The Oswego State men's soccer team weathered a rainy day to remain unbeaten with a 3-3 overtime tie at Hamilton College on Tuesday evening. With the stalemate, Oswego goes to 2-0-1 on the year while the Continentals start the year 0-0-1.
Neither team could hold a lead for very long in the contest, with 2:30 being the most time either squad spent with an advantage. Hamilton opened the scoring with a goal at 27:29 but Oswego answered less than three minutes later. Logan Sperano tallied the equalizer at 29:59 off an assist from Hassan Musa. It was Spearno's second goal in as many games, which is also his season total.
Oswego garnered its first lead of the game at 34:58 on Conor Vaughn's first goal of the year. Junior classmate Thomas Osborn distributed the pass on Vaughn's goal for his second assist of the young campaign. Just 2:15 later, however, Hamilton was able to knot the game to send the teams to the break tied at 2-2.
After playing nearly the entire second half in scoreless fashion, Oswego broke the tie at 84:12. Musa earned his team-leading fourth goal of the year off a pass from Jason Siracuse. The edge was short lived as the Continentals notched its third goal a little over one minute later. Oswego and Hamilton played two scoreless, 10-minute overtime periods to result in the 3-3 draw.
Despite being outshot 19-13 on the day, Oswego had the better opportunities, with six of its shots coming on-goal to only four of that variety for Hamilton.
Evan Bogucki held down the Laker net for all 110 minutes, making one save to move to 1-0-1 on the season.
Oswego will return to action at 4 p.m. on Saturday when it faces Maine-Farmington in the first game of the Southern Vermont College Tournament. The Lakers will then face either the host or SUNY Canton on Sunday depending on the outcome of Saturday's contests.
