BEAR SPORTS NEWS SUNDAY EDITION 12.10.2023

BEARSPORTSNEWS SUNDAY EDITION

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE IN THE BEAR COMMUNITY

HIGHLIGHTS

VOTE FOR Tomás Kenary, follow the Chicago Rule: early and often!!! 

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS—

• Hockey earns wins #3 and #4 next week two big games

• Basketball loses to WaPo’s #2 and then to Aussies on summer break

• Wrestling leading Mad Mats after day 1; GREAT REPORTING from Coach Katz

• Swimming and Indoor Track no reports

BEAR TRACKS—27 Bears in 9 sports and 4 levels (5 pros included)

• FOOTBALL—2 coaches 2 FOOTBALL COACHES, 1 NFL J-E-T-S, App State Div.  

• SOCCER– Pro—1 rostered and scoring on EPL U21club getting great reviews

• GOLF–3

• 2 Developmental Pros 

• 1 Div. I player  

• 1 Div. III player 

• SWIMMING- 1 Div. I; 2 Div. III

• RUGBY

• 2 player  

• WINTER SPORTS

• BASKETBALL–5

• I PRO in Italy 

• I COLLEGE DIV. I COACH

• 2 DIV. I {both leading teams} and 3 DIV. III PLAYERS– all played 

• HOCKEY-9

• PRO:1 in EHL and 1 KHL—1 leading team scorer 

• COLLEGE: 1 Div. I played; 3 Div. III 2 played 

• COACHING: 1 Div. III, 1 ACHA Div. 2

• DEVELOPMENTAL—2 one wears the team A and 1st in assists 2nd in points

• CLUB

• WRESTLING-1

• Div. III hits the mats with wins

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS

BASKETBALL— Coach Franklin’s team plays WaPo’s #2, Sidwell Friends in a competitive 35-47 loss and then to Victoria (Australia) 60-64. Today the squad travels to Orange, VA to play Woodberry Forest 12/09 

HOCKEY—Coach Parker’s skaters beat MAPHL foe and WCAC team, Bishop O’Connell 8-0 and battled MSHL powerhouse Oakdale also Bears in an inter-ursine contest 4-3 on a late goal. Next week includes two huge MAPHL tests 12/12 at Calvert Hall (MAPHL 4th place 2-2) and then St. John’s College High School 12/15 at Rockville 5:25 

SWIMMING—Coach Ros had a meet v. 12/5 v. StA 

TRACK—Coach Callahan‘s runners hit the track December 8th v. GP 

WRESTLING—Coach Katz’s mat men did well at McDonough for annual wrestling kickoff. This weekend they are at the always competitive Magruder Mad Max {Thanks to Coach for his excellent write-up of his Bears.} 

December 1-2, 2023 

Just like last year the field of wrestlers at Ray Oliver tournament was as competitive as ever.  Every top school in the state of Delaware were in attendance, the three top schools in the Virginia privates, three high-ranked Virginia public schools, almost the entire WCAC, as well as most of the top private schools in MD. It was as tough or tougher as any State tournament.  With that said, LANDON PLACED 9^TH OUT OF 26 TEAMS.  Landon entered with 12 wrestlers. We had the following place winners: 120 James Hanley 3^rd place He lost a tough ¼ final match (4-2) but came back with some big wins over highly ranked wrestlers, 144 Will Levy 6^th place as he defaulted out in an injury in the consolation semis.  175 Nate Furgeson lost in sudden victory in the finals to take 2^nd place. Nate had a great tournament and beat some tough competitors. 190 DP Pope 4^th place DP hung with the best. He lost to the champ and the #1 seed who got upset. 215 Tiller Smith 3^rd place Tiller continues to be a force, he has grown into 215 and looks great.  Of note, 126 Joe Papalia went 2-2 and lost in the blood round. 

December 3, 2022 

We sent 26 young and less experienced wrestlers to a Varsity tournament in Hagerstown, MD.  The team placed 2^nd out of 13.  We had 9 wrestlers place in the top 4.  At 106, freshmen Mark Leary 2^nd and John Koegel 3^rd, 113 Freshman Domingo Escudero 3^rd , 120 Senior Seamus McNamara 2^nd , 132 Freshmen Jack Junker 3^rd and Daniel Kahn 4^th. 138 Sophomore Makana Neverosky Champ, Senior Mike War 2^nd, & 150 Sophomore Ryan Zand 3^rd.  Almost every wrestler got at least one win, but everyone gained essential experience and walked away a better wrestler.  

