OSWEGO — Laker Swim and Dive teams faced off against the RIT Tigers in a meet Wednesday night. The match up, at Laker Pool, saw both Men’s and Women’s dropping their first meet of the 2019-2020 season. Senior Walker Snowden would be a standout for Oswego State with three victories over the span of the night. With two individual event wins going into the 200-yard free relay, Snowden would get his third win alongside Laker teammates as they would finish a second before the Tigers. The teams look to rebound with another home meet this Saturday against SUNY Oneonta at 1 p.m.
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Oswego Defeats Buffalo State 6-1
The SUNY Oswego Men’s Ice Hockey team secured a win against the Buffalo State Bengals in their final game of the 2025-2026 regular season on February 21st.
The energy was electric from the second the puck hit the ice to open up the game. The fans in attendance made it known that they were here to cheer. The Lakers offence and defence were strong as the Lakers attacked the net with full force sparing no opportunity for a shot on goal–while goalie Brandon Milberg stood tall between the pipes allowing no goals in. The puck was going back and forth between zones, sharing the love for both teams until Oswego’s Colin Vassallo scored a power play goal assisted by Ryan Burke and Nico Paone with 3:40 left in the first. Buffalo’s Michael Marquez got a penalty after the period ended for roughing to leave the Buffalo State Bengals down a player on the ice to start the second.
Ryan Burke wasted no time and gave the Lakers their second goal of the night assisted by Nico Paone and Colin Vassllo–the same line who scored the first goal of the night. Oswego’s Brent Fudger earned himself a penalty for roughing 2:06 into the second. The penalty kill didn’t seem to faze Milberg in the slightest as he deflected each shot with ease. Adam Grenier scored his third goal of the season and the third goal of the game, allowing Colin Vassallo his second assist of the night. The Lakers enter the third up 3-0.
The third period started off slow until captain Matt McQuade took matters into his own hands with the help of Colin Vassallo and Connor Gatto to give the Lakers their 4th goal of the game. Nearly 2 minutes after his first goal McQuade scored his 11th goal of the season on the power play. Although they were quiet for most of the game, the Bengals finally answered back when Andrew Langlois buried one deep in the net. With 7:14 left in the game Brandon Cohen closes the game out with assists by Jesse Horacek and Colin Vassallo, being his third assist for the night. Brandon Milberg ended his night only allowing 1 of 40 shots past him giving him a .975 save percentage for the night.
The Buffalo State Bengals will return to Oswego on Wednesday February 25th at 7pm to face the Oswego Lakers for the first matchup of the SUNYAC Tournament.
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Oswego State Baseball kicks off 2021 Season at Brockport
The Oswego State Baseball team takes the field on April 3rd for the first time in the 2021 season, after the first three games to start their season were postponed or canceled. The Lakers go on the road to Brockport for a 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. doubleheader against the Golden Eagles, as they begin their road to a fourth straight SUNYAC title.
The first pitch on Saturday will mark the first game for the Lakers since the last contest of their shortened 2020 season on March 8th, which was a 6-4 win at Arcadia. The Lakers have won three straight SUNYAC titles and looked like they would have a good chance at four straight in their abbreviated season. The Lakers return three graduate students as well as 13 seniors who are all looking to win yet another SUNYAC championship. Oswego lost lots of top players over the past two years, but return big bats in Ryan Weiss (.444 AVG, 2 2B, 6 RBIs in 2020), Paul Tammaro (.429 AVG, 6 runs, 2B in 2020), and Kyle Lauria (.360 AVG, 2 2B, 2 3B, 7 RBIs in 2020).
Brockport is off to a 3-1 start, with a doubleheader split at Oneonta, followed by a dominating doubleheader sweep at Fredonia in which they outscored the Blue Devils a combined 32-4 this past Tuesday, March 30th. The doubleheader against Oswego marks Brockport baseball’s first game on their home field this season. Brockport has a plethora of hitters off to scorching hot starts this season; James Houlahan (.529 AVG, 2B, 2 RBIs), Ryan Mansell (.500 AVG, 4 2B, 3 RBIs), Nick Pastore (.471 AVG, 2 3B, 4 RBIs), Ryan Voight (.364, AVG, 2 2B, 1 HR, 7 RBIs).
