Quick Hits About The Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse plays its second-straight road game in New England on Saturday, March 15, with a 12 noon game at Boston University.
• The game is the second of a stretch where the Greyhounds will play five out of six on the road.
• 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

• Henry Haberman had a first-quarter hat trick and finished with career-high numbers in goals and points Saturday, but a late Providence run gave the host Friars a cushion over Loyola, and they held on for a 12-11 victory.
• Matthew Minicus came out of a scrum with a ground ball and flipped in his first goal of the fourth quarter with 12:49 left in regulation, evening the game for the eighth time at 9-9.
• The game was scoreless for over six minutes until the Friars' Jay Wilkerson broke through with an unassisted goal at 6:07 in the fourth. The score started a 3-0 Providence run that took just 65 seconds, and with Ryan Bell's goal at 5:02, the Friars led 12-9.
• Kenan Everhart took the ball above goal-line extended on the left side and scored with the shot-clock winding down, making it a 12-10 game with 2:33 to play.
• Loyola got the ball back with a faceoff win, and just over 90 seconds later, Minicus scored his second of the quarter with a Will McCulloch assist to close the gap to a goal.
• Max Watkinson made 15 saves for the Greyhounds, while Remi Reynolds and Carson Hall had four ground balls each.

Watch The Game

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

Series History

• Loyola and Boston University will meet for the 12th time in series history since the schools joined the Patriot League at the same time in 2013-14. The Terriers have won four of the last five meetings to cut Loyola's lead in the all-time series to 6-5.
• The Greyhounds posted a 12-11 win the last time the teams met at Nickerson Field in a Patriot League Semifinal game on May 5, 2023. Boston University is, however, 3-2, on its home field in the five all-time games.
• Last season, Boston University took a 4-0 lead 39 seconds into the second quarter, and while Loyola closed the game with the last three goals, its rally came up short for a 12-10 Terriers victory on March 16, 2024, at Ridley Athletic Complex. Matthew Minicus had five points in the game with three goals and two assists for Loyola.

Learning On The Job

• Entering the season, the Greyhounds roster was significantly different than previous seasons with a 19 freshmen and two transfers with others who would see their first collegiate playing time after season-ending injuries previously in their careers.
• Through six games this year, 13 players have made their collegiate debuts for the Greyhounds, 10 freshmen and three sophomores who did not play in their first years out of high school.
• Of those 13 players, three have started a total of 11 games – Kenan Everhart (six), Kyle McCarthy (four) and Mason Cook (one) – and the others have all seen considerable time  in non-starting roles (defensive midfield, faceoff specialists, faceoff wings, second midfield).

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 five 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, and he then tied his career-high with six off the ground against Colgate a week later.
• Through games of March 12, Reynolds is 23rd in the nation in caused turnovers per game with 1.83. He leads the Greyhounds in ground balls with 23 this year.
• 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 14 assists, registering his 100th career point with a first-quarter assist against the Scarlet Knights. He has at least two points in every game this season.
• 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 36 games for the Greyhounds and already has 113 points with 68 goals and 45 assists. 
• His 2.3 assists per game this season are tied for 14th nationally in NCAA Division I.

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 five of the six games, and he is third on the Greyhounds with nine points on five goals and four assists. He had a career-high three points on a goal and two assists against Johns Hopkins.

Standing Up 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 five games of the year with 11 or more saves in each. Watkinson has posted his top two save totals with a career-high 19 at Rutgers and then 16 versus Colgate.
• This season, Watkinson has 84 saves in six contests (14.0 per game), with a 55.3 saves percentage. He ranks seventh nationally in saves per game.

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.

Cook-ing On Attack

• Mason Cook missed fall practice with an injury, but he has gotten up to speed early in his first season at Loyola. He has seen an increased role on offense over the Greyhounds' last two games against Colgate and at Providence, making his first collegiate start against the Friars.
• The freshman from Towson, Maryland, scored twice against Colgate and then had a goal and an assist at Providence.

Starting To Sling It

• Henry Haberman scored a career-best four goals and had five points on March 8 at Providence to raise his season total to a team-best nine goals; he is second on the Greyhounds with 12 points.
• Haberman played in 31 games over his first two seasons at Loyola and scored 12 goals to go with three assists as a freshman in 2023 and then had four and one last year. 
• This season, Haberman already has a quartet of extra-man goals, a total that is eighth in the nation and second in the Patriot League.
• He has scored on nine of his 17 shots in six games. Players need to average three shots per game to qualifying for the national stats in shooting percentage. Haberman is shooting 52.9 percent that would rank ninth in NCAA Division I if he qualified.

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 184-107 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 returns to Ridley Athletic Complex on Saturday, March 22, to host Lafayette.