Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Men's Hockey Splits Western New York Road Trip

After splitting games last weekend against Nazarth and Elmira, the Oswego State Men's Hockey team looked to rebound on a Western New York road trip. First up was the Fredonia Blue Devils, a team who beat Oswego in Oswego the first game of the season. The Lakers were looking for payback for that loss, and did so in a big way, skating away with a 5-1 victory.

Oswego got on the board first at the 6:57 mark when Denton King scored his 2nd of the year, the only goal of the opening period. To the 2nd period we go, and Oswego scored twice more to improve the lead to 3-0. First at the 5:20 mark Matt Galati scored his 16th of the season, then at the 14:42 mark Kenny Neil scored his 9th of the year. Alex Perkins scored the lone goal for Fredonia at the 19:05 mark of the 2nd period to cut the lead to two. Oswego put the game away in the 3rd thanks to goals from Nick Rivait and Chris Carr to put the game away at 5-1. Alex Botten (2 assists), Denton King (goal assist) and Nick Rivait (goal 2 assists) each had multi-point games.

Jeff Flagler took the loss for Fredonia, dropping his record to 2-4-0 on the season, stopped 25 of the 30 shots that he faced. Matt Zawadzki picked up the win for Oswego, improving his record to 8-1-2 on the year, stopping 25 of the 26 shots he faced.

Oswego followed this up with a game against the Buffalo State Bengals in Buffalo, a place where Oswego has had great success, going 38-0-4 all time against the Bengals. That perfect record came to an end as Buffalo State beat the Lakers 4-0.

All the scoring in the game came in the 2nd period, as Kyle Whipple (4th of the year), Mike Zannella (6th of the year), Taylor McGraw (3rd of the year) and Dan Turgeon (10th of the year) were able to find the back of the net in the win. Kevin Carr got the win for Buffalo State, improving his record to 9-8-3, as he stopped all 33 shots that he faced. Matt Zawadzki got the start, but was pulled after the 2nd period. He stopped 16 of the 20 shots he faced as his record fell to 8-2-2. Justin Gilbert came in to play the 3rd period and stopped both the shots he faced.

Only one game this weekend for the Lakers get set to host the Cortland Red Dragons on Saturday February 1st.

(Photo provided by Oswego State Athletics)

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