OSWEGO, NY — Men’s Hockey played their postponed game Sunday night that was supposed to be a Friday night match up against Geneseo. The Knights would win 5-3 after they were the only team to get on the board in the first period. Junior Carson Vance would be the only Laker to tally a goal in the second period as he capitalized on the power play. Geneseo would take a 3-1 in the third period before Max Novick tallied one off a pass from Alex DiCarlo as the freshman extended his points streak. Michael Gillespie would tie the game just 1:14 minutes later after a shot that went off the boards behind the Geneseo goalie. Geneseo would get the game winner with less than two minutes remaining and an empty net goal to secure their 17th win of the season and extend their barrier between Oswego for first place in the SUNYAC conference.
The Lakers travel to Morrisville next weekend for a must needed four points to make sure the team stays in the second seed heading into playoffs. Buffalo State will be the last test for Oswego before heading into conference playoffs.
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Oswego State Softball Gets Set for Non-Conference Doubleheader
OSWEGO, N.Y. — The Oswego State Softball team has been preparing for a non-conference doubleheader against the Cortland Red Dragons. This matchup taking place Tuesday, May 4th at Laker Softball Field will be a test to see if the Lakers can extend their one game win streak. Oswego is coming off a split this past weekend with the Brockport Golden Eagles. The Lakers squad was able to bounce back in game two with a 7-6 victory this past Saturday after falling 8-1 to the Golden Eagles. Unfortunately, Oswego has been eliminated from playoff contention after posting a 5-9 conference record heading into the final week of the regular season.
Cortland makes the trip up Interstate 81 with a five game win streak and the number one seed in the SUNYAC East division in tow. The Red Dragons are 16-6 overall this season and have not seen the Lakers in exactly two years. The two teams faced off in Cortland on May 4th, 2019 with the Red Dragons shutting out the Lakers with a 7-0 victory. Oswego has only nine victories against the Cortland program with their last win coming at home back in the 2018 season. Oswego will look to break it’s four game losing streak against Cortland today at home. Game one is set to kick off at 3:00 p.m. and game two will tentatively start at 5:00 p.m. on the Laker Softball Field. WTOP 10 will be at the field to catch all the action.
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Oswego State Softball splits games with RIT Tigers
Oswego State Softball split their Monday afternoon doubleheader at RIT with a 9-8 loss in game one and a 4-3 game two win. The Lakers showed lots of promise for their 2021 season in these first two games of the campaign.
In game one, Oswego got out to an early 5-1 lead through two innings. The majority of the offense in the first two innings came from Zoe Menning and Taylor DuBois who had two RBIs apiece, and Brianna LoMonaco who scored two runs. RIT chipped away with three runs of their own in the fifth as it was 6-5 with the Lakers in the lead after five. Oswego would get insurance runs in the top of the 6th and 7th to make the score 8-5, but the Tigers erased that lead during a four run comeback in the bottom of the 7th to win the contest by a score of 9-8.
Game two started off the same as game one, with the Lakers offense getting out to an early lead. This time it would be a 3-0 Laker lead after two innings, Zoe Menning kept the hot bat going into game two with a 2 RBI double in the first inning. Each team got another run apiece to make it 4-1 after five innings. RIT showed signs of another comeback with a two run bottom of the 6th, but Madison Hoeflich weathered the storm and got back to her first five inning form. Hoeflich got out of a bases loaded, one out jam in the seventh as the Lakers prevailed and defeated RIT 4-3. Hoeflich was excellent in her first collegiate start, throwing all seven innings, giving up seven hits and leading the Lakers to their first win of the season. Oswego softball returns Sunday March 28th in a doubleheader at St. John Fisher beginning at 1:00.
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Oswego men’s hockey advances to SUNYAC final
OSWEGO N.Y. — The Oswego State men’s hockey team took a mid-week semi-final head on. After finishing the regular season second in the SUNYAC standings, they got the advantage of a first round bye and got to host a semi-final game. After the first round of matchups was completed the Cortland Red Dragons were set to come to Oswego Wednesday night to take on the Lakers. The Lakers knew exactly what to do to move on, and just 23 seconds into the game Alex DiCarlo fired a shot over the left shoulder of SUNYAC Goaltender of the Year and Co-Player of the Year Luca Durante to give the Lakers the early lead. Just nine minutes later Ryan Dickinson grabbed the puck in the neutral zone passed it up to Shane Bull. He cut hard to the center of the ice and fired a wrist shot over the stick side to give the Lakers a 2-0 lead just 10 minutes into the game, Dickinson picked up his second assist of the night too. Oswego led 15-11 in shots after the first period. The second period started with the Laker’s killing off a penalty that was left over from the first stanza. Both squads played good defense throughout the middle period and no goals were scored. The best play of the frame came from Oswego captain Travis Broughman had a diving poke check to tip the puck away from a Cortland player who was one-on-one with the goalie. Oswego led in shots in the second period 16-7. The third period started with the Lakers third goal, Tommy Cahill took a pass in the slot and fired it through a screen just two minutes in. Durante had a few good saves throughout the final frame including a tough save on a wide open shot from Alex DiCarlo on a drop pass from Broughman. Cortland would pull Durante with four to play to try and fight back. With two left in the game, Cahill caused a turnover and passed it into the neutral zone for Shane Bull. Bull swung it up to Tyler Flack who buried it into the empty net and officially close the game for the Lakers. Connor Sleeth led the Lakers in shots on goal with eight. Cahill, Bull, and Dickinson all had two points in the game.
Oswego now heads West to Geneseo for a Saturday night championship matchup with the Knights. The two sides have met twice this season, with Geneseo coming out on top in both games, 6-1 in Oswego then 4-2 in Geneseo. The Knights are led by SUNYAC Rookie of the Year, and forty point scorer Peter Morgan. Morgan had three points in the first meeting and one in the second. The Knights beat Brockport Wednesday 3-1, led by Dan Bosio‘s two power play goals, one coming with an empty net, and Morgan‘s two assists. WTOP10 will be live tweeting from the Ira S. Wilson Ice Arena in Geneseo during the game with updates. WYNO will be broadcasting the game on the radio and wnyo889.org
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