Quick Hits About The Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse returns to Ridley Athletic Complex to open its Patriot League schedule on Saturday, March 1, when it hosts Colgate University. Faceoff is scheduled for 12 noon.
• The 2025 season will be the Greyhounds 12th in the conference.
• 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

• Loyola's Max Watkinson made a career-high 19 saves on Saturday against Rutgers, but the host Scarlet Knights topped the Greyhounds, 10-5, in a non-conference game at SHI Stadium.
• Watkinson made 15 of his saves between the second and third quarters, nine in the third alone to best his previous high of 13.
• Rutgers outshot Loyola, 47-29, and the Scarlet Knights had 39 ground balls to the Greyhounds' 22.
• The Greyhounds opened the scoring with a goal in the first 95 seconds. Loyola drew a flag against Rutgers on the first faceoff, and it went on extra-man quickly. Brady West converted with a goal off a Matthew Minicus feed at 13:25.
• Rutgers, however, scored the next four and built a 4-1 lead with 6:59 on the first-quarter clock. Shane Murphy scored twice during the run, and JJ Aiello and Haydn Sommer had the other Scarlet Knights goals.
• Ryan McGorry scored twice for the Greyhounds, and Brady West, Brady Quinn and Chase Brody all added goals for Loyola.
• Matthew Minicus assisted on four goals in the game.

Watch The Game

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

Series History

• Loyola and Colgate will meet for the 11th time in series history on Saturday with the Greyhounds holding an 8-2 all-time advantage in the meetings.
• The teams first played in 2014, the Greyhounds' first year in the Patriot League. Loyola won the opening regular-season meeting and a Patriot League Semifinals game that season before Colgate picked up its a win in an 11-4 decision in 2015 at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• Loyola won the next six games before Colgate scored the last five goals to win, 11-9, in a March 2, 2024, game in Hamilton, New York. The Greyhounds built an 11-9 lead less than two minutes into the fourth quarter on a Henry Haberman goal, but Rory Connor goal with 10:38 on the clock in regulation started the 5-0 run.
• The Greyhounds are 4-1 against Colgate in games played at Ridley Athletic Complex.

All Over The Field

• Remi Reynolds has played in a slew of defensive roles over his three-plus 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 four 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. He picked up five ground balls in his return to Piscataway on February 22 against Rutgers.
• Through games of February 25, Reynolds is 15th in the nation in caused turnovers per game with 2.33.
• 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.

Continuing To Lead

• 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.
• Minicus then had a four-assist day at Rutgers. This year, he leads Loyola with five goals and nine assists, registering his 100th career point with a first-quarter assist.
• Saturday's game will be Minicus's third against Colgate. He has six goals and two assists in the prior two, highlighted by a four-goal, two-assist day as a freshman in 2023.
• 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 102 points with 64 goals and 38 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.
• 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 three of the first four games, and he 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.

Standing Tall In Starting Role

• The 2025 season has been Max Watkinson's first as a full-time starter for the Greyhounds in goal. The junior started two games in 2024, but before taking over the job in 2025. 
• He has posted solid numbers in the first four games of the year with 11 or more saves in each. Watkinson has posted career-highs in each of the last two games with 13 against Johns Hopkins and 19 at Rutgers.

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.

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

Lax Baller 

• Pat Spencer has continued to bring attention to the Loyola men's lacrosse program, now because of his exploits on the basketball court. As a member of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, Spencer has played in 26 games this year.
• The NCAA's all-time leader in assists and 2019 Tewaaraton Award winner 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 184-105 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.

Up Next

• Loyola heads to New England for its next two games, playing first at Providence in a Saturday, March 8, game; they then travel to face Boston University a week later.