Game Information
Opponent	Towson Tigers
Date	Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Time	6:00 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 makes its 2026 Ridley Athletic Complex debut on March 3 when it hosts Towson University in a 6 p.m. faceoff that will stream live on ESPN+.
• 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. The hat tricks give him six in his career with the previous two coming in the last four games of his freshman year.
• 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

• Mason Cook scored a career-high eight goals Saturday, netting four in the fourth quarter alone, to propel Loyola to a 13-11 road win in its Patriot League opener at Colgate.
• The Raiders took an 11-10 lead with 8:26 left in regulation on an Andrew Kiefer goal, but just nine seconds later Loyola equalized off the faceoff.
• Mason Graves won the restart, and nine seconds later, Matthew Minicus threw to Cook for a transition goal that tied the game at 11-11.
• The Minicus-to-Cook connection would join up for more scoring later in the quarter.
• Cook gave Loyola the lead off a Minicus assist with 5:18 on the clock, and the pair connected again for a 13-11 lead with 1:31 left.
• Loyola won the ensuing faceoff but turned the ball over with 69 seconds on the clock. After play restarted, Colgate's Freddy Fowler was doubled by a pair of Greyhounds defenders who put the ball on the ground, and Vinnie Trujillo came up with the loose ball, enabling Loyola to run out the clock.
• Max Watkinson made 16 saves in goal for the Greyhounds.

Watch The Game

• Tuesday'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.

Home At Last

• The game against Towson will be Loyola's 2026 home debut, a date that was delayed until March 3 because the January 31 opener against Georgetown was postponed until March 17 due to weather.
• March 3 will be the latest Loyola has started its home schedule since March 10, 2010, when it hosted Duke in the opening game at Ridley Athletic Complex.

Series History

• Loyola and Towson will meet for the 69th time in series history on Tuesday when the teams take the field. The Tigers are the Greyhounds' most-played opponent all-time.
• The series started on April 25, 1959 when Loyola beat Maryland State Teachers College at Towson, 8-6.
• Loyola has a 36-32 all-time lead in the series, although Towson took the 2025 decision on its home field, 13-12, in overtime.
• Last season, Towson scored at the buzzer of regulation to force overtime, and the Tigers then won the game on an Owen Scott goal 1:55 into a second extra period. Mason Cook scored his first collegiate hat trick for the Greyhounds, Matthew Minicus had two goals and three assists and Henry Haberman added a pair of goals.
• The Greyhounds have won 14 of the last 19 meetings dating back to a 13-8 win in the 2008 season.
• Tuesday's game will be Charley Toomey's 21st as Loyola's head coach against the Tigers. Overall, he has been part of 34 of the 68 games between the programs. He is 14-7 as head coach, was 5-4 as an assistant and 3-1 as a student-athlete for the Greyhounds when the Tigers were known as Towson State.

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 18 goals to go with one assist in the four contests. He leads the Patriot League in goals per game (4.5) and is third in points per game (4.75).

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 four games, Watkinson has made 12 saves against Maryland, 15 in the Johns Hopkins game, 11 at UMBC and 16 at Colgate to give him 18 games with 10 or more saves in 20 outings as a starter between the pipes. He is second in the Patriot League in both saves percentage (.524) and saves per game (13.5).

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 is fourth in the Patriot League in assists per game (2.25).
• Minicus has played in 48 games, starting all but one, for the Greyhounds and already has 156 points with 89 goals and 67 assists. 
• He moved into 14th all-time at Loyola in points (156) against Colgate, and his 67 assists are 12th in school history.

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 nearly hit both of those totals in just four games with six of each. He tied his career-high with four goals at UMBC, and a week later went for a career-best four assists.

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 32 ground balls and 15 caused turnovers in the first four 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 189-114 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.

Alum Returns To Coaching Staff

• A familiar face is back on the Loyola sidelines this season with the return of two-time USILA All-American Justin Ward in a new role on the Evergreen campus.
• Ward joined the Loyola coaching staff in May as the program's newest assistant coach and offensive coordinator. The 2014 graduate of Loyola was a member of the Greyhounds' starting attack during their run to the 2012 NCAA Championship as part of a career that saw him earn All-America honors in 2013 (honorable mention) and 2014 (second team). He finished his four years at Loyola with 57 goals, 120 assists and 177 points. His 120 assists rank third in school career history, and his 177 points enter the 2026 season tied for 10th.
• Ward immediately entered the coaching ranks as an assistant coach at Georgetown from 2015-17 before moving on to Army West Point where he coached for eight years. The Black Knights led the Patriot League in scoring three of the last four years and ranked third in NCAA Division I in 2025 with 14.21 goals per game.

Up Next

• Loyola's five-game homestand continues when they play Providence on March 7 before a stretch that sees Lehigh, Georgetown and Bucknell visit Ridley.