COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Towson University men's lacrosse team fell to seventh-seeded Loyola, 10-8 in the 2016 NCAA Quarterfinals on Sunday afternoon at Ohio Stadium.

The Tigers (16-3) met local rival Loyola 400 miles away at The Ohio State University, just the second postseason matchup between the two schools, which are separated by just six miles. Towson got off to a slow start as Loyola out-scored the Tigers 4-2 in the first 15 minutes. The teams were even on the scoreboard throughout the remainder of the game.

No. 7 Loyola advances to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship weekend, where it faces unseeded and 11th-ranked North Carolina in the first semifinal game at Lincoln Financial Field, with opening face slated for noon on ESPN2.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Loyola (14-3) jumped out to a 2-0 lead as Pat Spencer and Romar Dennis scored in the first five minutes of the game.
• Towson responded with back-to-back goals of its own. Mike Lynch scored on a pass from Ryan Drenner at the 8:44 mark. Drenner evened the game 2-2 with 7:00 remaining in the first quarter.
• The Greyhounds used a three-goal run to regain the lead with Zach Herreweyers and Tyler Albrecht scoring in the final minutes of the first quarter. Zach Sirico scored on a dish from Spencer just five seconds into the second quarter.
• After nearly six minutes of scoreless action, Zach Goodrich notched a top-shelf goal with 6:04 left in the half. Goodrich's goal ended a scoring drought of nearly 15 minutes.
• Loyola regained a three-goal lead with 1:49 left in the first half on a wrap-around goal from Spencer.
• Ben McCarty used a late goal to cut the Greyhound lead back to two, 6-4 with 6.1 seconds on the clock.
• McCarty opened the second half scoring with a quick goal, just 52 seconds in to cut the lead to 6-5.
• Loyola tallied three goals over a five minute span to extend their lead to 9-5, their largest lead of the game. Siricio scored in the extra-man following an unnecessary roughness penalty against Towson's Mike Lowe. Jay Drapeau scored unassisted before Spencer notched his third goal of the game on a pass from Siricio.
• The Tigers scored back-to-back goals to close out the third quarter. Drenner scored unassisted with 5:28 before dishing the ball to Spencer Parks at the 1:24 mark.
• Siricio scored the Greyhounds' final goal of the game with 10:17 in the fourth quarter.
• Parks notched his second goal of the game on a pass from Tyler Young with 7:04 remaining.
• Towson got two extra-man opportunities in the game's final five minutes but was unable to capitalize. The Tigers' first extra-man opportunity of the game came with 4:41 left on the clock on a cross-check to Herreweyers. Down two goals with 26.7 remaining, the Tigers received its second EMO with an unnecessary roughness call to David Manning.

BY THE NUMBERS

• The Tigers got eight saves from goalkeeper Tyler White.
• Loyola outshot Towson 36-25, including a 13-5 shot advantage in the first quarter.
• The Greyhounds won the faceoff battle as Graham Savio went 15-for-21. Towson won seven of the game's 22 faceoffs with Pat Conroy picking up four of those opportunities, a season-high in both groundballs and faceoffs won for the longstick midfielder.
• Both teams cleared a perfect 14-of-14 in the game, while the Tigers limited turnovers to just nine.
• Penalties were infrequent in the game as both teams were whistled twice. Loyola scored on one of its chances while the Tigers were held without an extra-man goal.
• Playing in its program-record 19th game of the season, Towson finished the season with a 16-3 mark, a new program record for wins. 
• The Lynch goal with 8:44 to go in the first quarter was the 200th goal for the Tigers this season. Drenner had the assist on the play, which accounted for the 100th helper of the year for Towson. It marks the first time since 2001 Towson had 200 or more goals coupled with more than 100 assists.
• The Greyhounds were only the fourth time this season to score double-digit goals against the Tigers. Towson was 1-3 on the season when allowing 10 or more goals.