Quick Hits About The 'Hounds
- Loyola University Maryland plays the second of two-straight road games on Saturday, April 9.
- The U.S. Naval Academy will host the Greyhounds in a 1 p.m. game that will air live 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 178.
- Aidan Olmstead became 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
- Joey Kamish and Kevin Lindley each scored four goals Saturday as Loyola used a 14-2 between the second and fourth quarters to deliver a 16-8 Patriot League victory over host Holy Cross.
- Lindley scored the game's first goal off a Dan Wigley assist less than five minutes in, but Holy Cross tallied the next to take a 2-1 lead with 7:29 left in the opening quarter.
- Dylan Binney came back to tie the game 62 seconds later when he ran from 'X' and turned over his right shoulder to score and kick off a 5-0 Greyhounds run that would eventually balloon to 14-2.
- In addition to the eight combined goals by Kamish and Lindley, Aidan Olmstead, Adam Poitras and Matt Heuston both scored twice, while Davis Lindsey and Binney each added goals. Dan Wigley had a career-high two assists.
- Defensively, Loyola forced 22 Holy Cross turnovers, 14 coming via caused turnovers. Matt Hughes had four, Cam Wyers three and Payton Rezanka and Mustang Sally each tallied two.
- The Greyhounds had a 35-18 advantage in ground balls with Eric Pacheco's five leading the way, and Bailey Savio had four.
In The Polls
- Loyola enters Saturday's game receiving votes in both the USILA coaches' poll and the Inside Lacrosse media version.
- Navy is unranked in both.
Series History
- Loyola and Navy will meet for the 16th time in series history and ninth time since the Greyhounds joined the Patriot League for the 2013-14 season.
- The teams played three times last year with each winning on the other's home field during the regular-season. Loyola took a 14-10 decision on April 3, 2021, in Annapolis before the Midshipmen won, 14-12, at Ridley Athletic Complex two weeks later. The programs met again on May 4 in the Patriot League Quarterfinals, a game that Loyola won, 16-9, on its home turf.
- The Greyhounds got out to a 5-0 first-quarter lead in that game, and Aidan Olmstead's fourth goal of the first half with five seconds to go in the third quarter made it 10-4 Loyola at the break.
- Navy got back within four, 10-6, midway through the third, but Loyola reeled off four-straight to control the rest of the game.
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 nine games this season, he has 178 in his Loyola career. His 178 career goals are 22nd all-time 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 33 of his 65 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 201 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, 28 with multiple goals and 11 career hat tricks. Among those games, he has 41 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 419 are now past the 401 set by Lehigh's Conor Gaffney's from 2017-2021, and they also are tied for 22nd 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 720 faceoffs won and is the NCAA Division I active career leader in the stats category; he is 18th 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 nine 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 22 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 – and also has an assist.
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 fourth on the team with 12 goals to go with six 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 tied for second on the team with 14 goals, and he is fourth with 19 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 nine games, he is second on the team in both goals (16) and points (23), and his seven assists are tied for second.
- In 20 career games, Kamish has scored 33 goals and assisted on 15 for 48 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 nine games, Higgins has scored 10 goals to go with seven assists for 17 points.
Sideline Longevity
- Loyola 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 157 ground balls while leading Loyola with 62 caused turnovers.
- Over his career, he has amassed 77 caused turnovers and 215 ground balls while scoring 13 goals to go with 14 assists. He's fourth all-time at Loyola in caused turnovers, and is 11th 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 164 wins, an average of 12.3 per season (not including the shortened 2020 season) since 2012, and has a 164-82 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 156 occasions; Loyola has won 80.1 percent of those games (125-31).
Up Next
- Loyola returns to Ridley Athletic Complex to host Boston University on Saturday, April 16, at 12 noon on CBS Sports Network.
