Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland opens the 2022 Patriot League Championships with a quarterfinal game against Bucknell University on Tuesday, May 2.
• The game at Ridley Athletic Complex will start at 3 p.m. and stream on ESPN+.
• The Greyhounds have played two-straight overtime games for the first time since 2014 when they opened the season with a loss at Virginia and win at Penn State. Loyola's overtime wins in back-to-back games are its first consecutive extra-time victories since it beat Fairfield and Georgetown in April 2011 by a combined score of 13-11.
• 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 and is the school's career leader in goals with 191.
• 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).

Last Time Out

• Kevin Lindley caught a feed from Aidan Olmstead and scored 29 seconds into overtime to give Loyola a 13-12 win over visiting Lehigh in the teams' regular-season finale on Friday night at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• Bailey Savio won 17 of 28 faceoffs (60.7 percent) for the Greyhounds against a Mountain Hawks team that entered the game winning better than 64 percent at the 'X,' good for No. 2 in NCAA Division I.
• Lindley and Olmstead both finished with five points, Lindley claiming all of his on goals, while Olmstead had four goals and the assist on the game-winner. Davis Lindsey added a career-high four assists, while Matt Heuston scored a goal and had two assists for a career-best three points.
• Loyola jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the second quarter, but Lehigh came back to take leads at 8-7 and 12-11.
• The Greyhounds went on extra-man in the final minute of regulation, and Olmstead scored with 29 seconds left in the fourth quarter to tie the game. The three-minutes of penalties were full-time, and Loyola kept possession in overtime, setting up the Lindley game-winner.

In The Polls

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

Series History

• Loyola and Bucknell will meet for the 13th time in series history and the second in postseason play when the teams take the field on Tuesday.
• The Greyhounds hold a 9-3 all-time advantage in the series after winning the 2022 regular-season meeting, 13-9, on March 19.
• Loyola led that game 3-1 after first-quarter goals by Evan James, Seth Higgins and Aidan Olmstead, but Bucknell went on a 5-0 run between the second and third quarters to lead 8-5 when Connor Davis scored with 10:40 left in regulation.
• Higgins scored unassisted 1:10 later, sparking a 6-0 Greyhounds run that was part of a larger 8-1 advantage over the final 24:30 of regulation. Higgins had career-highs of three goals and three assists, while Olmstead added four points on two of each.
• The teams previously met in the Patriot League Championships when Loyola won, 7-6, in double overtime in the 2016 semifinals in Annapolis, Maryland.

Patriot League Championships History

• The Greyhounds are 10-2 in Patriot League Championships play, winning the tournaments in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018. They are 1-1 in quarterfinal games.

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 nine assists, good for fourth on the team with 30 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 14 games this season, he has 191 in his Loyola career, a total that is tied for 12th in NCAA Division I history. With one more goal, he'll move into a tie for 11th with Syracuse's Gary Gait (1987-90); two goals brings him into a tie for 10th all-time with North Carolina State's Stan Cockerton (1977-80.
• 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 36 of his 70 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 14 games this season, he leads Loyola with 53 points on 22 goals and a team-high 31 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 221 career points rank third all-time at Loyola behind Spencer's 380 and Hanley's 311. His point total is sixth in Patriot League history.
• The native of Painted Post, New York, now has 31 games with two or more assists, 30 with multiple goals and 13 career hat tricks. Among those games, he has 45 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 452 are now past the 401 set by Lehigh's Conor Gaffney's from 2017-2021, and they also are 13th 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 778 faceoffs won and is the NCAA Division I active career leader in the stats category; he is tied for 11th 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 nearly two caused turnovers per game in the Greyhounds' first 14 this season. 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. He posted another game with three in the regular-season finale against Lehigh.
• This season, Rezanka already has 27 caused turnovers, tops amongst short-stick defensive midfielders nationally. Last year, he had a career-high 15 caused turnovers.

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 25 goals, and he is third with 32 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 14 games, Higgins has scored 14 goals to go with 10 assists for 24 points.

Stepped Up Production

• Davis Lindsey missed all of his freshman season with an injury and after 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 seven games he's played, though, he has six multi-point games with six goals and 12 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. He then had four assists for a new best against Lehigh.

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 179 ground balls while leading Loyola with 69 caused turnovers.
• Over his career, he has amassed 84 caused turnovers and 237 ground balls while scoring 13 goals to go with 15 assists. He's fourth all-time at Loyola in caused turnovers, and is seventh in ground balls. With two more ground balls, he'll move into seventh place. His ground-ball total is second 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 167 wins, an average of 12.3 per season (not including the shortened 2020 season) since 2012, and has a 167-84 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 159 occasions; Loyola has won 80.5 percent of those games (128-31).