Quick Sticks
• The Greyhounds have opened their 50th season of women's lacrosse with nine-straight wins marking their first 9-0 start since 2011.
• Loyola is one of two undefeated teams left in NCAA Division I women's lacrosse, as top-ranked North Carolina is 11-0.
• Livy Rosenzweig is the second player in Patriot League history to reach 350 career points. Navy's Kelly Larkin holds the League record with 376 points from 2017-20. Nationally, Rosenzweig is 17th all-time with 365 career points and fifth with 195 assists.
• Sam Fiedler scored her 150th career goal at Lehigh becoming the sixth midfielder in Loyola history to reach the milestone. With 153 goals, she's tied for 11th all-time at Loyola, while her 214 points stands as 10th best in all-time program history.
• Georgia Latch was named the Patriot League Attacker and Rookie of the Week this week after posting back-to-back six-point performances last week.
Loyola Greyhounds (9-0, 2-0 Patriot League)
• Six Greyhounds have reached 20 points this season, with Livy Rosenzweig leading the team with 26 goals and 37 points.
• Sam Fiedler and Georgia Latch have a combined 54 points, as Fiedler has 19 goals and eight assists and Latch has 14 goals and 13 assists.
• Jillian Wilson is fourth on the team with 25 points (17g, 8a), while Sydni Black and Elli Kluegel both have 21 points. Black has 16 goals and five assists, while Kluegel has 14 goals and seven assists.
• Wilson and Rosenzweig lead the team at the draw, as Wilson has a team-best 56 draw controls this year and Rosenzweig has won 41.
• Nationally, Loyola is ranked eighth in draw control percentage (.586), first in free position percentage (.620) and 10th in scoring defense (9.00).
• Defensively, Katie Detwiler has a team-best 12 caused turnovers.
• In goal, Kaitlyn Larsson has played 513 minutes. She's allowing 8.64 goals per game and has 67 saves to go with 15 ground balls.
Syracuse Orange (8-2, 4-0 ACC)
• Meaghan Tyrrell leads Syracuse with 38 goals, 16 assists and 54 points, while Emily Hawryschuk is second with 29 goals and 41 points and Emma Tyrrell (24g, 16a) and Megan Carney (24g, 14a) are close behind with 40 and 39 points, respectively.
• Three of those four leading scorers have a shooting percentage above .500, allowing the Orange to enter the contest ranking fourth nationally with a .502 shot percentage.
• On the draw, Katelyn Mashewske leads the way with 70 wins.
• In goal, Kimber Hower has played 381 minutes and has an 11.33 goals-against average and a .327 save percentage, while Delaney Sweitzer has played 211 minutes and has a 10.78 GAA and .269 save percentage.
Series History with Syracuse
• Syracuse has won the last seven meetings to earn a 16-6 advantage in the all-time series between the two former conference rivals.
• The series dates back to 2003, as the two have faced every year since (with the exception of the shortened 2020 season).
• Loyola won the first two meetings and Syracuse's first win came in 2005.
• The Greyhounds then joined the Big East in 2006, making the two conference rivals. Loyola won the first meeting, 13-12, in double-overtime, but the Orange captured the next five-straight meetings.
• Loyola avenged its 2011 regular season loss by knocking the Orange out of the Big East Tournament with a 12-11 win in the semifinals.
• The same thing happened in 2012, except the Greyhounds avenged their regular-season loss with a 13-7 victory in the Big East title game, getting them their second-straight Big East Championship.
• Loyola's next - and most recent - win was a 9-8 road victory in the 2015 regular season finale at the Syracuse soccer stadium.
• The two squads met again 14 days later in the NCAA Second Round, a game that the Orange won, 10-7, in the Carrier Dome.
Up Next
• Loyola will remain on the road, traveling to Holy Cross on Saturday for a 3 p.m. opening draw. The game will be the second in a doubleheader with the Loyola-Holy Cross men's lacrosse teams, as they square off at noon.
