OSWEGO, N.Y. – The Skidmore College men's hockey team held a 1-0 lead for all of the second period and half of the third, but lost 3-1 to nationally eighth-ranked Oswego State on Saturday evening on the road. Oswego scored the go-ahead goal with 2:54 left and added the third on an empty Skidmore net.

• The Lakers used a fortuitous bounce for the second night in a row on the winner. Josh Smipson's play from behind the goal line toward the Skidmore net hit goalie Joshua Seeley's skate and trickled in. The Lakers scored a similar-style goal right before the clock hit zero to beat Plattsburgh on Friday.
• Seeley impressed all night, finishing with 24 saves including a stop on a 4-on-1 Oswego rush in the first period and several point-blank chances throughout the game.
• After a scoreless opening period, junior Mitchell Floccare put the Thoroughbreds in front on a wrister through the 5-hole 47 seconds into period two. Coleman Jenkins and Cooper Rice assisted on the rush.
• Skidmore (1-3, 0-2 SUNYAC) killed a pair of penalties in the second to keep Oswego (4-0, 2-0 SUNYAC) scoreless.
• Drake Semrad directed in a Luca Munoz pass on a 2-on-1 Oswego rush to tie the game at the 9:06 mark of the third.
• The Thoroughbreds then had a brief 5-on-3 opportunity, but couldn't convert and took a penalty leading to 4-on-4 play and an abbreviated Laker power play.
• Skidmore killed it, the last of five kills on the night, and got a chance to take the lead shorthanded on a Brandon Spaulding breakaway. Laker goalie Michael Manzi made the save, one of 25 on the night for the first-year netminder.
• The winner came just over a minute later.
• Tommy Bannister scored the empty-netter just before time expired.
• Both teams came up empty in four power-play chances.
• The hosts finished with a 42-33 edge in the faceoff circle, but it was even after a dominant 18-8 first period.

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Skidmore returns home to play Cortland and Morrisville next weekend.