Quick Hits About The Hounds

• The Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse team goes on the road for the second time this season to visit Piscataway, New Jersey, for a Saturday, February 22, game at Rutgers University.
• Faceoff for the Greyhounds and Scarlet Knights is slated for 12 noon at SHI Stadium.
• Loyola has 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 75-34 (.689) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• Johns Hopkins scored with 79 seconds left in regulation to tie Loyola, and the fifth-ranked Blue Jays added an extra-man goal 38 seconds later to take a 9-8 decision at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• Matt Collison scored with 1:19 on the clock in the fourth quarter during a flag-down situation, tying the game at 8-8. The Blue Jays then went man-up after a slash was called, and Russell Melendez scored from the top left with 41 seconds left to give Johns Hopkins its first lead since the first 11 minutes of the game. 
• Loyola's Mason Graves won the ensuing faceoff, and the Greyhounds went on offense, but a shot from the right alley went wide and the Blue Jays backed it up, gaining possession with less than 10 seconds to play to run out the clock.
• The Greyhounds had the lead or were tied for the majority of the game, starting with a 3-0 run in the first two quarters that made it 3-1 on a Henry Haberman goal midway through the second.
• Kyle McCarthy's goal at 10:38 in the third made it 6-3 Loyola.
• Max Watkinson finished with a career-best 13 saves. Matthew Minicus led Loyola with two goals and two assists, while Luke Murphy had one and two.

Watch The Game

• Saturday's Loyola-Rutgers game will stream live on B1G+.

Series History

• Rutgers and Loyola will meet for the 16th time on the lacrosse field Saturday when the Greyhounds enter the game with an 11-4 lead in the all-time series.
• The teams met five times during the 1990s and then were ECAC Lacrosse League foes from 2005-2009. This game is the sixth of a series that was renewed in 2019.
• Loyola won the first seven meetings between the teams before the Scarlet Knights won the 2007 game. The Greyhounds then won the next four contests, but Rutgers won, 13-12, on Loyola's home field in 2022 to start a current three-game winning streak in the series. The Scarlet Knights won 10-6 in Piscataway in 2023 and were 13-5 victors on February 24, 2024, at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• Loyola is 5-2 in games played at Rutgers.
• The teams' head coaches, Charley Toomey and Brian Brecht were both assistants at Loyola from 2002-04.

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 three 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. 
• Through games of February 19, Reynolds is fifth in the nation in caused turnovers per game with 3.0
• 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.

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. He matched those totals on February 15 against Johns Hopkins for his 20th career multi-goal outing and the eighth multi-assist performance.
• This year, he leads Loyola with five goals and five assists.
• 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.

Murphy Makes Impact With Bigger Role

• Luke Murphy has played in every game since joining the Greyhounds for the 2023 season, seeing time on Loyola's second midfield unit. In 32 games during his freshman and sophomore seasons, he had six goals and four assists with three and two in each year.
• This year, Murphy has moved to the first midfield line and has scored in all three games thus far and is second on the Greyhounds with six point son three goals and three assists. He had a career-high three points on a goal and two assists against Johns Hopkins.

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.
• Brady Quinn and Kyle McCarthy both scored their first career goals against Johns Hopkins on February 15 during a 3-0 run to start the second half. The goals came back-to-back in a 74-second stretch with McCarthy's making the Loyola lead 6-3. Both had assists in the second half, as well.

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 184-104 overall record, and his .639 winning percentage ranks seventh among active coaches with 10 or more years as a NCAA Division I head coach.

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 season 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. Aiden Kammerer and Mason Graves both played for the first time against Johns Hopkins.

Lax Baller 

• Loyola is the only college lacrosse team that was represented on the court by an alumnus at NBA All-Star Weekend last 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 played 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.