Oswego Tennis capped off another quality season with a fourth place finish at the Section 3, Class A Tournament at Syracuse University. On Monday, the Oswego girls’ varsity golf team finished its 2011 regular season with a victory on Monday over West Genesee by a final margin of 219-228.
League softball champions, a come-from-behind lacrosse rally that fell just short, runners tearing up tracks and lady lacrosse teams prepping for post season are just some of the recent highlights in Oswego scholastic athletics.
It has been a tremendously busy week for Oswego sports teams, especially the softball squad, but the season continues to move toward post-season play.
Oswego junior Whitney Ford, turned in an outstanding performance for the Lady Bucs, at the 20 team East Syracuse-Minoa Girls’ Track and Field Invitational, held Friday afternoon at East Syracuse-Minoa High School.
The tournament, which serves as a much-needed fundraiser for the CYO program, will feature competition for all ages, their will be two brackets, ages 16 – 30 and 30 and over with a limit of eight teams per bracket. For younger players there will be a shoot-out for youth ages 5 – 7, 8 – 10, 11 – 12, and 13- 15.
Despite horrible weather conditions that have resulted in a record number of rescheduled games the Oswego teams have been in action between the torrential rain storms that have struck Central New York.
The Lady Bucs started the year 0-5, but rolled off four straight victories including capturing the Oswego County championship tournament over Fulton. Oswego captured the “War on the Shores” which involved all four Oswego County scholastic girls’ varsity lacrosse teams.
The Oswego girls’ track team lost to the host Lady Bulldogs of Nottingham Wednesday by the score of 81-44, in a CNYCL American Division contest. Junior standout Whitney Ford was a triple winner for the Lady Bucs.
The season has gotten off to a slow start for the Lady Bucs varsity lacrosse team, but the squad made up for the 0-5 start with a 14-8 win over visiting Auburn on Tuesday. Oswego headed to Auburn for a boys’ varsity lacrosse game and came home with a 13-6 victory.
Oswego teams have been in action recently and on Tuesday the Lady Bucs lacrosse team scored a 14-8 win over Auburn for the first victory of the season while the eight-team Icebreaker Softball Tournament was cancelled due to wet fields, cold conditions and a forecast that did not appear to allow this year’s event to become a reality.
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