Season Is Over. Oswego Women's Hockey Falls to Neumann

After batteling all season long to stay in the playoff hunt and float around the 500 mark, the sun has set on a sour note for the Oswego State Women's Hockey team. For the 2nd year in a row the Lakers played host to the Neumann College Knights and for the 2nd year in a row the game ended with a 3-0 score. This time however Oswego came up on the wrong end of the score, getting shutout out and having their season come to an end.

Oswego played well, and was able to outshoot Neumann for the game 33-24 but Neumann goalie Shannon Donnelly stole the game. She stood on her head making 33 saves for the shutout and played out of her mind. Penalty trouble, which has been a slight problem for Oswego in the past, got to them again just a bit in this contest. Keira St-Laurent got Neumann on the board with her 2nd goal of the season, a powerplay goal, at the 10:53 mark of the opening period. Oswego outplayed Neumann for the first two periods, but found themselves trailing 1-0 to the Knights going into the 3rd period. Neumann would get goals from Edie Brenning, her 10th of the year at the 10:39 mark, and Megan Russelo her 6th at 14:03 to seal the victory for Neumann and move on to the next round in the ECAC West Tournament.

Shannon Donnelly picked up the win for Neumann, improving her record to 7-12-0, making 33 saves in the shutout win. Bridget Smith took the loss for Oswego, dropping her record to 10-8-1 on the year, while she made 18 saves in the loss. Freshman netminder Tori Trovato made 3 saves in the final six minutes of the hockey game that she played.

Oswego finished the regular season with a 12-12-1 record overall and 10-6-0 in ECAC West play. For a team that had taken a pretty big hit in the offseason, losing a few players that would have had big roles to play on the team, plus the loss of a few promising recruits to the program, OSwego was at a bit of a disadvantage from the outset of the year. Oswego only had 17 players on the roster this season, and the fact that they were able to not only finish the season at .500 overall and above 500 in conference play this year speaks major volumes about the players, the coaching staff, and the program as a whole.

A full season recap for the Oswego State Women's Hockey team will be posted within the next few weeks so stay tuned!

(Photo Provided by the Oswego State Sports Information Department)