Game Information
Opponent	Georgetown Hoyas
Date	Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Time	6:00 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

• The Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse team plays the fourth of a five-game homestand on Tuesday, March 17, against Georgetown with faceoff slated for 6 p.m. at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• Tuesday night's game was initially slated as the 2026 season opener on January 31, but it was postponed due to weather.
• Mason Cook has scored three or more goals in six of Loyola's seven games thus far in 2026. The six hat tricks give him eight in his career, all of which have come in the last 11 games (dating back to 2025).
• Kenan Everhart has five-straight multi-point games after posting four in his previous 12 games played.
• 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 77-36 (.681) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• Lehigh used a 9-1 run to close Saturday's Patriot League game against at Loyola to turn a one-time five-goal deficit into a 15-10 victory at Ridley.
• The host Greyhounds built an 8-3 lead midway through the second quarter, but Lehigh started its run with a goal 64 seconds before the half that made it 9-6 in Loyola's favor at halftime.
• The Mountain Hawks scored the third quarter's first three with Andrew Kelly's tally at 10:26 tying the game at 9-9.
• Loyola regained the lead less than four minutes later when Chase Gregory made a transition run and threw to Matthew Minicus for a goal at 5:13, but Lehigh did not give up another goal for the rest of the game.
• Finn Morgan picked up a loose ball off a missed Lehigh shot on top of the crease and scored with the shot clock under three at 3:41, tying the game at 10-10, and Colin French's unassisted goal at 2:46 put Lehigh in front.
• The Mountain Hawks would go on to score all four of the fourth quarter's goals for the final difference.
• Kenan Everhart led Loyola with three goals and an assist; Matthew Minicus and Mason Cook each had two and one.

Watch The Game

• Tuesday's game against Georgetown 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 Georgetown will meet for the 48th time in series history on Tuesday when the teams play at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• The Greyhounds hold a 37-10 all-time lead in the series, and this game will mark the 25th-straight full season that the teams have played (not including the shortened 2020 campaign).
• Loyola has won 13 of the last 17 meetings between the teams, but Georgetown took a 13-6 decision on February 1, 2025, at Cooper Field in Washington, D.C.
• The Greyhounds took a 4-1 lead with 2:52 to play in the first quarter on a Matthew Minicus extra-man goal, a lead they took into the second 15-minute period. Georgetown, however, opened second-quarter scoring with a Kevin Miller goal at 11:26, kicking off a 6-0 run that extended into the third quarter.
• Henry Haberman and Luke Murphy scored at 12:00 and 5:47 in the third, both off Minicus assists, to pull within a goal, 7-6, but the Hoyas closed the game on a 6-0 run.

Sharper Shots

• Loyola's top four team shooting percentages of the 2026 season came in the four games prior to playing Lehigh. After shooting .263 in the season-opener at Maryland (10 goals, 38 shots), the Greyhounds shot .219 at Johns Hopkins (7 of 32).
• 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 outing against Lehigh produced the Greyhounds' season-high in shots (43), but a season-low in shooting percentage (.217).
• Not surprisingly, Loyola's assist numbers have gone up, too, in those four games. Loyola had eight assists in the first two games, good for a 47 percent assist rate, and it dished out five on 10 goals against Lehigh. In the other four games, all wins, 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 7.57 assists per game, 18th 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. That string was broken when he had two goals and an assist against Lehigh on March 14. He now has eight games with three or more goals over the last 11 he has played. Over the last 12 games, he's scored two or more 11 times.
• 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 26 goals to go with four assists in the seven contests. He leads the Patriot League, and is fifth in NCAA Division I, in goals per game (3.71) and is fourth in points per game (4.29) 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 made 11 or more saves in each, and he now has 20 games with 10 or more saves in 23 outings as a starter between the pipes. He is second in the Patriot League, and is 12th nationally, in saves per game (12.86), and his .514 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 first seven games of 2026, he has 29 career multi-goal outings and 19 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 Providence.
• Minicus has played in 51 career games, starting all but one, for the Greyhounds and already has 167 points with 98 goals and 69 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 seven has 16 goals and 13 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 Georgetown game fifth in the Patriot League with 4.14 points per game; he is fourth with 1.86 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 four games, he's averaged 4.25. 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 48 ground balls and 20 caused turnovers in the first seven 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 191-115 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.