The Plattsburgh State women’s ice hockey team remained in town Saturday afternoon as SUNYAC play continued, hosting the Oswego State Lakers at Ronald B. Stafford Ice Arena. The Cardinals, winners of a tight 1–0 battle Friday against Canton, looked to extend their win streak to six games and remain unbeaten in conference action. Entering the matchup, Plattsburgh held the historical advantage in the series, leading Oswego State 50–3–2 all-time between the two rivals.

Despite early opportunities, the game remained scoreless through the opening period before Plattsburgh struck first in the second. Just under eight minutes into the frame, first-year Bailey MacKellar(Hamburg, N.Y.) collected a pass from senior Emily Kasprzak(Niagara Falls, N.Y.) and junior Maeghan Forsyth (Billings, Mont.)and fired home the lone goal of the period to give the Cardinals a 1–0 edge.

In the third period, the Lakers turned the tide. Georgia Cunliffe tied the game at one apiece, assisted by Julia Power and Jenna Majewski, before Kayla Doerre put Oswego State in front with helpers from Erika Parenti and Alexandra O’Brien. The two unanswered goals proved decisive, as Oswego held on for a 2–1 victory over Plattsburgh.

Oswego State’s Mia Devivo earned the win with 30 saves on 31 shots, while Plattsburgh’s Maddy Stetson made 19 stops in the loss. With the result, the Cardinals fell to 10–6 overall and 5–1 in SUNYAC play on the season. Plattsburgh will return to action Friday afternoon, remaining in conference competition when they host Potsdam with a 4 p.m. puck dropat Ronald B. Stafford Arena.

The Plattsburgh State men’s ice hockey team remained at home Saturday night for SUNYAC action, looking to rebound from a tough 7–0 setback to No. 1 Hobart the night before. In one of the most storied rivalries in Division III hockey, the Cardinals battled No. 4 Oswego State in a dramatic contest that lived up to expectations before the Lakers came from behind to earn a 5–4 decision.

Plattsburgh struck early and often, jumping out to a 2–0 lead less than three minutes into the game. First-year Alexandro Moliner(Delson, Quebec) opened the scoring at 0:54 of the first period, assisted by junior Vladislav Pshenichnikov (Moscow, Russia), and senior Spencer Bellina (Medina, Ohio) followed less than two minutes later with a goal set up by senior Joshua Belgrave(Burlington, Ontario) and senior Colin Callanan (Stony Point, N.Y.). Oswego kept the Cardinals honest with a goal midway through the first, but Plattsburgh extended the advantage to 4–1 in the second period on tallies from sophomore Quinn Tavares (Mississauga, Ontario) and first-year Felix-Antoine Parenteau (St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Quebec).

Oswego, however, mounted a furious comeback. The Lakers responded with four unanswered goals in the second period, capped by a late power-play strike from Matt McQuade to complete the rally. Oswego’s depth showed through as multiple scorers chipped in during the comeback. Despite a late push from the Cardinals in the final minutes, Plattsburgh could not regain the lead.

With the loss, the Cardinals fall to 8–10 overall and 4–7 in SUNYAC play. Plattsburgh will look to bounce back Friday night at SUNYAC rival Cortland, with puck drop scheduled for 7:00 p.m.

Simon Labelle and Max Nagel each logged three points, lifting Colgate to an upset 5-2 win over No. 10 Dartmouth on Saturday night at the Class of 1965 Arena.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Dartmouth came out firing in the early moments of Saturday’s matchup, but several saves by first-year goaltender Reid Dyck kept the score level. Dyck’s early stops allowed the game to settle into a defensive battle as the opening period progressed.

It was Colgate who struck first though, when Jacob Napier, assisted by Jack Brandt and Robby Newton, scored from long range at 12:17 to make it 1-0.

The Raiders refused to let up from there, doubling their lead at 17:42 when Max Nagel scored from an assist by Simon Labelle and Ryan Sullivan. The score would remain 2-0 until the end of the first period.

Looking to cut into the lead, Dartmouth pushed forward in the opening minutes of the second period, and finally got on the board at 4:38, when Ryan Schelling, off of assists by Alex Krause and CJ Foley, made it a 2-1 game.

Colgate responded right away, when Labelle scored a power play goal at 7:13, assisted by Isaiah Norlin and Nagel, to make it 3-1. From there, the Raiders continued to punish the Big Green, getting a fourth when Newton, assisted by Owen Neuharth and goaltender Reid Dyck, scored at 17:14.

The third period began with a flurry of Dartmouth action, as the Big Green attempted to pull off a three-goal comeback, but Dyck and the rest of the Raider defense held strong as the minutes ticked down in the game. This allowed Colgate to put the game to bed with an emphatic Sullivan goal at 7:49, assisted by Nagel and Labelle, to make it 5-1.

Dartmouth refused to give up however, and continued to pressure the Colgate defense, cutting the lead to three at 15:05 when Cooper Cleaves scored from assists by Nikita Nikora and Eric Charpentier.

