Game Information
Opponent	Lafayette Leopards
Date	Saturday, April 24, 2021
Time	2:00 p.m.
Location	Easton, Pa. | Fisher Stadium
Watch Online	ESPN+
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Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland plays its final road game of the 2021 regular-season on Saturday, April 24, when it heads to Easton, Pennsylvania, to face Lafayette College in a 2 p.m. game at Fisher Stadium.
• The game is also the Greyhounds' final game of their Patriot League schedule.
• Dating back to March 23, 2016, Loyola is averaging 12.67 goals over its last 86 games. It has scored less than 10 only 14 times in that span (16.5 percent).
• The Greyhounds rank No. 6 nationally, and first in the Patriot League in clearing percentage (.893).
• As a team, Loyola is in the top-10 in two other statistical categories, fewest turnovers per game (14.20) and ground balls per game (35.2).
• Bailey Savio set Loyola records in 246 faceoff wins, 471 attempts and 141 ground balls during his 2019 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 114 of 201 (.567) with 68 ground balls. He has 51 ground balls in the last five games (10.2 per game).

Last Time Out

• Evan James scored three times during a 6-0 Loyola men's lacrosse run, the last time coming on extra-man with 4:50 left in regulation to tie Saturday's game at 12-12, but Navy recorded the Patriot League game's last two goals to take a 14-12 decision at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• James' fourth goal of the day came off a Peter Swindell assist to cap a rally that saw Loyola return from what had been a six-goal deficit at multiple points in the game.
• Navy's Jeff Durden, however, came away with the ground ball off the ensuing faceoff, got into the box and scored his second goal of the day nine seconds later to swing the momentum back in the Midshipmen's favor. Christian Daniel added another goal with 88 seconds left, scoring on an empty net with Loyola riding, to seal the outcome.
• The Midshipmen jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the game's first seven minutes, 32 seconds, scoring three extra-man goals in the process.
• James led Loyola with four goals, and Lindley matched his point total with three goals and an assist. Adam Poitras had a goal and two assists.

In The Polls

• Loyola is 19th in the USILA coaches poll and receiving votes the Inside Lacrosse rankings entering Saturday's game.
• Lafayette is unranked in both polls.

Series History

• Loyola and Lafayette will play for the ninth time in series history and eighth time as Patriot League opponents. The teams first met in the opening game of the 1939 season. In that contest, the Greyhounds beat the Leopards, 15-1, to open their second year of varsity lacrosse. Loyola has won all eight of the meetings between the teams since it joined the Patriot League in 2014.
• Saturday's game will mark the first time the teams have played twice during a season.
• Loyola led 7-4 at the end of the first quarter and 3-1 at halftime on March 13, going on to a 16-6 victory in Baltimore.
• Evan James scored four goals, while Peter Swindell and Kevin Lindley each had three for the Greyhounds. Aidan Olmstead scored twice and had five assists.

Fan Policy

• Due to COVID protocols on the Lafayette College campus, no spectators are permitted at Fisher Stadium for Saturday's game.

Watch The Action

• Saturday's game will stream live on ESPN+ as part of the Patriot League Network.

Upcoming Change

• Loyola's game against Georgetown University has been changed to Thursday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m. to accommodate a national television broadcast on CBS Sports Network.

Patriot League Championships Upcoming

• Loyola has clinched the No. 2 seed in the Patriot League South Division and a spot in the 2021 Patriot League Championships.

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 – 32 games, Savio has picked up 271 ground balls, an average of 8.5 per game.
• Savio's 546 career faceoff wins are second all-time at Loyola behind only his brother Graham (709). 
• He posted 16 ground balls on April 3 at Navy, just two off his then-Patriot League record, and after getting 12 the following week against Army West Point, he is in second all-time at Loyola with 315, 25 behind Graham's 340. He is No. 7 on the active career leader in ground balls in NCAA Division I and is first among players in their fourth year of collegiate eligibility.
• Since returning from an early-season injury, Savio is 89-141 (.631) in last six games with 9.7 GBs per game during that stretch.

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 47 career games, Olmstead has scored 143 points with 41 goals and 73 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, 21 with multiple goals and eight career hat tricks. Among those games, he has 35 outings with three or more points, 12 of those coming against Patriot League opponents.
• With his an assist on April 17, Olmstead moved into a tie for eighth all-time at the school and now has 73. With eight more, he will move into the top-five.
• 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 29 goals in 10 games to start 2021, his 145 career goals rank him third at Loyola. His former teammate Pat Spencer (2016-19) is second with 149, two back of Hanley.
• Lindley has scored three or more goals in 26 of his 50 career games and has hat tricks or better in seven of 10 this year.

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 95 ground balls while leading Loyola with 42 caused turnovers.
• Over his career, he has amassed 62 caused turnovers and 175 ground balls while scoring 12 goals to go with 11 assists.
• He has eight points in the Greyhounds' last seven 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. He had his third multi-point game of the season on April 3 at Navy with a goal and an assist.
• 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.

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 after 10 games, he is second on the team with 21 goals and third with 27 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.

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 10 games this season, Swindell is fourth on the team in both goals (13) and points (22). 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.
• Swindell has played in 63 career games and has 39 goals, 25 assists and 75 ground balls.

Takeaway Trio

• Loyola is the only team in NCAA Division I with three players who have totaled 11 or more caused turnovers this season. Cam Wyers lead the Greyhounds with 16, while Matt Hughes has 14 and Ryan McNulty 11. 
• The Greyhounds' top two short-stick defensive midfielders are close behind as Matt Higgins has nine, and Payton Rezanka eight.

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 or this year) since 2012, and has a 155-76 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 .671 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 144 occasions; Loyola has won 80.5 percent of those games (116-28).