Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse will start its 82nd season of competition on Saturday, February 1, at Georgetown University.
• Saturday's game is slated for a 12 noon faceoff in Washington, D.C., at Georgetown's Cooper Field.
• Loyola will have a decidedly new look on the field this season, particularly on the offensive end of the field. Of the six attack and midfielder starters from its last game of the 2024 season – the Patriot League Quarterfinals contest at Navy – Matthew Minicus is the only returner.
• That said, two of the Greyhounds' three starting close defenders from that game will be back in the fold this year, along with Loyola's top two long-stick midfielders.
• Charley Toomey is in his 20th season as head coach of the Greyhounds. It is also his 29th year as a member of the Loyola staff and 33rd with the program, including four as a student-athlete on the team.
• The Greyhounds are in their 16th season of competition at Ridley Athletic Complex, which opened in 2010. The Greyhounds are 75-32 (.701) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• Loyola finished the 2024 season with a 7-8 overall record and tied for third during the Patriot League regular-season, going 5-3 in conference play.
• Adam Poitras, Evan James and Matthew Minicus led the Greyhounds in scoring throughout the season, totaling 150 points between the three of them. Poitras scored a team-high 41 goals and had 15 assists, James scored 39 and assisted on 12, and Minicus posted 28 goals and 15 assists.
• Remi Reynolds led the Greyhounds with 17 caused turnovers during his first season with the program, while five other players had 10 or more: Chase Gregory, Joe Houlihan, Mustang Sally, Max McGillicuddy and Diego Roman.
• The Greyhounds opened the season with a home victory over Georgetown before falling to Maryland, Johns Hopkins and Rutgers in their next three. Loyola then came back with a win over Towson prior to entering conference play.
• Loyola went on a five-game winning stream from March 23 to April 19 with victories over Lafayette, Lehigh, Bucknell, Holy Cross and Navy.
• The Greyhounds lost in the Patriot League Quarterfinals, 12-10, at Navy.

Watch The Game

• Saturday's Loyola at Georgetown game will stream live on FloSports with a subscription feel.

Series History

• Loyola and Georgetown will meet for the 47th time in series history on Saturday when the teams play at in Washington, D.C.
• The Greyhounds hold a 37-9 all-time lead in the series, and this game will mark the 24th-straight full season that the teams have played (not including the shortened 2020 campaign).
• Loyola has won 13 of the last 16 meetings after posting an 18-10 victory in the 2024 season-opener at Ridley Athletic Complex. Prior to that game, the Hoyas had won two in a row during the 2022 and 2023 seasons.
• The Greyhounds jumped out to a 4-1 lead on a Seth Higgins goal just over 10 minutes into the first quarter, and Loyola held a 5-3 lead after the first 15 minutes. Three-straight goals to open the second quarter pushed the lead to 8-3 before got back within three, 9-6 with second seconds to go in the frame. Loyola, however, won the ensuing faceoff, and Mustang Sally beat the halftime buzzer (replay confirmed) with a goal.
• Loyola stretched its advantage to 13-7 in the third quarter, and the Hoyas were not closer than five from that point forward.
• Evan James scored five goals and had four assists to lead the Greyhounds, and Matthew Minicus posted four goals.

On The Same Team

• Saturday's head coaches, Charley Toomey and Kevin Warne, will stand on opposite sides of the substitution area on for the season's first game, but they will be sharing a sideline in upcoming years. 
• Toomey and Warne were both named assistant coaches for the U.S. Men's National Team, which is preparing for the 2027 World Championships that will be held in Japan. 
• The tour with Team USA will be Toomey's second after he was a part of John Danowski's staff that won gold in 2023 in San Diego.

Feels Like Lacrosse Season

• If you feel like it's an early start to lacrosse season, you would be correct. February 1 is the earliest on the calendar that Loyola has played a regular-season game, beating last year's February 3 meeting with the Hoyas by two days. Another milestone could be passed next year when the first date of competition will be January 31.

Preseason Praise

• A pair of Greyhounds were named to the Preseason All-Patriot League Team prior to the 2025 season.
• Matthew Minicus drew one of the spots on the team's attack unit, while Remi Reynolds was tabbed to the defensive group. Both players earned All-Patriot League Second Team recognition last season.

Toomey To The Top

• With Loyola's April 6, 2024, 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 282 games since taking over the reins of the program in 2006. He now has a 184-101 overall record, and his .646 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.

O' Captain(s)

• A group of four will lead the Greyhounds onto the field as team captains for the 2025 season. Seniors Matt Dixon, Joe Houlihan, Remi Reynolds and Matthew Minicus were named captains by their peers and the Loyola coaching staff.

No Sophomore Slump 

• Matthew Minicus has continued to be a key scorer for the Greyhounds in his second year with the program. The Darien, Connecticut, native had eight multi-goal games during the 2024 campaign en route to scoring 28 goals and posting 43 points.
• Minicus has played in 30 games for the Greyhounds over the last two years and already has 92 points with 61 goals and 31 assists. He also posted 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.
• Saturday's game will be Minicus' third against Georgetown in three years. He scored four times in last year's win at Loyola, and he had two goals and an assist in April 18, 2023, when the teams met in Baltimore. In that game, he also played on the same field as his older brother, Brian, who was a member of the Hoyas' offense as a graduate student.
• He comes from a strong line of Loyola attackers out of Darien High School where the Blue Wave has 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.

All Over The Field

• Remi Reynolds has played in a slew of defensive roles over his three years as a collegiate player. He saw action in all 19 games of his 2022 freshman campaign at Rutgers, playing as a long-stick midfielder for the Scarlet Knights. During the 2023 season, he moved to playing on the rope unit with a short stick and saw time in 13 games.
• Last year, his first with the Greyhounds, he started all 15 games on close defense and was the team leader in caused turnovers with 17. Reynolds also topped the close defense unit with 32 ground balls while earning All-Patriot League Second Team recognition.

Lax Baller 

• Loyola is the only college lacrosse team that will be represented on the court by an alumnus at NBA All-Star Weekend next month in San Francisco. That's also because the Greyhounds are the only team to have a player on a NBA roster this season in 2019 Tewaaraton Award Winner Pat Spencer.
• The NCAA's all-time leader in assists has been a member of the Golden State Warriors organization for three years and will play in the NBA Rising Stars game on February 14. Spencer is averaging 6.8 minutes per game this season for the Warriors and scored a career-high 17 points on January 9 against Indiana.

Toomey's Team

• Charley Toomey is in his 20th year as the head coach at Loyola and his 29th as a member of the Greyhounds' coaching staff. Overall, he is in his 33rd year on the Evergreen campus, including his four seasons as a student-athlete from 1986-90.
• Toomey has a 184-101 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. Toomey will again be an assistant for Team USA in preparation for and competition at the 2027 Championships in Japan.

Get To Ten

• Since Charley Toomey became head coach in 2006, the Greyhounds have scored 10 or more goals on 181 occasions; Loyola has won 79.1 percent of those games (144-38).

Up Next

• Loyola make its 2025 Ridley Athletic Complex debut on Saturday, February 8, when it hosts the University of Maryland in a 1 p.m. game. The Greyhounds will be at home for two-straight weeks, hosting Johns Hopkins University on Saturday, February 15, in the Battle of Charles Street.