MAD MATS AT MAGRUDER 12/08-09

BEAR TRACKS

Cross Country/Track and Field -2

• Asim Hakim-Florian, L’23 Colgate University – next match 2024 

• Sam Cohen, L’23, Tulane University- next match 2024 

Football Coaches 2

Coach Padalino, the younger at App State (7-5) loss to Troy in Sun Belt East v. West Championship. Next week at Avocados from Mexico Cure Bowl against Miami (OH)

RUGBY-2

There are other Bears playing rugby in college- would love to have LINKS to follow them

THANKS TO COACH OBERG, we learn that TY REYES eschews his Bear sports, football, wrestling and lax-to-rugby, to concentrate on Penn State Rugby. Doing well!!! 

Brian White, L’23, Robert Morris (3-2) season complete. 

SOCCER- 7

Professional Soccer 1

• Kristian Fletcher L’23: DC United forward/ Swansea City U21 no new news 

Swimming-3

Jacob Rosner L19 Northwestern senior; the 11/28 US Open meet 

Ethan Tun L21 Carleton– The Knights are in Puerto Rico TRAINING!!! 

Harrison Tun, L23, Tufts University (1-0) [NOT ROSTERED??? 

Golf -4 

Pro -2 

Morgan Egloff L’15working his way up thecircuit, ended in the money  

John Kalavritinos L’17 playing the developmental tour.earned a paycheck on the Minor league tour.

College -2 

Charlie Bundy L’22 College of William & Mary Tribe, next match March 

John Bates L’23 Rhodes College- next match March 

BEARS playing College Winter Sports

BASKETBALL- 1pro; 2 DI {both leading teams} ,3 DIII {all playing}; 1 Div. I coach

• Professional –1 

Darion Atkins #44 L11, Regio Emilia Div. (6-4), 10 GP, 20.1 min/g., 6.8 pts/g, 3.9 reb/g, 1.7 asst/g, 0.9 blk/g 

• College Coach-1

Christian Webster L09, VaTech Assistant Coach (7-3) 

• College-5

Canin Reynolds L ‘20 Amherst College Mammoths (7-3): #2 junior— played 59 min., 4 pts., 6 A, 8 reb 

Kino Lilly L21 Brown Bears (3-8) #10 junior; 10 GS, 1 Game Injured, 38.3 min/g*, 19.4 pts/g*, 2.5 assists/g, 2.6 reb/g, 1.3 steal/g; *leads team;  

Mike Gray, L22, Lynchburg (5-3), #30; 25 min, 4 GP, 1.5 ppg, 0.8reb/g,  

Tyler Perkins, L23 University of Pennsylvania (6-5); #11, FRESHMAN; 11 GS, 33.3 min/g, 15.6 pts/, 2.2asst/g, 6.0 reb/g, 1.8 steals/g*; *leads team. 

Christos Palkogiannis, L23 (?), California Institute of Technology (1-7), #33, FRESHMAN; 2 GS, 2GP, 16.25 min/g.  4.5 ppg, 1.8 reb/g, 1.2 asst/g, 1.2 steal/g 

HOCKEY 11

Professional Ice Hockey-2

Sam Anas L’ 11, #77 HC Dinamo Minsk KHL (20-3-3); #77 35games team tied for 1st, 11 goals and 10 assists (The KHL website was blocked by Microsoft defender as a risk!!!)Patrick Giles L*18 #36 Charlotte Checkers (11-9) played in 20 games, 2goals 2 assist

Div. III Men’s Hockey Coach-1

Kim Weiss, Assistant Coach for Trinity College (her alma mater) men’s team, 7 -1-0  

• College Club Coach and Pro Hockey -1

Alex Norwinski L’15 Liberty University Div II Hockey Coach  

• Division I–1

Matthew Brille #19; L*20; Brown (4-6-1) #19-5 games played 1 assist, 2 shots, 3 blk

• Division III–3

Oscar Smink L’21; Amherst College Mammoths (4-3-0): #6 – 2 GP, 2 shots, 1 blk

Ethan Goldman, L’21; Connecticut Camels (3-4-0) #13 

Kareem Al-Azem L*20; Connecticut College Camels (3-4-0 ) #7 played 6 games 1 G 3 A 6 blk

• Development Hockey 2

Will Lawrence L*22, #88 NAHL Johnstown Tomahawks,assistant captain, 14-10-1-1; #88 26GP 7G, 16A 1st in team assists and 2nd in points

JH Lages L*21, #6 South Shore Kings USPHL Premier  1GP 

• Club Hockey

Ty Morton L20? Ohio University, ACHA MD2, 2 GP 

 Riley Knebel L’22 UVA Club hockey 3-1 The ACHA website says that UVa has played 2 games. VERY FRUSTRATING website 

Owen Calderone L’23 LSU club  

WRESTLING 

David LaPrade, L23, Williams College (0-3)