OSWEGO, N.Y. — The Oswego Women’s Lacrosse team lost their second consecutive game on Wednesday, falling to the Clarkson Golden Knights 18-4. With the loss, the Lakers now sit at 3-2 after starting the season off undefeated with three wins.
This game was certainly one the Lakers and Coach Britt Howard will look to forget about quickly. The Golden Knights were dominant from start to finish, shutting out the Lakers in the first half and giving up only 4 goals in over the course of the contest. Oswego was unable to generate much offense throughout the game. The Lakers took just 16 shots in the game, including only 5 in the first half. Although they went on a 3-goal run in the second half, the Golden Knight lead was too much to overcome. Sophomore midfielder, Sela Wiley, lead the team in goals once again (3), bringing her season total to 21. Freshman defender, Julia Quirk, also scored her second goal of the season in Wednesday’s contest. Clarkson was lead by Grace Hagberg, who totaled 4 goals on 6 shots. Junior attack, Sydney Roderick, also had a stellar game, scoring 3 goals and adding on 6 assists. Oswego has the chance to bounce back from this loss as they play the Brockport Golden Eagles on Saturday, April 17th for a SUNYAC West matchup. Face off is set for 1:00 PM at Laker Turf Stadium and WTOP 10 will have all the action.
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Oswego State Men’s basketball weekend recap: two dominant SUNYAC wins
OSWEGO, N.Y. — The #22 Oswego State men’s basketball team came into the weekend with what looked to be a tough two games. They were set to take on the number three team and the number two team in the SUNYAC, the Oneonta Red Dragon and the New Paltz Hawks. Not only did they come out of the weekend with two wins, they did it in dominant fashion, and sent a message to the rest of the SUNYAC that no one is stopping them.
The first game of the weekend came on Friday night against the Oneonta Red Dragons. The Lakers dominated the whole game, and took a 28-point victory, 86-58. Devin Sparks and Jamal Achille combined for the Lakers first twelve points to take an early 12-5 lead. A Julien Crittendon layup with eight minutes to go in the first half would create a 26-15 lead. Oswego’s lead wouldn’t fall below ten for the rest of the game. Oswego headed to the locker rooms up 41-22. The Lakers shot 16-34 (47%) from the field and 4-10 (40%) from deep. The Red Dragons shot 8-28 (28.6%) from the field and 2-7 (28.6%) from deep. The Lakers came out firing in the second half. Sixteen points from Jeremiah Sparks and four from Brendon Mulson saw the Lakers lead balloon to 62-36 with twelve still to go in the half. By the five and a half minute mark Oswego’s lead was 75-45, and the reserves came in to finish the game out. Jeremiah Sparks led the Lakers with 20 points. Christian Simmons added sixteen and Devin Green had ten with nine boards. The Lakers had fourteen different scorers on the night and twenty-one different players get minutes. Oswego shot 51% from the field in the second half for 33-67 (49%) for the game, and a total 7-20 (35%) from three.
Coming off the high of beating the number three team in the SUNYAC Friday, they came into Saturday’s game against the number two team in the SUNYAC, New Paltz, looking to keep the momentum going. They didn’t fail, and blew out the Hawks 82-53. New Paltz didn’t let the Lakers take the lead right away though, they went up 6-3 after four minutes. The Lakers took over from there. At the nine minute mark in the first half Julien Crittendon made two free throws to give the Lakers a 20-8 lead. Over the next four and a half minutes the Lakers would go on a 14-2 run led by five from Crittendon. Brendon Mulson would score six over the last five minutes with Oswego beating the Hawks 12-9 in the scoring category, with the teams going into the locker rooms, Oswego up 46-19. The Lakers shot 45% from the field and 42% from three in half. The Lakers got the score to 64-29, and the lead to thirty-five, with just under thirteen to go in the game. The Lakers bench would take over from there, and they would get the lead as high as forty-two. The reserves would close the game to get the final score to 82-53. Devin Green led the Lakers with thirteen, with Kaleb Cook and Christian Simmons each adding eleven. Oswego had five other players over five points and thirteen total scorers. Twenty-one players saw playing time for the second game in a row. Ahkee Anderson, Julien Crittendon, and Kaleb Cook each had three steals.
