OSWEGO — Laker Stadium will host a SUNYAC match up this Friday between the Lakers and Potsdam Bears. The 3 p.m. kickoff will be the start to a 4-game home stand that the team will finish the regular season on. Currently, Women’s Soccer sits in last place of the SUNYAC conference with an 0-5 record. These final games will all be conference games in which the Lakers may be able to turn their season around. They showed strength their last game out with an overtime lost to New Paltz. The Lakers had the advantage in shots (8-6) along with corner kicks attempts (3-2) over the Hawks. Oswego soccer fans can catch the match up at Laker Stadium this Friday at 3 p.m. along with online, right here at WTOP10.com.
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Men’s Soccer fights for draw in SUNYAC opener
OSWEGO, N.Y. — The Oswego Men’s soccer team took to the Laker Turf Saturday afternoon to open their conference schedule. The Fredonia Blue Devils travelled east to take on the Lakers. Action on the field started fast, in just the fourth minute a header off a Blue Devils corner kick got past Oswego keeper Matt D’Arpino to give the Blue Devils an early 1-0 lead. Only thirty seconds after the goal, the Lakers made their chances of winning that much harder. Liam Rothar would pick up a red card and drop Oswego down to 10 men for the next 85 minutes of game action. In the seventeenth minute Oswego’s Kyle Genrich single handedly brought the game to a tie. He would steal a pass between two defenders and be one on one with the goalie. He would place it in the bottom left corner, even though Fredonia’s goalie got finger tips on it, and the game would be tied at one. From then until the end of the half the the action slowed down a lot, and the team’s went to the half tied.
The second half of the game was much like the second half of the the first half, as lot of possession in the mid-field and back and forth, but no real chances on goal. A yellow card for Fredonia in the 61st minute drew the ire of the crowd who wanted the refs to give a straight red as they had earlier in the game. In the final ten minutes of the game, the teams started to pick up the pace once more. With seven to go in the game, Kyle Gehrich put one on goal from outside the 18 yard box, forcing a save from the keeper. From then on it was all Fredonia. They would keep the ball on the Oswego defensive half for the final six minutes. The Blue Devils got off six shots on four corner kicks but the defense held strong, and D’Arpino had a few key saves to keep the game tied at one. Gehrich was Oswego’s leading shot taker on the day with three, all being on goal. Matt D’Arpino would finish the day with three saves.
Both team’s would walk away with a single point for the standings, as under the new point system in the SUNYAC, a draw gives each team a point, a win gives three points, and a loss gives none. The point system only applies to SUNYAC matchups. The Lakers are now 2-3-1 (0-0-1 SUNYAC). The Lakers next matchup is against SUNY Brockport on Wednesday September 21 at 4:00 P.M. in Brockport.
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Myers and Paul Owen receive Athlete of the Week
OSWEGO — Each week, students are chosen by the Oswego State Athletics Department as Athlete of the Week. This week, the award was given to Liz Myers of Women’s Soccer and Sean Paul Owen of Men’s Golf. Myers scored the go-ahead goal in the 101st minute to seal the victory last Saturday against Buffalo State. For Sean Paul Owen, he shot a 74 last Saturday and a 71 on Sunday as the Lakers took first place in the Nazareth Invitational.
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Oswego State Baseball Sweeps Alfred State
OSWEGO, N.Y. — Oswego Baseball got their second consecutive doubleheader sweep on Thursday as the Lakers have now won four in a row, and move to 5-1. The weather was beautiful in Oswego for the home opener, and the first home baseball game for the Lakers since April 23rd, 2019. The Lakers defeated Alfred State 6-3 in game one, and 8-0 in game two in a great day for both pitchers and hitters in an Oswego uniform.
Oswego scored in each of the first three frames of game one, leading 5-0 after 3, the Lakers dominated all day long. Each of the first five runs came courtesy of Alfred State mishap as two runs came on separate wild pitches, two runs came on fielding errors, and one run was walked in. Anthony Van Fossen was brilliant on the mound for the Lakers as he threw 6 innings of 1 hit, shutout ball. Van Fossen now holds a 0.82 ERA through 11 innings of work, as he gave up just one run on three hits in his last outing against Brockport, and he has shown he can be a reliable arm for the Lakers staff this year. At the plate, Ryan Weiss was 3-3 with a double, an RBI and a run. Oswego led 6-0 going into the final inning in which Alfred State gave the Lakers a little scare in a rally that featured 3 runs, but the Lakers would win game one 6-3.
The Lakers had 8 hits in the first game, but came out even hotter in the second game with 14 hits to go with 8 runs. While the Lakers offense was firing, Ronald Loomis who struggled in his first outing against Brockport put on an inspired performance on the mound as he threw 5 innings of two hit, shutout ball. After Loomis was pulled, the Oswego bullpen was outstanding, as Connor Van Dreason, Jacob Sanders, Sean Clifford, and Evan Dempsey each threw an inning apiece, and none of them gave up a hit. In the batters box, Kyle Lauria was 3-5 with 3 RBIs, Brendon Frank was 3-4 and contributed 2 runs, Paul Tammaro was 2-4 with a double and 2 runs, and Ryan Enos was 2-4 with a run and 2 RBIs.
The Lakers successfully defended home field in their doubleheader sweep behind a 14 run day from the offense, and the pitching staff held Alfred State to 5 hits all day long. The Lakers will defend home turf again Saturday, April 10th, when they take on Fredonia in a SUNYAC West doubleheader at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. WTOP 10 will continue to provide coverage on the Oswego State Baseball team all season long.
