Quick Hits About The Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse plays its second-straight home game on Saturday, February 15, at 12 noon when it hosts Johns Hopkins University at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• The game is the first of a doubleheader with the Loyola women hosting American at 3 p.m.
• 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.
• The Greyhounds are in their 16th season of competition at Ridley Athletic Complex, which opened in 2010. The Greyhounds are 75-33 (.694) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• Kenan Everhart scored with 2.2 seconds left in regulation to move Loyola into a 7-7 tie with Maryland, but the Terrapins scored 1:04 into the extra period for an 8-7 non-conference victory at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• Maryland won the faceoff to start overtime and settled into six-on-six offense. Matthew Keegan had a shot that missed wide left 51 seconds into the game, and on the restart, he dodged from behind the cage to get a line for the game-winning goal.
• Daniel Kelly put the Terrapins on the board with 3:24 to play, but that would be the quarter's only goal. Max Watkinson made seven saves in goal for the Greyhounds during the quarter in which the teams combined for 15 saves, 11 by Maryland.
• Everhart would get Loyola in the scoring column less than four minutes into the second quarter when he scored his first collegiate goal. That kicked off a 3-0 Greyhounds' run that would expand to 5-1.
• Everhart led the Greyhounds with two goals, while Minicus and Murphy each had a goal and an assist.
• Watkinson made 11 saves for Loyola.

Watch The Game

• Saturday's Loyola-Johns Hopkins game will stream live on ESPN+.

Series History

• The Greyhounds and Blue Jays will be meeting for the 61st time in series history on Saturday when they take the field. Johns Hopkins holds a 50-10 advantage, but Loyola snapped a 13-game Blue Jays' winning streak in the series with an 8-4 win at Homewood Field on April 27, 2013. The Greyhounds then won meetings between the teams in 2014 (13-10) and 2016 (9-8) for their first-ever three-game winning streak in the series. Although, Johns Hopkins stopped that stretch with a 14-13 overtime victory on February 18, 2017, Loyola again won three in a row with a 12-5 victory at Ridley in 2018, 2019's 18-12 win at Homewood Field and a 10-7 decision in 2020 at Ridley. The teams did not meet in 2021 due to the COVID-19 adjusted schedule.
• In 2022, the Blue Jays pulled out an 11-10 victory at Homewood Field, but Loyola got back into the win column with a 13-8 in 2013 at Ridley Athletic Complex. Johns Hopkins then took a 13-7 win last year on its home field.
• Overall, Loyola has won seven of the last 10 games – dating back to 2013 – after winning just three times in the first 50 games.
• Johns Hopkins is Loyola's second most-played opponent behind only Towson (63).

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.
• This year, Reynolds is a starter again on close defense, and he's impressed in the two games thus far. He had three caused turnovers, two ground balls and a transition assist at Georgetown before going for a career-high five caused turnovers, four ground balls and his second goal as a Greyhound in the Maryland game. 
• After the game against Maryland, Reynolds was named Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week and earned a spot on the USILA National Team of the Week; he is second nationally with eight caused turnovers and 4.0 per game.

No Sophomore Slump 

• Matthew MInicus opened the 2025 season, his junior campaign at Loyola, with a four-point effort against Georgetown, scoring twice and adding a pair of assists to lead the Greyhounds in all three scoring columns. The game was his 19th career multi-goal outing and the seventh multi-assist performance.
• Minicus 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 32 games for the Greyhounds and already has 98 points with 64 goals and 34 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 two goals in Loyola's 2023 win, and he added another in 2024 during the game in College Park.
• 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.

First Ones, Big Ones

• Kenan Everhart made his collegiate debut on February 1 at Georgetown after missing the 2024 season with an injury. He then scored his first two collegiate goals on February 8 against Maryland. Both were a key moments and tied the game. The first was Loyola's first of the game – after the teams had slow offensive starts – and came in the second quarter to make it 1-1. He then scored with 2.2 ticks on the clock in regulation to tie the score at 7-7 and send it to overtime.

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 286 games since taking over the reins of the program in 2006. He now has a 184-102 overall record, and his .643 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.

Lots Of Firsts

• With 19 freshmen and two transfers on the roster, the 2025 season is bound to see plenty of firsts for the Greyhounds, and the opening game at Georgetown provided. 
• Eleven players saw their first collegiate action against the Hoyas and another player (junior transfer Vinnie Trujillo) made his Loyola debut. Of the 11, a pair of Greyhounds made their first appearances in starting roles as Kenan Everhart and Kyle McCarthy were in the opening 10.
• Everhart and Bruno Chapman are sophomores on the team who missed the 2024 seaosn with injuries and made their collegiate debuts in the 2025 opener. McCarthy, Tyler Olsen, Connor Wilbur, Briggs McGuckin, Alex Dumont, Brady Rogoff, Chase Brody, Mason Cook and Miles Halter all saw their first collegiate action, as well.

Lax Baller 

• Loyola is the only college lacrosse team that will be represented on the court by an alumnus at NBA All-Star Weekend this weekend 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 184-103 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 heads on the road for its next game, a Saturday, February 22, contest at Rutgers University. The Greyhounds then return to Ridley Athletic Complex on Saturday, March 1, to open Patriot League play against Colgate.