 30 seconds that spanned three quarters at one point in the game.
- Lafayette had just 15 shots.
In The Polls
- Loyola is ranked 11th in both the USILA Coaches Poll and the Inside Lacrosse media version.
- Duke comes into the game ranked 12th in the coaches poll and a spot back in 13th in the media version.
Series History
- Saturday will be the 34th meeting all-time between the Blue Devils and the Greyhounds; Duke holds a 21-12 advantage in a series that dates back to 1946. With this game, the teams will have played during the regular-season for 21-straight years (since 2000). Three times during that span – 2008, 2013 and 2016 – they have also met in NCAA Championships action.
- Last year, Duke turned a 6-3 halftime lead into an 11-3 advantage at the end of the third quarter before winning 12-7 on March 7, 2019, at Koskinen Stadium. Nakeie Montgomery and Joey Manown each scored four goals, and Brad Smith had two goals and three assist for the Blue Devils.
- Bailey Savio was 13 of 22 on faceoffs, and Jacob Stover made 15 saves, for Loyola.
Watch The Action
- The Loyola-Duke game will stream live on the Patriot League Network, and it will also be available on Facebook Watch.
Win Them And Pick Them Up
- Bailey Savio had a career day for Loyola on February 22 against Rutgers, picking up a Patriot League-record 18 ground balls while going 23 of 24 on faceoffs against the Scarlet Knights. He went 11 of 12 in the first half and 12 of 12 in the second at the 'X.'
- His 18 ground balls and 95.8 winning percentage are both second-best in NCAA Division I games this year, and his 18 ground balls broke the 2017 conference record set by Brady Dove of the U.S. Naval Academy.
- This season, Savio has won 70.5 percent of the faceoffs he's taken (74 of 105), while grabbing 51 ground balls. He is seventh nationally in ground balls per game (10.2) and sixth in winning percentage.
- Since the start of his sophomore season in 2018 – 22 games, Savio has picked up 192 ground balls, an average of 8.72 per game.
Weekly Honors
- Ryan McNulty earned Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week recognition for the second time in his career on Monday after he combined for 13 ground balls, seven caused turnovers and two assists against Lafayette and Towson.
Limiting Shots
- Loyola has taken 98 more shots than its opponents this year, holding five teams to less than 30 shots per game thus far. The Greyhounds have done so by winning averaging 16 faceoff wins to 6.8 per game, and they are plus-1.6 in turnover margin this year.
Shutting Down Scorers
- Against Johns Hopkins and Rutgers, Loyola defender Kyle LeBlanc has defended two of the game's formidable scorers and held them both without a point.
- First, he limited Johns Hopkins' Cole Williams (62 points, 33 assists combined in 2018 and 2019) to zero points on six shots. He then helped snap Rutgers' Adam Charlambides' 26-game goal-scoring and 34-game point-scoring streaks when the player who had 90 goals and 28 assists in the last two years was shutout.
- Cam Wyers took a turn at limiting a team's leader in goals and points on Wednesday night when he held Towson's Jon Mazza scoreless on only one shot.
Aidan Is All Around
- Aidan Olmstead has posted two 40-plus point seasons in as many years since coming to the Loyola campus. In 35 career games, five game into his junior season, Olmstead has scored 107 points with 54 goals and 53 assists.
- He has three-straight five-point games, and through five outings he is the Greyhounds leader in points (21) and assists (11), and he is second with 10 goals.
- After being hampered by an injury early in 2019, Olmstead posted 18 goals and 13 assists in the Greyhounds' last nine games, bringing his season totals to 23 and 21.
- In 2018, Olmstead finished his freshman season with 19 goals and 21 assists in 17 games.
- The Patriot League All-Academic Team member is now not the only member of his family within the Loyola athletic department. His twin sisters, Riley and Logan are freshman on the fifth-ranked Loyola women's lacrosse team.
To 100 And Beyond
- Kevin Lindley became the 11th player in program history to reach 100 goals in a career when he scored his first goal on February 15 against Johns Hopkins.
- Lindley got to the 100-goal plateau in just his 36th career game, the fastest in Loyola history after Gary Hanley reached the plateau in his 39th career game (1980). Hanley is the school's all-time leader in goals scored with 151 from 1977-81. Lindley is now tied with Kevin Beach (1990-93) with 114 for seventh all-time at Loyola. He can move into a tie for sixth with four more goals, matching Tim O'Shea's 115 in 1995, 1997-99.
Between The Lines
- Ryan McNulty has been key to the Greyhounds' defense and transition game over the past two seasons, earning his first All-America honors (USILA honorable mention) last season as a long-stick midfielder when he was the top non-faceoff player on the team with 65 ground balls while leading Loyola with 25 caused turnovers.
- Over his career, he has amassed 52 caused turnovers and 142 ground balls while scoring eight goals to go with six assists. Over a two-game stretch, he had 13 ground balls – with only two coming on faceoff wings – and seven caused turnovers against Towson and Lafayette.