The Lakers no have a record 18-1 (12-0 SUNYAC) with the win streak up to fifteen games. Oswego’s next game is next Friday, February 4 at home in the Max Ziel Gymnasium.
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Oswego State Softball Gets Set For Home Opener
OSWEGO, N.Y. — Oswego Softball plays their first games in over two weeks, when they play their home opening doubleheader Friday, April 9th against Geneseo at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. The Lakers come in 1-1 after a doubleheader split at RIT back on Monday, March 22nd.
First pitch in game one will mark the first home game of Gabrielle Rivers’ head coaching career. Rivers was an assistant coach for four years at Le Moyne, and was hired as the Lakers softball head coach in the summer of 2019. The Lakers softball team did not compete in a single game before the 2020 season was cancelled, and this will be their first home game since April 22nd, 2019. The Lakers had 6 games over an 11 day period either cancelled or postponed, as Friday’s doubleheader marks the Lakers return to action. The Lakers had standouts at the plate in the doubleheader at RIT 18 days ago, Zoe Mennig was 4-7 with a double, 4 RBIs and a run, Madelana Wrubel was 2-5 with 2 doubles and 2 runs, and Taylor DuBois was 2-6 with 3 RBIs. Oswego also got a major contribution on the rubber from pitcher Madison Hoeflich who threw a 7 inning complete game in which she allowed 7 hits and 3 runs in the win. Look for the three batters to make a contribution Friday, and Hoeflich to shutdown opposing batters if she is called upon to start.
The Laker bats face a tall task in this 2-1 Geneseo Knights team. Geneseo was picked first in the preseason SUNYAC coaches poll, and while the Knights have been lacking with the bat, their pitching has been phenomenal. Geneseo is 2-1 even though they have scored 8 runs total through 3 games, and have scored only 1 run twice. Lauren Kersch won SUNYAC Pitcher of the Week after throwing a complete game and only allowing one run and one hit, which both came on a solo home run. Besides the one pitch, Kersch dominated University of Rochester in her first collegiate start, and looks like she can be an elite level arm for the Knights for years to come. Kersch has not been the only arm that has been dominant for the Knights, Nicole Schwartz who threw game one of Geneseo’s doubleheader at Rochester, also threw a complete game, she allowed 6 hits but did not allow a run.
Oswego Softball plays for the first time in 18 days, and plays their first home game in nearly 2 years on Friday, April 9th at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. against Geneseo. Viewers can check out all the action on WTOP 10.
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Women’s Basketball Flatten Wells Express
OSWEGO, NY- The Lakers put an absolute beat down on Wells College 88-20 on Wednesday night. Oswego managed to score a season-high in points this season in a game which was the most they have scored in a single game since the 2017-2018 season where they scored 91 against Cazenovia.
The Lakers led by 16 at the end of the first quarter as Julia Logana, Logan Nyemcheck, and Claire Skowronski led the Lakers with 4 points scored in the quarter. The Lakers shot 12-20 from the field goal line compared to Wells who only managed to shoot 2-18.
In the second quarter, the Lakers shot 8-23 from the FG line and shot 34.8%. Oswego went 40% from the three-point line. The Lakers defense swarmed the Express only giving up four baskets during the second quarter. The Lakers by a huge margin at half 45-8.
The Lakers would struggle in the second half as they shot 39.1% in the third quarter but they maintained the huge lead they had over Wells. Wells would score more points in the third quarter than in the last two quarters but they still trailed by a large margin as the Lakers defense continued to give them problems. Jenna Russo scored five points in the third quarter as she had a career day recording 14 points to go along with ten rebounds and three assists.
The lakers got things back together in the fourth as they shot from 50.0% and went 9-18 from the three-point line. Giovanna White-Principio and Russo would both have ten rebounds on the night. Caitie Lilly would score 13 points on the night and the Lakers would have 12 different players who scored in the game.
The Lakers travel down south to face Suny Delhi on Novembver 19th at 1:00 pm at the Floyd L. Maines Arena. They face a Mustangs squad who is 1-2 this season coming off a crushing loss to Utica 89-30. The Lakers lone game against Delhi resulted in a Laker blowout 75-39. The Lakers are searching for their first 5-0 start in 12 years.
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