Quick Hits About The 'Hounds
- Loyola University Maryland plays the first of two-straight road games on Saturday, April 2.
- College of the Holy Cross will host the Greyhounds in a 12 noon game that will stream on ESPN+.
- Bailey Savio is now the Patriot League and Loyola career record-holder in both ground balls and faceoffs won, surpassing the record for wins set by his brother gram in the Army West Point game.
- Kevin Lindley now has three of the top-25 season goal totals in school history: 37 in 2018, 60 in 2019, 42 in 2021. He is in his fourth full season, fifth overall, at Loyola as the school's career leader in goals with 174.
- Aidan Olmstead was one off his career-high of eight points in the Greyhounds' February 26 game against Rutgers, with two goals and five assists. The assists mark tied a career-best.
- The Greyhounds have averaged 12.2 wins per season over the last nine full seasons (excluding the shortened 2020 campaign). That stretch includes the 2012 NCAA Championship, NCAA Semifinal appearances in 2012 and 2016 and NCAA Quarterfinal appearances in 2012, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2021.
Last Time Out
- Loyola took a three-goal lead in the second quarter and a 6-4 advantage at halftime on Saturday in a home game against Army West Point before Bobby Abshire and Kevin Lindley traded goals for the teams in the first two-plus minutes of the second half. Abshire dodged for a goal, and then Savio won the ensuing faceoff, ran it into and threw to Aidan Olmstead. He then hit Lindley on the crease for a quick-stick goal seven seconds later, making it 7-5 Loyola at 12:44.
- The Black Knights scored two-straight on unassisted tallies by Jacob Morin and Abshire to tie the game for the first time when Abshire's third of the game made it 7-7. Loyola reclaimed the lead, however, with 66 ticks left in the third as Seth Higgins dodged to his left and scored to put Loyola back in front.
- The lead was shortlived, however, once the fourth quarter started as Morin scored unassisted 39 seconds into the frame. Brendan Nichtern then gave Army West Point its first lead of the game with back-to-back unassisted goals at 11:57 and 10:03.
- Three Greyhounds had three goals each: Higgins, Lindley and Evan James.
In The Polls
- Loyola enters Saturday's game receiving votes in both the USILA coaches' poll and the Inside Lacrosse media version.
- Holy Cross is unranked in both.
Series History
- Loyola will meet Holy Cross for the eighth time on when the teams take the field on Saturday. the first between the conference opponents since 2019 as the 2020 match-up was canceled due to the COVID-19 shortened season; the teams then were not scheduled to play in 2021 due to a divisional approach to conference scheduling.
- Loyola leads the all-time series, 6-1, after posting a 19-15 victory on March 2, 2019.
- In the game, Kevin Lindley scored six times, while 2019 Tewaaraton Award winner Pat Spencer had three goals and eight assists.
- The Greyhounds are 3-0 all-time in games played in Worcester, Massachusetts, winning in 2014, 2016 and 2018.
Standing On Top
- Kevin Lindley dodged from the top of the box, split a double and scored with 3:31 left in the first half of the 2021 Patriot League Quarterfinal against Navy, setting a school record in the process. His goal pushed him past the career total of Gary Hanley who scored 151 goals for 1978-81 and held the career goals scored record for 40 years.
- This year, on March 2 against Towson, Lindley set the Patriot League career goals scored record with his 165th goal, eclipsing the total from 2009-12 by Colgate's Peter Baum. The 2012 Tewaaraton Award winner scored his 164 in 62 games, while Lindley's came in his 60th career game.
- He later scored six goals on March 13 against Duke and through eight games this season, he has 174 in his Loyola career. His 174 career goals are tied for 30th all-tie in NCAA Division I history.
- 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, reaching 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 got to his total of 151 goals in 57 career games, while Lindley took 52 to hit that mark.
- Lindley finished his freshman season in 2018 with 37 goals, had a school-record 60 as a sophomore in 2019, 19 in the truncated 2020 campaign and 42 in 16 games last season.
- Lindley has scored three or more goals in 32 of his 64 career games.
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. Last season, he hit the 60-point mark for the first time with 31 goals and 29 assists for 60 points.
- Against Army West Point on March 26, his 92nd career game, Olmstead recorded his 100th career assist. He is two goals from reaching the 100-goal plateau and will become the third player in school history to reach that mark, joining Pat Spencer (2016-19, 149 goals, 231 assists) and Gary Hanley (1978-81, 151, 160). Olmstead's 198 career points rank third all-time at Loyola behind Spencer's 380 and Hanley's 311.
- 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.
- The native of Painted Post, New York, now has 28 games with two or more assists, 27 with multiple goals and 11 career hat tricks. Among those games, he has 40 outings with three or more points.
- Olmstead was named the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2021, and he is not the only member of his family within the Loyola athletic department. His twin sisters, Riley and Logan are juniors who are starting defenders on the Loyola women's lacrosse team.
Another Ascending The Leaderboard
- Bailey Savio set the Loyola career record for ground balls in the 2021 Patriot League Semifinal win as he picked up six to boost his career total to 341, one more than his older brother Graham had from 2014-17.
- Against Bucknell on March 19, 2022, Savio broke the Patriot League record for ground balls. His 415 are now past the 401 set by Lehigh's Conor Gaffney's from 2017-2021.
- A week later, he became the Loyola and Patriot League all-time leader in faceoffs won, surpassing his brother Graham's total of 709 from 2014-17. Bailey Savio now has 714 faceoffs won and is the NCAA Division I active career leader in the stats category; he is 20th all-time in Division I.
