The Oswego State field hockey team fell to Cortland by a score of 7-2 for their first loss in SUNYAC play. With the loss, the Lakers drop to 5-4 on the season while the Red Dragons move to 10-3.
Cortland opened the scoring in the first half thanks to goals from four different Red Dragons. They would take that lead into halftime and added two additional scores early in the second half including Jess Gibaldi’s second of the game. It was not until the 68th minute that Oswego would get on the board. However, for freshman Theresa Glynn, it will be one that she remembers as it was the first of her career. Kathleen Little would also put one in the back of the net for the Lakers to go along with her assist.
Oswego will look to get back into the win column on Saturday when they travel to Geneseo to take on the Knights in another SUNYAC matchup.
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A recap of the hockey teams big weekend
By Brittany Cairns, WTOP10-TV
This past weekend was filled with both Oswego State Men’s and Women’s ice hockey.
On Friday night, the men’s team was led by the seniors at Morrisville State with Shawn Hulshof, Alex Botten and Matt Galati all contributing goals in the 4-1 win. Playing on their home ice last night, Matt Galati was back at it again as he scored the first goal of the game. That goal led up to the first teddy bear toss in Oswego history and was the first of many for the team as they went on to win 8-1. With the wins, the number one ranked team in the country is now 9-0 overall and 7-0 in the SUNYAC. Their next game will be played in Fredonia on Friday.
On the women’s side, the Lakers played a two game series at home against Canton. Powered by a five goal second period and goals from seven different players, the team rolled to a 10-0 victory Friday night. On Saturday, the women continued their winning streak as senior Alexa Aramburu and junior Olivia Ellis each had a goal and two assists. With the 6-1 victory, the seventh nationally ranked team improves to 11-1 and will take on Hamilton at home on Friday.
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Lakers Claim SUNYAC Championship
This past weekend Geneseo played host to one of the most bizarre thrilling games in SUNYAC hockey history. Wilson Ice Arena was the sight for this years SUNYAC Championship game and the much-anticipated matchup between Oswego State and Geneseo did not disappoint. The Knights of Geneseo battled back from a 5-1 deficit only to eventually fall to the Lakers by a final score of 7-6 after the puck tipped off the stick of Oswego State’s Shawn Hulshof with 28.7 seconds left to go in the 3rd period. Oswego started off the scoring taking an early 2-0 lead in the 1st period before Geneseo was able to close the gap to 2-1 within the final minutes of the period. Oswego opened up their lead to 5-1 during the 2nd period before Geneseo went on a 4-o goal run to tie the game up at 5 in the 3rd. The teams went back and forth throughout the entire combining for 13 goals in the game. Matt Zawadski the freshmen goaltender for Oswego was on the winning side in this past weekend’s championship contest. The Lakers next stop is back home in the Campus Center Ice Arena where they will play host to the Bowdoin Polar Bears who won the NESCAC conference over the weekend after beating the two seed Amherst 3-2 in double overtime. The first round NCAA tournament game will be broadcast live by WTOP Wednesday night starting at 6:30 pm with the pregame and puck drop at 7 PM.
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SUNY Oswego leaders send call to action to Congress
Some leaders of the SUNY Oswego community are urging congress to pass legislation in response to President Trump’s decision to end the Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
SUNY Oswego president, Deborah F. Stanley, Faculty Assembly Chair, Lisa Glidden and Student Association President, Dalton Bisson composed a call to action to send to the NYS Congressional Delegation on Thursday.
According to US Citizenship and Immigration services, the DACA program was announced by the Secretary of Homeland Security on June 15, 2012. It stated that “certain people who came to the United States as children and meet several guidelines may request consideration of deferred action for a period of two years”. Under DACA they could could also renew this deferred action and it also made them eligible for work authorization.
Ending the DACA program would impact “nearly 80,000 individuals in our nation [who] now face devastating alteration to their lives and aspirations and do not deserve the fate unfairly placed upon them” Stanley, Glidden, and Bisson wrote in the call to action. The call to action was emailed to SUNY Oswego staff and students Thursday morning.
The email illustrated how much Stanley, Glidden, and Bisson value members of the DACA program, called “Dreamers”, at SUNY Oswego and across the country. “We, as Americans, must be willing to shoulder the responsibility to assure that our nation’s laws reflect highly moral and deeply ethical positions. To refuse to do so in this instance would seriously debase our heritage as a nation of immigrants and hope” Stanley, Glidden, and Bisson wrote.
For more information on the DACA program and to read the full announcement please visit https://www.uscis.gov/archive/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca#previousdacaupdates
