OSWEGO — The Men’s Hockey team will start their 2019-2020 regular season today against SUNYAC opponent Cortland. The Lakers are looking to continue their success last season versus the Red Dragons after sweeping their opponent both home and away. The most recent preseason poll has the Lakers slotted in the sixth position under Hobart (5) and Geneseo (3). After going 2-0 against Carleton Place and Nazareth in exhibition, the top story going into this season is who Ed Gosek will be starting between the pipes. Puck drop will be at 7 p.m. at the Marano Campus center. Of course WTOP10 has you covered with Hockey Night in Oswego starting at 6:30 p.m.
Photo Provided by Alexis Fragapane
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Men’s Basketball falls to Potsdam on Saturday
OSWEGO, NY — After beating Plattsburgh Friday night, Men’s Basketball battled Potsdam Saturday evening and lost 76-62 for their fifth conference loss of the season. After going into the second half tied at 33 apiece, the Lakers couldn’t hold the Bears as Potsdam put up 43 points compared to only Oswego’s 29. Brandan Gartland led the team with 18 points in his 38 minutes played. The 16-6 Lakers are currently fourth in the SUNYAC standings and have clinched a playoff berth. Oswego still can move up the rankings with three SUNYAC games remaining. The Lakers head to Oneonta Tuesday night for another conference match up.
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Oswego Men’s Soccer Falls 2-0 to Rochester
Oswego, N.Y. – The Oswego State Lakers welcomed the University of Rochester Yellowjackets to Laker Turf on Wednesday, as they sought to pick up their first win of the season. The Lakers faced a roadblock early on, though, as a lower-body injury to sharpshooter Tajay Ellis would render him unavailable for the rest of the contest, which proved to be critical in the end result.
The Lakers imposed an aggressive style of defense in the early stages, and it all but worked until the 33rd minute, when Kol Bassuk of the Yellowjackets connected on a strike to give his squad a 1-0 lead.
The Yellowjackets presented an even peskier style of defense, as they allowed just one shot from the Lakers through the first 45 minutes of play, denying any potential momentum that their opponent tried to conjure up.
Things became even more grim for the Lakers in the second half, as the backend struggled to protect keeper Max Mahlke, while no will was yet to be had on the offensive side of things. The Yellowjackets would eventually strike again, when Jasper Danielian found the back of the net in the 59th minute to further the margin to 2-0 in the Yellowjackets’ favor.
Max Mahlke played to the best of his abilities, but was ultimately dealt a tough deck of cards, as he faced 13 shots and saved five. The Lakers move to 0-2-2 after this result, and will hope to tack on their first win of the season in their next matchup, when they travel to Troy, N.Y. to take on the RPI Engineers.
Written by: Logan Weingartner
Photos by: Clay Kepler
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Red Dragons put Dagger in Lakers Playoff Run
CORTLAND, NY- The Lakers season ended Wednesday as they fell to the #1 seeded Cortland Red Dragons 2-0 in double overtime.
The first half of the game was mostly a defensive battle as both teams were pretty even. Oswego’s defense kept Cortland’s high-scoring offense in check throughout the whole entire first half. The Lakers were able to get seven shots during the first half while the Red Dragons had six. Lexie Thompson, Graisa Madden, and Lugina Serrao led the Lakers with four shots on the day. Perri Anderson would record two saves in the first half.
Oswego would record eight more shots in the second half of play compared to Cortland’s nine. The Red Dragons came into this game only allowing about eight shots per game but in Wednesday’s game Oswego got the best of them recording 17 shots. Anderson would only face one shot in the second half where she recorded her third save of the day. The Lakers recorded four shots on goal during the first half but they were unable to capitalize off them and score. Oswego all game long posed a challenge to Cortland as Cortland failed to score in both the first and second half. The Red Dragons had an uncharacteritstic 24 fouls on the day compared to Oswego’s ten fouls.
The first overtime period was all Cortland as they recorded two shots while the Lakers didn’t record any shots. Anderson would record her fourth save of the day in the first overtime period. Cortland was able to pull away in the second overtime period as they were able to control the Lakers offensive attack. The Lakers got their first chance to score in the second overtime period but a shot by Katie DelGrosso hit the crossbar. The Red Dragons finally broke the scoring drought as Simone Neivel scored at the 5:40 mark of the second overtime period. Oswego was unable to tie the game after Cortland scored the first goal of the game. The Red Dragons would deliver the final blow to the Lakers as Liz Allen would score the second and final goal of the game with six seconds remaining in the game.
The Lakers finish the 2022 season at 9-6-4 which is their best record since the 2013 season where they went 10-7. The Red Dragons will move on to the SUNYAC Championships where they will face the Geneseo Golden Knights who are coming off a 3-2 win against New Paltz.
PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHELLE QUIACHON, WTOP PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT
