Game Information
Opponent	Colgate Raiders
Date	Saturday, February 28, 2026
Time	12:00 p.m.
Location	Hamilton, N.Y. | Andy Kerr Stadium
Getting There	Directions
Watch	ESPN+
Online Media	Live Stats
Tickets	Free
Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse opens its 13th season of play in the Patriot League on Saturday, February 28, when it heads to Hamilton, New York, for a 12 p.m. game at Colgate.
• Loyola will play its first four games on the road this year with the opening three coming in the 410 area code.
• Mason Cook has led the Greyhounds in scoring in both of their first three games, scoring three times against both Maryland and Johns Hopkins before recording four at UMBC. The hat tricks give him five in his career with the previous two coming in the last four games of his freshman at Loyola.
• 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

• Loyola scored all five first-quarter goals and held host UMBC to only one in the first half, paving the way for a 12-8 non-conference win on February 20.
• Mason Cook scored four goals and had an assist, while Kenan Everhart, Connor Wilbur and Luke Murphy each scored twice. Matthew Minicus had three assists, and Max Watkinson made 11 saves in goal.
• Murphy put the Greyhounds on the board with a hard right to left run, scoring 4:09 into the game. After a Carson Hall faceoff win, Everhart fed Wilbur for a goal 21 ticks of the clock after Murphy's score. Hall won another faceoff, and 31 seconds after that, Chase Gregory scored with a Minicus assist to make it 3-0 at 9:59.
• Everhart added an unassisted goal at 8:45, and Brady Quinn had one with two seconds left in the first quarter to push the lead to 5-0.
• UMBC scored 54 seconds into the second quarter to get on the board with a Connor Chick goal, but it would be the only one of the half for the Retrievers. Cook tallied a man-up goal with a Kyle McCarthy assist at 12:15, and he scored unassisted at 4:54.

Watch The Game

• Saturday's game against Colgate will stream live on ESPN+. 
• All Loyola home games will be on the ESPN+ platform, and international viewers can watch on Sidearm.

Series History

• Loyola and Colgate will meet for the 12th time in series history on Saturday with the Greyhounds holding an 8-3 all-time advantage in the meetings. The Raiders, however, have won the last two outings.
• The teams first played in 2014, the Greyhounds' first year in the Patriot League. Loyola won the opening regular-season meeting and a Patriot League Semifinals game that season before Colgate picked up its a win in an 11-4 decision in 2015 at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• Loyola won the next six games before Colgate scored the last five goals to win, 11-9, in a March 2, 2024, game in Hamilton, New York. The Greyhounds built an 11-9 lead less than two minutes into the fourth quarter on a Henry Haberman goal, but Rory Connor goal with 10:38 on the clock in regulation started the 5-0 run.
• Last year, Colgate turned a 3-1 deficit into an 11-3 lead over the course of a 17-minute stretch, and the then-15th-ranked Raiders beat host Loyola, 18-6, on March 1, 2025, at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• The Greyhounds are 4-1 against Colgate in games played at Andy Kerr Stadium.

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 on March 8 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 with hat tricks in each of the Greyhounds' first three games of 2026. He now has five games with three or more goals over the last seven he has played.
• This year, he has scored 10 goals to go with one assist in the three contests.

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 saves 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.
• This year, in the first three games, Watkinson has made 12 saves against Maryland, 15 in the Johns Hopkins game and 11 at UMBC to give him 17 games with 10 or more saves in 19 outings as a starter between the pipes.

Steady Presence

• 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. 
• After 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 were 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 47 games, starting all but one, for the Greyhounds and already has 149 points with 87 goals and 62 assists. His 62 assists are 14th in school history.

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 24 ground balls and 10 caused turnovers in the first three games of the 2026 season.

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.

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 188-114 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

• Three days after playing at Colgate, Loyola will open a five-game homestand on Tuesday, March 3, when it hosts Towson at 6 p.m. The Greyhounds will play Providence on March 7 before a stretch that sees Lehigh, Georgetown and Bucknell visit Ridley Athletic Complex.