Game Information
Opponent	Johns Hopkins Blue Jays
Date	Saturday, February 14, 2026
Time	1:00 p.m.
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Homewood Field
Getting There	Directions
Watch	ESPN+ (Live) | ESPNU (Feb. 15, 8 p.m. EST)
Online Media	Live Stats
Tickets	Purchase
Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits

• The Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse team plays its second-straight road game without leaving the State of Maryland on Saturday, February 14, with a 1 p.m. faceoff at Johns Hopkins.
• Loyola will play its first four games on the road this year with the opening three coming in the 410 area code.
• Saturday's game at Homewood Field will stream live on ESPN+.
• The Greyhounds saw every member of their starting attack and first midfield unit score a goal or have an assist in last weekend's game, the season-opener at Maryland. Of that group, five of the six had goals.
• Loyola returns 97.69 percent of its goals scored, 96.55 percent of its assists, 88.89 of its faceoffs won and all of its goalie saves from last year.
• Charley Toomey is in his 21st season as head coach of the Greyhounds. It is also his 30th year as a member of the Loyola staff and 34th with the program, including four as a student-athlete.
• The Greyhounds are in their 17th season of competition at Ridley Athletic Complex, which opened in 2010. The Greyhounds are 76-35 (.684) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• Luke Murphy his second goal of the game scored 5:09 into the second half on Saturday, pulling Loyola within a pair of No. 1 Maryland, 7-5, but an Eric Spanos goal 36 seconds later kicked off a 7-0 Terrapins run that turned the season opener for both teams into a 19-10 Maryland win.
• The Greyhounds opened the game with the first goal on an unassisted tally by Everhart at 11:03 in the first quarter, and Maryland's Spencer Ford evened it with a goal on the crease at 6:37.
• Murphy scored his first, unassisted off a dodge, at 3:54, but Maryland's Elijah Stobaugh tied the game at 2-2 with 20 seconds left in the first quarter.
• Johnson gave Maryland its first lead of the game with a goal at 11:11 in the second quarter, but Loyola jumped back in front with the next two goals.
• Brady Quinn scored unassisted at 7:27, and Mason Cook shot while falling to score on a Bruno Chapman run, capping transition for the Greyhounds at 5:15.
• Lyons, however, came back with a pair of goals over the next two minutes, and Johnson scored with 1:16 left in the half to stake the Terrapins to a 6-4 advantage at the break.

Watch The Game

• Saturday's game against Johns Hopkins will stream live on ESPN+. It will air on ESPNU, tape-delayed at 8 p.m. on Sunday, February 15.
• All Loyola home games will be on the ESPN+ platform, and international viewers can watch on Sidearm.

Series History

• The Greyhounds and Blue Jays will be meeting for the 62nd time in series history on Saturday when they take the field. Johns Hopkins holds a 51-10 advantage, but Loyola snapped a 13-game Blue Jays' winning streak in the series with an 8-4 win at Homewood Field on April 27, 2013. The Greyhounds then won meetings between the teams in 2014 (13-10) and 2016 (9-8) for their first-ever three-game winning streak in the series. Although, Johns Hopkins stopped that stretch with a 14-13 overtime victory on February 18, 2017, Loyola again won three in a row with a 12-5 victory at Ridley in 2018, 2019's 18-12 win at Homewood Field and a 10-7 decision in 2020 at Ridley. The teams did not meet in 2021 due to the COVID-19 adjusted schedule.
• In 2022, the Blue Jays pulled out an 11-10 victory at Homewood Field, but Loyola got back into the win column with a 13-8 in 2013 at Ridley Athletic Complex. Johns Hopkins then took a 13-7 win in 2024 on its home field and then won, 9-8, at Ridley on Feburuary 15, 2025.
• Overall, Loyola has won seven of the last 11 games – dating back to 2013 – after winning just three times in the first 50 games.
• Johns Hopkins is Loyola's second most-played opponent behind only Towson (64).

Cook-ing On Attack

• Mason Cook missed the 2025 season's fall practice with an injury, but he got up to speed in his first season at Loyola. He saw an increased role on offense over the Greyhounds' last eight games, making his first collegiate start against Providence and nailing down a spot in the opening 10 since.
• 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 five games (since Bucknell) of the year, Cook had 12 goals and five assists, while shooting .363 (12 of 33).
• Now a sophomore, Cook picked up where he left off in the season-opener at Maryland, scoring three goals on seven shots.

