Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• The Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse team will start the 2024 postseason on Tuesday, April 30, with a Patriot League Championships Quarterfinals game at the U.S. Naval Academy.
• Faceoff is set for 6 p.m. at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
• The Greyhounds finished in a three-way tie for third place in the Patriot League.
• 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 10-straight games with three or more points and a total of 12 in that regard this season. He has scored at least one goal in 13 of 14 games and has 11 multi-goal games and nine hat tricks or better. 
• After starting the year 3 of 21 (.142) on extra-man, the Greyhounds have scored on their last 11 of their last 17 man-up chances.
• The Greyhounds are in their 15th season of competition at Ridley Athletic Complex, which opened in 2010. The Greyhounds are 75-32 (.701) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• Army West Point broke a 10-10 game with two goals before the midway point of the fourth quarter on Friday night, and the Black Knights held off Loyola for a 13-11 victory in the teams' Patriot League finale.
• The Greyhounds tied the game at 10-10 with a Matthew Minicus goal at 9:23 in the third quarter, but then neither team scored for almost 15 minutes.
• The 12th-ranked Black Knights broke through 4:31 into the fourth quarter when Gunnar Fellows scored inside on a Jackson Eicher assist, and Reese Burek tacked on another goal less than two minutes later, scoring his fourth of the game with 8:35 to play.
• Loyola narrowed the gap to one, 12-11, with 4:43 left in regulation when Adam Poitras skipped a pass from goal-line extended to Joey Kamish at left point, and Kamish hit the top, right corner to bring Loyola within a goal.
• Army West Point got possession with a faceoff win after Kamish's goal, and after clearing the ball to the offensive end, Eicher got his hands free on the top left and converted a Ryan Sposito assist for a goal with 3:27 on the clock, extending the lead to a pair.

Watch The Game

• Tuesday night's game will stream live on the Patriot League Network on ESPN+.

Patriot League Championships History

• The Greyhounds are 13-4 in Patriot League Championships play, winning the tournaments in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018. They are 3-1 in quarterfinal games.

Series History

• Loyola and Navy will meet for the 20th time in series history when the teams take the field on Tuesday night with the Greyhounds leading 13-6 in the previous 19 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 10-3 in 13 games, 8-3 in regular-season contests. The Greyhounds won the regular-season meeting this year, 12-10, less than two weeks ago on April 19.
• Loyola and Navy have met twice prior in the Patriot League Championships with the Greyhounds winning both quarterfinal matchups. Loyola prevailed, 12-7, last season in Annapolis, and 16-9 in 2021 at home.

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 184-100 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 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 (38), points (53) and ground balls (39) this season. Poitras also is tied for second on the team in assists (15).

Scoring Stretches

• Over the last 11 games, Adam Poitras has scored 32 goals, while Evan James is right behind with 30; Matthew MInicus has 20 goals since the February 24 contest against Rutgers.
• Poitras has seven outings in a row with hat tricks and eight in the last nine games. Thirty of his goals have come since the Patriot League opener against Colgate on March 2, an average of 3.33 goals during those nine games. He finished as the conference leader in goals during Patriot League regular-season games with 27.
• James has hat tricks in six-consecutive games and had scored two or more in seven in a row. During those seven games, he has averaged 3.13 goals per game. 
• Minicus did not score in the March 29 game against Lehigh, but he has 18 goals over the last seven games for Loyola, nine coming in the last four.

Can't Say It's Not Balanced

• Loyola's top three scorers – Adam Poitras, Evan James and Matthew MInicus – are separated by 11 points and 11 goals on the stats sheet this year. Poitras leads the team with 38 goals, while James has 36 and MInicus 27.
• Poitras also leads in points with 53, while James has 48 and Minicus 42. MInicus and Poitras are tied for second on the team with 15 assists, while James is three back in fifth.
• The trio has combined for 23 hat tricks (James and Poitras, 9 each; Minicus, 5) and 30 multi-goal games (James and Poitras, 11 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 70 goals (Poitras 27, James 25, Minicus 18).

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 Patriot League Championships, James is tied for fifth in career goals with 128 with Mike Sawyer (2009, 2011-13), five back of Pat Lamon's 133 from 1983-86. He is 12th in career points with 173.
• Poitras is 11th in points (174), and he has scored 117 goals, three behind Tim O'Shea's total from 1996-99 in seventh place. 
• James and Poitras have the second-most combined goals scored (245) 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 29 games for the Greyhounds over the last year-plus and already has 91 points with 60 goals and 31 assists. This season, he has 28 goals and 15 assists for 39 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.

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 69 games during his career and has 117 goals and 57 assists for 174 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 58 of the 68 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 68 career games played, James is the Greyhounds' active leader in goals (128) and second in points scored (173). 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 seven he has six 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 17 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 six of the last eight outings to bring his season total to 13 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 184-100 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 181 occasions; Loyola has won 79.6 percent of those games (144-37).

Up Next

• The winner of the Loyola-Navy quarterfinal game will advance to the Patriot League Semifinals that will be held Friday, May 3, at the U.S. Military Academy.
• If Loyola beats the Midshipmen, it will play Army West Point in the semifinals; Navy would take on Lehigh University with a victory.