Game Information
Opponent	Army West Point Black Knights
Date	Saturday, April 18, 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 plays its final home game of the 2026 regular-season on Saturday, April 18, when it hosts the U.S. Military Academy in a 12 noon game.
• Mason Cook has scored three or more goals in 11 of Loyola's 12 games thus far in 2026. The 11 hat tricks give him 13 in his career, all of which have come in the last 16 games (dating back to 2025).
• The Greyhounds are second in the Patriot League in scoring during conference games, averaging 13.5 in six contests.
• Loyola's starting attack – Cook, Kenan Everhart and Matthew Minicus – has combined for 64.3 percent of the Greyhounds goals this year (96 of 149).
• The Greyhounds are second the Patriot League, and 12th in the nation, in fewest turnovers per game (14.00) this season.
• 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 79-37 (.681) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• Loyola won 14 of 15 first-half faceoffs, led by Carson Hall's 13, and the Greyhounds built a 10-3 halftime lead before going on to a 16-7 Patriot League victory at Lafayette.
• Hall finished the day 15 of 20 (.750), and Loyola was 18 of 27 (.667). Hall picked up a career-high 11 ground balls. Loyola controlled a 37-16 advantage in ground balls overall.
• The Greyhounds took a 3-0 lead in the game's first 12 minutes with goals from Matthew Minicus, Brady West and Luke Murphy. Lafayette got back within one after scoring the next two, but Minicus scored his second of the day with three seconds left in the first quarter, sparking a 5-0 Greyhounds run.
• Minicus scored twice and had two assists during that run and led all players with six points on four goals and two assists. Murphy, Mason Cook and Connor Wilbur also had goals during the stretch, but Lafayette scored with 2:14 on the clock in the second quarter to make it 8-3.
• Minicus responded with his third of the day for Loyola at 1:40, and Hall then scored his third career goal seven seconds later to put Loyola up seven at the break.

Watch The Game

• Saturday's game against Army West Point will stream live on ESPN+. 

Series History

• Loyola and Army West Point will meet for the 20th time in series history when the teams take the field on Saturday afternoon with the series tied, 10-9, in the previous 19 meetings. The Black Knights are on a six-game winning streak.
• Loyola and the Black Knights first met on May 1, 1943, but they did not see each other again until Loyola joined the Patriot League for the 2014 season. Since then, they have played 18 times, seven times in the postseason. The teams have met in four of the last six contested Patriot League Championships.
• Last season, when the teams met on April 25, at Army West Point's Michie Stadium, the Black Knights turned a 1-1 first-quarter tie into a 5-1 lead in the second that would build to 10-3 at halftime, and the fourth-ranked Black Knights pulled away for an 18-6 victory.

In The Polls

• Loyola entered the national polls this week for the first time since early February 2024 in last week's rankings. The Greyhounds are ranked 18th in the USILA Coaches' poll, the Kane/Inside Lacrosse media poll and the USA Lacrosse Magazine rankings.

Flipped The Script

• Through 11 weeks of the 2026 college lacrosse season, Loyola has made the biggest jump in wins a year over with five; last year, the Greyhounds finished 3-11. Mercer, NJIT and Wagner have all made four-win improvements, and Brown has three more wins.
• Loyola has done so while improving statistically in most categories, including: goals per game (12.42 in 2026, 9.29 in 2025), assists (8.0, 6.21), faceoff percentage (.526, .443), shooting percentage (.307, .270) and turnovers (14.0, 16.29).

Attack Points

• All three members of Loyola's starting attack – Mason Cook (46 goals, 10 assists, 53 points), Kenan Everhart (25, 20, 45) and Matthew Minicus (25, 18, 43) – have 40 or more points this season.
• The Greyhounds are one of four NCAA Division I teams with three members of their attack to post 35 or more points so far this season (Bellarmine, Towson, Virginia).
• Loyola's attack has combined for 27 multi-goal games individually this season.
• Mason Cook has scored 63 goals in 25 career games and reached the 50-goal mark in his 22nd outing. 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.
• In six conference games, the trio are three of the four most-prolific point producers in the Patriot League. Cook has 33 points, while Minicus has 28 and Everhart, 25.

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 finished with 17 goals, seven assists and 24 points. In the last five games (since Bucknell) of the 2025 season, 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 or more goals in each of the next five games. He now has 13 games with three or more goals over the last 16 he has played, and over the last 17 games, he's scored two or more in all but one.
• This year, Cook has scored 46 goals to go with 10 assists in 12 contests. He leads the Patriot League, and is third in NCAA Division I, in goals per game (3.83) and is second in points per game (4.67) in the League. His 46 goals this year already are ninth in school single-season history.
• He also leads the Patriot League with a .411 shot percentage, and he is the only player nationally with more than 90 shots this season to be shooting above 40 percent.

Running In The Games

• Loyola put up at least one run of three-straight goals or more in its first nine games this year before not posting one at Holy Cross. The Greyhounds now have 22 runs of three in a row or better through 12 games. Eight of those runs were of five or more consecutive goals, the longest being the opening 7-0 stretch against Boston U. 

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 12 games of 2026, he has 32 career multi-goal outings and 21 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. 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 56 career games, starting all but one, for the Greyhounds and has 187 points with 111 goals and 76 assists. He is the Patriot League active career leader in points and goals.
• He moved into the top-10 in career points at Loyola in the Boston University game and is sixth with 187. His assist total is ninth in school history, and he is tied for 12th in goals. Minicus is one of six players in school history to rank in the top-12 of Loyola's career charts in all three categories.

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 12 has 25 goals and 20 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 Saturday's game seventh in the Patriot League with 3.75 points per game; he is sixth with 1.67 assists.

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 12 games, Watkinson made 10 or more saves in 10, and he now has 24 games with 10 or more saves in 29 outings as a starter between the pipes. He is second in the Patriot League, and 13th nationally, in saves per game (12.67). His save percentage (.530) is fourth in the conference.

Facing Off In The League

• Loyola's faceoff unit ranks second in percentage during Patriot League play, winning 55.6 percent through six conference contests. Mason Graves is winning draws at the X at a 61.5 percent clip (40 of 65) in those contests, while Carson Hall is 50 of 92 (.543) after going 15 of 20 with a career-best 11 ground balls at Lafayette. Hall has a team-high 27 ground balls in conference games.

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 195-116 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.