The Oswego State women’s ice hockey team defeated New England College 5-0 in their season opener on Friday.

Early in the first period, freshman Katie Mlostek made her presence known as she tallied her first career goal to put the Lakers on the board. Just under a minute later, yet another Laker scored their first career goal as Monica Cramer scored on the power play after being assisted by Kate Randazzo. Cramer would finish the game with two goals and an assist while Randazzo tallied four assists. However, the highlight of the contest came off the stick of Oswego State’s captain, Olivia Ellis, who was able to weave through three defenders for a backhanded goal.

Mariah Madrigal earned the shutout for the Lakers to go along with seven saves. On the offensive side of the puck, Oswego State outshot New England College 58 to 7.

The Lakers will look to continue their momentum when they take on Castleton during their Teal Game today at 3:00 pm.

The Marano Campus Center was packed with hundreds of students to see one of SUNY Oswego’s most famous alumni on Oct. 16.

Al Roker not only came for the Media Summit, but hosted his show ‘Wake Up with Al’ and ‘Today’ in the Marano Campus Center at 6 a.m.

There were students there who had lined up at the Marano Campus Center since 12 a.m.

Al Roker was willing to take photos with the students and took a few selfies with them as well.

He was able to show off his old college campus and shine a light on it as well.

Al Roker participated in the 10th annual Media Summit along with Charlie Rose, Dennis Thatcher, Connie Shultz, and hosted by Ken Auletta.

Photo By Al Roker (Facebook)

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From the Polka to the party the first ever Oswego Oktoberfest brought Deutschland to downtown Oswego.

“This is the first time running the Oktoberfest. So this is something that I think a lot of people have been interested in and we’re just putting it together for a fun community event,” said Event Director Chris Jones.

Jones felt that whether people came for the food or the fun. Everyone found something worth staying for.

Jones said, “Honestly I think it’s a little bit of both. For me the fall season’s the best time to eat and you know, we’ve got about three hundred pre-sales on the event. Hopefully with everything looking the way that it is hopefully about five hundred or so.”

Ice-cold local beer topped everyone’s glass while the polka band played on, but the beer wasn’t the only thing that was cold. With temperatures in the forties most individuals camped out. Enjoying some good times as well as some delicious local beer.

“Most of them are New York State breweries. There are seventeen different beers that are going to be on tap in addition to a couple wines and beverages. So there’s a long list, Adirondack, Woodchuck, Davidson brothers, quite a few on there,” said Jones.

The weather was cold but more than 400 turned out for the night’s events.

Jones felt, “This is fall weather, this is what Oktoberfest is about,” and he hopes to re-create the event again next year. And based on the reception from Oswego resident Trish Auer.

“I think, yeah I’d love to see it come back again and definitely more entertainment,” said Auer.

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Jones added, “I think that bringing more events into the community and encouraging not only the people that live here to come out, but start getting people to come here from other regions.”

And Auer felt, “I just love it there’s just so much more going on here. This year especially and it’s just so exciting to have everybody out and about.”
Although next year’s Oktoberfest is a year away you can visit WTOP10.com and take a look at some photos of this year’s festivities.