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The IAC back-to-back, home-and-away schedule is proving to be a gauntlet—most of the series have ended in 1-1 record ties. The Bears fell into this pattern on Saturday, but not without a lot of effort to win both games. The home team started off well with two unassisted goals by Cameron Brown 1st @ 7:32 […]

Weather was beautiful (sunny, nice breeze, upper 60s) but the play on the field was UGLY. The two goalies must have appreciated the light, because both were seeing the ball extraordinarily well. Any win over the Bulldogs of Potomac qualifies as GORGEOUS. Q1 started off inauspiciously with the home team at 14:30. Exit 16 Kevin […]

HIGHLIGHTS Regular season play draws to a close with this week’s games. Conference tournaments and the NCAA tournaments are next on the horizon. Colorado College (Max Becker) won the SCAC tournament this week and is awaiting its fate in the D-III tournament. D-I THIS WEEK’S GAMES BEARS VS BEARS—BIG TEN TOURNAMENT EDITION JOHNS HOPKINS (Joey […]

The IAC back-to-back schedule is leading to some results; so, more to report: Baseball, won one and lost two- one behind a strong ‘24 pitching performance; Golf lost two, Tennis is undefeated; Track reports tow impressive PBs; Lax lost to Prep there but showed some resilience in the 2nd game; Randy Bednar, Jr. and […]

Thursday’s trip out Rockville Pike was not memorable—the score was tight through 24 minutes, but the Little Hoyas tallied 5 consecutive goals in Q3 on the way to a +6 victory. That is not consistent with the history of this series—over the past five years the average difference has been 2.8 with the 2017 outlier […]

The Bears traveled up Rockville Pike to a campus that has a large number earth-movers and other construction equipment ready to expand the buildings and fields. The Little Hoyas presented a major challenge with a roster heavily populated by big seniors and with a long list of 12 commitments. The Bears appeared to have left […]

BEARS LAX TRAX 042621 HIGHLIGHTS A first in the history of Bears Lax Trax Fax— an interdivisional Bears versus Bears contest! TUFTS (Kyle Amitay, Garrett Kurtz) 15 DARTMOUTH (Brendon Gallagher, Brett Gallagher) 9 Although there was no league play for the Ivies this year, some of the teams have scheduled a game or two here […]

Now that the Bears are getting out onto the fields, courses and courts, reports from within the White Rocks are here. Baseball, golf, tennis and track win their openers. Lax splits with SSSA Randy Bednar, Jr. and Dane Camphausen are hitting well. Jake Davidson has a good trip to the mound. Morgan Egloff and Evan Katz […]

The Bears were challenged with their first IAC game –against the Saints with a 2-0 conference record. Both teams’ rosters are filled with big time commitments and very promising underclassmen. The Bear coaches, aware of the 11am return game in Alexandria tomorrow, started substituting early. Early home team leads of +4 (Q1) and +6 (half) […]

HIGHLIGHTS D-I THIS WEEK’S GAMES BEAR V. BEAR MICHIGAN (Zach Johnson) 13 PENN STATE (Nate Buller) 14 (O/T) A B1G battle for the conference tournament between these football rivals. The visiting Wolverines held a 3 goal advantage over the home Nittany Lions. This BTN televised this exciting game as the teams battled back and forth […]

BearSportsNews Sunday Edition Apiologies, the Bears playing sports at the next level were lost in the thunder surrounding our nation’s health and political crises. Below is a belated blog about Landon alumni. Tried to chronicle all who were playing for their colleges, and may well have missed players and games. Please let me know about […]

BEARS LAX TRAX 030921 D-I Congratulations to Griffin Brown for his 100th career goal and to Nate Buller of Penn State for earning his first appearance in the Nittany Lions’ starting lineup plus an awesome goal! THIS WEEK’S GAMES BEARS VS BEARS MARYLAND (Justin Shockey, John Geppert, Matt Kopp, Griffin Brown) 18 JOHNS HOPKINS (Joey […]

BEARS LAX TRAX 030121 D-I THIS WEEK’S GAMES BEARS VS BEARS MARYLAND (Justin Shockey, John Geppert, Matt Kopp, Griffin Brown) 13 PENN STATE (Nate Buller) 7 Early in second period, Penn State put together a run of three goals to go up by one (the first of those goals is detailed below). But that was […]

BEARS LAX TRAX 022221 D-I Thursday, the Ivy League announced that there will be no men’s lacrosse for member schools in 2021. Consequently, we will not be reporting on the play of the Gallagher brothers at Dartmouth. Congratulations to Joey Epstein of Johns Hopkins–the first Bear to score a goal in the 2021 season. Griffin […]

BEARS LAX TRAX 021521 D-I Congratulations to Joey Epstein who was named a captain for the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays for a second consecutive season. From Johns Hopkins: Epstein is in his second year as a captain after becoming the first sophomore captain at Johns Hopkins since Kevin Mahon in 1975 when he was selected […]

D-I THIS WEEK’S GAMES BEARS VS BEARS VIRGINIA (Ryan Pride) 20 TOWSON (Mo Sillah) 11 After a closely contested first quarter, UVA scored seven times in the second period and then as many again in the third to blow the game open. Ryan was a regular in the SSDM rotation. OTHER GAMES DENVER (Ryan Giles) […]

Thanks to our incredibly hard-working and thorough Facts Tracker, John Nichols, we have news: BEARS LAX TRAX 020421 D-I THIS WEEK’S GAME DENVER (Ryan Giles) 9 Utah 8 The Pioneers got off to a very slow start in their season opener, trailing Utah 3-1 at the half. Denver came out of the halftime break with […]

BEAR SPORT NEWS 10/11/2020 Virtual and distant teaching, plus the cancellation/delay/ resumption of some of college sports for this Fall, have delayed the BSN publication. Enough material has accumulated to present this Sunday Edition: Inside the Rocks reports most college Offers and Commitments Trax is a LONG LIST of Bears who may or may not […]

This is only a sample of the Bears who served, apologies to all missed: […]

BearSportsNews Sunday Edition May 3,2020 Distance learning from inside the White Rocks Bears ABOVE THE White Rocks Bears WITHIN THE White Rocks Bears OUTSIDE THE White Rocks Lots of good news but two sad reports of deaths and a memorial. Bears ABOVE THE White Rocks […]