OSWEGO, N.Y. – Oswego State athletics has an important weekend ahead as nine teams are in action. Many of those teams have pivotal contests as the road to obtain a spot in postseason tournaments nears.

Women's and men's ice hockey will start off the weekend, as each have games at 7 p.m. on Friday night. Both squads are on the road, with the women taking on Cortland on Friday and again at 2 p.m. on Saturday in ECAC West battles. The men face Morrisville in SUNYAC tilts on Friday and Saturday, both with the same 7 p.m. faceoff time.

Currently the women are tied for third place with 13 points with Potsdam in the ECAC West standings. The ECAC West Championship takes the conference's top six teams.

Oswego's men are in fourth place of the SUNYAC standings as its conference tournament also takes the top six teams. The Lakers will be fighting over the last few weeks of the season to try and move to the No. 2 seed, which carries a bye in the first round of the SUNYAC Championship. 

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Three teams are at home on Saturday, beginning at 1 p.m. when wrestling invites Cortland to Max Ziel Gymnasium for a dual. It will be Oswego's last home event of the season as it will honor the team's two seniors, Maxx Stratton and Dan Batchelder.

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The basketball teams will celebrate Senior Night against Cortland that same night, with the women tipping off at 6 p.m. before the men take on the Red Dragons at 8 p.m. Four players will be honored for the women, as Brittany Pritchard, Paula Egelston, Lauren Nunziato and Jenn Robbins make up the senior class. The men's team will thank its lone senior, Daniel Ross, before the contest with Cortland.

On Tuesday, the men delivered a huge win 71-61 over Oneonta at home. Oswego was tied with the Red Dragons in the SUNYAC standings at the beginning of the contest and the Lakers will face the same obstacle against Cortland. The two squads are in a tie for fourth in the conference with 7-6 records. At the end of the regular season, six teams make the SUNYAC Championship. Currently, the race is very tight as Cortland and Oswego are tied at 7-6, Buffalo State is nipping at their heels at 6-6 and Oneonta close behind the Bengals at 6-7. 

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The men's and women's swimming and diving teams will participate in the Geneseo Invite at 1 p.m. Saturday. It will be the last meet of the regular season as the following weekend, those who qualified, will compete in the SUNYAC Championship.

Finally, the men's and women's track and field team will continue its season at The College at Brockport as the Golden Eagle Invitational is set to begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday.

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