The regular season has come to an end this past weekend for the Oswego State Lakers Women's Hockey team, and it came against a very tough Elmira Soaring Eagles. It was a tough weekend for the Lakers, as the dropped both games to Elmira by the same score of 4-3. First up is a recap of Froiday's action, as provided by the Oswego State Athletic Department.
The Oswego State women's ice hockey team (10-12-2, 8-7-2 ECAC West) nearly pulled off an upset, but came up just short in a 4-3 loss to seventh-ranked Elmira College (19-4-1, 14-3-0) Saturday night. The two teams traded the lead with goals on each side throughout the entire 60 minutes of play.
The first period started off with a couple of penalties before Kelly Collins scored the first goal of the game, her ninth of the season at 14:15 with the assist going to Jillian Bergeron.
Senior Kathryn Sbrocchi capitalized on a power play opportunity at 3:32 in the second to put the Lakers ahead 2-0, assisted by Carly Marchment and Melissa Seamont. Seamont has really picked up her offensive play this season.
Under a minute later at 4:16, Elmira's Lindsay Mitchell put the Soaring Eagles on the board with her eleventh goal of the season. Elmira struck on the ensuing shift to tie the game at 2-2 with a goal by Ashley Ryan. However, Carly Henderson put Oswego State back on top at 11:58 in the period for her eighth goal of the season with assists going to Marchment and Chelsey Draker as the Lakers went into the locker room with a 3-2 lead.
A penalty on Oswego State early in the third led to the game being tied for a second time, as Elmira's Erin Weston scored a power-play goal at 2:44. The game-winner came a few minutes later at 5:49 in the period from Lauren Campbell, as she was assisted by Erin Weston and Katie Gaskin.
The Lakers pulled goalie Bridget Smith, who made 33 saves, for the final 1:13, but were unable to force the game into overtime as the Soaring Eagles escaped with the win. Lisa Marshall finished the game with 24 saves for the victors.
So that was the excitment from Saturday's action. Now on to Sunday, and the result was the same as the day before, a 4-3 Elmira Victory. The following recap was provided by the Oswego State Athletic Department.
The Oswego State women's ice hockey team came up just short in similar goal-trading style of Saturday night's game, as the Lakers fell 4-3 to seventh-ranked Elmira Sunday afternoon.
First period excitement began right away with a goal by Elmira's Kathryn Walker just 24 seconds into the game with assists awarded to Alex McPhail and Lauren Campbell. Sophomore Jocelyn St. Clair tied the game with a power-play goal at 8:34 in the period with her fifth goal of the season, as Megan Howe earned a helper, which she has become noted for in her two years withi the club.
Elmira came back to take the lead at 16:06 in the first when McPhail scored her second goal of the season. Scoring was not done in the period, though, as nearly three minutes later, the Lakers capitalized on their second power play. Carly Henderson tied up the game for the second time thanks to a beautiful set up from St. Clair and Leah McNaughton to send both teams into intermission even at 2-2.
Melissa Seamont gave the Lakers the lead for the first time in the game at 8:10 in the second period, as Howe recorded her second assist. Oswego State held on to the advantage for most of the period until Tori Charron tied the score at 16:59 for her 18th goal of the season.
However, the game-winning goal came with one second remaining on the clock in the second period from Lauren Campbell's stick.
Oswego State took a timeout four seconds into the third period and goalie Catherine Cote was pulled for the final 52 seconds, but it was unable to capitalize with the extra attacker. Cote stopped a total of 26 shots in the losing effort, while Elmira's Lauren Sullivan registered 22 stops.
There were some major positives to come out of this regular season. The biggest being there are new leading scorers in program history, in the form of Kelly Collins and Jillian Bergeron, both have 49 career points. Collins also now has the program records for career goals with 35. Melissa Seamont upped her offensive totals from last year, as did Carley Henderson with her goal totals, both of whom will be major impact players this weekend in the playoffs.
This weekend is a first for the team, as they will host a playoff game this saturday at 1PM against Neuman College. This is a big weekend for the team for two reasons: 1) it will be the first time ever that they host an ECAC West playoff game at the Campus Center and 2) its a shot at redemption against Neuman. If you remember Neumann was the club that knocked Oswego out of the playoffs in double overtime last year at Neumann. So Oswego willbe looking for major payback. Plus Oswego won both meetings between these two clubs earlier this year in Oswego by 3-1 and 4-1 scores. So the Lakers looking to make it a perfect 3 for 3 against Neumann.
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