Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse plays its penultimate regular-season game of the year on Friday, April 19, when the Greyhounds head to Annapolis, Maryland, for a 7 p.m. game at the U.S. Naval Academy.
• Game time is set for 7 p.m., and it will be broadcast live, nationally, on CBS Sports Network.
• 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 eight-straight games with three or more points and a total of 10 in that regard this season. He has scored at least one goal in 11 of 12 games and has nine multi-goal games and seven hat tricks or better. 
• After starting the year 3 of 21 (.142) on extra-man, the Greyhounds have scored on their last nine of their last 12 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 scored the first half's last two goals, and it opened the second with seven-straight to run away with a 15-6 Patriot League victory at Holy Cross on Saturday at Kuzinewski Field.
• Adam Poitras set a career-high with eight points on four goals and a personal-best four assists, while Matthew Minicus added three goals and four assists. Evan James was a third Greyhounds player with a hat trick, scoring three and adding an assist, while Dylan Binney scored twice and Joey Kamish had two assists.
• A Matt Major goal for Holy Cross with 2:18 left in the first half drew the Crusaders within a goal, 6-5, but Trent Turner buried a shot into the low, left corner off a Poitras assist just 31 seconds later, and then Binney scored with 13 ticks to go in the half on a Kamish feed, putting Loyola in front, 8-5.
• Poitras came away with a contested ground ball on the win of the first faceoff of the second half,. He got into the box, switched hands and scored high 11 seconds into the half. Loyola won the next faceoff, as well, and James scored 35 seconds later with a Minicus assist. The run eventually ballooned to 9-0.

Watch The Game

• Friday night's game will be broadcast live, nationally on CBS Sports Network with Brett Stover and Evan Washburn calling the action.

Series History

• Loyola and Navy will meet for the 19th time in series history when the teams take the field on Friday night with the Greyhounds leading 12-6 in the previous 18 meetings.
• The teams first played on May 6, 1939, in Annapolis, and the Midshipmen came away with a 14-4 win as part of a three-game winning streak to start the series.
• After the teams played in 1943, they did not meet again until May 15, 1993, when Loyola posted a 19-8 victory in the NCAA Championships First Round. The teams then played a home-and-home series in 2010 and 2011 with Loyola winning each by one goal.
• Since Loyola joined the Patriot League in 2014, the Greyhounds are 9-3 in 12 games, 7-3 in regular-season contests.

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 now has a 183-99 overall record, and his .694 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 183 of the wins with Toomey.

Familiar Faces

• To say that the Loyola and Navy coaching staffs know each other would be a bit of an understatement.
• Head Coaches Charley Toomey and Joe Amplo (Navy) served as assistant coaches on the U.S. Men's National Team Coaching Staff from 2019-2024, helping the United States win gold in the World Championships in July 2023 in San Diego.
• Navy Assistant Coach Dave Cottle is equally recognizable having served as the head coach at Loyola from 1983-2001. Cottle was the head coach when Toomey was a player at Loyola from 1987-90, as well as when Loyola assistants Steve Vaikness (1987-91) and Matt Dwan (1992-95). Toomey was an assistant coach under Cottle from 1999-2001.
• Toomey also served as an assistant coach at Navy from 1994-95, and he was the head coach at the Naval Academy Prep School in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1993.

Can't Say It's Not Balanced

• Loyola's top three scorers – Adam Poitras, Evan James and Matthew MInicus – are separated by six points and seven goals on the stats sheet this year. Poitras leads the team with 31 goals, while James has 30 and MInicus 24.
• Poitras also leads in points with 43, while James has 40 and Minicus 37. MInicus is second on the team with 13 assists, but Poitras is one back and James has 10.
• The trio has combined for 19 hat tricks (James and Poitras, 7 each; Minicus, 5) and 25 multi-goal games (James and Poitras, 9 each; Minicus, 7).
• James, Minicus and Poitras are the top scoring team of three in the Patriot League during conference games. They have combined for 54 goals (Poitras 20, James 19, Minicus 15) and are tied for first, third and ninth, respectively  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 19 game at Navy, James is sixth in career goals with 126, two behind Mike Sawyer (2009, 2011-13). He is 11th in career points with 171.
• Poitras is 12th in points (169) after passing John Carroll's 158 points in the Bucknell game. He has scored 115 goals, good enough to tie Tim O'Shea's total from 1995-99in eighth place. 
• James and Poitras have the second-most combined goals scored (241) by members of the same class year in program history. Their former teammates, Kevin Lindley (196) and Aidan Olmstead (111), had 307 from 2018-22. 

No Sophomore Slump 

• Matthew Minicus has continued to be a key scorer for the Greyhounds in his second year with the program. 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. He then had seven points on three goals and four assists at Holy Cross.
• Minicus has played in 27 games for the Greyhounds over the last year-plus and already has 86 points with 57 goals and 29 assists. This season, he has 24 goals and 13 assists for 37 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 19 goals.

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. He set a new career-high with eight point son April 13, 2024, at Holy Cross with four goals and a career-high four assists. Poitras set a career-high with five goals on March 29 versus Lehigh. He has nine multi-goal games this year and seven 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 59 of the 67 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 67 career games played, James is the Greyhounds' active leader in goals (126) and points scored (170). 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 five he has five goals and eight 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 14 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 183-99 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 179 occasions; Loyola has won 79.9 percent of those games (143-36).

Up Next

• The Greyhounds close the regular-season with another CBS Sports Network broadcast game on Friday, April 26, at home against Army West Point.