GENESEO, N.Y. – The No. 3/3 Oswego State men's ice hockey team stunned No. 5/6 Geneseo by erasing a five-goal deficit to force overtime and an eventual 5-5 tie on Saturday night at the Knights' Ira S. Wilson Ice Arena. With the tie, Oswego earns an important point in the conference standing as it stands at 14-3-1 on the year and 9-1-1 in the SUNYAC. Geneseo is now 12-2-3, 6-2-1.
 
Although hockey is a game of three, 20-minute periods, Saturday's tilt was a tale of two halves. Geneseo scored the contest's first five goals to have what seemed to be an insurmountable lead a little more than halfway through the middle period. Two minutes later, Joey Davies turned the tide in favor of the Lakers, a momentum change few saw coming, most notably, the Knights.
 
Davies tallied the first of his eventual hat trick at 13:42 of the second period with assists from Kenny Neil and Shawn Hulshof. Less than a minute before the final intermission, the senior was at it again, cutting the Geneseo margin to 5-2 with help from Devin Campbell and Hulshof.
 
Entering the final 20 minutes firing on all cylinders, Davies found senior captain Chris Raguseo for Oswego's third goal of the night just 24 seconds into the period. Neil and Stephen Johnson then teamed to find Davies at 6:08 to complete the forward's hat trick and bring the Lakers to within one at 5-4. Despite controlling the puck for the majority of the remaining time, Geneseo answered every Oswego challenge until the waning seconds. A late timeout from the Lakers proved to be productive, as Johnson was able to tally the equalizer bar-down with just 3.3 seconds showing on the clock. Raguseo and Neil picked up assists on the game-tying notch that forced five minutes of extra time.
 
Oswego bombarded Geneseo with 51 shots on-goal in the contest, 21 more than the Knights were able to muster. The Laker special teams units were crucial, holding Geneseo off the board for all three of its power-play chances while scoring on 1-of-3 Laker power-plays.
 
Matt Zawadzki came into the game to start the second period and was able to make 16 saves while allowing just two goals in 43:50 of work. The senior moves to 7-2-1 on the year with the stalemate on Saturday.
 
Oswego will return to the ice at 7 p.m. on Friday when it hosts the Red Dragons of Cortland for its annual Teal Game to raise awareness of ovarian cancer.