By Eoin Gallagher
The Oswego State men’s and women’s lacrosse teams will be in action this coming weekend as the men play host to Keuka College and the women host Utica College. The men, coming off an impressive 12-7 win over Alfred on Tuesday look to keep up the terrific play while the women’s team looks to rebound after a tough loss last Saturday to #9 ranked York College. The men’s game will be at 1pm with the women set to face off at 4pm. If you can’t make it to Laker Turf Stadium, you can catch both games right here on WTOP-10.
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Keynote Speaker: Ferial Govashiri
by Michael Reilly
Oswego, NY- A former personal aide to President Barack Obama will be visiting Oswego State this Friday. Ferial Govishiri will be the keynote speaker of the Student Leadership Conference. Her speech will center around finding and focusing on one’s passion in life.
Govashiri was born in Iran and immigrated to the United States with her family when she was six months old.
This Friday, a very special event as well as exciting opportunity will be taking place here at SUNY Oswego. Former personal aide to President Barack Obama and active member of the Iranian American Women Foundation Ferial Govashiri will be speaking on campus at the auditorium in Marano Campus Center around 7:30pm. She’ll be holding the position of keynote speaker which is being put on by the division of student affairs and enrollment management. Her talk will be free and opened to the public, in other words a perfect way spend a Friday evening to kick of the weekend.
Now a fact about Govashiri some may not know is that she was actually born in Iran
Of course as most are aware, President Trump has recently issued a temporary travel ban on refugees and citizens from seven Muslim majority countries including Govashiri’s home country of Iran.
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Oswego Women’s Hockey defeats Canton
The Oswego Women’s Hockey team beat SUNY Canton 3-1 in the Campus Center in the first game of a home-home double header. Freshman Ashley Lyman opened the scoring in the first period with an assist from fellow freshman Ericka Truschke. In the second period Oswego added another goal when freshman Bridget Hamlin found the back of the net with assists from Leslie Jarvis and Mady Paul. Canton tried to climb back into the game when Caroline Mundy netted her first goal of the season. Oswego, however, was able to score once more when Melissa Seamont scored her fifth goal of the season with Jocelyn St. Clair and Monica Patted getting credited with the assists.
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Blake Leads Lakers to Tie vs. Plattsburgh
The Oswego State women’s ice hockey team tied Plattsburgh 2-2 on Saturday. With the tie, the Lakers are now 8-11-2 overall and 4-7-1 in conference play while the Cardinals move to 17-2-2 on the season and 11-0-1 in the NEWHL. The game also marks the first time Oswego has not lost to Plattsburgh at home.
After allowing five goals in the first period Friday night, the Lakers defense held Plattsburgh to a single shot for the first ten minutes of the contest. During that time, Olivia Ellis scored her team leading seventh goal of the season to give Oswego an early lead. The Cardinals were able to fight their way back into the game with multiple power play opportunities due to the Lakers’ miscues. On the brink of defeat, Oswego’s Victoria Blake sent the puck sailing past the leg of Plattburgh’s goalie, Brooke Wolejko to tie the game up with just 17 seconds left.
The Lakers will head to Cortland on Friday as part of a home and home series. Puck drop is scheduled for 2 pm.
