Lakers Stay Perfect in 2009 with Win over Cortland

Photo: Jared Crast

The Oswego State Lakers stay perfect in 2009 with a 5-2 win at the hands of the visiting Cortland Red Dragons. The offense did not take long to get the crowd of over 2500 people into the game as Andrew Mather scored on the power play 46 seconds in with Brendan McLaughlin and Mark Lozzi getting the assists. Ryan Ellis scored 11 minutes later to make the score 2-0 with Hank Van Boxmeer and Eric Selleck picking up the assists. Ellis played on the line with Chris Laganiere and Selleck as Matt Whitehead was a last minute scratch.

Another change in the lineup was the "Energy Line" as Owen Kelly was centering Lozzi and Garren Reisweber with Derrell Levy was out of the lineup. Rich Zalewski scored his first of the season with a nice move shorthanded to increase the Laker lead to 3-0 after the first period. The second period lone highlight was Ellis scoring his second of the night and 10th of the season 3:23 in with the help of Selleck and Tyler Lyon. Chris Laganiere scored to make the lead grow to 5-0 early in the third period with Selleck and Ellis picking up the assists.

The Red Dragons got on the board as Gerard Heinz scored his first of the season with Justin Porpora and Patrick Palmisano having the helpers. Cortland scored again at the 12:07 mark when Ryan Markell beat Laker goalie Tim Potter for his 8th of the year with Frank Rizzo and Jake Saville getting the assists. Potter made 23 saves to pick up his fourth consecuative win. Cortland net-minder Mike Reilly stopped 27 shots while giving up all five goals to the Lakers. The three stars of the game were all from Oswego with Eric Selleck, Rich Zalewski and Chris Laganiere getting those honors.

Oswego moves into sole-possession of second in SUNYAC with 13 points with the win and now have a record of 12-5-1 and 6-2-1 in conference. Plattsburgh won both their games this weekend against Buffalo State and Fredonia and have a six point lead over the Lakers. The schedule doesn't get any easier for the Lakers as conference rivals Fredonia and Buffalo State come to the Campus Center and try to get revenge as the Lakers won both games during the Western New York swing. The puck drops at 7:00 both nights this upcoming weekend and you can hear all the action live right here on 88.9 FM WNYO and online at wnyosports.com

Steven Petty