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Catching up on all Landon Varsity Athletes: Rugby won its league; golf, lacrosse and tennis earned 2nd place points in IAC Founders’ Cup. That plus very strong winter performance puts the Bears up there? Alumni Bears playing all the next level(s)-pro, college Div. I & III, and developmental programs- Div. III one baseball and one […]

The 16 Little Hoyas seniors only allowed an opponent to score more than 9 goals and they lost both of those games. The Michael Buffer of Rockville Pike let the crowd and the neighbors know about every other point of praise for Prep plus frequent playing of the WWE anthem. To emphasize the Ursine […]

A week ago, the final score was 5-12 and that was after leading 3-2 at the end of Q1, 2-5 at half and the Maroon left Hummel Bowl with a W. At the end of the IAC semifinal, the Bears walked out of the same stadium with a ticket to the IAC Championship game. An […]

BEARS LAX TRAX FAX 05082023 Division I BIG TEN TOURNAMENT—a weekend packed with upsets and a Bear standing tall in the goal. Semifinals #4 Michigan (Graham Hertzberg, Hunter Taylor) 17 #1 Penn State 15 Michigan nearly matched Penn State tally for tally in the first half but trailed by two at the break. The Wolverines outshot […]

After a close 9-5 win over the Bulldogs of DC and a roster with six senior commits to well-regarded college teams, an objective opinion might postulate a tight second contest. Reality crashed as Coach McGettigan was able to empty the bench – every Bear on this team can say that they played in this BIG […]

BEARS LAX TRAX FAX 05012023 Division I BEARS vs BEARS Harvard (Joey Graham) 11 Yale (Jake Cohen) 14 Coming into the final regular season match, Harvard and Yale were tied for fourth place in the league with matching 2-3 records. This last game of the regular season between these rivals was also effectively a play-in […]

Azalea Festival is COMING–will you be there? All good Bears ought to participate–IT’S FUN, too. BearSportsNews Sunday Edition 04/30/2023 PLEASE VOLUNTEER CLICK [HERE] TO BECOME PART OF THE AZALEA TEAM!!! HIGHLIGHTS Inside the White Rocks— Catching up on all Landon Varsity Athletes: Baseball beats StA; Golfers earn 2 All IAC awards; Lax on 4 game […]

The DC Bulldogs and the Bears met on rainy and windy Bordley Stadium at Triplett Field for a critical IAC match. StA’s roster was led by 5 seniors, three of whom have big time commitments. Thier IL rating is (was?) greater than the Bears’. The visiting FOGO is considered one of the best in the […]

The Falcons own six straight Maryland Class 3A championships and their roster includes commits to a number of strong programs. Against public schools, they are undefeated in 2023. A loss to Severn and now to the Bears are their only blemishes. They, too, play the National Federation rules, but at a faster pace than Madison. […]

by John Nichols Division I BEARS vs BEARS Penn (Stephen Bou) 17 Dartmouth (Brendan Gallagher, Brett Gallagher, Cameron Brown, Zak Oehlerking) 6 The Quakers limited Big Green to a single goal in each of the first three quarters. Dartmouth’s only back-to-back scores were the final two of the game. Penn, however, had two big scoring runs, […]

1st in a series To; Landon parents, grandparents, students, alumni, families and friends Sixty years ago, the Landon community got together to raise funds for the scholarship funs and the tradition has carried through weather, bad economies, other school fundraisers and even a pandemic. Why should a parent, grandparent, student, alumnus or friend participate. A […]

Bear’65 will be in Brunswick, ME watching Polar Bear FOGO grandson GRANT VERSTANDIG L’09 LAX

The Warhawks, 2022 VA State 6A champions with a 2023 7-1 record, played the Bears on their Vienna campus. Thus, the game was played under the NFHS rules, which among other variations, do not include a shot clock. As you may guess, as a veteran of 50+ years of watching the sport, I’m OLD […]

Division I BEARS vs BEARS Penn (Stephen Bou) 15 Harvard (Joey Graham) 9 Penn opened up the game with three straight scores, but Harvard bounced back to take the lead with a run of four. The Quakers got the lead back with a pair of goals before Harvard closed out the first half scoring to set […]

HIGHLIGHTS Inside the White Rocks— Catching up on all Landon Varsity Athletes: Bears 3-1 v. the Rockville Bulldogs- tennis the winner; Rugby beats DeMatha; Alumni Bears playing all the next level(s)-pro, college Div. I & III, and developmental programs- baseball, golf, tennis, basketball, hockey—BIG NEWS-one Bear is on D3 team of week with […]

IL’s #13, WaPo’s #3, commits: 13 Div. I (princeton, ND, JHU, Duke…), 1 Div. II and 2 Div. III,13 GP’23 and more than a few boarders—that was substantial challenge. The Bears were not intimidated, fought hard narrowing the margin to –5 at one time, and did not concede any play in the 48 minutes. Goals […]

BEARS LAX TRAX FAX 04092023 Division I BEARS vs BEARS Maryland (John Geppert) 12 OT Ohio State (Cullen Brown) 11 The Buckeyes used a five-goal run in the first half to take a 9-5 lead after the first thirty minutes of play. The Terrapins made slight progress in the third quarter, but still trailed by three going […]

IL’s #2 rated team in the Southeast, the 11-2 Crusaders returned for an annual meeting with the Bears. The Raleigh team is always stocked with talented athletes and the fact that several of the visitors had Madlax experience on their resumes showed that they followed this tradition. The Bears showed their depth in Q3 […]

in the midst of three major religious holidays BearSportsNews Sunday Edition 04/09/2023 THESE ARE POLAR BEAR AZALEAS HIGHLIGHTS Inside the White Rocks— Catching up on all Landon Varsity Athletes: slow info flow this week –no news for baseball, rugby, tennis or track, but lacrosse and golf beat Bullis in their 1st 2023 IAC games Alumni Bears playing […]

The Bulldogs of Potomac have 6 seniors with Div. I commitments and ‘24 players going to Bucknell, Syracuse and Ohio State. The game was played on the heels of stormy weather (severe rain, hail, violent winds).1 The adversity did not deter the visiting Bears. N.B. all of the visitors’ goals were scored by boys […]