Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse caps the 2024 regular-season on Friday, April 26, with a 7 o'clock home game against the U.S. Military Academy at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• The Greyhounds are Black Knights are  set for a 7 p.m. faceoff, 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 nine-straight games with three or more points and a total of 11 in that regard this season. He has scored at least one goal in 12 of 13 games and has 10 multi-goal games and eight hat tricks or better. 
• After starting the year 3 of 21 (.142) on extra-man, the Greyhounds have scored on their last 10 of their last 13 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 jumped out to a 4-1 first-quarter lead, and the Greyhounds made strong energy plays throughout the game to go on to a 12-10 Patriot League win over the host Navy on Friday night at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
• Carson Hall won 4 of 6 faceoffs in the first quarter, and the Greyhounds picked up 11 ground balls to the Midshipmen's seven in the opening frame to help the scoring tilt into Loyola's column.
• Adam Poitras had two of his three goals, while Matthew Minicus added one and Joey Kamish had a pair of assists, in the first stanza.
• Poitras and Evan James both finished with three goals and an assist for the Greyhounds; Minicus scored twice and had an assist, Kamish tallied three points on a goal and an assist, and Dylan Binney scored two times for Loyola.
• Luke Staudt made 12 saves and had four ground balls for Loyola.
• In addition to his ninth-straight game with three or more points, Poitras tied for the game-high with eight ground balls. Hall had five, and Houlihan matched Staudt with four as Loyola played to a 39-30 advantage in ground balls.

Watch The Game

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

Series History

• Loyola and Army West Point will meet for the 18th time in series history when the teams take the field on Friday night with the Greyhounds leading 9-8 in the previous 17 meetings, but the Black Knights bringing in a four-game winning streak.
• The teams met twice last season with Army West Point taking a 10-5 regular-season decision on March 25 in the Hudson Valley. The programs met again in the Patriot League Championship Game at Boston University where the Black Knights won, 10-8.
• Loyola and the Black Knights first met on May 1, 1943, but they did not see each other again until Loyola joined the Patriot League for the 2014 season. Since then, they have played 16 times, seven times in the postseason. The teams have met in each of the last four contested Patriot League Championships.

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 184-99 overall record, and his .695 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.

The One And Only Adam

• Adam Poitras holds the distinction of being the only player in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse to lead his team in goals (34), points (47) and ground balls (37) this season. Poitras also is tied for third on the team in assists (13).

Scoring Stretches

• Over the last 10 games, Adam Poitras has scored 28 goals, while Evan James is right behind with 27. Matthew MInicus has 19 goals since the February 24 contest against Rutgers.
• Poitras has six outings in a row with hat tricks and seven in the last eight games. Twenty-six of his goals have come since the Patriot League opener against Colgate on March 2, an average of 3.25 goals during those eight games.
• James has hat tricks in five-consecutive games and had scored two or more in six in a row. During those six games, he has averaged 3.17 goals per game. 
• Minicus did not score in the March 29 game against Lehigh, but he has 17 goals over the last six games for Loyola, eight coming in the last three.

Can't Say It's Not Balanced

• Loyola's top three scorers – Adam Poitras, Evan James and Matthew MInicus – are separated by seven points and eight goals on the stats sheet this year. Poitras leads the team with 34 goals, while James has 33 and MInicus 26.
• Poitras also leads in points with 47, while James has 44 and Minicus 40. MInicus is second on the team with 14 assists, but Poitras is one back and James has 11.
• The trio has combined for 21 hat tricks (James and Poitras, 8 each; Minicus, 5) and 28 multi-goal games (James and Poitras, 10 each; Minicus, 8).
• James, Minicus and Poitras are the top goal-scoring team of three in the Patriot League during conference games. They have combined for 62 goals (Poitras 23, James 22, Minicus 17) and are second and tied for third and eighth, respectively, 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 26 game at Navy, James is sixth in career goals with 125, three behind Mike Sawyer (2009, 2011-13). He is 11th in career points with 169.
• Poitras is 12th in points (168) after passing John Carroll's 158 points in the Bucknell game. He has scored 113 goals, two behind Tim O'Shea's total from 1995-99 in eighth place. 
• James and Poitras have the second-most combined goals scored (238) 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 28 games for the Greyhounds over the last year-plus and already has 89 points with 59 goals and 30 assists. This season, he has 27 goals and 14 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 68 games during his career and has 113 goals and 55 assists for 168 points.
• 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, recording at least once in 57 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.
• 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 (169). On February 24 against Rutgers, he became the 13th player in school history to score 100 goals in a career.

Contributing To The Mix

• The Loyola offense has not just been up to three players as several others have stepped up their scoring.
• Joey Kamish had just two goals and three assists through the year's first seven games, but in the last six he has five goals and nine assists with four 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 eight outings. Lindsey has two five-point games (Towson, Colgate) and two three-point efforts (Duke, Bucknell) this season. Overall, he has eight goals and 16 assists.
• Dylan Binney came back after being slowed by a mid-season injury and has back-to-back two-goal games against Holy Cross and Navy. He now has seven goals and two assists this season.
• Matt Heuston has three multi-goal games this season and has scored at least once in five of the last seven outings to bring his season total to 12 goals and two assists. Last summer, Heuston was a starting midfielder for the Australian National Team at the 2023 FIL World Championships.

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 184-99 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 180 occasions; Loyola has won 80 percent of those games (144-36).

Up Next

• The Loyola-Army West Point winner can finish first or second in the league, but the losing team could be seeded as low as sixth in the upcoming championships.