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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Cooper Gym’s Fitness Marathon
Reported by: Jihad Yarber
SUNY Oswego holds many events to promote student wellness and to motivate students to live a healthy lifestyle. WTOP 10 reporter, Jihad Yarber went to one of these events to find out
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Men’s Soccer Falls to Rival Plattsburgh
The Oswego State men’s soccer team lost a close match to rival Plattsburgh by a final score of 4-3 on Friday. After the loss, the Lakers record is now 6-3-1 while the Cardinals move to 8-2-0 this season.
Early into the game senior midfielder Connor Lunduski gave the Lakers an early lead on the road. Later in the match, with the Cardinals up 2-1, Jason Siracuse was able to tie the game with his fourth goal of the season. Plattsburgh would answer back with two more goals and with Caleb Asamoah’s seventh of the year at the end of the match, the final score would read 4-3 in favor of the Cardinals.
The Lakers are back in action on Saturday in Potsdam at 1 p.m.
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Syracuse Police Receive Funds for Body Cameras
SYRACUSE, NY >> The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded a grant for $117,888 to Syracuse. The grant is specifically geared towards the sole purpose of equipping the police with body cameras for a pilot program.
However, the city of Syracuse will only be using half of that grant to buy ten police cameras. Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner held a press conference this morning and said that the city of Syracuse will be working with the Department of Justice on how to implement this batch of cameras.
Miner also talked about how the new equipment in the police department will be apart of a pilot program that could be used to justify more cameras in the future.
Miner compared this pilot program to the use of surveillance cameras in the city back in 2011. Those cameras had started to be implemented on the Near West Side for their pilot program.
“Stationary cameras also started off as a pilot program, and now people want more cameras and feel they’re very effective,” Miner said. “People will want more as long as we do it in a methodical and effective way.”
In the past the city has been denied from being able to equip its police officers with cameras. Rochester and Albany had received more than $700,000 in federal grants to equip their own police with body cameras at the time when Syracuse’s proposal got rejected.
These struggles led Miner to criticize Rep. John Katko last week for not offering more help to the city in its bid for the grant.
But with Syracuse finally accepting $59,000 from the feds they can finally look forward to new police body cameras. Miner says that the police in Syracuse should be wearing cameras by the end of 2016.
