Oswego Men's Hockey Dominate Earn 800th Win

Another weekend in the books, and two more wins chalked up for the Oswego State Men's Hockey team. For the first time this year the team has taken its act on the road, thee first trip going to Brockport and Geneseo. Brockport was up first on Friday night and it was a tough hard fought game, but Oswego was able to skate away with a 2-0 victory. Scoring Friday night was provided by Zach Josepher, who scored on the powerplay at 7:17 of the 2nd period, and Luke Moodie, who scored even strength at 10:25 of the 3rd period. Andrew Hare pitched the shutout for Oswego making 20 saves, meanwhile his counterpart Jared Lockhurst stopped 39 of the 41 shots he faced. It was the 2nd shutout of the Year for Andrew Hare and the 7th he's pitched in his college career. Friday night was the more tight checking of the weekend. Saturday night in Geneseo was a more wide open offensive game and another dominating performance for Oswego.

Saturday the Lakers took their talents to Geneseo for a game against the Ice Knights. It was supposed to be a battle of the two best teams in SUNYAC to this point in the season. But that wasn't entirely the case as Oswego dominated play from the opening faceoff, and were able to skate away with a 10-1 victory. Yes you did read that correct Oswego beat Geneseo on Saturday 10-1. Oswego exploded with four goals in the opening period. David Titanic and Tim Carr scored at even strength, while Jon Whitelaw and Zach Josepher connected on the powerplay. Andrew Hare's shutout streak was finally snapped at the 18:29 mark of the 1st on a powerplay goal by Brandon Angotti. Hare's shutout streak was over 138 minutes when that late goal was scored. So Oswego had a commanding 4-1 lead at the end of the first period. Oswego just kept pouring on the offense scoring three times in the 2nd and 3rd periods. Scoring in the 2nd period were Paul Rodrigues, Tyler Leimbrock, and RJ Barra scoring his first career collegiate goal. For the 2nd year in a row an Oswego player has scored his first career goal in Geneseo (Jared Anderson did it last year in his senior year). Capping off the scoring for Oswego in the 3rd period were Chris Carr, Chris Brown and Chris Ayotte. Andrew Hare stopped 26 of the 27 Geneseo shots he faced, and has allowed one goal in his last three games. Adrian Rubeniuk Bryan Haude and Nick Horrigan all saw action in net for Geneseo.

So with that win in Geneseo, Oswego now has a total of 800 wins in the history of the program, an incredible feat for any hockey team to achieve. And now there are two more major milestones that are in reach. In school history, 48 guys have cracked the 100 point plateau, and they could have two new members to make it a sweet 50 by the end of next weekend. Paul Rodrigues and Luke Moodie both sit at 98 career points after this weekend. Moodie has 10 points this season and Rodrigues has 11. Both guys could hit the magic number next Friday night in Morrisville against the Mustangs in Oswego's only game of the weekend. All eyes will be on them to see if they join the eliete club in school history.

Oswego has only one game scheduled for next weekend, and it takes place Friday night November 9th at the IcePlex in Morrisville as the Lakers take on the Morrisville Mustangs at 7pm. Coverage can be found on WNYO Radio starting with a 6pm pregame show leading up to puckdrop at 7.

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