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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 men’s basketball extends win streak to 12 games in historic night
GENESEO, N.Y. – The Lakers mens basketball team is on fire right now and they kept it rolling on Tuesday night when they matched up with the Geneseo Knights on the road. The Lakers took the momentum early on in the first half of play and held onto it for most of the first half before a late rally from the Knights. The Knights went on a 8-2 run in the final three minutes of the first half to cut the Lakers lead to only one leaving Oswego with a 33-32 score at the half. Jeremiah Sparks caused problems for the Knights in the first half shooting over 65% from the field, while shooting 75% from the three point line. Sparks led the Lakers with 15 points in the first half and with his 15th point scored Sparks joined an exclusive club at Oswego becoming the 19th ever Laker to record 1,000 career points in a career.
After letting the Knights come back in the last minutes of the first half, The Lakers got off to another great start in the second. Oswego jumped out to a twelve point lead over the Knights in only four minutes into the second half now leading 46-34. The Laker defense really stepped up causing the Knights to miss shots. Sparks would not cool down from the first half and after his three, the Lakers would lead 53-36, with Sparks having 26 points with 13 minutes still remaining in the game. The Knights couldn’t do enough to crawl back into the game as the Lakers kept attacking on both sides of the court.
Oswego ended up dropping 100 points on the Knights for a final of 100-62 and extending their winning streak to 12 games. Sparks led the team with 26 points in his historic night while going 10 for 13 from the field. The Lakers had three other players record double-digit points this evening. Cartier Bowman finished with ten points, as well as Achille Anderson, and Joey Rowback finished with 19 points, including five three pointers from beyond the arc,
The Lakers improve to 16-2,10-1 SUNYAC and Geneseo falls to 7-10,3-6 SUNYAC. The Lakers will return home on Friday, January 27th at 7:30 for their first home game of the new semester to take on the Plattsburgh Cardinals for their annual Coaches vs. Cancer weekend.
IMAGE COURTESY OF OSWEGO ATHLETICS
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Men’s Hockey Loses to Elmira College
OSWEGO, NY — Men’s Hockey continued non-conference play Saturday night against Elmira College but fell short after the Lakers mounted another third period comeback. The 4-3 final featured similar stories to Friday night’s game against nationally ranked Utica College. The Soaring Eagles would open the scoring just 19 seconds into the game before sophomore Josh LeBlanc would tally his first goal of the season. Senior Cedric Hansen started in net for Oswego but gave up two more goals early on before David Richer was brought into the game just 30 seconds into the second period. Freshman Alex DiCarlo would lead the third period charge with two goals in only his ninth collegiate game, with that first goal being his first ever collegiate goal. The freshman, who is not a regular in the Oswego line up, has six points (2 goals & 4 assists) so far through his first season.
The Lakers still set a top the SUNYAC conference, however the Lakers are .500 for the first time all season. The team travels to Nazareth for another non-conference matchup where the Lakers look to turn their season around. The Lakers have had success against the Golden Flyers, as the teams faced off for an exhibition game in Oswego this past October. The 4-3 final featured four different scorers for the Lakers along with two different goaltenders in net for the team. Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. from the Bill Gray’s Iceplex.
