Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland plays its final non-conference game of the 2022 regular-season on Tuesday, April 19, when it heads to the Nation's Capital for a game at Georgetown University. The contest is slated for a 6:30 p.m. faceoff on CBS Sports Network.
• 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 184.
• Aidan Olmstead is one of three players at Loyola to record 100 goals and 100 assists in a career, joining Gary Hanley (1978-81) and Pat Spencer (2016-19).
• 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

• Matthew Benus scored the last goal of the first half for Loyola, and he then assisted on a Joey Kamish score to put the first points on the board in the second, but after that Boston University would score five in a row to pull away for a 14-9 victory over the host Greyhounds.
• The teams would go to the locker room at that score, and it would hold for nearly five minutes in the second until Matt Hughes caused a turnover and got the ball ahead to Benus. He quickly threw it to Kamish on the left side, and he ran in for a one-on-one shot against the goalie, scoring to put Loyola in front, 6-5.
• Loyola's lead would hold for less than two minutes, however, when Vince D'Alto assisted a Timmy Ley goal at 8:12 to tie the game for the fourth time.
• Matt Baugher then caught a Louis Perfetto skip pass and scored at 6:30 to provide the Terriers' with their second-straight goal and shift the lead for the fifth time in the game. That would be the second of a 5-0 run that would stretch the Boston University lead to 10-6 on a Thomas Niedringhaus goal with 2:56 left in the third quarter.
• Kevin Lindley, Aidan  Olmstead and Benus all had three points for Loyola.

In The Polls

• Loyola enters Saturday's game receiving votes in the USILA coaches' poll.
• Georgetown is ranked No. 2 in both the USILA version and the Inside Lacrosse media versions.
• Tuesday's game will mark Loyola's fourth against teams ranked in the top-six of the coaches' poll after playing Maryland, Rutgers and Army West Point already this season.

Series History

• Loyola and Boston University will meet for the eighth time in series history, and the seventh time during the regular-season, on Saturday.
• The Greyhounds hold a 5-2 edge in the all-time series despite the Terriers winning an 18-11 decision the last time the teams met on April 13, 2019.
• Loyola has won all four of the games played at Ridley Athletic Complex, including a 2018 Patriot League Semifinal contest.
• The teams first played on April 12, 2014, the Greyhounds' first year in the Patriot League and Boston University's first as a varsity team. They then played every year from 2014-19 before the COVID pandemic interrupted the 2020 season. Last year, the Patriot League was split into divisions, so the squads did not meet.

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.
• Through 11 games this season, he has 184 in his Loyola career, a total that is tied for 17th 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 35 of his 67 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. A week later, he became the third player in school history to score 100 goals to go with 100 assists, joining Pat Spencer (2016-19, 149 goals, 231 assists) and Gary Hanley (1978-81, 151, 160). Olmstead's 211 career points rank third all-time at Loyola behind Spencer's 380 and Hanley's 311.
• This year, he leads Loyola in assists (26), points (43) and is tied for third in goals (17).
• The native of Painted Post, New York, now has 30 games with two or more assists, 29 with multiple goals and 12 career hat tricks. Among those games, he has 43 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 One At The Top

• 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 437 are now past the 401 set by Lehigh's Conor Gaffney's from 2017-2021, and they also are 17th in NCAA Division I history.
• 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 751 faceoffs won and is the NCAA Division I active career leader in the stats category; he is 14th all-time in Division I.
• This season, he has 88 ground balls, and with three more, he will have three of the top-10 statistical seasons in Loyola history behind his school-record 141 in 2019 and 102 last year.

Rezanka Racks Up Caused Turnovers

• Payton Rezanka has averaged more than two caused turnovers per game in the Greyhounds' first 10 this season and is leading Loyola with 22 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 23 caused turnovers, tops amongst short-stick defensive midfielders nationally. Last year, he had a career-high 15 caused turnovers.

Hughes Doing The Same

• Matt Hughes has also been stacking up caused turnovers of late with nine in the last two games to bring his 11-game season total to 17.
• He was named Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week following the Boston University game in which he had a career-high five.
• As a team, Loyola is ninth in NCAA Division I with 9.91 caused turnovers per game.

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 third on the team with 17 goals and tied for fourth with 24 points.

Breaking Out In 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 19 goals, and he is third with 25 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 11 games, he is tied for third on the team in goals (17) and tied for fourth in points (24), and his seven assists are tied for third.
• In 21 career games, Kamish has scored 33 goals and assisted on 15 for 48 total points.

Higgins In On Midfield Scoring, Too

• While frequently drawing the pole in the Greyhounds' first midfield, Seth Higgins has shown his ability to beat his matchup and be a consistent scorer for the Greyhounds.
• 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 11 games, Higgins has scored 11 goals to go with nine assists for 20 points.

Midfield Production

• Loyola's two primary midfield units have been heavy contributors to the scoring column this season with the first line of Seth Higgins (11 goals, 9 assists), Evan James (17, 7) and Adam Poitras (19, 6) posting 47 goals and 22 assists, while the second group that includes Dylan Binney (6, 3), Matt Heuston (3, 2), Davis Lindsey (4, 7) and Dan Wigley (1, 5) has totaled 14 and 17.

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 166 ground balls while leading Loyola with 64 caused turnovers.
• Over his career, he has amassed 79 caused turnovers and 224 ground balls while scoring 13 goals to go with 15 assists. He's fourth all-time at Loyola in caused turnovers, and is ninth in ground balls. His ground-ball total is fourth amongst non-faceoff specialists.

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 165 wins, an average of 12.3 per season (not including the shortened 2020 season) since 2012, and has a 165-83 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.

Get To Ten

• Since Charley Toomey became head coach at Loyola in 2006, the Greyhounds have scored 10 or more goals on 157 occasions; Loyola has won 80.3 percent of those games (126-31).

Up Next

• Loyola returns to Patriot League action on Saturday, April 23, when it heads to Hamilton, New York, for a 12 noon game at Colgate University.