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With five seniors taking the floor, the Oswego State men’s basketball team left little doubt who the better team was in a 75-44 win over Fredonia on Senior Day at Max Ziel Gymnasium on Saturday.

The Oswego State women’s basketball team shot nearly 43 percent from three-point range to help send out the Laker seniors with a 72-66 win over Fredonia The victory sealed the sixth seed for Oswego State in the upcoming playoffs to send the Lakers to Oneonta for a quarterfinal contest on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

The Tug Hill/Black River Chapter of Trout Unlimited in cooperation with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation will sponsor a two-day fly-fishing seminar for women June 2 and 3 on the Salmon River in Altmar.

The Oswego State women’s basketball team made a bid for an upset on its home floor by staying within striking range of Buffalo State throughout the second half, but a late first-half surge by the Bengals was enough to earn the 71-61 victory.

Another chapter was added to one of the most storied rivalries in college hockey as Andrew Hare registered 27 saves to give the No. 1-ranked Oswego State men’s ice hockey team a 3-0 win over fourth-ranked Plattsburgh Friday night in front of a sellout crowd. It was Hare’s second shutout of the season that locked the top seed in the conference playoffs for the Lakers.

The Fulton YMCA Speed Demons traveled to Auburn recently to swim against the Auburn Stingrays. During the meet, Fulton swimmer Michael Mankiewicz qualified to compete in the YMCA New York State meet to be held in Buffalo in March.

For the first 12 minutes of the game, the 16th-ranked Oswego State men’s basketball team’s perfect conference mark was in serious jeopardy against Geneseo, but the offense came alive just before half and the Lakers battled their way to a 67-56 win.