A career-high 15 kills from sophomore Lauren Fie led Oswego to a victory over Potsdam. The scores for the match were 24-26, 25-18, 25-21, and 25-22. Oswego’s record improves to 8-10 with a 2-2 in conference record while Potsdam drops to 9-9 with a SUNYAC record of 1-3.
Fie, Alison Sullivan, and Shauna O’Flaherty all had double digits in kills and Sullivan’s five blocks were a match high. Junior Alison Berger earned a career-best in assists with 29 and digs with 12. Senior Rina Qelaj led the team in digs with 17.
The Lakers play again Saturday when they host Oneonta at 12 p.m. and Fredonia at 2:30 p.m.
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Randazzo’s OT Goal Lifts Lakers Past Castleton
The Oswego State women’s hockey team defeated the Castleton Spartans Saturday afternoon by a final score of 3-2 in overtime. The Lakers are now 2-0-0 while the Spartans fall to 1-1.
The Lakers controlled a majority of the play including goals in regulation from Emma Morisette and Eryn Stewart. However, Castleton was able to tie it up with 0.9 seconds left in regulation thanks to a backhand goal over the right shoulder of goaltender Mariah Madrigal.
In overtime, Kate Randazzo scored with just 39.2 seconds left to give the Lakers their second win of the regular season.
Oswego is back in action this Saturday at 3 p.m. when they host Elmira for their Pink the Rink game.
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Oswego’s Unusual Winter
Winter may not be over yet, but just by looking around you would think it ended weeks ago. The few signs that remain of winter slowly melted away last week as temperatures soared into the 40’s. According to Dr. Scott Steiger the local co-op observer for the National Weather Service, we’ve only received forty-nine point one inches of snow as of February 29th.
An alarming seven feet below the average snowfall for this time of year. Though it’s not surprising that we’ve seen so little snowfall, through the winter months Oswego ran 2.9 degrees above average temperature-wise. January saw the worst of the effects of the warm winter at an amazing 6 degrees above average.
Students, either way, have taken advantage of the spring-like conditions and have used the time to spend their days outside. While others were left waiting for the snow that never came like Florida native Bruno Rojas. Bruno had this to say about the past winter in Oswego “There weren’t that many lake effect events in Oswego so you never really got to see…big snow storms, where you could just sit down you know in the snow and just kind of watch the really big snowflakes kind of fall really gracefully. ”
Many have expressed similar views, asking constantly where was winter this year? The answer? There was a strong Arctic Oscillation or AO, that was in its positive phase. When it’s in a positive phase we oftentimes see a lot of the cold air trapped up in Canada. It’s when it enters its negative phase that it starts to allow the colder air to funnel down into the United States. and that’s what allows for those cold Oswego winters that we all know.
While this was certainly an anomalous winter, it is part of a longer-term trend of winter warming across upstate New York. The trend becomes obvious on this chart from climate central, showing how Syracuse’s average winter temperatures have warmed 2.8° since 1970. While this chart is only for Syracuse, the changes can be seen all across New York as our climate continues to change.
