Game Information
Opponent	Providence Friars
Date	Saturday, March 7, 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 continues its five-game homestand on Saturday, March 7, when it hosts Providence College in a 12 noon faceoff at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• Loyola played 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 each of their four three games, scoring three times against both Maryland and Johns Hopkins before recording four at UMBC and eight at Colgate. He then had three against Towson. The hat tricks give him seven in his career, all of which have come in the last nine games (dating back to 2025).
• Loyola returned 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 starting attack combined for 11 goals and six assists Tuesday night, and the Greyhounds led wire-to-wire for a 17-13 victory over visiting Towson.
• Kenan Everhart set new career highs in all three categories with five goals, four assists and nine points, while Matthew Minicus and Mason Cook each had three goals and an assist.
• Carson Hall tied his career-high with 17 faceoff wins and set a new best with nine ground ball to help Loyola control the possession game, and Max Watkinson made 14 saves in goal.
• Connor Wilbur one-timed an Everhart assist from behind to score 57 seconds later, kicking off a 6-1 Loyola run that would see the Greyhounds (3-2 overall) lead 8-2 after a Minicus goal 2:15 into the second quarter.
• The Greyhounds got three of the second half's first four goals in the opening 4:20 of the period, first when Murphy grabbed a ground ball off a rebound and scored, then when Miles Halter rolled the crease for his first of the season. Everhart capped the stretch with a goal off a Cook assist at 10:40, and the Greyhounds were up, 12-5.
• The lead would be 3+ the rest of the way.

Watch The Game

• Saturday's game against Towson 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 Providence started a home-and-home series last year and will meet for the second time in series history on Saturday.
• Providence took a 12-11 decision on its home field in the first meeting on March 8, 2025.  Loyola led 5-4 at halftime and then took a 7-6 lead with 7:52 to go in the third quarter on back-to-back goals by Luke Murphy and Will McCulloch.
• The game had two ties and two lead changes over the next eight minutes with the Friars going up 9-8 on a Jack Horrigan goal 18 seconds into the fourth quarter. Matthew Minicus tied it for the Greyhounds less than two minutes later, but Providence went on a 3-0 run between 6:07 and 5:02 to take a 12-9 advantage.
• Kenan Everhart and Minicus scored for Loyola at 2:33 and 1:01 to draw the Greyhounds within one. Carson Hall won the final faceoff, and Loyola had two shots that went off target before time expired.

Sharper Shots

• Loyola's top three team shooting percentages of the 2026 season have all come in the last three 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.
• Not surprisingly, Loyola's assist numbers have gone up, too, over the last three. Loyola had eight assists in the first two games, good for a 47 percent assist rate. Since then, the Greyhounds have assisted on 73.8 percent of goals. That number was aided by all 13 goals at Colgate coming with assists.

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 four games of 2026. He now has six games with three or more goals over the last eight 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 21 goals to go with two assists in the five contests. He leads the Patriot League, and is fourth in NCAA Division I, in goals per game (4.2) and is third in points per game (4.6).

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 five games, Watkinson has made 11 or more saves in each to give him 19 games with 10 or more saves in 21 outings as a starter between the pipes. He is second in the Patriot League in both saves percentage (.523) and saves per game (13.6).

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, and he then scored three times with an assist against Towson; he is tied for fifth in the Patriot League in assists per game (2.0).
• Minicus has played in 49 games, starting all but one, for the Greyhounds and already has 160 points with 92 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 eight 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 has eclipsed both of those totals in just five games with 11 goals and 10 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 Providence game tied for fifth in the Patriot League with 4.2 points per game; he is tied for fifth with Matthew MInicus with 2.0 assists.

Attack On The Wing

• Miles Halter is listed on the Greyhounds roster as a member of the Gryehounds' 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 two games versus Colgate and Towson, he's had four in each. He also scored his first goal of the season against the Tigers. 

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 39 ground balls and 16 caused turnovers in the first five 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 190-114 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.

Up Next

• Loyola's five-game homestand continues with a March 14 home game at 12 noon against Patriot League foe Lehigh.