Quick Hits About The Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse returns to Ridley Athletic Complex on Saturday, April 12, after a stretch of five out of six on the road. The Greyhounds will host College of the Holy Cross in a 1 p.m. game.
• The Greyhounds will honor their 10 seniors in a ceremony starting at 12:44 p.m.
• 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 75-35 (.682) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• Towson scored at the buzzer to end regulation, forcing overtime, and the Tigers then finished the game with an Owen Scott goal 1:55 into a second extra period for a 13-12 victory over visiting Loyola Tuesday night.
• Scott also scored the tying goal in regulation, scoring with the horn sounding to end regulation. The teams played to a draw in the first overtime before Mikey Weisshaar threw to Scott for a goal to end the game.
• Mason Cook scored his first collegiate hat trick for the Greyhounds, Matthew Minicus had two goals and three assists and Henry Haberman added a pair of goals.
• Minicus scored his second of the night with 9:55 left in regulation. The goal was his second that came on an unassisted down, this time when he dodged from X and got onto the crease to place a lefty shot into the net.
• He was on the assist end of a go-ahead Cook goal with 8:14 on the clock. Minicus threw to Cook at left point, and the right-handed shot put Loyola in front, 12-11.
• Max Watkinson had 17 saves for the second-straight game.

Watch The Game

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

Series History

• Loyola and Holy Cross will play for the 11th time in series history when the teams take the field on Saturday afternoon. 
• The Greyhounds have won eight-straight in the series and nine of the 10 previous meetings.
• The teams first met on February 22, 2014 in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the Greyhounds' first-ever Patriot League contest. Loyola came out on top, 16-4, in that game.
• Last year in Worcester, Massachusetts, Holy Cross drew within one, 6-5, on a Matt Major goal with 2:18 left in the first half, but Loyola scored twice before the teams went to the locker room, and the Greyhounds reeled off the first seven of the second half to take command of a 15-6 victory on April 13, 2024.
• Loyola is 4-1 all-time in Baltimore in the series.

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 11 games this year, 23 players have made their collegiate debuts for the Greyhounds, 18 freshmen and four sophomores who did not play in their first years out of high school.
• Of those 22 players, four have started games – Mason Cook, Kenan Everhart, Kyle McCarthy and Grady O'Day– and many 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 10 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. Reynolds matched his career-best with five caused turnovers on April 8 at Towson.
• He leads Loyola with 42 ground balls 23 caused turnovers while also chipping in two goals and an assist. Through games of April 9, Reynolds is ninth in the nation in caused turnovers per game with 2.09. 
• 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.

Staying Out Of The Penalty Box

• Loyola has been flagged for penalties just 16 times this year, and it has gone man-down only 14 times, third-fewest in the nation behind Princeton (13) and Maryland (12).
• When the Greyhounds do foul, they have killed penalties with an 78.6-percent success rate, ranking seventh in the nation in man-down defense and tops in the Patriot League.

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, and through 10 games this year, he has 22 career multi-goal outings and the 13 multi-assist performances.
• This year, he leads Loyola with 38 points on 15 goals and 23 assists; he registered his 100th career point with a first-quarter assist against the Scarlet Knights. He has at least two points in all but one game this season. He put together a season-best seven points at Bucknell with five goals and two assists and followed that with five on two goals and three assists at Towson.
• Minicus is 18th in the nation in assists per game (2.09) as of April 9 games.
• 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 42 games for the Greyhounds and already has 130 points with 76 goals and 54 assists. 

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 before taking over the job in 2025. 
• He has posted solid numbers in the first 11 games of the year with 10 or more saves in each. Watkinson posted his top save total with a career-high 19 at Rutgers, and he has three other games with 15 or more (at Providence, 15; at Bucknell, 17; at Towson, 17).
• This season, Watkinson has 155 saves in 11 contests (14.09 per game), with a 56.4 saves percentage. He ranks fourth nationally in saves per game. He is on pace to have the most saves in a season by a Loyola goalie since Jacob Stover averaged 14.7 in 2019.

Cook-ing On Attack

• Mason Cook missed fall practice with an injury, but he has gotten up to speed in his first season at Loyola. He has seen an increased role on offense over the Greyhounds' last six games, making his first collegiate start against the Providence and nailing down a spot in the opening 10 every since.
• The freshman from Towson, Maryland, scored twice against Colgate and then had a goal and an assist at Providence. He added two more against Lafayette and a pair at Bucknell before his first career hat trick came at Towson; he has 10 goals on 36 shots this year.

Brady Building On Offense

• Brady Quinn took two shots in four games as a freshman last season, but this year he has developed into a starting midfielder for the Greyhounds. He has been in the opening lineup for Loyola over the last seven games, and he has nine goals and 11 points during that stretch.
• Quinn has taken just 24 shots this season, but he has converted on 45.8 percent of those attempts for 11 goals to go with three assists. He had a career-high four points with three goals and an assist at Bucknell.

Houlihan Holding Steady On Close D

• Joe Houlihan has been a steady part of the Loyola close defense since the 2023 season. He moved into a starting role that year before missing the last several games with an injury, but he has started every game last season and this.
• The Long Island native has already eclipsed his season-high for caused turnovers this year with 16 after posting 11 last year. He is nearing last year's total of 32 ground balls with 29 through 11 games. 

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 185-111 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

• The Greyhounds play their final regular-season home game on Friday, April 18, with a 7 p.m. contest against the U.S. Naval Academy in a CBS Sports Network broadcast. Loyola will be on CBS Sports Network again a week later when it plays on the road at Army West Point on Friday, April 25, at 4:30 p.m.