Sports

The Oswego State women’s ice hockey team (7-7-1, 6-3-0 ECAC West) was simply overpowered by top-ranked Plattsburgh (12-0-1, 6-0-0) in an 8-0 loss Saturday at the Stafford Ice Arena.

Before the 2012 edition of Grand Prix Night at Oswego Speedway, Mike Bond had 26 career SBS wins to his credit. None of those previous wins however were likely as memorable, or long lasting, as his last lap heroics on June 30 of last season.

Chris Gilkes scored a career-high 24 points and nabbed a crucial steal down the stretch to power the Oswego State men’s basketball team to an important 79-69 conference win over Buffalo State on Saturday.

Cold shooting and turnovers plagued the Oswego State women’s basketball team (11-2, 4-1 SUNYAC) as the Lakers dropped their first conference game of the season to Buffalo State (6-7, 2-4 SUNYAC), 62-38.

The Oswego State wrestling team (3-6) wrapped up competition at the Budd Whitehill Duals with a 20-18 loss to John Carroll and a 38-3 loss to Thiel on Saturday.

Freshman Kyle Covley (Penfield, N.Y.) scored all of his career-high 14 points in the first half to fuel the Oswego State men’s basketball team (10-2, 3-2 SUNYAC) to a 74-56 win over Fredonia (5-6, 1-4 SUNYAC) in a conference battle on Friday night.

The Oswego State wrestling team (3-4) bounced back from a 31-3 loss to seventh-seeded Heidelberg to defeat Gettysburg, 32-12, and Rhode Island College, 24-21, to advance to the second day of the Budd Whitehill Duals hosted by Lycoming College.

The Oswego State women’s basketball team (11-1, 5-0 SUNYAC) was tested early in the second half by conference foe Fredonia (7-4, 2-3 SUNYAC), but the Lakers ran away with the game midway through the second half in a 67-49 home win on Friday night.

Matt Clemons rolled a pair of 300 games while Cory Keefe was once again displaying his talent, the girls hockey team won its second game of the season while the boys’ hockey squad split a pair of division games and the wrestlers were in action.