Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland plays its final game of the 2022 regular-season on Friday, April 29, when Lehigh University comes to Ridley Athletic Complex.
• The game will start at 6 p.m. with a live broadcast on CBS Sports Network.
• Prior to the game, the Greyhounds will honor their 10 seniors in a brief ceremony: Liam Bateman, Mitchell Cain, Jack Decker, Cam James, Scott Middleton, Payton Rezanka, Riley Seay, Freeman Whitaker and Cam Wyers.
• 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 186.
• 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.

Last Time Out

• Evan James scored the game's last three goals after Loyola trailed, 10-8, with 7:33 left in regulation, and his diving score in overtime lifted the Greyhounds past host Colgate, 11-10, on Saturday.
• Aidan Olmstead came out of a dodge and threw a pass to James cutting from the left side to the crease. James handled the pass that had pace on it, dove from left to right and scored his fourth goal of the game with 1:55 left on the overtime clock to give the Greyhounds the win.
• James and Adam Poitras both finished with four goals for Loyola, while Olmstead had a goal and four assists.
• Colgate took a 10-8 lead when Brian Minicus scored with 7:33 left in regulation, thirty-four seconds after Brendan Jordan broke an 8-8 tie with a goal from left point.
• James scored as the shot clock expired with just over 40 seconds to play, tying the game at 10-10.
• In overtime, Colgate won the faceoff, but the Greyhounds forced a turnover and then cleared the ball to set up the game-winning goal.
• Sam Shafer made 11 saves in goal for the Greyhounds.

In The Polls

• Loyola enters Saturday's game receiving votes in both the USILA coaches poll and the Inside Lacrosse media rankings.
• Lehigh is receiving votes in the coaches' version.

Series History

• Loyola and Lehigh will meet for the 17th time in series history.
• The Greyhounds hold a 15-1 advantage in the all-time series after Lehigh posted its first-ever win, 10-6, when the teams met on March 6, 2021.
• The teams first met on April 15, 1942 with the Greyhounds taking a 12-1 decision, and they had three more wins against the then-Engineers during the 1940s.
• It was not until 1984 that the programs met again with Loyola picking up a 23-5 win that year and a 25-3 victory the next. The Greyhounds won 14-10 in 1997 and 20-2 in 1998, the last meeting before Loyola joined the Patriot League in 2014.
• Loyola is 8-1 against the Mountain Hawks as Patriot League foes with two of the wins coming in the 2018 and 2014 Patriot League Championship Games.
• Last year, the teams met in Bethlehem when the Patriot League played a modified conference schedule, in which the nine teams were separated into three divisions. No regular-season or conference tournament champion was crowned, but both Loyola and Lehigh reached the NCAA Championships with the Greyhounds advancing to the quarterfinal round.

Patriot League & National Honors For James

• Evan James was named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week and earned a spot on the USILA Team of the Week on April 25 after he scored four goals, including the game's last three on April 23 in an overtime win at Colgate.
• James' last three goals came in the final 3:05 of regulation and then overtime.
• This season, he has settled back into his traditional position of midfield and has run all year with the Greyhounds' first line. After playing primarily as an attacker last year, he has scored 21 goals to go with seven assists, good for a tie for fourth on the team with 28 points in 2022.
• 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 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.

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 13 games this season, he has 186 in his Loyola career, a total that is 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 has scored three or more goals in 35 of his 69 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. Through 13 games this season, he leads Loyola with 48 points on 18 goals and a team-high30 assists.
• 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 216 career points rank third all-time at Loyola behind Spencer's 380 and Hanley's 311.
• The native of Painted Post, New York, now has 31 games with two or more assists, 29 with multiple goals and 12 career hat tricks. Among those games, he has 44 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 444 are now past the 401 set by Lehigh's Conor Gaffney's from 2017-2021, and they also are 16th 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 761 faceoffs won and is the NCAA Division I active career leader in the stats category; he is 13th all-time in Division I.
• This season, he has 95 ground balls, a figure that is eighth in school single-season history. He now has 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 13 this season and is leading Loyola with 4 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 24 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 13-game season total to 18.
• He was named Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week following the Boston University game in which he had a career-high five.

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, a number he tied on April 23 at Colgate. Currently, he is second on the team with 24 goals, and he is third with 30 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 13 games, he is fourth on the team in goals (19) and tied for fourth in points (28), and his nine assists are fourth.
• In 24 career games, Kamish has scored 36 goals and assisted on 17 for 53 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 13 games, Higgins has scored 13 goals to go with 10 assists for 23 points.

Stepped Up Production

• Davis Lindsey missed all of his freshman season with an injury, and more than a year without playing in a game, his start to the 2022 season was slow. He did not log a point in the first four games of the year and had just two assists through six.
• Over the last six games he's played, though, he has five multi-point games with six goals and eight assists. He posted to-date career-highs of two goals, three assists and five points at Georgetown on April 19, tying for the game-high point total.

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 176 ground balls while leading Loyola with 68 caused turnovers.
• Over his career, he has amassed 83 caused turnovers and 234 ground balls while scoring 13 goals to go with 15 assists. He's fourth all-time at Loyola in caused turnovers, and is tied for eighth in ground balls. With two more ground balls, he'll move into seventh place. 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 166-84 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 158 occasions; Loyola has won 80.4 percent of those games (127-31).