Game Information
Opponent	Lehigh Mountain Hawks
Date	Saturday, March 14, 2026
Time	12:00 p.m.
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Ridley Athletic Complex
Getting There	Directions | Parking
Watch	ESPN+
Online Media	Live Stats
Tickets	Purchase
Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse remains at Ridley Athletic Complex to play the midpoint of its five-game homestand on Saturday, March 14. The Greyhounds will host Lehigh University in a 12 p.m. faceoff.
• Mason Cook has scored three or more goals in all six of Loyola's games thus far in 2026. The six hat tricks give him eight in his career, all of which have come in the last 10 games (dating back to 2025).
• Kenan Everhart has four-straight multi-point games after posting four in his previous 12 games played.
• Matthew Minicus is two goals away from ranking in the top 15 of career goals, assists and points at Loyola.
• Loyola returned 97.69 percent of its goals scored, 96.55 percent of its assists, 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 77-35 (.688) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• Loyola doubled Providence's second-half scoring output, 8-4, while Max Watkinson made 12 of his 15 saves in the third and fourth quarters of a 15-9 win at Ridley Athletic Complex on Saturday.
• Providence outshot the Greyhounds, 23-19 in the second half, but and Loyola shot .421 to the Friars' .173 after the break.
• Matthew Minicus scored four goals and Mason Cook added three. Will Musgrove had the best point output of his young career, scoring twice to go with a team-high three assists, while Kenan Everhart added two goals and two assists.
• On the defensive side of the ball, Loyola held the Big East Conference's leader in points scored this season, Providence's Rhett Chambers, to just one assist. 
• The Greyhounds also won 15 of 26 faceoffs with Carson Hall's 13 of 22 leading the way.
• Loyola had four separate runs of scoring three in a row throughout the course of the game, including one that broke a 5-5 tie with 3:30 left in the third quarter to give it the lead for good.
• Another 3-0 run in the third and fourth quarters pushed the lead from one to four with a Cook goal making it 11-7 with 13:02 left in regulation.

Watch The Game

• Saturday's game against Lehigh 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 Lehigh will meet for the 21st time in series history on Saturday and the 14th time since the Greyhounds joined the Patriot League in 2014. Loyola holds a 17-3 all-time lead in the series, but Lehigh took the 2025 game, 7-3, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on March 29.
• The Mountain Hawks scored the game's first four goals, and Loyola closed to 4-2 after causing a turnover and scoring following the first faceoff of the second half.
• Henry Haberman had two goals for the Greyhounds, and Brady Quinn added another.
• The teams first met during the 1942 season in a game that the Greyhounds won, 12-1. The programs met in 1947 and 1948 and then did not see each other again until 1984.
• Loyola won the first 15 games between the schools until the Mountain Hawks took a 10-6 decision in March 2021. All three of their wins in the series have come in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, but Loyola is 12-0 in games played in Baltimore..

Sharper Shots

• Loyola's top four team shooting percentages of the 2026 season have all come in the last four games. After shooting .263 in the season-opener at Maryland (10 goals, 38 shots), the Greyhounds shot .219 at Johns Hopkins (7 of 32).
• Since then, however, Loyola shot .279 at UMBC (12 of 43) and .361 at Colgate (13 of 36). The team's season-best to-date came on March 3 in the home opener versus Towson when it converted 42 shots into 17 goals, a .404 mark, and it then knocked down 15 of 42 for a .357 percentage.
• The four games have raised the season-long shooting percentage to .318, good for second-best in the Patriot League and No. 20 in the NCAA.
• Not surprisingly, Loyola's assist numbers have gone up, too, over the last four. Loyola had eight assists in the first two games, good for a 47 percent assist rate. Since then, the Greyhounds have assisted on 70.2 percent of goals. That number was aided by all 13 goals at Colgate coming with assists.
• The Greyhounds are averaging 8.0 assists per game, 16th in the NCAA.

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 six games of 2026. He now has eight games with three or more goals over the last 10 he has played.
• Cook scored a career-high eight goals on February 28 at Colgate. He is the most-recent Loyola player to score eight or more since Kevin Lindley did so against the Raiders in March 2019. 
• This year, Cook has scored 24 goals to go with three assists in the six contests. He leads the Patriot League, and is third in NCAA Division I, in goals per game (4.0) and is third in points per game (4.5) in the League.

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 six games, Watkinson has made 11 or more saves in each to give him 20 games with 10 or more saves in 22 outings as a starter between the pipes. He leads the Patriot League, and is sixth nationally, in saves per game (13.83), and his .539 saves percentage ranks third in the conference.

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) in the last five games of 2025. His 52 points and 27 assists were career highs through three seasons. 
• He broke out for seven points with a pair of goals and five assists at Colgate. He then scored three times with an assist against Towson and had four goals versus Lehigh.
• Minicus has played in 50 career games, starting all but one, for the Greyhounds and already has 164 points with 96 goals and 68 assists. 
• He moved into 13th all-time at Loyola in points against Towson, and his 68 assists are 12th in school history. With four more goals, he'll become the 15th player to play at Loyola with 100 in a career.

Coming Together

• Kenan Everhart missed all of his freshman season (2024) with an injury, and he then missed a chunk of time in 2025, finishing the year with nine goals and seven assists.
• This season, he eclipsed both of those totals in just five games and through six has 13 goals and 12 assists. He tied his to-date career-high with four goals at UMBC, and a week later went for a career-best four assists at Colgate. Three days later, he scored five times and assisted on four more in Loyola's win over Towson. He enters the Lehigh game tied for fifth in the Patriot League with 4.17 points per game; he is fourth with 2.0 assists.

Attack On The Wing

• Miles Halter is listed on the Greyhounds roster as a member of the Greyhounds' attack, and he will play below goal-line, but he's found a new home on the wing of Loyola's faceoff unit.
• Halter started to see his most extended playing time on faceoff wings at UMBC and had three ground balls against the Retrievers. In the last three games, he's averaged 3.67. He also scored his first goal of the season against Towson. 

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 has combined for 46 ground balls and 19 caused turnovers in the first six games of the 2026 season.

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 191-114 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.