Game Information
Opponent	Towson Tigers
Date	Saturday, March 27, 2021
Time	12:00 p.m.
Location	Towson, Md. | Unitas Stadium
Watch Online	Lax Sports Network
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Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland hits the road for the first of two road games within the State of Maryland. The Greyhounds will face Towson University at 12 noon on Saturday, March 27, at Unitas Stadium
• The game will stream live on Lax Sports Network.
• Dating back to March 23, 2016, Loyola is averaging 12.80 goals over its last 82 games. It has scored less than 10 only 12 times in that span.
• Loyola was picked first in the Patriot League Preseason Poll by conference coaches. Ryan McNulty was named the Preseason Defensive Player of the Year, and he was joined on the Preseason All-Patriot League Team by Matt Higgins, Kevin Lindley, Aidan Olmstead, Peter Swindell and Cam Wyers.
• Lindley ranked third in NCAA Division I in both goals (60) and goals per game (3.53) in 2019.
• Bailey Savio set Loyola records in 246 faceoff wins, 471 attempts and 141 ground balls during his sophomore season. In the truncated 2020 season, he was winning faceoffs at an even higher pace. In six games, he had won 90 of 131 (.687) restarts and picked up 62 ground balls to lead the Patriot League in both.

Last Time Out

• Kevin Lindley scored all seven of his goals during a 12-0 Loyola run last Saturday, leading six Greyhounds who scored two or more in a 24-10 Patriot League victory over visiting Bucknell.
• The 24 goals are the most Loyola has scored in a conference game since joining the Patriot League in 2013-14, and it marks the most by a Greyhounds' team since a 24-5 win over Fairfield University on March 19, 1997.
• Lindley finished one off his career-high with seven goals, while Peter Swindell scored a career-best four, three coming on extra-man in the game's opening 20 minutes.
• Joey Kamish returned from injury to play for the first time since the season-opener, scoring three goals and posting a pair of assists for a career-high five points, while Aidan Olmstead matched his career-high for the second time in a month with eight points on three goals and five assists.
• Evan James had two goals and one assist, and Dan Wigley scored twice, as well.
• Cam Wyers, a close defender, had three assists to go with seven ground balls and two caused turnovers.

In The Polls

• Loyola is 12th in both the USILA coaches and the Inside Lacrosse rankings entering Saturday's game.
• Towson comes in unranked.

Series History

• The Loyola-Towson series is the most played in the history of men's lacrosse at both schools. Saturday's game will be the 64th all-time meeting between the teams, dating back to 1959, the first year of intercollegiate lacrosse at Towson.
• Of Loyola's opponents, only Towson (63), Johns Hopkins (57) and Penn State (53) have played the Greyhounds 50 or more times.
• Last season, Loyola led 8-5 at the end of the third quarter before pulling away for a 15-6 victory on February 26, 2020 at Ridley Athletic Complex. Kevin Lindley scored four goals, and Aidan Olmstead had a goal and four assists in the game. Joey Kamish recorded his second-straight assist, while Peter Swindell and Evan James each had two goals.

Fan Policy

• A limited number of spectators will be allowed into Unitas Stadium. Seating will be general admission and seating pods have been marked in each venue so that fans and families can safely watch their team play. Spectators will include only those on a team pass list.

Watch The Action

• The Loyola-Towson game will stream live on Lax Sports Network.

Aidan Is All Around

• Aidan Olmstead posted two 40-plus point seasons in 2018 and 2019, and he then led the Greyhounds in points with 22 during the shortened 2020 season. In 44 career games, Olmstead has scored 138 points with 37 goals and 71 assists. 
• 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.
• He had a goal and two assists in each of Loyola's first two 2021 games, and he then went off for five goals and three assists on February 27 against Utah, and he later had two goals and five assists versus Lafayette.
• The native of Painted Post, New York, now has 21 games with two or more assists, 19 with multiple goals and eight career hat tricks. Among those games, he has 34 outings with three or more points, 11 of those coming against Patriot League opponents.
• With his five assists on March 20, Olmstead moved into ninth all-time at the school with 71. With 10 more, he will move into the top-five. He is six points from cracking he top-15 in that career category.
• 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 sophomores on the 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, 2020 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 finished his freshman season in 2018 with 37 goals, had a school-record 60 as a sophomore in 2019 and 19 in the truncated 2020 campaign. 
• With 22 goals in six games to start 2021, his 138 career goals rank him third at Loyola. HIs former teammate Pat Spencer (2016-19) is second with 149, two back of Hanley.

New Position, No Problem

• Evan James shifted to attack to make the first start there of his collegiate career on February 20 against Virginia, and the sophomore finished with three goals and an assist. The Ohio native needed just six shots to snap off his hat trick that was the first of his collegiate career.
• He followed that performance with a five-goal, six-point game against Utah, a contest in which he scored on all but one of his shots. He matched the six points with four goals and two assists versus Lafayette and is now second on the team with 14 goals and third with 20 points.
• Against Richmond, James made his first start, this coming in the midfield where he played in all six games during 2020, posting three goals and five ground balls.
• As a freshman during the abbreviated 2020 season, James played in all six games and finished with three goals. He did not score in the first three games before tallying a pair of extra-man tallies on February 26 against Towson. He followed with another man-up goal versus Duke.