Protecting Possessions

• Loyola committed just eight turnovers last Saturday in the season-opener at top-ranked Maryland, the fewest the Greyhounds had in a stretch of 29 games dating back to the 2023 Patriot League Championship Game against Army West Point.

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 continued to trend. Through the start of 2026, he has 25 career multi-goal outings and 17 multi-assist performances. 
• Last year, he led Loyola with 52 points on 25 goals and 27 assists, earning All-Patriot League Second Team recognition for the second year in a row. He registered his 100th career point with a first-quarter assist against Rutgers on February 21, 2025. 
• Since he was held without a point for just the third time in his career on March 29, 2025, at Lehigh, Minicus finished 2025 with 26 points (4.8 per game) on 17 goals (3.4) and nine assists (1.8).
• His 52 points and 27 assists ere 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 45 games for the Greyhounds and already has 144 points with 87 goals and 58 assists. 

Percentage Of Points

• Loyola lost just two players – both on the defensive side of the ball  – who scored goals last year: Remi Reynolds (two goals) and Diego Roman (one). That gives Head Coach Charley Toomey a NCAA Division I leading 97.69 percent of goals scored back on the lineup for 2026.
• Only three players who had assists in 2025 – Reynolds (one), faceoff specialist Sawyer Allen (one) and short-stick defensive midfielder Cole Erickson (one) – departed following the season meaning 96.55 percent of assists are back on the roster this season.
• Max Watkinson (797-plus minutes) and Ben Abel (51) are back as the two goalkeepers who saw time in net last year.
• The biggest area of attrition for this year comes at the faceoff 'X' where Allen took 71 a season ago. Carson Hall (231) and Mason Graves (24), however, took a combined 255 at the dot, meaning Loyola has 88.89 percent of faceoffs taken back on the roster.

Close D Experience

• Loyola starting close defense from the season-opener at Maryland brought a considerable amount of experience to the field. Joe Houlihan returned to the team this season as a graduate student who started every game in 2024 and 2025, and Jake Wilson started each game in 2025. Chase Gregory moved down low as a starter on close after beginning his career as a long-stick midfielder who was at the top of the Greyhounds' rotation at that position before an injury cut short his 2025 campaign.
• The trio combined for 12 ground balls and six caused turnovers against the Terrapins.

Standing Up In Starting Role

• The 2025 season was Max Watkinson's first as a full-time starter for the Greyhounds in goal; the Baltimore native started two games in 2024 before taking over the job in 2025. 
• He posted solid numbers in 14 games with 10 or more in 13 of the games. Watkinson posted his top save total with a career-high 19 at Rutgers, and he had three other games with 15 or more (at Providence, 15; at Bucknell, 17; at Towson, 17).
• Last season, Watkinson made 189 saves in 14 contests (13.5 per game), with a 55.1 saves percentage; he ranked sixth nationally in saves per game. In the final game of the 2025 regular-season, he moved into 10th in Loyola single-season history, passing his head coach's total of 188 in 1990.

Murphy Leads Middie Scoring

• Luke Murphy turned in a career-high two goals in the opener against Maryland, continuing consistent scoring from a year ago when he scored once in nine different games. He had nine goals and six assists in 2025 and now has 17 and nine in his career.

Toomey's Team

• Charley Toomey is in his 21st year as the head coach at Loyola and his 30th as a member of the Greyhounds' coaching staff. Overall, he is in his 34th year on the Evergreen campus, including his four seasons as a student-athlete from 1986-90.
• Toomey has a 187-113 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.

Alum Returns To Coaching Staff

• A familiar face is back on the Loyola sidelines this season with the return of two-time USILA All-American Justin Ward in a new role on the Evergreen campus.
• Ward joined the Loyola coaching staff in May as the program's newest assistant coach and offensive coordinator. The 2014 graduate of Loyola was a member of the Greyhounds' starting attack during their run to the 2012 NCAA Championship as part of a career that saw him earn All-America honors in 2013 (honorable mention) and 2014 (second team). He finished his four years at Loyola with 57 goals, 120 assists and 177 points. His 120 assists rank third in school career history, and his 177 points enter the 2026 season tied for 10th.
• Ward immediately entered the coaching ranks as an assistant coach at Georgetown from 2015-17 before moving on to Army West Point where he coached for eight years. The Black Knights led the Patriot League in scoring three of the last four years and ranked third in NCAA Division I in 2025 with 14.21 goals per game.

Up Next

• Loyola will travel around Interstate 695 on Friday, February 20, for a 6 p.m. game at UMBC. The Greyhounds then jump into conference play with a February 28 Patriot League game at Colgate.