Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse starts a two game road trip on Saturday, April 13, when it heads to Worcester, Massachusetts, for a 1 p.m. game at College of the Holy Cross.
• The Greyhounds have the seventh toughest schedule in NCAA Division I according to the NCAA's latest release of RPI.
• Charley Toomey became the all-time wins leader at Loyola on April 6 with the Greyhounds' win over Bucknell. The victory was the 182nd of Toomey's career, moving him past his college coach, Dave Cottle (181, 1983-2001). 
• Adam Poitras has seven-straight games with three or more points and a total of nine in that regard this season. He has scored at least one goal in 10 of 1 games and has eight multi-goal games and six hat tricks or better. 
• After starting the year 3 of 21 (.142) on extra-man, the Greyhounds have scored on their last seven of their last nine man-up chances.
• The Greyhounds are in their 15th season of competition at Ridley Athletic Complex, which opened in 2010. The Greyhounds are 75-31 (.708) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• Loyola men's lacrosse outscored visiting Bucknell, 9-2, in the last 29 minutes of regulation last Saturday in a 15-13 come-from-behind win.
• It did not come easily, or even look like it might happen, when Bucknell went on a 9-0 run that spanned the first and second quarters to lead 10-5 with 25.2 seconds left in the frame after Michael Meyer scored his fourth goal of the run.
• Adam Poitras, however, broke the scoring streak with a goal at the halftime buzzer to send the teams to the locker room with the Bison up, 10-6. Poitras picked up a ground ball after missing a shot, and the Greyhounds sent it all the way around the offensive zone in seconds. Joey Kamish threw to Dylan Binney at right point, and he found Poitras on top of the crease where he released the ball before the buzzer to score his first of the day.
• Bucknell did not let that momentum linger early in the second half, as the Bison scored 37 seconds into the third quarter as Peter Grandolfo got free in the left alley for a goal.
• Evan James came back to score his third of the day at 9:18 in the third, sparking a Loyola run.

Watch The Game

• Saturday's game will stream live on ESPN+. 

Series History

• Loyola and Holy Cross will play for the 10th time in series history when the teams take the field on Saturday afternoon. 
• The Greyhounds have won seven-straight in the series and eight of the nine previous meetings.
• The teams first met on February 22, 2014 in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the Greyhounds' first-ever Patriot League contest. Loyola came out on top, 16-4, in that game.
• Last season, Loyola scored a 15-8 win on April 1, 2023, in Baltimore. Nine Greyhounds scored in the game led by three each from Henry Haberman and Adam Poitras.
• Loyola is 4-0 all-time in Worcester, outscoring the Crusaders 55-25 in those four games.

Toomey To The Top

• With Loyola's April 6 win over Bucknell, Charley Toomey became the winningest coach in program history, passing his collegiate coach, Dave Cottle, who won 181 games from 1983-2001.
• A four-year letterwinner and three-year starter in goal for Loyola, Toomey has coached 281 games since taking over the reins of the program in 2006. He has a 182-99 overall record, and his .648 winning percentage ranks seventh among active coaches with 10 or more years as a NCAA Division I head coach.
• Assistant coaches Matt Dwan and Steve Vaikness have been on the staff for all 182 of the wins with Toomey.

Can't Say It's Not Balanced

• Loyola's top two scorers – Evan James and Adam Poitras – are tied atop the team's statistics with 27 goals each, and Matthew Minicus is close behind with 21.
• James has one more point – 36 to Poitras' 35 – with one more assist than Poitras' eight. Minicus has matched James' nine assists to go with his 21 goals.
• The trio has combined for 16 hat tricks (James and Poitras, 6 each; Minicus, 4) and 22 multi-goal games (James and Poitras, 8 each; Minicus, 6).
• James, Minicus and Poitras are the top scoring team of three in the Patriot League during conference games. They have combined for 44 goals (James and Poitras 16 each; Minicus 12) and are tied for third and ninth in the league in goals scored. They are also the only set of three ranked in the top 10 of points scored in league play.

