Quick Hits About The Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse wraps up the 2025 regular season on Friday, April 25, when it plays at Army West Point.
• The 4:30 p.m. game at Michie Stadium in West Point, New York, 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.
• Loyola is averaging 15.25 goals per game over its last four contests, 18.5 in its last two. The Greyhounds have 28 assists in those two.
• 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

• Navy men's lacrosse scored the third quarter's first goal 49 seconds after halftime to tie the score at 8-8, but Loyola went on an 8-2 run that covered more than 20 minutes to pull away for a 16-11 victory on Friday night at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• Matthew Minicus scored a season-high eight points with five goals and three assists, and Max Watkinson made four of his 12 saves in the fourth quarter for the Greyhounds.
• Henry Haberman, Mason Cook and Brady West all had two goals for the Greyhounds, and Haberman added an assist.
• It was Minicus, though, who was involved in the three goals that would start the run in the second half. He assisted on a Luke Murphy goal before scoring one of his own. Minicus then threw through the defense to Brady West for an extra-man goal with 1:59 left in the third.
• Navy would score twice over the next seven minutes to draw within one, but Loyola reeled off five in a row to take a 16-10 lead.
• Loyola outshot Navy, 45-36, had a 33-32 lead in ground balls and a 16-15 edge in faceoffs won.

Watch The Game

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

Series History

• Loyola and Army West Point will meet for the 19th time in series history when the teams take the field on Friday night with the series tied, 9-9, in the previous 18 meetings. The Black Knights are on a five-game winning streak.
• Loyola and the Black Knights first met on May 1, 1943, but they did not see each other again until Loyola joined the Patriot League for the 2014 season. Since then, they have played 17 times, seven times in the postseason. The teams have met in four of the last five contested Patriot League Championships.
• Last season, when the teams met on April 26, at Loyola's Ridley Athletic Complex, the game went into the fourth quarter tied, 10-10, but Army West Point scored the stanza's first two goals to lead 12-10. Joey Kamish scored an extra-man goal for the Greyhounds with 4:43 left, but the Black Knights held on for a 13-11 win.

Learning On The Job

• Entering the season, the Greyhounds roster was significantly different than previous seasons with 19 freshmen and two transfers plus others who would see their first collegiate playing time after season-ending injuries previously in their careers.
• Through 13 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.

Better Numbers In The Last Four

• Loyola is 3-1 over the last four games, and it's come with better offensive numbers than in the season's first nine games. 
• Loyola has scored 61 goals (15.25 per) with 42 assists (10.5) while shooting .384. The Greyhounds are 6 of 13 on extra-man during the four games.
• The 61 goals represent 49.2 percent of Loyola's goals (out of 124) this season. In the first nine games of the year, Loyola shot 21.6 percent (63 out of 291).
• Since April 1, Loyola's season-long shot percentage has risen from .216 (70th in NCAA Division I) to .276 (48th). Its scoring offense is up from 7.0 (71st) to 9.54 (57th).
• Improved offensive production has come from many spots but notably from the pair who has started on attack in each of the Bucknell, Towson, Holy Cross and Navy games: Matthew Minicus (16 goals, 8 assists) and Mason Cook (12, 5). 

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 19, Reynolds is 12th in the nation in caused turnovers per game with 1.85. His 24 caused turnovers are tied for 12th in Loyola single-season history.

Tops In Points

• Matthew Minicus opened the 2025 season, his junior campaign at Loyola, with a four-point effort against Georgetown, and the multi-point games have continued to trend. Through 13 games in 2025, he has 25 career multi-goal outings and 17 multi-assist performances. This season alone, he has two or more points in 12 of 14 games, eight multi-goal outings and 10 multi-assist games.
• This year, he leads Loyola with 50 points on 24 goals and 26 assists; he registered his 100th career point with a first-quarter assist against Rutgers on February 21. He put together a then-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 before going for five goals and three assists against Navy.
• Since he was held without a point for just the third time in his career on March 29 at Lehigh, Minicus has 24 points (6.0 per game) on 16 goals (4.0) and eight assists (2.0).
• His 50 points and 26 assists are career highs through three seasons. He had 49 points (33 goals, 16 assists) in 2023 and 43 (28, 15) last season. Minicus has played in 43 games for the Greyhounds and already has 142 points with 85 goals and 57 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 13 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 180 saves in 13 contests (13.9 per game), with a 56.4 saves percentage; he ranks fifth nationally in saves per game. Watkinson is on pace to have the most saves in a season by a Loyola goalie since Jacob Stover averaged 14.7 in 2019, and with nine more saves, he will move into 10th in Loyola single-season history, passing his head coach's total of 188 in 1990.

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 seven games, making his first collegiate start against the Providence and nailing down a spot in the opening 10 ever 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 and scored two more against Navy to bring his season totals to 17  goals, seven assists and 24 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.
• In the last four games (since Bucknell), Cook has 12 goals and five assists, while shooting .444 (12 of 27).

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 as a member of the first midfield in the last eight games, and he has nine goals and 13 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 six 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 previous season-high for caused turnovers (19) and ground balls (33). He was named Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in his career on April 21 after having three of each against Navy.

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 187-111 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 in 2024, passing Dave Cottle's 181.
• 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.