Oswego Men Continue Hot Streak With Pair of Road Wins

The Oswego State Meen's Hockey team kept right on rolling this past weekend, with a weekend sweep of SUNYAC foes Brockport and Geneseo. The fun started this past Friday night with a 4-1 victory over the Geneseo Ice Knights at Ira S. Wilson Ice Arena. Zach Martin scored the lone goal for Geneseo at the 10:34 mark of the 1st period, his 2nd goal on the year. It was the only shot the Ice Knights took that found the back of the cage. Chris Brown tied the game for the Lakers at the 14:19 mark of the 2nd with his 6th of the year. Chris Ayotte gave Oswego the 2-1 lead on the powerplay at the 17:23 mark, his 5th of the year. Oswego carried a one goal lead into the 3rd when Tyler Leimbrock netted his 9th of the year 3:04 into the final period to stretch the Lakers lead to 3-1. And to put the icing on the cake offensively at the 17:32 mark is Jared Anderson, scoring his first career goal. Anderson, who is a senior, had yet to score a goal, finally gets the monkey off his back. The goal was the first point for Anderson since getting 4 assists in his freshman year. Anderson had missed significant time the past two seasons due to injuries. Congratulations are indeed in order for Jared Anderson on his first goal, which is very long overdue.

Andrew Hare got the win for Oswego, his 12th on the year, stopping 19 shots. Meanwhile, his counterpart, Cory Gershon stopped 21 of 25 Oswego Shots. Jesse McConney was able to chip in with 2 assists, the only Laker with mutiple points on this night. Geneseo went 0 for 5 on the powerplay while Oswego went 1 for 4.

Here are the video highlights from Geneseo:


So after the Lakers took care of business in Geneseo, the Lakers went off to Tuttle North Ice Arena in Brockport to take on the Soaring Eagles. This was a very high scoring affair, with the Lakers walking away with a 6-4 victory.

Brockport got the scoring started with Adam Shoff hitting the net 5:13 into the game. Then almost toen minutes later, Sean Wallace stretched the lead to 2-0 for the Golden Eagles. However the Lakers were able to respond less than a minute when Chris Brown connected for his 7th of the year to cut the lead in half. The Lakers were able tgo tie the game early in the 2nd period thanks to Chris Muise's 4th of the seaosn, with the assist to Tyler Leimbrock. Ian Boots would score on the powerplay a few minutes later to give Oswego the 3-2 lead. For Boots it was his 6th of the campagin. Chris Brown would add his 2nd of the nigiht and 8th of the year to give Oswego a 4-2 lead halfway through the 2nd.

The Lakers held a two goal lead entering the 3rd period, and that would become a 3 goal lead 52 seconds into the period thanks to Tyler Leimbrock's 10th of the year. Oswego would capp off the scoring thanks to Chris Brown's 3rd of the game and 9th of the year halfway through the period shorthanded into an empty Brockport net. Chris Cangro and James Cody would score for Brockport late but it wasn't enough as the Lakers held on for the 6-4 victory.

Andrew Hare got the win for Oswego his 13th of the year, stopping 25 of 29 Brockport shots, while his counterpart Oliver Wren took the loss stopping 24 of 30 Oswego shots. Brockport went 0 for 2 on the powerplay while Oswego went 1 for 4.

Here are the video highlights from Saturday Nights win:


The Hat Trick for Chris Brown saturday night was the first hat trick by a Laker this season, and the first Oswego hat trick since Chris Laganiere did it against Geneseo last year on Senior Night. There have been several two goal games but this was the first 3 goal game of the year. The Moodie, Whitelaw, Rodrigues line seemes to have cooled off just a tad the past few games but Tyler Leimbrock and the three Chris's, Musie Brown and Ayotte, have done a good job of picking up the play lately. The whole tema has been getting stronger the past few games espically with team Captain Andrew Mather having been out of the lineup with apparent injury the past little while. Mather's injury is reported to be a broken finger, but again it is only a report and we can't confirm or deny the report at this time.