Sports

With Christmas just around the corner, and the New Year a week after that, a lot of us are faced with having to buy gifts or plan vacations. And, according to Dave Turner, Oswego County’s director of Community Development, Tourism and Planning, “a fishing trip to the trophy-packed waters off Oswego County fits both bills.”

It is no secret that Jeremy Pitcher, a longtime DIRT racing standout, wanted to make his mark at Oswego Speedway and in 2012 he got his chance with the running of the Sportsman Classic on International Classic Weekend.

The Oswego State women’s basketball team scored 15 unanswered points in the first half to establish a double-digit lead that it never relinquished en route to a 53-37 win over Brockport (3-5, 0-1) Tuesday night.

Hayden Ward cashed in on an old-fashioned three-point play with 10 seconds remaining as the Oswego State men’s basketball team battled past State University of New York Athletic Conference foe Brockport with an 81-80 win on Tuesday night.

Oswego High School winter sports are starting to pick up the action with numerous teams taking to the court, mat and ice.

Oswego State junior forward Olivia Boersen (Stratford, Ontario) has been named ECAC West Women’s Ice Hockey Player of the Week for the week ending December 2, 2012.

Tori Trovato (Fr., Fulton, N.Y.) earned her first collegiate shutout as the Oswego State women’s ice hockey team (6-4-1, 6-2-0 ECAC West) won 4-0 over Chatham (1-7-0, 0-6-0 ECAC West) Sunday afternoon to complete the series sweep.

Four Oswego State wrestlers registered second-place finishes at the RIT Invitational to help the Lakers place third out of 11 teams with 122 points. Omar Santiago, Michael Gentilcore, Andrew Cole, and Kyle Sheridan each posted runner-up results, as Wesleyan won the team title with 152 points.

The top-ranked Oswego State men’s ice hockey team (8-1-0, 7-1-0 SUNYAC) had a late third-period surge, but fell short of completing the comeback as it suffered a 2-1 loss to seventh-ranked Plattsburgh (7-2-1, 6-1-1) on Saturday night at the Campus Center Ice Arena.