The Game: Towson (1-0, 0-0 CAA) vs. #17/14 Saint Joseph's (1-0, 0-0 A10)
When: Sat., Feb. 18, 12 p.m.
Where: Johnny Unitas® Stadium – Towson, Md.
Online Broadcast: FloSports ($)
Radio/Online Broadcast: Towsontigers.com
----Broadcasters: Spiro Morekas (PxP), Glenn Smith (Analyst)
Series: Towson leads 3-2
 
TOWSON, Md. – The Towson University men's lacrosse team is set for its first home game of 2023, taking on #17/14 Saint Joseph's on Saturday, Feb. 18 at noon at Unitas.
 
Tickets are available for the game through the Towson Athletics Ticket Office.  For more information, interested parties can visit www.towsontigers.com, call 1-855-TU-TIGER or email dkogok@towson.edu.
 
This contest is the team's Black History Month game.  Towson will be honoring current and former black men's lacrosse players, including Towson Athletics Hall of Famer Wendell Thomas, captain of the 1974 NCAA DII national champion team.
 
This contest will also be broadcast online on FloSports.  Visit https://flosports.link/3PiZj24 to view the full Colonial Athletic Association schedule and sign up today.  Spiro Morekas and Glenn Smith will have the call on FloSports and the radio call on towsontigers.com live from Johnny Unitas® Stadium. 
 
Each team won its season opener this past Saturday: CAA representative Towson defeated Mount St. Mary's 20-7 to go to 1-0 while Saint Joseph's, last year's NEC champion now in the Atlantic 10 Conference, reached 1-0 after a 17-5 win vs. Sacred Heart on Saturday at home.
 
This will be the sixth all-time meeting between Towson and Saint Joseph's and the third straight year where these two teams will play.  Towson leads the all-time series 3-2, with Saint Joseph's winning the last matchup 11-8 on Mar. 11, 2022 in Philadelphia.
 
Towson is currently receiving a vote in the USILA Coaches Poll.  Saint Joseph's is at #17 in the USILA Coaches Poll and #14 in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.
 
TOWSON - 2022 CAA REGULAR SEASON CO-CHAMPION
In 2022, Towson was one of three teams who earned a share of the CAA regular season title with a 3-2 league record.  The Tigers shared the regular season title with Delaware and UMass.
 
FOUR TIGERS EARN PRESEASON ALL-CAA
Four Tigers earned 2023 Preseason All-CAA recognition in the preseason coaches poll: Colby Barsz, Kyle Berkeley, Matt Constantinides and Garrett Zungailia.
 
Barsz, a First Team All-CAA LSM last season, finished with 25 ground balls and 12 caused turnovers, including three games with mulitple caused turnovers.
 
Berkeley earned Second Team All-CAA last year, leading all Towson midfielders in total points with 43 off 25 goals and 18 assists, adding 19 ground balls.
 
Constantinides was the lone faceoff man on the Preseason All-CAA Team.  Earning Second Team All-CAA and CAA All-Rookie Team last year, he had 147 faceoff victories and 86 ground balls in 2022.
 
A starter the past three seasons, Zungailia led all Towson non-faceoff players with 40 ground balls and 17 caused turnovers, being tied for fourth in the CAA in total caused turnovers last year.
 
NADELEN APPROACHING 100 VICTORIES
Towson head coach Shawn Nadelen is just four wins away from his 100th at the helm of the Tigers.  Currently in his 12th season, Nadelen has a 97-73 record as Towson head coach.
 
Nadelen is looking to become the second head coach in Towson history with 100 victories.
Head Coach                Record            Years at Towson
Carl Runk                    262-191           1968-98
Tony Seaman             99-93               1999-2011
Shawn Nadelen         97-73               2012-pres.
 
TOWSON PREDICTED TO FINISH SECOND IN CAA
Towson has been predicted to finish second in the CAA preseason coaches poll.  Towson received a first-place vote and 42 points overall, only trailing Delaware, the reigning league champion, with seven first-place votes and 49 total points.
2023 CAA Men's Lacrosse Preseason Poll
Team (1st)                  Points
1. Delaware (7)              49
2. Towson (1)                42
3. Drexel                        35
4. Stony Brook               32
5. Hofstra                       23
6. Fairfield                      22
7. Monmouth                  14
8. Hampton                     7
 
BATTLING IN THE NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Towson will have a difficult non-league slate this season, scheduled to play four non-CAA teams who are ranked in the top-20 of the preseason polls, including a rematch against Virginia, ranked #2 in the USILA Coaches Poll and #1 in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll.  In addition, Saint Joseph's, Denver and Richmond were all in the preseason top-20 of each poll while Loyola earned a top-12 ranking after the first week of play.
 
PROGRAM APPROACHING 500TH VICTORY
Towson, which established varsity men's lacrosse in 1959, is just eight wins away from 500 as a program.  Since the establishment under coach Billy Hooper in 1959, Towson has a program record of 493-370.  The Tigers are 343-264 since beginning DI play in 1980.
 