Rezanka Racks Up Caused Turnovers
- Payton Rezanka has averaged more than two caused turnovers per game in the Greyhounds' first eight this season and is leading Loyola with 20 total. He had three in each of the first two games against Maryland and Johns Hopkins, and he caused three again at Lafayette and versus Duke. Rezanka then caused a career-high five turnovers against Army West Point on March 26.
- This season, Rezanka already has 20 caused turnovers, tops amongst short-stick defensive midfielders nationally. Last year, he had a career-high 15 caused turnovers.
- Rezanka is also a scoring threat in transition where he has scored three goals this year, two coming in a 5-1 third-quarter run at Lafayette.
Playing Each Position Well
- Evan James shifted to attack to make the first start there of his collegiate career on February 20, 2021, against Virginia, and the sophomore finished with three goals and an assist. The Ohio native needed just six shots for his first collegiate hat trick.
- 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.
- He earned All-Patriot League Second Team recognition as a sophomore in 2021 after finishing second on the team with 32 goals and third with 44 points, and he was a Preseason All-Patriot League player this spring.
- James has shifted back to the midfield this season and is tied for second on the team with 12 goals to go with five assists.
Breaking Out Of The Midfield
- Adam Poitras had his freshman season, during which he was a starter on the Greyhounds' first midfield, cut short by the COVID pandemic after he'd scored five goals and dished out seven assists through six games.
- He played in all 16 games as a sophomore in 2021, but his production was hampered as he came back from offseason surgery. As he became healthier throughout the year, his point production increased and he had eight goals and eight assists in the last seven games of the season. That included three three-point games against Navy, Army West Point and Denver.
- This season, Poitras started the year with two goals and an assist at Maryland, and he went for a career-high four goals on February 26 against Rutgers. Currently, he is second on the team with 12 goals, and he is tied for fourth with 17 points.
Little Bit Of Everything
- Joey Kamish has shown his versatility this year while playing on both the attack and first midfield units. He flashed his goal-scoring ability at Johns Hopkins by scoring three times, and he did it from the distributing end a week later versus Rutgers with a career-high three assists. Through eight games, he has 12 goals and seven assists and is second on the team in assists and points (19).
- In 19 career games, Kamish has scored 29 goals and assisted on 15 for 44 total points.
Seth Starting To Emerge
- While consistently drawing the pole in the Greyhounds' first midfield this season, Seth Higgins has shown his ability to beat his matchup and be a consistent scorer for the Greyhounds, particularly of late.
- On March 19 against Bucknell, he set career-highs with three goals, three assists and six points, and he matched that goal output a week later versus Army West Point while adding an assist, too.
- In eight games, Higgins has scored 10 goals to go with six assists for 16 points.
Sideline Longevity
- Loyola also has one of the longest tenured coaching staffs in NCAA lacrosse with the group of Charley Toomey, Matt Dwan and Marc Van Arsdale having been together since 2017. Of the teams ranked in the top-20 of the USILA Preseason Poll, only the staff at Duke has been together longer; the group at Virginia has been together for six years, as well.
- Add Volunteer Assistant Coach Steve Vaikness and Director of Operations Chris Myers, and the staff has spent 72 years coaching at Loyola (including Toomey's nine seasons as an assistant coach). Toomey, Dwan, Myers and Vaikness are all Loyola graduates, giving the crew 17 more years of time on the Evergreen campus.
Higher Learning
- Ten members of the Greyhounds' roster are enrolled at Loyola as graduate students after earning their bachelor's degrees at the school: Matthew Benus (Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics; ,M.B.A. in finance), Matt Hughes (B.B.A., management; M.B.A., management), Kyle LeBlanc (B.S., applied mathematics; M.S., data science), Kevin Lindley (B.A., political science; M.B.A.), Ryan McNulty (B.A., communications; M.A., emerging media), Aidan Olmstead (B.B.A., international business & global studies; M.B.A.), Bailey Savio (B.B.A., management; M.B.A., finance), Sam Shafer (B.A., communications; M.B.A., finance), Adam Wagner (B.B.A., marketing; M.B.A., finance) and Dan Wigley (B.B.A, finance; M.B.A.)
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, 2021 (Inside Lacrosse Second Team) and 2022 (USILA, Inside Lacrosse and USA Lacrosse Magazine Second Team) as a long-stick midfielder. Since the start of 2019, he has been the team's leader (among non-faceoff players) with 154 ground balls while leading Loyola with 61 caused turnovers.
- Over his career, he has amassed 76 caused turnovers and 212 ground balls while scoring 13 goals to go with 13 assists. He's tied for fourth all-time at Loyola in caused turnovers, and is 11th in ground balls.
Toomey's Team
- Charley Toomey is in his 17th year as the head coach at Loyola and his 26th as a member of the Greyhounds' coaching staff. Overall, he is in his 30th year on the Evergreen campus, including his four seasons as a student-athlete from 1986-90.
- Toomey has directed the Greyhounds to 163 wins, an average of 12.3 per season (not including the shortened 2020 season) since 2012, and has a 163-82 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).
- As a head coach, Toomey has coached 48 USILA All-Americans, 85 all-conference selections, 21 conference positional or players or rookies of the year, a Tewaaraton Award winner and five finalists and 22 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 2023 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.
Get To Ten
- Since Charley Toomey became head coach at Loyola in 2006, the Greyhounds have scored 10 or more goals on 155 occasions; Loyola has won 80 percent of those games (124-31).
Up Next
- The Greyhounds stay on the road for their next game, a Saturday, April 9, date with the U.S. Naval Academy. The game will be broadcast live at 1 p.m. on CBS Sports Network.
