Oswego State Women Complete Weekend Sweep in Neuman

After Oswego State was able to end Neumann's season last year in the playoffs, the Lakers continued to exact revenge on the Knights, this time by sweeping a weekend series in Neumann. The action was fast and furious and included an overtime goal and two more first career goals to boot. All the fun got started Saturday on the strength of a 4-2 win. The first period went by quiet with nobody being able to hit the back of the net. Oswego would score the only goal of the 2nd period as Melissa Seamont was able to connect for her 3rd goal of the year, a powerplay goal, at 2:51 of the middle frame. It was the only goal of the period and Oswego had a 1-0 lead going into the final period. Neumann would get even at the 3:03 mark of the 3rd period on a Megan Russelo goal. Oswego would retake the lead at 5:54 of the 3rd on a powerplay goal from captain Olivia Boersen. Megan Russelo would score her 2nd goal of the game a little over a minute later to once again tie the score. Oswego would take the lead, for good, at the 8:40 mark thanks to the first career goal for freshman Bailee Goodon, this once again coming on the powerplay. Oswego would put the game away at the 13:04 mark of the 3rd period thanks to the first career goal for senior defenseman Breanne Reith. The Lakers would shut the door from there and walk away with the 4-2 win.

Shannon Donnelly took her first loss of the year stopping 16 of the 20 Oswego shots. Meanwhile, Bridget Smith got the win for Oswego, stopping 19 of 21 Neumann shots. Neumann went 0 for 4 with the man advantage while Oswego went 3 for 6 on the powerplay.

That was the fun and excitement from Saturday night. Sunday afternoon the two teams met again to close out the weekend, and this was a much tighter checking game. Just as the day before, there was no scoring in the opening period. Neumann started the scoring in the 2nd period, at the 5:40 mark on a Shanelle Doucette goal. Oswego would respond in the 3rd period at the 13:16 mark when Megan Hagg scored to tie the game. Nobody else would be able to find the back of the net in regulation so the game worked its way into overtime. That's when Oswego would find a new overtime hero. At the 4:53 mark of overtime, Leslie Jarvis scored her first career goal, a game winner and a powerplay goal to boot, to send Oswego home with a 2-1 victory!

The goaltending matchup was the same as the night before, as Shannon Donnelly stopped 30 of 32 Oswego shots in the loss, while Bridget Smith picked up the win stopping 22 of 23 Neumann shots. Oswego went 1 for 5 on the powerplay, while Neumann came up empty in it's four powerplay chances.

Now there are two big stories coming out of the weekend. First is the fact that Oswego was able to pick up some revenge on Neumann for the Knights knocking Oswego out of the Playoffs in Neumann two years ago. Also the two wins were good enough to launch  Oswego into 2nd place in ECAC West play right behind 1st place Elmira. The other big story of note is the first career goals for three players, Freshman Bailee Goodon, Junior Leslie Jarvis, and Senior Breanne Reith. Goodon is a freshman and its still a big accomplishment none the less. Reith's goal was four years in the making but she finally got it, and Jarvis its a double whammy because its not only her first goal in three years of play but it also turned out to be an overtime game winner. So congratulations all around are indeed in order!

(Photo provided by Oswego State Athletics)