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 State men’s lacrosse drops conference game to SUNY Oneonta
ONEONTA, N.Y. — The Oswego State men’s lacrosse team fell to SUNY Oneonta Red Dragons this past Saturday by a score of 12-6. The Lakers drop to 3-2 in the SUNYAC conference
as the group looks ahead to their final two games of the 2022 regular season. Oswego State was held to only 1 goal during the second half while the Red Dragons pulled ahead to steal a game in the playoff race. Gavin Elston scored three goals over the course of the contest and netminder Aiden Kenyon made 20 saves with a .625 save percentage.
The Red Dragons improve to 2-3 in the conference. Oswego State still can control their destiny with 2 games remaining against SUNY Cortland and SUNY Brockport before the start of conference playoffs. The Lakers currently hold the final spot in the post season as the team prepares for a contest against the Red Dragons from SUNY Cortland this Wednesday at Laker Turf Stadium. Check out the game on WTOP 10 as the contest is slated to begin at 4:00 p.m. on twitch.tv/wtop10tv.
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Oswego Buccaneers season ends in first round of Sectionals
CORTLAND, NY — Oswego High School Hockey went on the road last Thursday for the first round of Sectionals for Division II. The Buccaneers were the fifth seed and traveled to Cortland to face off against the fourth seed, Cortland-Homer. The Golden Eagles would take the 8-2 and move on into the semi final round. Oswego’s two goals would come from Brayden Miller and Adam Michalski along with Carson Colucci tallying an assist. Brandon Demling would make 26 saves even though the goaltender would give up eight goals in the contest. The Bucs would be outshoot by the Golden Eagles 34 to 32 as the Cortland-Homer netminder would make 30 saves.
This ends Oswego’s season as the group finished 11-10 overall. The Buccaneers are graduating a total of nine players this year, four defenseman and five forwards. All three goaltenders will stay with the team which is good news moving forward for the group. Cortland-Homer will move on to face Skaneateles as the Golden Eagles will travel there on Wednesday for the second semi final game for Division II.
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Coach Kane earns 100th win as Oswego Men’s soccer gets back on track
OSWEGO, NY- The Oswego State Men’s Soccer team got back in the win column as they defeated the Utica Pioneers 2-1.
The game started with the Lakers and Pioneers getting into each other’s offensive zones, but were both unable to score as Oswego and Utica totaled eight shots during that time. The Pioneers got on the board first as they scored at the 29:20 mark of the first half. Cody Baker-Green scored the only goal for the Pioneers, which was his seventh of the season. The Lakers at the half were outshot by Utica 11-4.
Oswego pulled themselves together in the second half. Their first point of the game came off their first possession of the second half as Kyle Geinrich scored the Lakers opening goal of the game. Oswego put the pressure on Utica’s defense after their first goal of the game as they had five scoring chances but were unable to capitalize off them due to the Pioneers’ stout defense.
Freshman Jason Wuytack came up clutch for the Lakers as he scored the go-ahead game-winning goal for the Lakers at 85:56. Goalie Andre Bourjolly had a strong game as he finished the game with six saves. The Lakers were able to take advantage of the opportunities given to them as they only had three shots on goal for the whole entire game. Oswego led in most categories during the game including corner kicks with 13 compared to the Pioneers 3. This was head coach Dan Kane’s 100th career win as the Lakers Men’s Soccer Coach.
Oswego will travel all the way north as they take on the Potsdam Bears for a conference matchup on Saturday, October 1st at 1:00 PM at Macy Turf Field.
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