From there, Dyck was untroubled in net, and Colgate skated out the remainder of an exceptional 5-2 win.

GAME NOTES

• Simon Labelle jumped into the top 100 in career points with a three-point performance against Dartmouth.
• Max Nagel’s first period goal was the 13th in his career, and gave him his 13th point of the season. He also registered two assists.
• First-year Reid Dyck turned 22 this week, logged 41 saves and got his second assist of the season in the win.
• Robby Newton registered his first assist of the season and his first multi-point game of the season.
• Ryan Sullivan recorded his 13th assist of the season in the Colgate victory.
• The Raiders five goals equals their season-high in a single game.

UP NEXT
The Raiders (9-13-2, 6-5-1 ECAC) get back on the ice next Friday, visiting Brown at 7 p.m. in Providence, R.I. The game will air on ESPN+.

Linemates Jonathan Castagna and Aiden Long each had a goal and an assist to lead the 12th-ranked Cornell men’s hockey team to a 4-1 victory over Harvard before an over-capacity crowd at Lynah Rink on Saturday night.

Junior forward Jake Kraft and junior defenseman George Fegaras joined Castagna and Long in the goal-scoring column, scoring 26 seconds apart to give the Big Red (14-5-0, 9-3-0 ECAC Hockey) a 2-0 lead following a scoreless first period.

“I talked to our guys, that’s close to 120 minutes of our identity, of how we want to play, that we’ve seen this year,” said Casey Jones ’90, the Jay R. Bloom ’77 Head Coach of Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey. “Last Saturday put us in our place. We had a really nice week of practice and they carried it into the weekend. I thought we executed pretty well tonight.”

After a relatively even first period, which featured no scoring and Harvard having a slight 21-20 edge in shot attempts with both teams registering nine shots on goal, Cornell had a considerable jump coming out of the dressing room from the first intermission. The Big Red dominated the period, owning advantages in shot attempts, 27-6, and shots on goal, 12-4.

The Big Red’s second-period surge was a product of relentless pressure and sustained offensive zone time.

“We sustained so much offense in their zone. That was exciting for me,” Jones said. “I thought it was as close to 120 minutes [of our identity] that we’ve had all year long. In a big weekend, you’d kind of expect that. But just the physicality, our intensity on pucks and in terms of managing the game, it was one of our best weekends.”

Picking up where he left off from Friday night’s win against Dartmouth, Kraft netted the first goal of the night at 11:27 of the second period before Fegaras added a marker 26 seconds later, pouncing on a loose rebound at the right faceoff circle.

Long capped Cornell’s three-goal second period with a tally with 1:05 left in the frame. An indirect clearing attempt out of Harvard’s defensive zone was corralled by freshman defenseman Xavier Veilleux in the neutral zone and Long squeezed between a Harvard defender and the boards to gain separation. Once at the bottom of the faceoff circle, he wristed a shot that beat Harvard goaltender Ben Charette to his five-hole.

For Long, a freshman experiencing his first Cornell-Harvard game at Lynah Rink, the goal — his fifth of the season — capped a memorable evening.

“I just kind of saw their D was tired — we’d had them in [the zone] for a while,” Long said. “Next [Veilleux] gave me a pass up the wall. I thought I could beat the D and did and I thought I’d try to take it to the net and kind of just put it on net. I saw Jonny [Castagna] go in there and luckily it snuck in.”

The atmosphere wasn’t lost on the freshman forward.

“Obviously, being a freshman and my first taste of the Harvard rivalry at home, it definitely didn’t disappoint,” Long said. “The energy in the building was awesome and to come out with the win is huge.”

Long, who had never played before a crowd like Saturday’s, fed off the Lynah Faithful’s energy.

“Obviously, MSG was probably close to that, but I’ve never been in an environment like that,” Long said. “To have the Lynah Faithful behind us is huge and we build off that energy.”

Harvard thwarted Cornell freshman goaltender Alexis Cournoyer‘s bid at his first collegiate shutout early in the third period, beating him to his high blocker side after Lucas St. Louis fanned on a pass from the top of the blue line just two seconds after the expiration of a Big Red penalty. Cournoyer finished the night with 17 saves.

Cornell retook its three-goal lead just 47 seconds later as a battle for the puck in front of Cornell’s bench resulted in freshman forward Reegan Hiscock playing the puck to Castagna, setting up a 2-on-1 scoring chance with senior forward Nick DeSantis. Slowly entering the offensive zone, Castagna lasered a shot that beat Charette to his short side to restore the three-goal lead.

Castagna, who has been on fire lately with points in 11 of his last 14 games, savored the moment of scoring against Harvard at Lynah.

“Everyone’s dream is to score a goal in the Harvard game, so it’s nice to finally get to do that at home,” Castagna said. “It was a 2-on-1, so I just tried to stay calm and slow it down a little and take what was given.”

Harvard appeared to have scored a goal with an extra attacker with under three minutes left, but Cornell challenged for a potential missed offside call, which the Big Red won.

