Quick Hits About The Hounds

• The Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse team will make its 2025 home debut on Saturday, February 8, when it meets the University of Maryland.
• Faceoff at Ridley Athletic Complex against the fourth-ranked Terrapins is set for 1 p.m. The game will stream live on ESPN+.
• 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 jumped out to a 4-1 lead last Saturday against 11th-ranked Georgetown, but the Hoyas went on a 6-0 run that spanned 20 minutes, and they went on to a 13-6 season-opening win at Cooper Field.
• Matthew Minicus, who scored a team-high four points on two goals and two assists, scored on extra-man with 2:52 left in the first quarter, and Loyola led 4-1 after less than 13 minutes.
• The game went more than three minutes into the second quarter with that score before Kevin Miller tallied a goal for Georgetown that broke a 3-0 Greyhounds' run at 11:26. Aidan Carroll scored 80 seconds later, and Joe Cesare tacked on a tying goal with 4:34 to go in the second quarter. Miller converted his second goal with 1:56 left in the half, and Georgetown took a 5-4 lead into halftime. 
• The lead grew to 7-4 just over two minutes into the second half, but a Luke Murphy goal at 5:47 in the third closed it to 7-6. Georgetown then went on a 6-0 run through the close of the game.
• Henry Haberman had two goals and an assist, while Murphy and Brady West also added scores for Loyola.

Watch The Game

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

Series History

• Loyola and Maryland will meet for the 27th time in series history on the lacrosse field Saturday afternoon at Ridley Athletic Complex with the Terrapins leading the first 26 meetings, 22-4.
• Saturday's game will mark the fourth-straight year that the teams have played with Maryland winning a pair on its home field in 2022 and 2024 and the Greyhounds taking an 12-7 decision at Ridley on February 11, 2023.
• Maryland won last year's contest on February 10, 2024, 11-4 in College Park, Maryland. The Terrapins jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the game's first 12 minutes, but Loyola narrowed the gap to 4-3 with goals from Matthew Minicus, Matt Heuston and Henry Haberman over the next 12.
• After Haberman scored with 6:34 to go in the first half, Maryland tallied six-straight goals during the next 25 minutes.
• The teams first met during the 1940 season with Loyola picking up a 17-6 win, but the Terrapins won 17 in a row in the series until a 10-8 Loyola win in March 1989.
• Loyola and Maryland met just one more time during the 20th century – a 19-8 Terrapins victory in the 1998 NCAA Quarterfinals – and did not play again until the 2012 NCAA Championship Game. The Greyhounds own that contest, 9-3, to secure the school's first NCAA Division I Championship in any sport.
• Maryland made its first appearance at Ridley Athletic Complex on February 23, 2013, and took a 12-10 win, and the Terrapins won, 11-10, in College Park in 2015.

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 31 games for the Greyhounds over the last two years and already has 96 points with 63 goals and 33 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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 184-102 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

• The Greyhounds will be at home for two-straight weeks, hosting Johns Hopkins University on Saturday, February 15, in the Battle of Charles Street.