The Oswego State women’s hockey team dropped their contest against Elmira by a score of 4-1. With the loss, the Lakers fall to 2-1 overall while the Soaring Eagles open their season with a win.

During the first period, Oswego struggled on the penalty kill as two of Elmira’s three goals came on the power play. The Soaring Eagles finished 3-8 in power play opportunities while the Lakers failed to capitalize, going 0-8. Oswego’s lone goal came with just under two minutes left in the game off the stick of Jean-Marie Padden with assists by Natalie Giglio and Victoria Blake.

Goalie, Mariah Madrigal, finished with a season high 33 saves for the Lakers while playing the full 60 minutes.

Oswego will be back in action next Saturday at 3 p.m when they take on Buffalo State for Military Appreciation Night.

The Oswego State women’s ice hockey team fell to their rival, Plattsburgh, by a final score of 6-2 on Friday night. With the loss, the Lakers drop to 8-11-1 overall and 4-7-0 in NEWHL play. The Cardinals move to 17-2-1 on the season and remain a perfect 11-0 in the conference.

It would not take long for Plattsburgh to get the scoring action started as Kayla Meneghin sent one into the back of the net just three minutes into the game. The Lakers would respond as their top two leaders in assists, Kate Randazzo and Olivia Ellis, fed Julieann White the puck for the power play goal to tie it up at one. The rest of the first period would be dominated by Cardinal scores as Plattsburgh put up four unanswered to take the lead 5-1.

In the third period, Oswego’s captain Ellis, made history as she joined the school’s 100 point club with her second assist of the night. She is the program’s leader for career points as well as goals (39) and assists (61). This also marked the fifth game of the season where the captain has accumulated multiple points.

The Lakers and Cardinals will face off for the final time this season at Saturday with puck drop scheduled at 3 pm.

Oswego senior goalie Angela Ponto recorded her 500th career save in a dominant 11-4 victory on the road against the Potsdam Bears. The Bears put the first goal on the board but the Lakers went on a quick 5 goal run and never looked back. The Lakers added 6 more before Potsdam could even score another goal, making it an 11-0 run until Potsdam scored the final 3 goals of the game.  Ponto got her 500th save, and she finished the game at career save number 503, putting her 115 saves past the previous saves record holder. Ponto will keep adding to that lead in the Lakers’ next contest on Saturday when they travel to Oneonta. Game time is set for 1 pm.