Good To Be Back

• Joey Kamish's appearance against Bucknell was his first since missing four games with a lower leg injury. In his first appearance since the season-opener at Richmond, Kamish scored goals on all three of his shots and also had two assists for a career-high five points.
• Dan Wigley missed the first four games of the year with a leg injury before coming back to face Lafayette on March 13. He did not score in that game, but he tallied a pair of goals on three shots versus the Bison a week later.

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. In just six games, he set career-highs with nine goals and 16 points.
• His previous career-high was 15 points in 2019 when he scored seven times while assisting on eight goals. He also posted a career-best 42 ground balls.
• Swindell needed just six games in 2021 to match that career-high number of 16 points, doing so with a best of 11 goals thus far.
• Over the last four games – against Utah (1 goal, 2 assists), Lehigh (2, 1), Lafayette (3, 0) and Bucknell (4, 1), Swindell has compiled 10 goals and four assists to bring his season totals to 11 and five. His three goals against Lafayette marked his first career hat trick, and he followed that with career-highs of four goals and five points against Bucknell.
• He is tied for third in NCAA Division I with four extra-man goals this season.
• Swindell has played in 59 career games and has 37 goals, 22 assists and 67 ground balls.

Win Them And Pick Them Up

• Bailey Savio was on his way to a record-breaking season in 2020 when he won 68.7 percent of faceoffs (90 of 131) in six games while picking up 62 ground balls. He had a career day for Loyola on February 22, 2020, 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 were both second-best in NCAA Division I games last year, and his 18 ground balls broke the 2017 conference record set by Brady Dove of the U.S. Naval Academy.
• Since the start of his sophomore season in 2018 – 28 games, Savio has picked up 233 ground balls, an average of 8.32 per game.
• Savio's 488 career faceoff wins are second all-time at Loyola behind only his brother Graham (709). He is also third in school history in ground balls (177), back of his brother (340) and Jamie Hanford (286).

Between The Lines

• Ryan McNulty has been key to the Greyhounds' defense and transition game since joining the program in 2017, earning his All-America honors (USILA honorable mention) in 2020 and 2021 (Inside Lacrosse Second Team) as a long-stick midfielder. Since 2019, he has been the team's leader (among non-faceoff players) in 87 ground balls while leading Loyola with 39 caused turnovers.
• Over his career, he has amassed 58 caused turnovers and 165 ground balls while scoring 10 goals to go with nine assists.
• He has five points in the Greyhounds' last three games, scoring a goal to go with an assist at Lehigh before tallying a highlight-reel goal effort against Lafayette. McNulty then tied his career-high with two assists against Bucknell.
• McNulty graduated from Loyola in 2020 and entering the 2021 season has two more years of eligibility remaining on the field. He saw only two games as freshman before receiving a medical hardship waiver.

Two In A Row For Wyers

• Junior defender Cam Wyers has been named the Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week each of the last two weeks after wins over Lafayette and Bucknell.
• Versus the Bison, he picked up a career-high seven ground balls and caused two turnovers, and he also was very involved in the offense. He posted three assists, as well against Bucknell.
• This season, Wyers leads Loyola with 12 caused turnovers, and he is second with 26 ground balls.

Keeping It Close

• Loyola's starting close defense of Cam Wyers, Kyle LeBlanc and Matt Hughes has been part of a successful group with the Greyhounds' rope unit in holding opponents to 9.31 goals per game in 2021.
• Wyers and Hughes and first and second, respectively, in caused turnovers this year with 12 and nine, while Kyle LeBlanc's steady play as a marking defender has been key. 

Toomey's Team

• Charley Toomey is in his 16th year as the head coach at Loyola and his 25th as a member of the Greyhounds' coaching staff. Overall, he is in his 29th year on the Evergreen campus, including his four seasons as a student-athlete from 1986-90.
• Against Lafayette on February 29, 2020, Toomey won his 150th career game.
• Toomey has directed the Greyhounds to 104 wins, an average of 12.6 per season (not including the shortened 2020 season) since 2012, and has a 154-73 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 .678 winning percentage is fourth 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 18 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.

Teacher of Tewaaratons

• Loyola assistant coach Marc Van Arsdale has coached more Tewaaraton Award winners than anyone else. In addition to Pat Spencer in 2019, 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.

Get To Ten

• Since Charley Toomey became head coach at Loyola in 2006, the Greyhounds have scored 10 or more goals on 142 occasions; Loyola has won 81.0 percent of those games (115-27).

Up Next

• Loyola will stay in the state for its next game as it dips back into Patriot League play with a Saturday, April 3 game at the U.S. Naval Academy. The 2 p.m. game will air live on CBS Sports Network.