Moving Up The Charts

• Evan James and Adam Poitras are climbing the Greyhounds' all-time charts in goals and points in their fourth full season at Loyola. 
• Entering the April 13 game at Holy Cross, James is sixth in career goals with 123, one behind Mike Sawyer (2009, 2011-13). He is 11th in career points with 166.
• Poitras is 12th in points (161) after passing John Carroll's 158 points in the Bucknell game. He has scored 111 goals, good enough to tie former teammate Aidan Olmstead (2018-22) for 10th. With two more goals, he will move into sole possession of ninth, eclipsing Carroll's 112.

Not Playing Like A Minnow 

• Matthew Minicus' nickname may be 'Minnow,' but he has played big for the Greyhounds of late. The sophomore from Darien, Connecticut, had 14 points combined in games against Boston University and at Lafayette, buoyed by a career-high nine on March 23 at Lafayette when he scored four goals and assisted on five. He had three goals and two assists a week earlier against Boston University. Minicus earned Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week and USILA Team of the Week honors following the game against the Leopards.
• Minicus has played in 26 games for the Greyhounds over the last year-plus and already has 79 points with 54 goals and 25 assists. This season, he has 21 goals and nine assists for 30 points after posting 33 goals, 16 assists and 49 points as a freshman in 2023 when he tied for the team-lead in points and topped all Patriot League freshmen in both categories.
• He comes from a strong line of Loyola attackers out of Darien High School where the Blue Wave have been one of the nation's historically best programs.
• Cooper MacDonnell scored 22 or more goals his last three years at Loyola and finished his 2007-10 with 77 goals and 96 points. He led the team in goals scored in 2008 and 2009 with 22 and 30, respectively.
• Kevin Lindley set the Loyola and Patriot League all-time goal scored records between 2018 and 2002 as a starting attacker for the Greyhounds. Lindley scored 196 goals, a total that entered the 2024 season ranked 10th in NCAA Division I history.

Sparking The Offense

• Evan James and Adam Poitras made the shift to starting on attack for the Greyhounds after the regular-season game at Boston University on April 15, 2023, with James moving to one spot down low for the April 18 game against Georgetown with Poitras making the move April 22 versus Colgate.
• James started the trend with two goals against the Hoyas. Poitras and he both put up four-goal games four days later against the Raiders with Poitras' quartet coming with three assists. Poitras had another four-goal game to close the regular-season at Lehigh. James then set a Patriot League Championships single-game record with six goals in the quarterfinal at Navy. Both had four-goal outings at Boston University in the Patriot League Semifinals; James posted three assists in that game, and Poitras had one.
• This year, both have started primarily on attack, and  since April 22 of last year, they have scored 84 goals.

Back As The Backstop

• Luke Staudt started the 2023 season as hot as a goalkeeper could be, posting double-digit save performances, including one with 19 stops in the season-opening win against then-No. 1 Maryland. 
• After five games (Maryland-Lafayette), he had 70 saves against 44 goals allowed for a .614 save percentage. Over the next seven games he played (Duke-Colgate), his save percentage dipped to .417.
• Staudt did not play in the regular-season finale at Lehigh, but he came back in stellar form in the Patriot League Quarterfinals at Navy, making 18 saves on 25 shots on goal (.720) to finish one off his then-career-high. He came back in the semifinal with 20 saves on 31 shots on goal (.645) against Army West Point. 
• Overall last year, he led the Patriot League and was No. 6 in the nation in saves percentage (.554).
• This year, he opened with 11 saves in a win over Georgetown and was named Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Week, and he followed that performance with a 16-save outing at Maryland, a 17-save game at Johns Hopkins and 18 versus Towson. He set a new season-high on March 16 against Boston University, stopping 19 shots. He is ninth in NCAA Division I in saves per game heading into the Bucknell game.

