Sports

The nationally-ranked Oswego State men’s ice hockey team used a three-goal second period to gain control of the contest and defeat Cortland 4-1 in a SUNYAC matchup on Saturday night. With the victory, the No. 8/12 Lakers move to 2-1 in both overall and conference standings.

With the record setting 2013 season at Oswego Kartway now in the rear view mirror, attention turns to the annual championship awards banquet to be held on November 16 at Lighthouse Lanes in Oswego. The banquet, set to begin at 6 p.m., will once again honor the season long track champions in all 11 Kartway divisions as well as the semi-pro division champions as a part of the inaugural Fall Frenzy series.

Expectations were for a rugged five game set, but the Oswego High School boys varsity volleyball team played an all-around solid game on Wednesday night at Cicero-North Syracuse to capture the Section III Class AA crown. Oswego will square off with Section II champion Bethlehem at Burnt Hills High School  in the Albany area at 7 p.m. on Friday.

Section III Class A volleyball champion Oswego will meet defending state champion Burnt Hills on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Cicero-North Syracuse High School gym in the regionals for the state tournament. On Tuesday evening the Oswego girls defended the sectional title with a three-game sweep of Fulton.

Sandy Creek senior soccer player Kylie Hanni was named a Section III Class C All-Star for the third year in a row. Hanni has played on the Sandy Creek girls’ Varsity Soccer team since eighth grade and has served as one of the captains of the team since tenth grade.

On Monday, a group of nearly sixty representatives from Brewerton and Fulton Speedway Modified and Sportsman race teams filled the Radisson Ale House for a planning meeting with track owner John Wight and Track Marketing Director, Cory Reed. Wight and Reed laid out their plans for 2014 for both Brewerton and Fulton and provided thoughts for further discussion.

Thirty-three students in five sports including girls varsity soccer, boys varsity soccer, varsity cross country, varsity cheerleading and varsity football were announced and then escorted to the center of the field by their parent(s).

The college officially inducted baseball player Bob Brutsch of the class of 1971, swimmer Anne Sarkissian DeRue ’04, wrestler Brian V. McGann ’70, and lacrosse and soccer player Kathryn “Kat” Stead ’04 during a ceremony Nov. 2 in Sheldon Hall ballroom on campus.  “This year’s honorees represent some of the best athletes in Oswego State’s long athletic history,” said event organizer Laura Pavlus, interim director of alumni and parent relations.