BALTIMORE – Kevin Lindley tied the Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse career record for goals, scoring three in the second half on Thursday to help the Greyhounds overcome a 6-4 halftime deficit for an 11-9 non-conference win over No. 6 Georgetown University in the teams' regular-season finale at Ridley Athletic Complex.
 
Two of Lindley's three goals came during a 4-0 Greyhounds run that spanned the third and fourth quarters. His second of the night came unassisted while using a Payton Rezanka pick to get free, and his third put the Greyhounds up two off a Will Sherwood assist in transition.
 
Lindley's third of the game pushed his career total to 151, matching a record that has stood at Loyola since 1982 as he tied the number Gary Hanley put up from 1978-82. Earlier in the game, Lindley tied and passed his former teammate who was on the assisting end of many of his goals, Pat Spencer.
 
Sam Shafer made a season-high 13 saves as the Greyhounds (7-5 overall) held Georgetown (10-2) to less than 10 goals for just the third time this season. Entering the game, the Hoyas were averaging 14.18 goals in 11 games.
 
Georgetown seemed poised to pull away from the Greyhounds as the Hoyas scored four in a row from late in the first quarter until nearly halftime, taking a 6-3 lead on Graham Bundy Jr.'s third goal of the first half with 4:05 left in the second.
 
Riley Seay pushed through a dodge, however, and scored on the left side with 2:36 to go before the break, pulling Loyola within two and snapping a scoreless stretch of almost 17 minutes for the Greyhounds.
 
Lindley would get Loyola within one 4:35 into the third quarter when Peter Swindell passed up a shot from the top of an extra-man set to throw to Lindley near the crease for a goal.
 
The Hoyas responded, however, scoring at 8:29 when Dylan Hess's defender slipped and Hess capitalized for an unassisted goal to stretch the Georgetown lead to 7-5.
 
It remained a two-goal game for nearly five minutes until Adam Poitras blew by his defender from behind he cage, dove forward once topside and scored his second of the night at 3:49, pulling the Greyhounds within one.
 
Lindley's goal around a Rezanka pick tied the game 55 seconds later, the first draw on the scoreboard since it was 3-3 late in the first quarter.
 
The score remained knotted for only five seconds, however, as Bailey Savio won the faceoff going forward, grabbing the ground ball and running in to score his second goal of the season and putting Loyola on top.
 
The five second margin between goals is tied for fifth-fastest pair of goals by the same team in NCAA Division I history. Savio's older brother is part of one of the fastest as he scored just three seconds after a Brian Sherlock goal in 2017 to tie the NCAA record.
 
Loyola took the 8-7 lead into the fourth quarter and added to it just over three minutes in. Sherwood made a transition run into the offensive box and threw it to Lindley who beat Georgetown goalkeeper Owen McElroy for the 151^st goal of his career with 11:38 left in regulation.
 
Georgetown, however, did not go away quietly. The Hoyas went on extra-man after a Loyola hold less than a minute later, and 12 seconds into the man-up possession, Jake Carraway scored to get Georgetown within a goal.
 
The Greyhounds were soon in another precarious position as a push call and an offsides penalty with 7:23 left on the clock gave the Hoyas a two-man advantage.
 
Shafer saved a shot by Nicky Petkevich, and Calder Vandenheuval ran a man-down clear up the left sideline. He crossed onto the Loyola side of the field and was tripped, drawing a flag that would allow the Greyhounds to kill the penalty and go on extra-man themselves.
 
Loyola did not score on the possession, but the two-man advantage kill continued the momentum.
 
Carraway, however, converted with a goal at 4:34, tying the game at 9-9.
 
Savio tied up Georgetown's James Reilly on the ensuing faceoff, and Seth Higgins came in to grab a ground ball to give the Greyhounds possession. Just over a minute later, Lindley dodged from X and threw to Swindell who dropped his hands and scored at 3:22, giving the Greyhounds a lead they would not relinquish.
 
Georgetown did win the next faceoff, but a shot by Carraway was wide, and the defense blocked a Hess effort before Carraway overthrew a pass that turned the ball over to the Greyhounds.
 
With the shot clock nearing 10, Swindell slipped a pass to Aidan Olmstead on the right, and Olmstead beat McElroy for a goal that would give Loyola a two-goal cushion.
 
Savio won the faceoff for Loyola, and the Greyhounds knocked more than 20 seconds off the clock before a Georgetown double freed the ball, but the Hoyas could not get off a shot before the end of the game.
 
Georgetown held a slim 39-38 lead in shots and a 37-26 advantage in ground balls. Faceoffs were a draw as both Savio and Reilly won 12.
 
Lindley led the Greyhounds with three goals, while Swindell and Poitras each had two. Olmstead, Seay, Liam Bateman and Savio each added one. Swindell matched his career-high with two assists, while Lindley, Sherwood, Seth Higgins and Jack Decker each had one.
 
Loyola enters the postseason next week, starting with a Tuesday, May 4 Patriot League Quarterfinal game. The Greyhound will host the U.S. Naval Academy at 5 p.m. at Ridley Athletic Complex in a game that will stream live on ESPN+.