Scoring Where He's Needed

• 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. Poitras finished second on the team in 2022 with 29 goals, and he was third with 38 points.
• After that junior season of 2022, Poitras played for the Whitby Warriors of the Ontario Junior Lacrosse League and led the Warriors to both the Mann (OJLL 'A') and Minto Cup (National) titles. He was named Most Valuable Player of both tournaments, and in the Minto Cup, he tied for tournament-high honors with 14 goals and added 15 assists. Poitras also earned a silver medal while playing for the Canadian team at the 2022 U-21 Men's World Championships, along with Loyola teammate Josh Fairey.
• Poitras moved to start on attack late in the 2023 season, and he finished the year leading the team in points (49) and goals (34); he has played 67 games during his career and has 111 goals and 50 assists for 161 points.
• He put up a career-high seven points against Colgate last season, tying his career-high marks in goals (4) and assists (3), and he matched the four-goal mark less than a week later at Lehigh and did so again at Boston University in the semifinals.
• In the 2024 opener against Georgetown, he was again an attack starter, scoring four goals and assisting on one. Poitras set a career-high with five goals on March 29 versus Lehigh. He has eight multi-goal games this year and six hat tricks.
• The athletic gene pool runs strong in his family. His younger brother, Matthew, was a second-round draft pick of the Boston Bruins in 2022 and had five goals and 10 assists this year for the NHL team through 33 appearances before a shoulder injury ended his season.

Steady Production

• Evan James has been one of the Greyhounds' best point producers since the start of the 2021 season, scoring at least once in 58 of the 66 games he's played. In 2022, he earned All-Patriot League Second Team honors for the second season in a row, scoring 26 goals and assisting on 11 while starting on the Greyhounds' first midfield. In 2021, he played primarily on attack and had 32 goals and 12 assists.
• James had three four-goal games in 2022 – at Navy and at Colgate. He scored two or more goals in eight of Loyola's 16 games last year.
• Last year, he had five hat tricks and seven games with two or more goals; he now has 18 career hat tricks and 34 games with two or more goals. 
• He started the last six games on attack in 2023 and had 18 goals, including four on five shots against Colgate and a Patriot League Championships record six at Navy. He then had a four-goal, three-assist game at Boston University in the semifinal.
• Over 66 career games played, James is the Greyhounds' active leader in goals (123) and points scored (166). On February 24 against Rutgers, he became the 13th player in school history to score 100 goals in a career.

Contributing To The Mix

• A pair of key offensive contributors have increased their scoring over the last several games for the Greyhounds.
• Joey Kamish had just two goals and three assists through the year's first seven games, but in the last four he has five goals and six assists with three games posting three or more points.
• Davis Lindsey, meanwhile had a three-point game with a goal and two assists against Bucknell, and he has at least one point in each of the last seven outings. Lindsey has two five-point games (Towson, Colgate) and two three-point efforts (Duke, Bucknell) this season. Overall, he has eight goals and 13 assists.

Toomey's Team

• Charley Toomey is in his 19th year as the head coach at Loyola and his 27th as a member of the Greyhounds' coaching staff. Overall, he is in his 31st year on the Evergreen campus, including his four seasons as a student-athlete from 1986-90.
• Toomey has a 182-99 career record. Early in the 2016 season, Toomey became the second coach in program history to reach and cross the 100-win plateau; he became the school's all-time leader in wins on April 6, 2023, passing Dave Cottle's 181.
• As a head coach, Toomey has coached 52 USILA All-Americans, 104 all-conference selections, 21 conference positional or players or rookies of the year, a Tewaaraton Award winner and five finalists and 28 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 was an assistant for the gold-medal winning team at the 2023 World Championships in San Diego.

Get To Ten

• Since Charley Toomey became head coach at Loyola in 2006, the Greyhounds have scored 10 or more goals on 178 occasions; Loyola has won 79.8 percent of those games (142-36).

Up Next

• The Greyhounds remain on the road April 25 with a 7 p.m. game on CBS Sports Network at the U.S. Naval Academy.