Oswego Women's Hockey Tripped Up On Senior Weekend

The Oswego State Women's Hockey team came into the final weekend of the regular season on the strength of a six game winning streak. The team closed out the regular season with a pair of home games against the rival Plattsburgh State Cardinals. In the history of the Rivalry, Oswego has never been able to beat the nationally ranked Cardinals, losing all 16 games they have played against Plattsburgh. Unfortunately, that trend would continue for the Lakers as they dropped both games to Plattsburgh by the narrowest of margins.

First up was a Friday night nail batter that saw the Cardinals take the victory 1-0. The only goal of the hockey game was scored by Chelsea VanGlahn, her 11th of the season, at the 19:32 mark of the 2nd period. Both teams were unable to score on their powerplays, Plattsburgh going 0 for 8 and Oswego going 0 for 5. Sydney Aveson got the win in net for the Cardinals, improving her record to 16-1-1, as she stopped all 18 shots she faced. Meanwhile Bridget Smith took the loss for Oswego, dropping her record to 6-1-1 on the year, as she stopped 34 of the 35 shots she faced.

Oswego looked to bounce back the next day, senior day for the team, against this same Cardinals club. But once again the result was the same as the night before, this time a 2-0 win for Plattsburgh. The Cardinals scored both goals in the opening period as Giovanna Senese scored her 13th of the year at 12:12 and then Chelsea VanGlahn netted her 12th of the year and 2nd in as many nights at the 18:51 put the Cardinals up 2-0, a lead they would not relinquish. Both teams again came up empty on their powerplays, with Plattsburgh going 0 for 3 and Oswego going 0 for 2. Sydney Aveson got the win for Plattsburgh, improving her record to 17-1- on the year, as she stopped all 14 shots she faced in the shutout. Tori Trovato took the loss for Oswego, dropping her record to 5-3-0 on the year, as she stopped 39 of the 41 shots she faced.

Even thought the Lakers came up short this weekend, thy hung in there with the best team in the country for 120 minutes of total hockey. Oswego faced 76 total shots over the weekend and surrendered just three goals, that's saying a lot. Plus throughout the first game of the weekend Oswego pushed the attack and had Plattsburgh against the ropes, which shows how close they were to finally breaking the losing streak against the Cards. Oswego showed the entire weekend that they won't go away.

Senior weekend saw the final regular season home games for the nine seniors on the team: Mady Paul, Jocelyn St. Clair, Emma Smetaniuk, Melissa Seamont, Olivia Boersen, Chelsea Hunt, Megan Hagg, Leslie Jarvis and Catherine Cote. Even though senior weekend didn't go as planned the Lakers still made a big statement with their overall play.

And the season isn't over yet. The Lakers finished the regular season 16-8-1 and 10-5-1 in ECAC West Play good enough for a 3rd place finish in conference, behind only Elmira and Plattsburgh. Oswego has a playoff game this saturday afternoon at home as they take on the BuffaloS tate Bengals at 3PM!

(Photo provided by Oswego State Athletics)