Quick Hits About The Hounds

• The Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse team returns to Baltimore and Ridley Athletic Complex on Saturday, March 22, for a 1 p.m. Patriot League game against Lafayette College.
• The game is the lone home contest sandwiched between 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

• Boston University used a 7-0 run between the second and third quarters to turn a 3-1 advantage into a 10-1 lead Saturday at Nickerson Field, and the Terriers went on to a 13-7 victory over Loyola.
• Kenan Everhart put Loyola on the scoreboard at 12:29 in the second quarter with an unassisted goal, dodging to score after a long outlet from Max Watkinson, but Jimmy O'Connell scored his third of the half at 9;29, and the Terriers opened the run.
• Boston University led 7-1 at halftime and then it scored three more to go up 10-1 on a Timthy Shannehan goal with 3:35 left in the third.
• Brady West caught a Matthew Minicus pass on the interior of the offense and scores with less than two seconds to go in the third, and Brady Quinn used a Luke Murphy feed for a goal 5:44 into the fourth.
• Henry Haberman added a goal off a Quinn assist at 7:44, and the Greyhounds scored three more from Everhart, Nolan Bellotti and Miles Halter. Bellotti and Halter had their first collegiate goals in the game.
• Loyola had a 37-36 advantage in ground balls in the game.

Watch The Game

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

Series History

• Loyola and Lafayette will meet for the 14th time in series history on Saturday and the 13th time since the Greyhounds joined the Patriot League in 2014. Loyola has won all 13 of the prior meetings.
• The teams first met during the 1939 season in a game that the Greyhounds won, 15-1. It was another 75 years before the next game between the programs came around in 2014, Loyola's first season in the Patriot League.
• Since then, the teams have met 12 times during the regular season. Three games between 2021-2023 were decided by an average of 3.67 goals before Loyola took an 18-10 decision on April 23, 2024 in a driving rain storm in Easton, Pennsylvania.

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 seven games this year, 18 players have made their collegiate debuts for the Greyhounds, 15 freshmen and three sophomores who did not play in their first years out of high school.
• Of those 18 players, three have started a total of 13 games – Kenan Everhart (seven), Kyle McCarthy (four) and Mason Cook (two) – and the others have 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 seven 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 20, Reynolds is 14th in the nation in caused turnovers per game with 2.0. He leads the Greyhounds in ground balls with 27 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.

Tops In Points

• 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 22 points on seven goals and 15 assists; he registered 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 38 games for the Greyhounds and already has 114 points with 68 goals and 46 assists. 
• His 2.14 assists per game this season are tied for 18th 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 goals in five of the seven games, and he is third on the Greyhounds with 10 points on five goals and five 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 seven games of the year with 10 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 94 saves in seven contests (13.4 per game), with a 54.7 saves percentage. He ranks eighth 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 three games, making his first collegiate start against the Providence.
• 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 and another last week against Boston University raised his team-leading total to 10; he is second on the Greyhounds with 13 points.
• Haberman played in 32 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 10th in the nation and second in the Patriot League.
• He has scored on 10 of his 20 shots in seven games. Players need to average three shots per game to qualifying for the national stats in shooting percentage. Haberman is shooting 50.0 percent and 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 184-108 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 goes back on the road for its next three games, starting with a Saturday, March 29, game at Lehigh University.