WEST POINT, N.Y. –
Mason Cook scored a Patriot League Championships record seven goals, and
Max Watkinson had a career-high 20 saves on Friday night to help Loyola University Maryland post a 13-8 victory over Colgate University in the semifinal round at Michie Stadium.
The Greyhounds (10-5 overall) move on to the Patriot League Championship Game for the sixth time since joining the conference in 2014, and they will play top-seeded Army West Point at 12 noon on Sunday, May 3, in a game broadcast live on CBS Sports Network.
Cook had a hat trick before Colgate got on the board, helping Loyola take a 5-0 lead less than 13 minutes into the game.
He scored the first, third and fifth goals of the game, while fellow attackers
Matthew Minicus and
Kenan Everhart added the other goals.
Meanwhile, Watkinson and the Loyola defense was keeping Colgate (6-9) off the board. Watkinson had five of his saves in the first quarter.
Colgate got on the board with a Casey Quinson goal with 1:06 on the first-quarter clock.
The Raiders scored the next two goals to close within two, 5-3, but Loyola would score the next four.
Cook tallied two at 9:28 and 7:05 before Minicus tallied his second. Cook had a sock trick with six goals by 2:35 in the second quarter, and after a Raiders man-up goal 56 seconds before the half, Loyola led 9-3 at halftime.
Colgate outscored Loyola 2-1 in the third quarter in the first 14 minutes, 59 seconds of the third quarter, with Cook setting the Patriot League record at 2:10 in the quarter with his seventh of the day. The game appeared to be a four-goal margin headed into the fourth quarter, but Everhart restarted off the end line with 3.5 seconds left, and he scored off the left side at the buzzer to put Loyola in front, 11-6.
Joe Houlihan had a three-quarter field goal against the 10-man ride with a
Jake Wilson assist at 13:02 in the fourth, and
Brady West tallied an extra-man goal at 6:09, stretching the advantage to seven, 13-6.
Connor Wilbur had an assist on the West goal and matched Everhart for game-high honors with three assists. Minicus added, two.
Watkinson, meanwhile, continued to rack up saves.
Ben Abel also entered the game when Watkinson was called for a penalty, and Abel made two on man-down, to raise the Greyhounds' total to 22 overall.
Houlihan and Wilson both had five groundballs for Loyola, and
Chase Gregory had three caused turnovers.
Cook now has 58 goals this season, second-most in Greyhounds single-season history (Kevin Lindley, 60, 2019).
