Bear Sports News 05/08/2016

Current Bears

• Golf earns IAC co-championship trophy with undefeated 5-0 record and set team record low score.

• Tennis report from Coach Miller

Bear Trax

• Chris Hudnut L’11 received his College’s Top Award for Male Athletes

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Current Bears

BASEBALL

The 8-6 team (6-4 in IAC) beat Episcopal 2-1 and 3-0

FENCING

Had matches against St. Anselm’s, GP and Gonzaga; no results posted yet.

GOLF

By defeating Bullis on May 4at Needwood G.C. , the Landon Golf Team finished 5-0 in the league and won at least a share of the I.A.C. Championships. In doing so, they set a school record 168 for nine holes. Evan Katz 31, John Kalavritinos 32, Jeff Samit 34, West Shaw 35 and Cole Gibson/Tyler Poirier 36. Well Done Landon Bears

Landon:

Katz                       31

Kalavritinos            32

Samit                      34

Shaw                      35

Gibson/Poirier        36

Landon Team Total         168

Bullis Team Total             193

LACROSSE

The 15-3 Bears beat Robinson 17-12. This week’s schedule: Monday game against undefeated Churchill and Tuesday against EHS.

RUGBY

From Coach France–

Landon Rugby defeated the Model School 73-5.

SAILING

1^ST meet not scheduled @ Landon.net

TENNIS

From Coach Miller

The tennis team stands at 5-4.Though in this year’s results may be considered disappointing compared to the Bears’ stellar history; the roster includes 4members of the Class of 2017; so the Bears have a bright future.

We have lost to all the good teams and beaten all of the teams that were not as good. St Albans won the IAC and we lost a nailbiter 3-4 to them. We concluded the regular season with another 3-4 loss to Bullis. The IAC tournament begins on Tuesday and we will host Bullis for a chance to get another shot at STA. The team is led by 2 freshmen at the top of the ladder Sachin Das and Rodrigo Garcia. Sachin is nationally ranked and has already established himself as one of the best in a program that has a long list of great players. Rodrigo is ranked in the Mid Atlantic and has held down the #2 spot admirably.

After them, the strongest part of our team is probably #1 doubles pair of Henry Smith (senior) and Dilan Prasad. They were finalists at the Woodberry Invitational and they are a win for us pretty much every match.

Versus Bullis, we won at #4 singles, #1 doubles and #3 doubles. The final match on was #2 doubles (Will Sears, Nate Smith) who lost 6-4 in the third set.

TRACK AND FIELD

No recent results have been posted.

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BEAR TRACKS

Chris Hudnut wins Colby’s Highest award for male athletes

Colby basketball player Chris Hudnut (Chevy Chase, Md.) was awarded the Ellsworth Millett Award for the men at the Colby Senior Awards Presentation. At the team banquet, he received his 4^th consecutive MVP award.

Hudnut finished his basketball career ranked 11th all-time in scoring with 1,403 points and added 643 rebounds. He likely would have had more than 1,500 points, but missed about 10 games due to injury. Hudnut was a two-time All-NESCAC selection and was having his best statistical season when he missed.

Chris Hudnut is pictured with men’s basketball head coach Damien Strahorn

After earning the Maine Rookie of the Year in 2013, Hudnut was on the Maine All-State First Team three years in a row.

SPRING SPORTS

Diamond TraxMax Kra (2012), Bucknell Bisons, reliever, 17-32 (8-12 Patriot) heads to the Patriot League semi-finals with a series against Navy. Max is 1-2 in 17 appearances as a reliever for the season.

Sean P. O’Brien (2014), Macalester College pitcher. The Bear is 0-1 in 6 appearances.  Team record for season is 16-17.

Spencer Abraham (2015), Claremont McKenna College Stags, 11-26; in five plate appearances, Spencer is hitting .200 (1 hit 5ABs.

Andrew Kvasnicka, (2015) , Swarthmore College,22-17 The rookie  has appeared in 15 games (started 1)  for the Garnet with a hit, 2 runs, 4 walks and an RBI plus he drew 3 walks. Andrew also pitched a complete inning

Garrett Zoukis, (2015), University of Cincinnati, the Bearcats are 21-25. Garrett has started one and played in two games.

Golf Trax

Ralph Blasey (2014), DavidsonCollege

Mike Blasey, (2015), Davidson College –season complete

Walter Egloff, (2015) , Loyola University Maryland

Track TraxDeion Wellington, Coastal Carolina team—Big South Tournament this week.

Jordan Marshall (2014), Davidson Wildcats, next at the A-10 championships at GMU 5/7-8 in progress.