Oswego pitchers will look to cool down the hot Brockport bats and the hitters will look to get off to a hot start right out of the gate. Oswego baseball starts their season Saturday, April 3rd at Brockport, with first pitches of the doubleheader scheduled for 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. and WTOP 10 will continue to deliver content on the Oswego State Baseball team over the course of their 2021 season.
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Men’s hockey splits big weekend
BROCKPORT, N.Y. – The Oswego State men’s hockey team had a big weekend that had implications for the final SUNYAC standings picture. A Friday night rematch with the Geneseo Knights, this time on home ice, was followed by a Saturday road game against the Brockport Golden Eagles. The best case scenario would have been taking both games, tying Plattsburgh on points with one less game played than them.
One of the most highly anticipated matches of the season for Oswego States fan was Friday’s matchup with the Knights. The Lakers had taken the first game of the season series in Geneseo, and were looking to sweep the series. Geneseo came out firing though, and quickly put the Lakers on their back foot. Nine minutes into the first period they put one past Schell. The Knights doubled their lead before the end of the period and went into the locker rooms with a 2-0 lead. Geneseo’s Matt Petizian was playing out of his mind through the entire game, in the first period alone he had 17 saves. Schell only had 6.
The Knights extent ended their lead once more in the second. In the eighth minute of the period they fired on past Schell for what was the only goal of the frame. The Lakers put themselves in a tough spot in the final minutes of the second, playing a good chunk of the final five minutes down two men. They did a good job killing off all of the penalties and went in to the break on a mini high. Petizian racked up another 13 saves in the period, while Schell had 12 of his own.
The Lakers made some good changes and took advantage of Geneseo’s sloppy play in the third frame. Matt McQuade finally got the Lakers on the board just before the halfway point of the final period of regulation. The Lakers second goal came just four minutes later, this time on the power play. Daniel Colabufo took advantage of the man-advantage to bring the Lakers within one. It was less than three minutes until the game tying goal. Again on the power play, the puck was bouncing around in a scrum in front of the goal when Connor Sleeth poked it out to a wide open Quinn Warmuth. Warmuth buried it past two diving defenders, sending the fan section into raptures. The goal sent the game to OT. At the end of regulation Matt Petizian, despite giving up the three goals, had raked up 47 to that point. Schell had 21, the total he would end the game at.
In OT, the Lakers found themselves on the man advantage, once more, but couldn’t capitalize. It was Geneseo, in even-strength play, that would get the break-away opportunity, to seal the victory 4-3. Petizian was the star of the game, 53 total saves. Oswego’s Connor Sleeth led the team with eight shots. Seven total Lakers tallied a point, but not one of them more than one point.
After the heartbreaking loss, Oswego had to regroup and head on the road to take on the Brockport Golden Eagles. It was a scoreless first period, again highlighted by the opposing goal tender. Brockport’s Nolan Egbert had 20 saves in the first period, Schell back in net had 11 of his own.
The second period was where the Lakers found their stride from the previous night. Noah Bull found the back of the net first for Oswego, just past the nine-minute mark of the period. He was followed less than two minutes later by Jackson Arcan, this time on the power-play. Brockport was going to go away easily though, they scored a short-handed goal with just over a minute to go in the frame to make it a 2-1 game.
Oswego didn’t take long to recapture the two goal lead they had. Five minutes into the third period Daniel Colabufo found netting for the second time in the weekend, again on the power-play. Oswego scored one more goal to finish the game off, Quinn Warmuth also finding the back of the net for the second time in the weekend. The final score was 4-1. The Lakers out-shot the Golden Eagles 45-32 in the contest. Trent Grimshaw and Alex DiCarlo each had two assists in the game.
After splitting the weekend, but the loss being an OT loss, the Lakers took three points and retained the second place in the SUNYAC they went into the weekend with. Only two points separate the the top three teams, with Oswego sandwiched between Plattsburgh and Geneseo. The top five SUNYAC teams all clinched playoff spots, the rest of the game are all fights for seeding for them. Oswego’s next game is a mid-week matchup with the Morrisville Mustangs, a team they lost to earlier this season, and who are fighting for the final playoff spot in the SUNYAC.
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