Quick Hits About The Hounds

• The Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse team continues its three-game road trip on Saturday, April 5, with a 12 noon game in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, against Bucknell University.
• The game is the fourth in a stretch of five out of six on the road for the Greyhounds..
• 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

• Lehigh scored the first four goals of last Saturday's game against visiting Loyola, and the Mountain Hawks held off the visiting Greyhounds for a 7-3 victory.
• The Mountain Hawks got two goals from Andrew Kelly and another from Luke McAuliffe in the game's first eight minutes, and they led 3-0 at the end of the first quarter. Kelly added his game-high third of the day five minutes, 56 seconds into the second.
• Henry Haberman broke through for the Greyhounds less than two minutes later when he dodged from the top, left side, rolled on his defender and got free. He stayed out of the crease and scored in tight at 7:21 to make it a 4-1 game, a score that the teams would carry into halftime.
• Loyola caused a turnover on the first faceoff of the second half, and Haberman got his second of the day with a Mason Cook feed 56 seconds into the third quarter. Lehigh, however, went back up by three, 5-2, on a Luke Winkler goal at 5:19 in the third.
• Brady Quinn brought the Greyhounds back within a pair 4:44 into the fourth quarter, but Winkler and Jack Archer at 7:21 and 4:34 for the final margin.

Watch The Game

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

Series History

• Loyola and Bucknell will play for the 16th time in series history when the teams take the field on Saturday afternoon. 
• The Greyhounds have won 12 of the 15 previous games in the series, including a 15-13 decision last year on April 6 in Baltimore at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• The last two games between the schools have been decided by a total of three goals with a 14-13 Loyola win in Lewisburg on March 18, 2023, preceding last year's two-goal margin.
• The series first started in 1981 when the teams played three years in a row with Loyola winning all three. Following a 15-8 Greyhounds victory on April 2, 1983, the teams did not meet again until Loyola's first year in the Patriot League (2014).
• Loyola won the first Patriot League meeting, but the Bison took a 10-9 overtime win in 2015 on their home field. Loyola then won the next two games before Bucknell won two in a row in 2017 and 2018, both by a goal. Since then, Loyola has won six in a row 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 nine games this year, 21 players have made their collegiate debuts for the Greyhounds, 18 freshmen and three sophomores who did not play in their first years out of high school.
• Of those 21 players, three have started a total of 16 games – Kenan Everhart (eight), Kyle McCarthy (four) and Mason Cook (four) – 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 nine 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.
• He leads Loyola with 34 ground balls and 17 caused turnovers while also chipping in two goals and an assist. Through games of April 1, Reynolds is 12th in the nation in caused turnovers per game with 1.89. 
• 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 10 times this year, tied with Princeton for the fewest in NCAA Division I through April 1. 
• When the Greyhounds do foul, they have killed penalties with an 80-percent success rate, ranking sixth in the nation in man-down defense.

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 nine games, he has 21 career multi-goal outings and the 12 multi-assist performances.
• This year, he leads Loyola with 26 points on eight goals and 18 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 is 21st in the nation in assists per game (2.0) as of April 1 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 40 games for the Greyhounds and already has 118 points with 69 goals and 49 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, but before taking over the job in 2025. 
• He has posted solid numbers in the first nine 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 120 saves in seven contests (13.33 per game), with a 55.6 saves percentage. He ranks 12th nationally in saves per game.

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 four 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. He added two more against Lafayette and has five goals on 21 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 five games, and he has five goals and six points during that stretch.
• Quinn has taken just 16 shots this season, but he has converted on 43.8 percent of those attempts for seven goals to go with two assists.

Starting To Sling It

• Henry Haberman scored a career-best four goals and had five points on March 8 at Providence, and he leads the team this year with 12 goals; he is second on the Greyhounds with 18 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 16th in the nation and fourth in the Patriot League.

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 184-110 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 wraps up its three-game road swing with its final non-conference game of the year – and its only midweek contest – on Tuesday, April 8, at 6 p.m. at Towson University.
• The Greyhounds then return to Ridley Athletic Complex on Saturday, April 12, to host College of the Holy Cross.