Game Information
Opponent	Holy Cross Crusaders
Date	Saturday, March 28, 2026
Time	1:00 p.m.
Location	Worcester, Mass. | Kuzniewski Field
Getting There	Directions
Watch	ESPN+
Online Media	Live Stats
Tickets	Free
Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse goes on the road for the first time in four weeks to play its next game, a Saturday, March 28, tilt at College of the Holy Cross set for a 1 p.m. faceoff.
• Mason Cook has scored three or more goals in eight of Loyola's nine games thus far in 2026. The eight hat tricks give him 10 in his career, all of which have come in the last 13 games (dating back to 2025).
• In the last six games, Loyola has won faceoffs at a 60.6 percent clip.
• Loyola's starting attack – Cook, Kenan Everhart and Matthew Minicus – has combined for 63.4 percent of the Greyhounds goals this year (66 of 104).
• The Greyhounds lead the Patriot League in fewest turnovers per game (14.11) this season and are ranked 13th in the nation.
• 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 78-37 (.678) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• Matthew Minicus scored with 4:03 left in regulation to give Loyola a two-goal lead over visiting Bucknell, and the tally ended up being the deciding score in a 13-12 Patriot League victory.
• Minicus struck from the low right side off a Will Musgrove feed from the top left to move the Greyhounds' margin to two. The goal came less than two minutes after Kenan Everhart broke an 11-11 tie with a goal off Mason Cook's assist.
• Cook finished with four goals and two assists, and Everhart added three and two. Luke Murphy scored three times, and Minicus' goal added to an assist in the third quarter.
• Bucknell scored the game's first three goals, but Loyola responded with five in a row and six of seven to take a 6-4 lead at the end of the first quarter. The Bison rallied to go up 8-7 at halftime, but Loyola led, 11-10, going into the fourth.
• Faceoff wins would be a theme of the day for Loyola as Mason Graves and Carson Hall combined to go 19 of 29 (.655) at the X. Graves won a career-best 13 of 17 with six ground balls.
• Max Watkinson finished with 13 saves for the Greyhounds as Bucknell outshot Loyola, 46-43.

Watch The Game

• Saturday's game against Holy Cross 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 Holy Cross will play for the 12th time in series history when the teams take the field on Saturday afternoon. 
• The Greyhounds have won nine-straight in the series and are 10-1 all-time against the Crusaders.
• The teams first met on February 22, 2014, in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the Greyhounds' first-ever Patriot League contest. Loyola came out on top, 16-4, in that game.
• Last year in Baltimore on April 12, the Greyhounds scored the game's first seven goals and finished with their most goals in a game since 2021 in a 21-10 victory.
• Mason Cook had five goals and five assists in the game to become the first Loyola freshman with 10 points since 2016. Ryan McGorry and Will McCulloch had career-highs of five and four points, respectively, while Grady O'Day and Connor Wilbur had three points each.
• Loyola is 5-0 all-time in Worcester in the series.

New Member Of The Club

• Matthew Minicus became the 15th player in program history to score 100 goals in a career when he tallied what would become the eventual game-winner against Bucknell.

About The Attack

• Loyola is one of nine teams in NCAA Division I to have three players ranked in the top 100 individually in points per game: Mason Cook (T-19th, 4.44), Kenan Everhart (T-37th, 3.78), Matthew Minicus (T-98th, 3.00).
• That group has combined for 19 multi-goal games individually this season.
• Mason Cook has scored 50 goals in 22 career games. Kevin Lindley, the school's all-time record holder in goals scored (196) and the fastest to get to the half-century mark, got to 50 in his 20th game; Gary Hanley, who scored 151 and is second all-time, hit 50 in his 24th game.
• Loyola has two players ranked in the top-30 nationally in extra-man goals. Mason Cook is tied for 11th with four, while Will McCulloch has scored all three of his goals this season on man-up and is tied for 27th.

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 last 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, but he picked back up with three versus Georgetown three days later before posting six points on four goals and two assists against Bucknell. He now has 10 games with three or more goals over the last 13 he has played, and over the last 14 games, he's scored two or more in all but one.
• 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 33 goals to go with seven assists in nine contests. He leads the Patriot League, and is fourth in NCAA Division I, in goals per game (3.67) and is third in points per game (4.44) in the League.

Running In The Games

• Loyola has put up at least one run of three-straight goals or more in all nine of its games this year, with a total of 18. Four of those runs were of five or more consecutive goals, the longest being a 6-0 stretch against Lehigh. 

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 season 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. 
• He broke out for seven points with a pair of goals and five assists this year at Colgate; he then scored three times with an assist against Towson and had four goals versus Providence. Minicus then scored his 100th career goal late in the game against Bucknell.
• Minicus has played in 53 career games, starting all but one, for the Greyhounds and already has 171 points with 100 goals and 71 assists. His 171 career points are most among active Patriot League players and 11th with active Division I players.
• He moved into 13th all-time at Loyola in points against Towson, and his 70 assists are tied for 10th in school history. With four more goals, he'll pass Zach Herreweyers (2013-16) for 14th all-time.

Faceoffs In Five

• Loyola has won faceoffs at a 60.6 percent clip over the last six games, a number that goes up to 63.9 in the last four.
• Carson Hall has taken 104 draws since the five-game stretch started on February 28 at Colgate, winning 65, good for 62.5 percent. He has picked up 31 ground balls in those games. He went 14 of 17 on March 17 against Georgetown, totaling nine ground balls for the second time this year. Mason Graves has won 57.6 percent in the five games (34 of 59), including going 9 of 12 against Lehigh and 13 of 17 a week later against Bucknell.
• Miles Halter is second on the team – behind Hall – in ground balls during the six games with 22. A backup attacker for Loyola, Halter has taken most short-stick wings on faceoffs in those six games.

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 made 189 saves in 14 contests (13.5 per game), with a 55.1 saves percentage; he ranked sixth nationally in saves per game.
• This year, in the first nine games, Watkinson made 11 or more saves in eight, and he now has 22 games with 10 or more saves in 26 outings as a starter between the pipes. He is third in the Patriot League, and 17th nationally, in saves per game (12.56).

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 nine has 19 goals and 15 assists. He tied his to-date career-high with four goals at UMBC, and a week after 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 Holy Cross game seventh in the Patriot League with 3.78 points per game; he is fifth with 1.67 assists.

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 192-116 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.