The Big Red had a pair of chances to score into a Harvard empty net, but both went wide of the goal.

GAME NOTES
• Cornell concluded its eight-game homestand with a 7-1-0 record, with its lone blemish coming in last Saturday’s loss to No. 7 Quinnipiac. The Big Red are 11-1-0 at Lynah Rink this season and its 11 home wins are tied with Augustana, Dartmouth and Penn State for the national lead.

MOST WINS AT HOME THIS SEASON
Division I Hockey
• 11-1-3, Augustana
• 11-1-0, Cornell
• 11-1-1, Dartmouth
• 11-2-0, Penn State
• 10-2-0, Michigan
• 10-4-0, North Dakota
• 10-0-2, Quinnipiac

• Saturday was the 170th meeting between the bitter ECAC Hockey and Ivy League rivals. Cornell increased its lead in the series, 85-71-14, and is unbeaten in its last seven games (6-0-1) against the Crimson. It is the longest unbeaten streak over the Crimson since going 9-0-1 between Nov. 11, 1995, and Nov. 13, 1998 — the first 10 games of the rivalry under Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame head coach Mike Schafer ’86.

• The victory upped Cornell’s home win streak over Harvard to four games, the longest such streak since a four-game stretch from Nov. 21, 2008, to March 13, 2010.

• Jones became the third Cornell coach to sweep Harvard in the regular season of his first season coaching the Big Red, accompanied by Dick Bertrand ’70 (1970-71) and Schafer (1995-96).

• Veilleux has points in 10 of his last 13 games, accruing 13 points (3-10—13) during the span, while Castagna has logged at least one point in 11 of his last 14 games, posting 18 points (8-10—18) over that stretch.

• Under Jones this season, Cornell is 10-0-0 when scoring the first goal of the game, 11-0-0 when it scores at least three goals and 9-0-0 when allowing one goal or fewer.

• Cournoyer earned his 11th career victory in his 15th career appearance, becoming the fastest netminder to reach that threshold since Matthew Galajda, who also posted 11 wins in his first 15 outings during the 2017-18 season. He is one of seven Big Red goaltenders to accomplish the feat.

MOST WINS THROUGH FIRST 14 CAREER APPEARANCES
Cornell Program History — Since 1957-58
• 14, Ken Dryden (1966-67)
• 12, Brian Cropper (1968-70)
• 12, Dave LeNeveu (2001-02)
• 11, Brian Hayward (1978-79)
• 11, Corrie D’Alessio (1987-88)
• 11, Matthew Galajda (2017-18)
• 11, Alexis Cournoyer (2025-26)

• Among active Division I goaltenders, Cournoyer is one of five netminders to amass at least 11 victories in his first 15 appearances, joining North Dakota’s Jan Špunar (13 wins in first 15 games), Michigan’s Jack Ivankovic (12 wins in first 15) and Minnesota’s Nathan Airey and Wisconsin’s Daniel Hauser (both with 11 wins in first 15).

MOST WINS THROUGH FIRST 15 CAREER APPEARANCES
Active Division I Goaltenders
• 13 wins, Jan Špunar, North Dakota (2025-26)
• 12 wins, Jack Ivankovic, Michigan (2025-26)
• 11 wins, Nathan Airey, Minnesota (2023-25)
• 11 wins, Alexis Cournoyer, Cornell (2025-26)
• 11 wins, Daniel Hauser, Wisconsin (2025-26)
• 10 wins, Luca Di Pasquo, Michigan State & Minnesota (2023-26)
• 10 wins, Ajeet Gundarah, Sacred Heart (2024-25)
• 10 wins, Louka Cloutier, Boston College (2025-26)
• 10 wins, Matteo Drobac, Miami (2025-26)
• 10 wins, Quentin Miller, Denver (2025-26)

HOBEY BAKER MEMORIAL AWARD VOTING
Cornell fans are encouraged to support junior forwards Ryan Walsh and Jonathan Castagna, both of whom have been nominated for the 2026 Hobey Baker Memorial Award. Fan voting for college hockey’s top player runs through midnight on Sunday, March 8.
 
Fans can vote online at hobeybaker.com/vote or text their vote to 844-623-9688 (text “26089” for Walsh or “26090” for Castagna). Fans may vote for one player per day.
 
The Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner will be announced on Friday, April 10, in Las Vegas during the NCAA Frozen Four.

UP NEXT
Cornell begins a stretch of seven road games in its next eight contests next weekend when it travels to face ECAC Hockey and Ivy League rivals Yale (7-13-0, 6-6-0) and Brown (4-16-0, 3-9-0). Puck drop is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday at Ingalls Rink against Yale and 5 p.m. Saturday at Meehan Auditorium against Brown. Both games will be streamed live on ESPN+.

The Big Red swept both teams at Lynah Rink earlier this season, defeating Brown 4-1 on Nov. 14 and Yale 5-2 on Nov. 15.