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 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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Lakers Field hockey battles in tough game on senior day
OSWEGO, N.Y. – The Lakers faced off against the Brockport Golden Eagles in a SUNYAC matchup on Saturday afternoon. The Lakers honored 6 seniors on Saturday including midfielder Megan Delaney, defender Kaitlyn Mastracco, defender Holly Carr, forward Kaitlyn Ahle, Midfielder Kacie Simzer and senior goalkeeper Erica Scheblein. The Lakers started off the game with a strong drive offensively and managed to get a penalty corner in the first 40 seconds of play but they were not able to capitalize. Both teams would remain pretty quiet for the next few minutes, but around the ten minute mark Brockport would pick things up offensively, getting seven shots off in the final five minutes of the first quarter. This would ultimately pay off for the Golden Eagles as Paige Thowe would sneak one past Scheblein on the left side of the goal for a 1-0 lead with 3 minutes left in the first.
Oswego would come out with another strong offensive push to start the second quarter, getting another penalty corner less than a minute into play. But Taylin Bauer missed her attempted wide and Kacie Simzer would miss her attempt wide a couple minutes later. The Lakers would have other chances to tie the match at one but were unable to capitalize on opportunities keeping the score at 1-0 going into halftime. Oswego would have only four shots in the first half, only one landing on goal while the Golden Eagles would have 11 shots, and eight on goal. Oswego was more on the offensive attack in third quarter beating Brockport 4-2 in shots on goal.The Lakers had some close chances, with two out of the four shots bouncing off of the crossbar and barely missing the goal.
Brockport’s goalie would be injured on a diving save late in the third, forcing her to exit the game and Brockport having to bring in a freshman goalkeeper. Fortunately, she was able to return at the start of the fourth and played the remainder of the game The Lakers had a few opportunities to tie the gamelate into the fourth off penalty corners and Kaitlyn Mastraco would come the closest but had her shot saved twice by Brockport’s goalie. The Lakers were not able to regroup and would fall 1-0 to Brockport
With 2 games left the Lakers are now 7-7(0-4 SUNYAC) and sit in 7th place in the SUNYAC. The Lakers will now head to Geneseo on October 22nd for a conference matchup against the Knights.
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