By Warren Kozireski —
Sophomore Travis Broughman scored his career high 14th and 15th goals on the season while senior Michal Gillespie (New City) assisted on both and one other by Josh Zizek as Oswego defeated Plattsburgh 4-1 in the SUNYAC semi-final delayed until Tuesday night due to a compressor failure late last week.
The Lakers will travel to third-in-the nation Geneseo Sat. night at 7pm for the championship game in a rematch from one season ago.
Broughman opened the scoring at 1:33 of the first and made it 2-0 Oswego at 5:17 of the second period on the power play as he roofed a shot from the right faceoff circle.
Joey Scorpio followed a little over two minutes later with his third of the season and Zizek added on the fourth in the final minute of the second period.
Gillespie tied his career best with the three helpers.
Plattsburgh senior defenseman and Niagara University transfer Andrew Pizzo broke up the shutout bid with a power play goal—his third of the season—at 8:22 of the third, but the Cardinals would get no closer despite their goalie pulled for the final 90+ seconds.
“The last couple week I think our line has been making a lot of plays and moving the puck quick and a lot of plays that actually haven’t fallen in the net, but we just have to keep playing the right way and it seems we’ve been doing that,” Gillespie said.
Oswego goaltender Steven Kozikoski (Liverpool) made 21 saves in registering his sixth win of the season in eight starts.
“Do or die and we really don’t have much to lose here now,” Gillespie said about this weekend’s championship game. “After tonight we’re excited.”
