Quick Hits About The Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse plays its final home game of the 2025 season on Friday, April 18, when it hosts the U.S. Naval Academy.
• The 7 p.m. game at Ridley Athletic Complex will air live, nationally on CBS Sports Network.
• Loyola's offensive outburst of 21 goals on April 12 against Holy Cross was its highest scoring game since the Greyhounds put up 24 versus Bucknell in March 2021.
• The Greyhounds' .521 shooting percentage against the Crusaders was their highest since joining the Patriot League in 2014.
• Carson Hall put up career-best numbers versus Holy Cross, going 17 of 23 at the 'X.' His win total is a new career best, and he tied his high with seven ground balls.
• 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 76-35 (.684) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• Loyola University Maryland scored Saturday's first seven goals and beating visiting Holy Cross, 21-10, at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• Mason Cook finished with five goals and five assists to become the first Loyola freshman since 2016 to post 10 points. 
• Ryan McGorry and Will McCulloch both had career-highs with five and four points, respectively. McGorry scored three times and had a pair of assists, and McCulloch had two of each. Grady O'Day and Connor Wilbur each logged a trio of points with O'Day scoring twice with an assist and Wilbur posting a goal with two assists.
• Matthew Minicus scored four goals, and Brady Quinn had a goal and an assist. Austin Cote, Chase Brody and Luke Murphy both had singular goals, while Bruno Chapman, Carson Hall, Cole Erickson and Marek Seaman each had assists.  
• Hall won a career-high 17 faceoffs, going 17 of 23 with seven ground balls. Max Watkinson and Ben Abel combined for 17 saves with Watkinson posting 13 in just under 50 minutes of action.
• Loyola got off to a hot start with six first-quarter goals that came over a stretch of less than nine minutes.

Watch The Game

• Friday's Loyola-Navy game will air live, nationally, on CBS Sports Network.

Series History

• Loyola and Navy will meet for the 21st time in series history when the teams take the field on Friday night with the Greyhounds leading 13-7 in the previous 20 meetings.
• The teams first played on May 6, 1939, in Annapolis, and the Midshipmen came away with a 14-4 win as part of a three-game winning streak to start the series.
• After the teams played in 1943, they did not meet again until May 15, 1993, when Loyola posted a 19-8 victory in the NCAA Championships First Round. The teams then played a home-and-home series in 2010 and 2011 with Loyola winning each by one goal.
• Since Loyola joined the Patriot League in 2014, the Greyhounds are 10-4 in 14 games, 8-3 in regular-season contests. 
• The teams split two meetings last year, both winning by 12-10 final scores. The Greyhounds won the regular-season contest on April 19 in Annapolis, but Navy posted a 12-10 victory on April 30 in the Patriot League Championships First Round.

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).

Better Numbers In The Last Three

• Loyola is 2-1 over the last three games, a stretch that covered only eight games, and it's come with better offensive numbers than in the season's first nine games. 
• Loyola has scored 45 goals (15.0 per) with 31 assists (10.3) while shooting .395. The Greyhounds are 5 of 9 on extra-man during the three games.
• The 45 goals represent 41.7 percent of their goals (out of 108). In the first nine games of the year, Loyola shot 21.6 percent (63 out of 291).
• Improved offensive production has come from many spots but notably from the starting attack of Matthew Minicus (11 goals, 5 assists), Mason Cook (10, 5) and Grady O'Day (3, 2) against Bucknell, Towson and Holy Cross.

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's non-faceoff specialists with 43 ground balls, and he has a team-high 24 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 2.0. 

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 12 games this year, he has 24 career multi-goal outings and the 14 multi-assist performances.
• This year, he leads Loyola with 42 points on 19 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, followed that with five on two goals and three assists at Towson and then had four goals against Holy Cross.
• 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 43 games for the Greyhounds and already has 134 points with 80 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 168 saves in 12 contests (14.0 per game), with a 56.6 saves percentage. He ranks sixth 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.
• Cook exploded for 10 points on five goals and five assists against Holy Cross to bring his season totals to 15 goals, seven assists and 22 points. He is the only freshman in NCAA Division I to post 10 points in a game this year, and he is the first Loyola freshman to do so since Pat Spencer had five goals and five assists in the 2016 Patriot League Championship Game against Army West Point.

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 26 shots this season, but he has converted on 46.2 percent of those attempts for 12 goals to go with four 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 30 through 12 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 186-111 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.