Game Information
Opponent	Navy Midshipmen
Date	Friday, April 24, 2026
Time	7:00 p.m.
Location	Annapolis, Md. | Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
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Game Notes	Loyola

Quick Hits

• The Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse team closes its 2026 regular-season with a game under the lights on Friday, April 24, at the U.S. Naval Academy. The Greyhounds will face the Midshipmen in a 7 p.m. game on CBS Sports Network.
• Mason Cook has scored three or more goals in 11 of Loyola's 13 games thus far in 2026. The 11 hat tricks give him 13 in his career, all of which have come in the last 17 games (dating back to 2025).
• The Greyhounds are second in the Patriot League in scoring during conference games, averaging 12.86 in seven 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).
• 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 79-38 (.675) all-time at the stadium.

Looking Back

• Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse responded to a 4-0 run to start the game by Army West Point with one of its own, and the teams headed to the second quarter tied, but the Black Knights built a 9-5 halftime lead and went on to a 15-9 win on Saturday at Ridley Athletic Complex.
• Army West Point jumped out to a 4-0 lead following two goals within five seconds after Brayden Fountain scored at 6:22 and Robert Simone won the ensuing faceoff and scored at 6:17.
• The Greyhounds, however, got on the board when Mike Brescia rolled the crease from behind and scored his first collegiate goal at 4:16.
• That sparked a 4-0 run for Loyola that would see Matthew Minicus score the next two, and an unassisted tally by Connor Wilbur at 1:35 evened the score at 4-4.
• The Black Knights got the first two of the second quarter behind strikes, but Luke Murphy drew the Greyhounds within one, 6-5. Army West Point would score three more before the half ended, and then the Black Knights added the first two of the third quarter to lead, 11-5, with 7:33 left in that frame.

Watch The Game

• Friday night's game against Navy will air live nationally on CBS Sports Network. 

Series History

• Loyola and Navy will meet for the 22nd time in series history when the teams take the field on Friday night with the Greyhounds leading 14-7 in the previous 20 meetings.
• The teams first played on May 6, 1939, in Annapolis, and the Midshipmen came away with a 14-4 win as part of a three-game winning streak to start the series.
• After the teams played in 1943, they did not meet again until May 15, 1993, when Loyola posted a 19-8 victory in the NCAA Championships First Round. The teams then played a home-and-home series in 2010 and 2011 with Loyola winning each by one goal.
• Since Loyola joined the Patriot League in 2014, the Greyhounds are 11-4 in 15 games, 9-3 in regular-season contests. 
• Last year, Navy scored the third quarter's first goal 49 seconds after halftime to tie the score at 8-8, but Loyola went on an 8-2 run that covered more than 20 minutes to pull away for a 16-11 win at Ridley Athletic Complex. Matthew Minicus scored eight points for Loyola on five goals and three assists.

In The Polls

• Loyola entered the national polls this week for the first time since early February 2024 two weeks ago, and the Greyhounds are now ranked 19th in the USILA Coaches' poll, the Kane/Inside Lacrosse media poll and the USA Lacrosse Magazine rankings.

Flipped The Script

• Through 12 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 (12.15 in 2026, 9.29 in 2025), assists (7.7, 6.21), faceoff percentage (.526, .443), shooting percentage (.308, .270) and turnovers (14.08, 16.29).

Attack Points

• All three members of Loyola's starting attack – Mason Cook (47 goals, 10 assists, 57 points), Matthew Minicus (29, 19, 48) and Kenan Everhart (25, 20, 45) – have 45 or more points this season.
• The Greyhounds and Virginia are the only two NCAA Division I teams with three members of their attack to post 45 or more points so far this season.
• If the trio all reach the 50-point mark this year, they will be the first Loyola three to do so since 2019 when Pat Spencer, Kevin Lindley and Chase Scanlan accomplished the feat.
• Loyola's attack has combined for 28 multi-goal games individually this season.
• Mason Cook has scored 64 goals in 26 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.

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 18 games, he's scored two or more in all but two.
• This year, Cook has scored 47 goals to go with 10 assists in 13 contests. He leads the Patriot League, and is third in NCAA Division I, in goals per game (3.62) and is second in points per game (4.38) in the League. His 47 goals this year already are tied for seventh in school single-season history. With three more, he'll move into a tie for fifth with Tim Gottelmann's 2000 total.
• He also leads the Patriot League with a .398 shot percentage, and he is the only player nationally with more than 105 shots this season to be shooting above 39 percent.

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 13 games of 2026, he has 33 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. 
• Minicus is on a stretch of high scoring games late in the year again in 2026. In Loyola's last four games, he has 21 points (5.25 per game) with 15 goals and six assists.
• 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 57 career games, starting all but one, for the Greyhounds and has 192 points with 115 goals and 77 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 tied for fifth with 192; with eight more points, he will be the fifth in Loyola history with 200 or more. His assist total is tied for eighth in school history, and he is tied for ninth in goals.
• Minicus is one of three Loyola players to rank in the top 10 of all three categories, joining Pat Spencer (2016-2019; 149g, 231a, 380p) and Gary Hanley (151g, 160a, 311p).

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 13 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 Friday's game 11th in the Patriot League with 3.46 points per game; he is seventh with 1.54 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 13 games, Watkinson made 10 or more saves in 11, and he now has 25 games with 10 or more saves in 30 outings as a starter between the pipes. He is second in the Patriot League, and 12th nationally and second in the League, in saves per game (12.62). His save percentage (.524) is fourth in the conference.

Facing Off In The League

• Loyola's faceoff unit ranks third in percentage during Patriot League play, winning 55.3 percent through seven conference contests. Mason Graves is winning draws at the X at a 60.8 percent clip (45 of 74) in those contests, while Carson Hall is 60 of 101 (.541) including going 15 of 20 with a career-best 11 ground balls at Lafayette. Hall has a team-high 34 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 195-117 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.