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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Men’s basketball dominates Red Dragons on senior day
OSWEGO, N.Y. – The Lakers men’s basketball team looked to continue their win streak to 17 this past weekend when they hosted the Cortland Red Dragons for senior night on Saturday evening. The first half ended up being controlled by the Lakers but Cortland held Oswego tough in the first half. After the first ten minutes the score was 13-10 Lakers until Jamal Achille became the offensive spark for Oswego and started a Laker 6-0 where lone senior Devin Green chipped in and added four points over that same stretch. After that run the Lakers exploded on offense going on a 41-18 run the last 10 minutes of the first half shooting similarly from the field and from three-point range (58.06% FG%, 58.33% 3PT%). Oswego got out ahead and had a 54-28 at the half.Cortland tried to start off the half stronger as reigning SUNY-AC player of the year Austin Grunder made a couple big shots to start for the red dragons. But it wouldn’t last long as Kaleb Cook took over during a four-minute stretch during the second half, scoring ten points, while Cortland could only get 4. By that point Cortland couldn’t get anything to go and Oswego would cruise to a 102-62 for their 7th game over 100 points in this season. The Lakers also keep their 17 game streak alive, not losing since the loss to Brockport at home in December. Jeremiah Sparks and Devin Green both had 14 points for the game in a great shooting game for Oswego, but the game was led on Oswego’s side by Kaleb Cook, whose ten point outburst in the second half helped him score 16 for the game. Cortland’s Austin Grunder ended up with another double double in this game and was the only Cortland player that was a positive in this game leading all scorers with 24. Oswego’s bench outscored the Red Dragons 47-18. and the Lakers dominated in the paint beating Cortland 48-10.
Coach Leone gets his 300th career win as a coach and the Lakers move to 21-2,(15-1 SUNYAC). The men’s team will travel to Brockport, NY to face Brockport on Friday, February 17 in a revenge game as Brockport was Oswego’s only previous SUNYAC loss.
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Lakers Win Final Regular Season Game
The SUNY Oswego Women’s Ice Hockey team claimed victory against the William Smith Herons in their final game of the 2025-2026 regular season on February 21st.
The Lakers started out strong, showing great offence with attacking Heron’s net at full force. Lilliana Ficaro and Leah Coley both scored goals just minutes apart to open up the game. Despite that, William Smith would soon answer back just 31 seconds after the Lakers second goal. Goalie Mia DeVivo wasn’t challenged as she only blocked 7 shots compared to William Smith’s goalie, Mia Iwicki who blocked 21 shots on goal from the goal hungry Lakers.
The Lakers would head into intermission being up 2-1.
The second period started off slow with William Smith getting two penalties. William Smith turned up their offense adding 13 shots on net, but DeVivo stood tall between the pipes blocking each and every one of those shots. The Lakers offense really showed out in the second period but failure to connect their passes led to a scoreless second period.
The third period started off with Oswego Leah Cooley in the box for highsticking just over five minutes into the period. The Lakers penalty kill was strong, keeping the team momentum. While another scoreless period for both teams. Mia Devio showed out with a .974 save percentage.
With the 2-1 victory for the Lakers, they moved up to the third seed spot in the SUNYAC’s.
The Oswego Lakers will play their first game in the SUNYAC’s on Saturday February 28th, their opponent has not yet been determined.
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Oswego State baseball DOMINATES this weekend
WINCHESTER, V.A. — The Oswego State baseball team took a road trip to play in three contests in Virginia this weekend. The first game against Keystone was an absolute massacre as Oswego poured on twenty-seven runs by the end of the contest. The Lakers managed to score in every inning besides the fourth, and managed to ball out with twenty-three hits throughout the game. The most notable performance of this game was from senior Ryan Enos who shattered program records by cranking three homers, six total hits and five runs. A performance highly unlikely to be matched anytime soon. Graduate Student Lukas Olsson also scored five runs this game. Senior Leadoff batter Paul Tammaro proved why he has that role as he three for four with four runs scored as he had his first homerun of the season. Additionally Tammaro had 3 RBI’s. Center fielder Kyle Lauria scored 3 runs on the night in another impressive showing. Everyone got a chance to eat in this contest as this was the definition of a statement victory. The final score was 27-14. The Lakers would then take on Shenandoah University.
The Lakers had another dominant victory against Shenandoah University with the final score being 9-2. Senior Paul Tammaro was an absolute monster in this game hitting two homers in his first two at bats contributing to the Lakers early three run lead. Shenandoah did manage to score two runs, but the contest was never close. Graduate Student Ryan Weiss went 2-5, however both his were RBI’s giving Oswego some breathing room. Freshman Tishawn Featherstone and senior Ryan Enos both had RBI’s to seal this contest. On the mound, senior Kieran Finnegan had a fantastic day with ten total strikeouts. He managed to only let in two runs in six innings. The Lakers would face Shenandoah again the following day.
The Lakers completed the weekend sweep against Shenandoah. Sundays contest was much closer than the first encounter with a final score of 10-8. Similar to the last game Oswego went up early scoring four runs in the first two innings. Graduate student Lukas Olsson was a huge name in todays performance hitting 3 RBI’s. Per usual senior Ryan Enos had a day scoring two runs as well as an RBI. Other notable performances include graduate student Kyle Lauria who scored his first homer of the season as well as two RBI. Paul Tammaro also had himself a day with one run and an overall impressive performance. Shenandoah gave the Lakers a run for their money, however the Lakers stayed calm under pressure and got the job done, completing the weekend sweep. The Lakers take this momentum into next week as they play seven games in Florida. The first contest is against Ramapo College March 13th at 10:30am.
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