OSWEGO N.Y. — The Oswego State Men’s Lacrosse team has hired Andrew Daly as the new head coach for the 2023 season. Daly takes over at head coach after having served seven years as the head coach at Wells College in Aurora, NY. Daly replaces Sean Eccles who had been serving as interim head coach in the 2022 season. Daly takes over a team that went 8-6 last season, but only 3-4 in the SUNYAC, and who were knocked out of the SUNYAC tournament in the first round. Daly does have experience coaching in the SUNYAC, serving as assistant head coach for SUNY Oneonta for four years before coaching at Wells; he also has experience coaching at the high school level. Daly had a rough final season at Wells, his team going 3-9 overall and only 2-4 in conference. Previous seasons saw his team’s set the schools single-season wins record and have nationally ranked offense and defense.
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Men’s hockey finishes preseason 2-0
OSWEGO, N.Y. – The Oswego State men’s hockey team took to the ice of the Deborah F. Stanley Ice Arena for the second and final preseason matchup on Saturday. They took on the Carleton Place Canadiens, a junior program, from the Central Canadian Hockey League.
The first period quickly showed the difference between the two sides. Less than six minutes into the first period of play, the Lakers found the scoreboard first, freshman Matt McQuade finding the back of the net for his first unofficial goal as a Laker, as stats don’t count for these games. The assist coming from Connor Sleeth. Less than three minutes later Oswego would find the back of the net again. Garrett Clegg would steal one off of a defenseman at the Lakers offensive blue line and take it himself burying it past the goalie on for an unassisted goal. The first period ended 2-0.
In the second period the Canadiens seemed to hold their own a bit more, but that didn’t stop the Lakers from scoring. With eight minutes to go in the second period the Lakers had beautiful tic-tac-toe style goal. Trent Grimshaw carried the puck across the blue line in a three-on-two opportunity. He sent a pass across to Daniel Colabufo who quickly sent it back across net to a cutting AJ Ryan who buried the goal. The Canadiens would answer though. With three minutes remaining, a breakout chance resulted in a beautiful goal, shooting from right to left and off the bar past net-minder Cal Schell.
In the third period the Lakers turned the after burners back on. Less than four minutes into the period, Tommy Cahill won a face-off in the Lakers offensive zone and sent it back to captain Ryan Bunka who buried it through traffic for the Lakers fourth goal of the game. The Lakers fifth goal was another tic-tac-toe goal that would end with defenseman Troy Robillard deking the goalie and putting it behind him for goal number five. The Lakers sixth and final goal of the game came off the stick of Robillard once again. This time he sniped one from the blue line by his own bench, a one-timer that would go bar-down. This goal coming just nine-minutes into the third period. The Canadiens would pull one goal back before the end of the game making the final score of 6-2.
Oswego starts their regular season play starting next weekend. The Lakers head to Geneva, N.Y. on Friday night to take on the Hobart University Statesmen. Hobart was ranked #5 in the preseason poll, Oswego was ranked #13. On Saturday the Lakers have their home opener on Saturday taking on #9 Elmira university. You can catch all home ice hockey game on the WTOP YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/WTOP10TV.
PHOTO CREDITS MICHELLE QUIACHON, WTOP10 PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT
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Oswego Hockey returns with sizeable win over Carleton Place
OSWEGO — Men’s Hockey kicked off their 2019-2020 season with a win over Carleton Place Saturday night. The 9-1 victory in the special Teal Night jerseys saw multiple Lakers getting onto the score sheet by the time the buzzer went off. Senior Derek Brown would net two goals in the first period and one in the third to get a hat trick. Another notable standout was Carter Allen’s three-point effort (1 goal and 2 assists). Each Lakers goalie would spend time in the crease for the team totaling for a combined 19 saves. Men’s Hockey hits the ice on Saturday for one last exhibition game versus Nazareth College at the Marano Campus Center. Puck drop will be at 7 p.m.
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Mens basketball brings win streak to 14 in dominant weekend
The Oswego state Lakers kept their hot streak of 14 straight going after two big home wins this weekend in the Max Ziel. The Lakers were met by Plattsburgh state on Friday night where the Cardinals were hoping for revenge from a previous 86-74 loss on December 11th. The Cardinals played tough n the first half and only trailed by two at 27-25 with 7:40 to go in the first half. But over the next five minutes the Lakers would go on a 19-6 run started from senior Devin Green and sophomore Joey Rowback. Oswego shot well from behind the arc in the first half with seven three-pointers from the Lakers as they took a 52-33 at the break.
The Lakers then exploded offensively at the start of the second half as Cartier Bowman started quick with 8 points in the first 5 minutes to bring the Oswego lead to 30. Oswego would then cruise from there and win with a 97-61 win. The Lakers shot 57% from the field in the second half and Jeremiah Sparks would stay hot with 27 points a game after going over the 1,000 point marker. Bowman, Green, Joey Rowback and Ahkee Anderson would also all score double digits in the contest.
Oswego would then move on to Suny Potsdam on Saturday afternoon. The Lakers and Bears started the game matching each others shots through the first seven minutes of play before the Lakers started to warm up and pull away. Joey Rowback would go on a absolute tear and hit four threes in a night where he ended with 15 points leading the Lakers to a 24 point lead at halftime. The Lakers shot a incredible 60.3% from the field in the first half of play and out rebounded the Bears by a 22-10 margin.
The Lakers would remain in control through the second half of play, refusing to let the Bears back into the game. Oswego would win their 14th straight and score over 100 points again with a 103-78 win over the Bears. Devin Green led the Lakers with 18 points on the evening, shooting 50% from the field Jamal Achille led the Lakers on the glass with eight rebounds and also pouring in 15 points.
Oswego now improves to 18-2,12-1 SUNYAC and will tip-off against New Paltz on Friday, February 3rd at home in the Max Ziel Gymnasium at 7:30pm.
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