ACTIVE SCORING STREAKS (THREE OR LONGER)
Player                                     Games (Points)
Kyle Berkeley                             9   (13G, 13A, 26P)
--Started: March 19, 2022 vs. Duke
Chop Gallagher                          6   (8G, 1A, 9P)
--Started: April 9, 2022 vs. UMass
Nick DeMaio                               4   (8G, 5A, 13P)
--Started: April 23 at Fairfield
Jamison Gaskins                       4   (3G, 1A, 4P)
--Started: Feb. 20, 2021 vs. Duke
 
MCDONOUGH TO PLAY FOR TEAM AUSTRALIA
Connor McDonough will be competing for Australia in the 2023 World Lacrosse Men's Championship this summer in San Diego.  McDonough, a junior also formerly played for the U19 Australia Team.  His mother is from Perth while his grandparents still live in Perth.
 
Australia plays in the Blue Division along with Team USA, which will include Towson 2019 alum Zach Goodrich. The 2023 World Lacrosse Championship will be played from June 21 to July 1.
 
FOUR TIGERS SELECTED AS CAPTAINS
    Towson has picked four captains for the 2023 campaign.
Brandon Hund (Sr. A/M)
--Second-ever Tiger to be a three-time captain (Zach Goodrich '19)
Reagan McNemar (Sr. D)
--2022 Joseph Ferrante Memorial Scholarship recipient
Ryan Swain (Gr. M)
--2021 All-CAA First Team
Garrett Zungailia (Gr. D)
--2023 Preseason All-CAA Team
 
SIX TIGERS PLAYING AS GRADUATES
Six Tigers have their undergraduate degree entering the 2023 campaign, including five earning their degree at Towson.
Player                         Major
Kyle Berkeley            BS - Criminal Justice
John Kiracofe            BS - Communication & Media
     (degree earned at Michigan)
Alex Reid                   BS - Business Administration
Austin Stewart           BS - Communications Studies
Ryan Swain                BS - Business Administration
Garrett Zungailia       BS - Business Administration
 
As a team, Towson earned a 3.2 grade point average during the Fall 2022 semester.
 
VILLAGOMEZ - CAA ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
With a five-goal performance at Mount St. Mary's in his first-ever collegiate game, Joaquin Villagomez was selected as the CAA Rookie of the Week on Feb. 13.
 
He was the first Tiger to have a five-goal road game since April 2019, adding a pair of ground balls.
 
FROM THE HOME STATE....
Of the 52-man Towson roster, 24 players reside in the home state of Maryland.  This includes seven players from Baltimore County/City: James Azbill (Catonsville), Ray Glass (Perry Hall), Brian Hoskins (Baldwin), Andy Joerres (Reisterstown), Andrew Milani (Catonsville), Alex Reid (Baltimore) and Garrett Zungailia (Timonium).
 
....AND THE WEST COAST
    Four Towson players hail from the western side of North America, connecting a coastline from the Yukon Territory to Mexico.
--Austin Ducommun - New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
--Bode Maurer - Kirkland, Washington
--Chop Gallagher - Portland, Oregon
--Nick DeMaio - San Diego, California
 
TIGERS IN THE PROS
    Towson alumni have made their mark in the professional lacrosse ranks this past season.
PLL - Premier Lacrosse League (PLL)
NLL - National Lacrosse League (NLL)
MLL - Major League Lacrosse (MLL, now defunct)
--Ryan Drenner '17 - Cannons, PLL
       --2019, 2021 and 2022 PLL All-Star
--Zach Goodrich '19 - Cannons, PLL
       --2021 PLL All-Star, 2020 MLL Defensive Player of the Year
--Koby Smith '22 - Atlas, PLL | Philadelphia Wings, NLL
--Alex Woodall '19 - Cannons, PLL
       --2019 MLL Rookie of the Year, All-Star
 
OH BROTHER
Two Towson men's lacrosse players have siblings playing for the Towson women's lacrosse team.
 
Senior Nick DeMaio, Towson's top scorer from last season, is the brother of Lucy DeMaio, a freshman on the women's lacrosse team.  Both hail from San Diego.
 
More locally from Towson, junior Brian Hoskins is the brother of freshman Meghan Hoskins.
 
In addition, brothers Sam and Mikey Weisshaar, from Arnold, each play for the men's team.
 
SCOUTING THE OPPONENT:
Saint Joseph's is in its first year of the newly-formed Atlantic 10 Conference andwas predicted to finish second in the league's preseason coaches poll.
 
Two SJU attacks were placed on the A10 Preseason All-Conference Team: senior Matt Bohmer had two goals and two assists in the home opener while graduate student Levi Anderson had a hat trick.
 
The Hawks played two goalkeepers in the season opener: Gettysburg graduate transfer Scott Macmillan had four goals allowed and four saves in the first half of play.  Senior Patrick Clemens was on the league preseason all-league team, having three ground balls and two caused turnovers in the season opener.
 
Zach Cole, a three-time Tewaaraton Award Watch List member and two-time All-American, takes the faceoffs, winning 17-of-23 and scooping 10 ground balls in game one.
 
SERIES HISTORY - vs. SAINT JOSEPH'S
Series record: Towson leads 3-2
    --Streak: Saint Joseph's has won last one
    --at Towson: Towson leads 3-0
    --in Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's leads 2-0
 
First Meeting: Apr. 30, 2011
--Towson 15-2 - Towson, Md.
 
Last Meetings (latest to earliest):
Date                Location                      Result             
3/11/22            Philadelphia, Pa.         L, 8-11
2/13/21            Towson, Md.               W, 8-7 (OT)
4/27/13            Towson, Md.               W, 13-6
4/28/12            Philadelphia, Pa.         L, 3-6
4/30/11            Towson, Md.               W, 15-2