Game Information
Opponent	Navy Midshipmen
Date	Saturday, April 3, 2021
Time	2:00 p.m.
Location	Annapolis, Md. | Unitas Stadium
Television	CBS Sports Network | Channel Finder
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Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland travels down Interstate 97 for its next game as it steps back into Patriot League action for an April 3, 2021 contest at the U.S. Naval Academy.
• The 2 p.m. game at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium will air live, nationally on CBS Sports Network.
• Dating back to March 23, 2016, Loyola is averaging 12.73 goals over its last 83 games. It has scored less than 10 only 13 times in that span.
• Cam Wyers ranks ninth nationally with 2.14 caused turnovers per game while Loyola is 15th as a team with 9.14.
• Loyola is 13th in NCAA Division I in scoring defense, allowing an average of 9.0 per game. Sam Shafer is 12th in goals-allowed average (8.7) after finishing the shortened 2020 season sixth at 8.65.
• 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. This season, Savio is 68 of 124 (.548) with 36 ground balls.

Last Time Out

• Towson's Tim Montgomery scored off the right wing 2:41 into overtime, lifting the Tigers to a 7-6 non-conference victory over visiting Loyola on Saturday at Unitas Stadium. Montgomery's goal was his third of the game and came after Loyola had tied the game with 3:08 left in regulation.
• The game saw Towson hold a 38-34 advantage in shots, but the teams combined for 29 turnovers and eight penalties.
• Bailey Savio, who went 12 of 16 on faceoffs with six ground balls for the Greyhounds, knotted the game at 6-6 with 3:08, scoring the goal that would eventually send the teams to overtime. Montgomery had given the Tigers their first lead seven seconds before, but Savio won the faceoff going forward, picked up the ground ball cleanly and tallied his first goal of the season.
• Savio's goal stopped a 4-0 Towson run that saw it come from 5-2 down midway through the third quarter.
• Joey Kamish and Aidan Olmstead each scored twice for Loyola, while Savio and Peter Swindell also tallied goals.
• Sam Shafer made eight saves in the game. 

In The Polls

• Loyola is 15th in the USILA coaches poll and 18th the Inside Lacrosse rankings entering Saturday's game.
• Navy is 17th in the coaches version, 14th in the media.

Series History

• Loyola and Navy will meet or the 13th time in school history and the sixth time as Patriot League foes when the teams take the field Saturday afternoon.
• The Greyhounds have won five of the six meetings as Patriot League opponents and hold an 8-4 all-time lead in the series following an 18-5 victory on March 16, 2019 at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• Kevin Lindley scored five goals, and Pat Spencer had four goals to go with four assists in the game as Loyola jumped out to a 9-0 lead midway through the second quarter that rose to 11-2 at halftime.
• In two career games against the Midshipmen, Lindley has six goals, while Aidan Olmstead has five to go with two assists. 

Fan Policy

• Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium will allow a minimum number of spectators at Saturday's game. Check navysports.com for further details.

Watch The Action

• The Loyola-Navy game will be the first of two in a row to air live on CBS Sports Network. Loyola's April 10 home game against the U.S. Military Academy will also be broadcast.

Six Degrees Down

• Five members of the Class of 2020 returned for a fifth-year of eligibility after the shortened season a year ago. All five earned their bachelor's degrees in May 2020 and are enrolled in graduate programs at Loyola.
• Riley Cox and Ryan McNulty both earned bachelor of arts in communication with advertising and public relations, while Peter Swindell and Matt Higgins were finance majors and John Railey earned a degree in biology. Cox, McNulty and Railey are all working on their master's of emerging media degrees, while Higgins and Swindell are pursuing M.B.A.
• Kyle LeBlanc, a member of the Class of 2021, finished his bachelor of science in applied mathematics in just three-and-a-half years, graduating in December 2020, and he is now studying for his master's of data science.

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 45 career games, Olmstead has scored 140 points with 39 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, 20 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 four 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 tied for 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. He then had two goals on March 27 against Towson.
• 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.
• He 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-best 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, and through seven games this year.
• Over the last five games – against Utah (1 goal, 2 assists), Lehigh (2, 1), Lafayette (3, 0), Bucknell (4, 1) and Towson (1, 1) – Swindell has compiled 11 goals and five assists to bring his season totals to 12 and six. 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 sixth in NCAA Division I with four extra-man goals this season.
• Swindell has played in 60 career games and has 38 goals, 23 assists and 69 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 – 29 games, Savio has picked up 239 ground balls, an average of 8.24 per game.
• Savio's 500 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 (183), 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 90 ground balls while leading Loyola with 39 caused turnovers.
• Over his career, he has amassed 58 caused turnovers and 168 ground balls while scoring 10 goals to go with nine assists.
• He has five points in the Greyhounds' last four 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.

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 9.0 goals per game in 2021.
• Wyers and Hughes and first and second, respectively, in caused turnovers this year with 15 and 10, 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 154-74 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 returns to Ridley Athletic Complex to host Army West Point on Saturday, April 10.