A pair of rapid-fire goals in the first and second periods helped Oswego win the SUNYAC semifinal game against Buffalo State 5-2 and move on to the championship game.<\/p>\n
Chris Muise and David Titanic each scored twice and Andrew Hare made 33 saves.<\/p>\n
“I thought we started off a little bit tentative,” Oswego coach Ed Gosek said. “They get the goal early on. I thought the guys stayed the course. I thought tonight was a big step in the right direction over last Saturday night of not coming apart when things didn’t go well.”<\/p>\n
“I think five-on-five, at least the first two periods, we out scoring-chanced them,” Buffalo State coach Nick Carriere said. “The reason I start that sentence ‘five-on-five’ is because we weren’t five-on-five all the time. I think we took some penalties we didn’t need to take. I think we did a lot of it to ourselves.”<\/p>\n
Buffalo State got on the scoreboard first midway through the opening period thanks to a gift of a giveaway by Oswego. Matt Bessing received the “pass” in the high slot and then dished it off to Mike Zannella at the left faceoff circle. Zannella found a gap near side to place his wrist shot with the teams skating four aside.<\/p>\n
Five minutes later, Oswego rebounded with two goals in 53 seconds.<\/p>\n
Luke Moodie from the top of the crease tapped in a crossing pass from Paul Rodrigues on the power play.<\/p>\n
Titanic, while down on one knee, whipped a shot in from the slot to give Oswego the lead.<\/p>\n
Hare preserved the lead seven minutes into the second period when he stopped a shorthanded breakaway by Shane Avery.<\/p>\n
“I thought Hare was the difference,” Gosek said. “It was not the amount, it was the quality of the shots. I think this was his best performance next to Amherst last year in Lake Placid. He stopped a breakaway, a couple in close, made the one on the back door, we have blown coverage on the PK and he comes across and makes the stop. I thought he tracked the puck well.”<\/p>\n
At 16:32 with each team down a man, Muise extended the lead to 3-1. This time, it was Buffalo State which handed the Lakers a gift. Nick Melligan’s cross ice pass in his own zone was easily intercepted by Muise, giving him a breakaway down low. His dekes left Carr motionless in the split, enabling Muise to wrap it around Carr’s left skate.<\/p>\n
“I tried to anticipate where he was going to go with it,” Muise said. “It went off my pads and I just went in with a move and fortunately, it went in.”<\/p>\n
Just 2:10 later, Muise got his second to make it 4-1, but not before some controversy.<\/p>\n
The Bengals thought they cut the lead to one, but the goal was waved off because the officials called goaltender interference on the play. Muise scored on the ensuing four-on-three power play when he flipped it over Carr’s shoulder a few feet away.<\/p>\n
“It was a very incidental contact,” Carriere said. “The bigger thing for us was when our player shot the puck, he got hit blind side. Typically, it’s a game misconduct. You can see it on video clearly, but it happens quickly. These guys have a tough job.”<\/p>\n
The Bengals did finally get one back early in the third seconds after a power play of their own. Todd Graham’s shot from the middle somehow found a hole between the post and Hare’s right skate.<\/p>\n
Buffalo State continued to play hard in the final period, but despite some close calls, was unable to close the gap any further.<\/p>\n
Titanic finished off the game with an empty-net goal.<\/p>\n
Plattsburgh beat Geneseo 5-1 in the other semifinal, setting up a third meeting this season between Plattsburgh and Oswego.<\/p>\n
Oswego, which lost the previous two contests to Plattsburgh, hosts the game next Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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