Cortland jumped out to an early 2-0 lead with goals from Chris Kaleta and A.J. Moyer. The Moyer goal came at the 5:26 mark of the opening period. This lead to Andrew Hare getting pulled from the game by head coach Ed Gosek. Now with Dan Jones in goal, Oswego seemed to have things settle down just a bit and they responded quickly. Luke Moodie got Oswego on the board three minutes after the goalie change with a powerplay goal. Jon Whitelaw connected for his first goal of the year with just under five minutes remaining in the opening period to tie the score Jesse McConney capped off the scoring with a powerplay goal with just under three minutes left in the period tow give the Lakers a 3-2 lead heading into intermission. With the 2nd period underway, the scoring onslaught from both teams continued. Oswego upped their lead to 4-2 on a goal from Zach Josepher. AJ Moyer scored his 2nd of the night for Cortland to cut the lead to 4-3, but Chris Ayotte opened up the two goal lead again for Oswego with his 1st of the year. So after two periods, Oswego held a 5-3 lead at the end of two. Now with the third underway, Oswego was able to pull away and ice the game. Michael Lysyj scored for Corland to cut the lead to 5-4. Tim Carr would answer for Oswego with about six minutes left to restore the two goal lead, and Chris Brown would add a shorthanded empty netter to ice the game and seal the 7-4 Lakers victory.
Andrew Hare gave up two goals on three shots in the first before he was pulled. Dan Jones allowed two goals on the 19 shots he faced during the night. Geoff Sadjadi was in net for Cortland and got lit up for all seven goals on just 28 Oswego shots. The offensive studs for Oswego in this contest were Jon Whitelaw (goal, two assists) Luke Moodie (goal, two assists), Chris Ayotte (goal, two assists), and Paul Rodrigues (two assists). So now the big question was going to be: who would head coach Ed Gosek go with in net for Elmira on Saturday?
The answer was Andrew Hare. Hare got another shot at it on Saturday night, which was also the hall of fame induction for Oswego State. Elmira's Soaring Eagles were in town as the opponent. Everybody thought this would be the tougher game than the night before, but it turned out not to be the case as Oswego skated away with a 9-0 victory. The first period was a scoring frenzy for Oswego. Matt Singelton got the party rolling with a short handed goal, then Paul Rodriguez connected for his first of the period. Tyler Leimbrock netted his first of the year to increase the lead to 3-0. Paul Rodriguez would strike twice more before the end of the period to complete the first period hat trick and give the Lakers a 5-0 lead after the first. The second period was a little kinder to Elmira as Oswego only scored once, as Luke Moodie hit the back of the net. The third period rolled around and saw three more Oswego goals, Moodie's second of the night, Leimbrock's second of the night and Rodriguez's fourth of the game to cap off the 9-0 shutout victory.
Andrew Hare got the shutout for his first victory of the year making 26 saves. Oswego fired 52 shots on three different Elmira goalies. Darren McDonald gave up 3 goals and made 8 saves, Matt Mline made 19 saves and allowed three goals, and finally Ryan deMelo made 16 saves and allowed two goals. Oswego got plenty of outstanding offensive performances on Saturday night. Nick Rivait (two assists), Luke Moodie (two goals three assists), Jesse McConney (two assists), Chris Muise (two assists), Tyler Leimbrock (two goals) and of course Paul Rodriguez (Four goals one assist) had monster evenings offensively. Two things about this win were of a concern to me however. One was that once again it seemed as if Oswego was spending way too much time in the penalty box. Two is that forward Peter Rodriguez had to miss the end of the hockey game due to an injury.
After their scoring exploits of this past weekend, both Paul Rodriguez and Luke Moodie are within striking distance of joining the 100 point club in Oswego history. Rodriguez needs just four points to get there and Moodie needs just six. Both guys should be able to join the club before the end of the teams next three game road trip. The trip starts Friday at Brockport, then continues this Saturday to Geneseo, and concludes next Fdriday November 9th at Morrisville. Good luck to both guys in their chase of 100 points.
(Above photo provided by Oswego State Athletics)
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