OSWEGO N.Y. — The Oswego State women’s basketball team hosted SUNY Cortland in a hard fought SUNYAC opener last night. The 3-3-1 Lakers looked to pick up momentum after a dominant win Sunday night. Despite a valiant effort, the Lakers came up short. With a final score of 67-53 the Lakers continued to fight until the final buzzer. Cortland had a twelve point lead at the end of the first quarter that unfortunately set the tone for the rest of the game. The Lakers put up a fight and kept the game close. Senior Danielle Caivana was on fire scoring a whopping twenty-three points this game. Despite Caivana’s outstanding performance, Cortland refused to let up and fought their way to victory. Sophomores Chastin Giles and Caitie Lilly were the other key contributors for the Lakers. While this loss must have stung for the Lakers, they turn their attention towards another SUNYAC matchup against the Buffalo State Bengals December 3rd in the Max Zeil Gymnasium. Tip-Off is at 5:30 p.m. on WTOP 10!
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Women’s Hockey gets it done against Nazareth
OSWEGO, NY — Oswego Women’s Hockey won their match up against Nazareth Sunday afternoon 3-2. The Lakers went down early in the first period as the Golden Flyers got one past senior Racheal Farmer to put them in the lead. Oswego would not answer till the second period as freshman Megan Teachout tallied one on the powerplay. Kyliegh Grugin would add another just 1:33 minutes later on a pass from Morgan Shines. Avery Webster would eventually get the game winner as both teams netted in the final stanza.
This is Oswego’s 12th win of the season as the Lakers head to Buffalo State next weekend for a NEWHL match up. The Friday night puck drop will be at 4 p.m. as the Lakers look to remain in second place behind Plattsburgh in the conference standings.
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Oswego State Softball Sweeps Buffalo State on the Road
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Oswego State Softball went on the road Wednesday, April 14th for a SUNYAC West doubleheader at Buffalo State in which the Lakers got the sweep by scores of 8-5 and 9-7. Oswego had a 24 hit day, as the Lakers who were 1-4 at one point, are now on a three game win streak with a 4-4 overall record and 3-3 conference record. The Lakers lineup had not hit a home run through their first six games of the 2021 season, before hitting five across two games against Buffalo State.
Oswego hit a home run in each of the first three innings of game one, and six extra base hits in the early game. Zoe Mennig set the tone for the Lakers in her first at bat of the day, in the top of the first inning of game one with a two run home run. Samantha Morgan kept it going with two outs in the top of the second with a solo shot of her own. Fiona Higgins picked up her first home run of the season on a two run home run in the second, and Mennig made it back to back with her second of the day. Mennig and Morgan both had three hit days to go with three RBIs for the former, and two RBIs for the latter, in the 8-5 Lakers win.
In game two the Lakers picked up a run in the first inning for the third straight game. Oswego went off for a six run first inning, as the Lakers batted around and got RBIs from three different players, each RBI coming with two outs. Taylor DuBois had an RBI double to start the scoring, and Fiona Higgins scored on a wild pitch to the following batter Ellie Mahoney. Leah Czerwinski would slap an RBI single up the middle, and get driven in by the following batter Samantha Morgan courtesy of a three run shot, Morgan’s second home run of the day. Buffalo State answered back in the bottom of the first with six runs of their own, and each team would tack on a run between the second and fifth innings. It was a 7-7 score heading into the sixth inning before Mennig and DuBois went back to back with a pair of RBI singles, to win the game 9-7. Additional contributions in game two came from Madelana Wrubel who was 3-5, and Madison Hoeflich who threw four shutout innings of one hit pitching in relief.
The second win completes the softball team’s first doubleheader sweep since April 22nd 2019 against Fredonia. Oswego softball returns to the field in a SUNYAC West doubleheader at home, against Fredonia Sunday, April 18th at 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. at the Oswego softball field. WTOP 10 will have all the action with the doubleheader being broadcasted by the television station.
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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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