- McNulty is an academic senior this year with two more years of eligibility remaining on the field. He saw only two games as freshman before receiving a medical hardship waiver; McNulty will return for the 2021 season with the Greyhounds as a fifth-year player.
Toomey's Team
- Charley Toomey is in his 15th year as the head coach at Loyola and his 24th as a member of the Greyhounds' coaching staff. Overall, he is in his 28th year on the Evergreen campus, including his four seasons as a student-athlete from 1986-90.
- Against Lafayette on February 29, Toomey won his 150th career game.
- Toomey has directed the Greyhounds to 104 wins, an average of 12.6 per season (not including this season) since 2012, and has a 150-70 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).
- Toomey's .681 winning percentage is fifth amongst active NCAA Division I head coaches with 10 or more seasons coaching at the level.
- As a head coach, Toomey has coached 38 USILA All-Americans, 77 all-conference selections, 21 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.
Little Bit Of Everything
- Peter Swindell has been a utility knife of sorts for the Greyhounds during his career, playing on offensive midfield, running on the wings of faceoffs and taking shifts as a defensive midfielder.
- The senior co-captain opened his 2020 season with three points against defending national champion Virginia, scoring a goal and posting two assists. Through five games, he has matched his career-high with eight goals, and he also has 12 points
- He finished last year with a career-high 15 points, scoring seven times while assisting on eight goals. he also posted a career-best 42 ground balls.
Lindley Leading
- Kevin Lindley was one of the top goal scorers in the nation last season, scoring 60 goals in 17 games, and he was third in NCAA Division I with 3.53 goals per game. He tallied four or more in 10 of the Greyhounds' 17 contests, including eight against Colgate, six at Towson and versus Holy Cross and Georgetown and five versus Virginia and Navy.
- Against Lafayette in April 2019, Lindley broke the school single-season record for goals, breaking the mark set in 2012 by Eric Lusby of 54. Lindley's 56 (at the conclusion of that game) came in 14 games where Lusby's 54 were in 19.
- Lindley finished his freshman season in 2018 with 37 goals. He is now second on the NCAA Division I active career leader list with 2.92 goals per game.
First Three Are Big Ones
- Joey Kamish did not score a goal in his first two collegiate lacrosse games, but his breakout against Rutgers came at a key time. He scored twice in the first half to help Loyola build a 4-1 lead, and his third was the eventual game-winner, coming with 1:53 remaining in regulation. His first goal was scored while he was being defended by Rutgers' Brennan Kamish, his older brother.
- Kamish followed his performance against the Scarlet Knights with another hat trick on Wednesday versus Towson and then two assists at Lafayette.
Freshmen Contributions
- Kamish is not the only freshman who has posted solid offensive numbers through the first five games. Adam Poitras is fourth on the team with 10 points, scoring three goals and assisting on seven, good for second on the team. Kamish is fourth with nine points on six goals, three assists.
Record Ground Ball Numbers
- Bailey Savio set school records with 141 ground balls and 242 faceoff wins last season, marks that are both second all-time in the Patriot League. His 471 faceoffs attempted were both school and Patriot League records while ranking fifth all-time in NCAA Division I history.
- Savio was 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.
- In his three seasons – Savio split time as the Greyhounds' faceoff specialist as a freshman in 2018 – he has 416 wins and 236 ground balls. Graham Savio holds the Loyola record for wins (710) and ground balls (340).
Trio Of Captains
Teacher of Tewaaratons
- Loyola assistant coach Marc Van Arsdale has coached more Tewaaraton Award winners than anyone else. In addition to Pat Spencer last year, three of Van Arsdale's players at the University of Virginia – Chris Rotelli (2003), Matt Ward (2006) and Steele Stanwick (2011) – have earned the award as the sport's top player.
Shafer Steps Between The Pipes
- Sam Shafer had played less than 24 minutes of NCAA Division I lacrosse through two seasons when he made his first career start on February 8 at Virginia. He finished with 15 saves on 27 shots on goal against the Cavaliers, making 10 of his stops during the second half while allowing only three goals. In five games, he's played to a 7.87 goals against average and a 59.3 saves percentage.
Get To Ten
- Since Charley Toomey became head coach at Loyola in 2006, the Greyhounds have scored 10 or more goals on 138 occasions; Loyola has won 81.2 percent of those games (112-26).
Update From The Hounds
- Loyola University Maryland is monitoring the path of the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. Additional information related to the prevention, travel and possible implications for the Loyola University Maryland community is available on our website. At this time, all Loyola Athletics events are being held as scheduled as we continue to carefully monitor all public health updates. All fans are welcome to attend our events; however, if you should feel sick, we ask that you stay home and enjoy our games via live stream at loyolagreyhounds.com. Additional information can be found at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
Up Next
- Loyola will host Bucknell University on Saturday, March 14, at 3:30 p.m.
